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The video producers to this new Radiohead video have released the data used to generate the 3D models online at Google Code. Peter Kirn, from CDM, explains:

Radiohead’s new video uses 3D images capture from two scanners – one a close-proximity 3D scanner from Geometric Informatics, another a multiple-laser array for the “exterior scenes” rotating in a 360-degree pattern. That yields just data, not anything you can look at, so the artists created the video itself using the open-source tool we love so much, Processing. 

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Quotes from the phantasmagoria to your left.

"Do anything for peace: piss for peace, or smile for peace, or go to school for peace, or don't go to school for peace. Whatever you do, do it for peace." 
 
"Everything you hear is there. It's all there. Either trivia or profound whatever, it's all there."   read more »

The digital copyright dispute in Canada is really becoming something of an enigma. Ever since Industry Minister Jim Prentice introduced a copyright bill, essentially allowing the discrimination and surveillance of our Internet use, several months ago, public outcry has been intense, but so has Mr. Prentice's determination. Prentice's initial attempt failed, and last week saw 300 people protesting outside of Parliament Hill because of the possible introduction of yet another (revised) bill. Michael Geist just blogged that Prentice's "staff is working overtime to eliminate any negative comments on Wikipedia" pertaining to the introduction of his new copyright bill.

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