Tin Foil Soldier

about the religious right “they turned jesus into a republican and he is not one!”

Video/Imaging DesignLine | Video compression artifacts and MPEG noise reduction
MPEG-2 first exploits temporal redundancy through motion estimation and then proceeds to spatially subdivide the image in 8×8 blocks upon which the DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform) is applied to exploit spatial redundancy. Compression is done by quantizing resulting DCT coefficients and re-ordering them to maximize the [...]

Where those driving directions really come from - Feb. 27, 2006
Navteq supplies the raw map data that underlies those directions. That data isn’t as raw as you might think, though. Unlike paper maps, Navteq’s digital maps have to include details about which roads are one way, which way, and things like whether left turns are [...]

Tin Foil Soldier was hanging because I had a “what am i listeing to” type section pulling information for last.fm
Apparently last.fm’s servers went down, and since my page was pulling data from them and rendering it in php before the page gets sent to the browser it was just hanging waiting for a response from [...]

OBJECTIVE: Creation Education | Creation Science Fair 2001
2nd Place: “Women Were Designed For Homemaking”
Jonathan Goode (grade 7) applied findings from many fields of science to support his conclusion that God designed women for homemaking: physics shows that women have a lower center of gravity than men, making them more suited to carrying groceries and laundry [...]

Good Eats
I was watchin Good Eats (it was on flounder) but there was a commercial for Cooking with Your Kids.
It made me want to call my mom and thank her for always cooking with us as we were growing up.  “Food ties us all together” or something, and well, even the little things my parents [...]