2011
2010
Women: Japan’s Secret Economic Weapon - Japan Real Time - WSJ
Japan is facing a demographic time bomb. By 2055, the total population will shrink by around 30%. Due to the country’s harsh immigration policies, its percentage of foreign workers is the lowest of any OECD country, at less than 2%.
2009
How to Use DVD Shrink - Quick, easy-to-use guide for those unfamiliar with the DVD Shrink program.
by decembre
These transcoders are based on algorithms designed to recompress an MPEG-2 stream in real-time for TV broadcast. These programs can transcode an entire DVD movie in only a few minutes, because they do not have to decode and re-encode the entire video stream, but only part of it. I will not go into a detailed explanation of the mechanisms used as they are quite involved but basically what you get is a size (and hence quality) reduction per time unit that cannot be rivaled by regular MPEG-2 encoders (though the latter category can yield better quality). DVD2One was the first program to be based on these principles, now DVD Shrink is the first free program to offer this functionality.
The Archivist - Save and Export Twitter Searches Before They Go Away
by Spone
If you have used Twitter search before, you may notice that you can only go back a certain amount of time and/or number of tweets for a given search. In fact, if you read the Twitter search documentation, you'll note that the folks from Twitter say, "We also restrict the size of the search index by placing a date limit on the updates we allow you to search. This limit is currently around a month but is dynamic and subject to shrink as the number of tweets per day continues to grow."
Cold Water Classic : Victoire de Jordy Smith - Résumé, Photos, Vidéos
by Bodhi
Le sud-africain Jordy Smith a remporté le premier O'neill Cold Water Classic, la nuit dernière en Tasmanie. Il s'impose devant Damien Hobgood dans un swell très solide.
2008
Swell 3D -- the anaglyphic 3-D glasses website
by alphoenix & 3 others
Un blog entièrement en "vert et rouge" qui permet de le voir en 3D.
Copycat MapQuest Continues to Play Catch - Webmonkey
site d'hotel et de voyages? tels que ExpediaRemarkably, MapQuest is still the leader in online mapping, but it saw its market share recently shrink below 50%.
Shrink O'Matic
by nhoizey
Shrink O'Matic is an AIR application to easily (batch) resize (shrink) images. It handles JPGs, GIFs and PNGs.
Swell 3D -- the anaglyphic 3-D glasses website
by antoine & 3 others
Experiments in anaglyphic art, 3-D glasses required.
Swell 3D -- the anaglyphic 3-D glasses website
by everyueveryme & 3 others
Swell 3D is a website full of things to look at with your 3-D glasses.
If you don't have a pair, you can get 3-D glasses for free.
ArtistX - eXtra ordinary art tools - Install on hard disk
by tadeufilippini
STEP 1: INSTALL THE DEBIAN UNIVERSAL OPERATING SYSTEM
First of all shrink your Windows partition to make room for the new system. There is a tutorial at Howtoforge but take in consideration the possibility of dedicating a whole new hard disk to your GNU/Linux installation especially if you are new to this kind of systems.
Now you need to download from here the Net Installation CD image (as of the moment I'm writing is called debian-40r1-i386-netinst.iso) and now you can burn the cd from this .iso image. Once you have your cd ready you need to boot your pc from this cd and once you have booted from CD you can see the first sceen with the boot: prompt. If you want to install installation in graphical mode you need to write “installgui” you can see this in the following screen and after that, jusy press your “Enter” key.
my heart aches
by blackgoldfish
"do you have a memory from your childhood or your past that brings good tears to your heart? tears of aching happiness that swell your heart with passionate memories? my heart aches at the sound of a piano."
Don't let me down
by Hemanshu
A Sumatran elephant plays with his trainer at the Elephant Training Centre in Minas, Indonesia's Riau province February 29, 2008. The Sumatran elephant, the smallest of the Asian elephants, is facing serious pressures arising from illegal logging and rapid forest conversion to palm oil plantations. As forests shrink, elephants are increasingly closer to fields and cultivated land, generating conflict with humans that often result in the death of the elephants by poisoning or capture, according to a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) report in 2007. The Minas Elephant Training Centre protects more than 40 elephants from around 200 elephant populations in Riau's forests.
REUTERS/Beawiharta (INDONESIA)
cityshrinker
by sbrothier & 4 others
You see amazing things every day. It could be out the window of the train on your way to work, it could be in your back yard, even better it could be somewhere completely foreign, something you didnt know existed. My aim is to give that feeling of newness with each shot I take. My method is to take what was once large and shrink it down to model size. To take the familiar and get you thinking even if for a second "wait a minute, is that..."
