Rendering Synthetic Objects into Legacy Photographs from Kevin Karsch on Vimeo.

I had a general idea of how they work, but this video was just so cool to see it all broken down into functioning subcomponents.

This movie was, by far, the best Harry Potter movie to date. Because it only covered half of the final Potter book the pace was slowed down enough to feel more like a movie and less like a confusing jumble of plot points and thrill rides.

Some bright points:

• Darker themes and more mature storyline.
• Great chemistry between the trio of Harry, Ron, and Hermione.
• Much improved house-elf animation (particularly the facial expressions of "Creature").

Yeah baby, that's how I roll!

(via reddit, taken during an anti-pope rally in Hyde park)

(via theinternetaccordingtoadrian.tumblr.com)

Here is a JavaScript function that I wrote several years ago. It's a bit of a kludge - I'm sure there is a more elegant approach - but having it available to quickly inspect a single element has saved more than a few hours of painful development:

function debugObject(elem, recurseIntoObjects, elemPropertyName) {
	var mesg = "";
	if ((elem == undefined) || (elem == null)) {
		alert("Passed element is not valid: "+elem);
		return;
	}
	for (var i in elem) {
		if ((i == undefined) || (i == null) || (typeof elem[i] == 'function') || (typeof elem[i] == 'undefined') || (elem[i] == null)) {
			continue;
		}
		if (recurseIntoObjects && typeof elem[i] == 'object') {
			if ((elemPropertyName != undefined) && (elem[i][elemPropertyName] != 'undefined')) {
				mesg += i+": "+elem[i][elemPropertyName]+"\n";
			}
			else {
				var elements = "";
				var elementCount = 0;
				for (var j in elem[i]) {
					if ((j == undefined) || (j == null) || (typeof elem[i][j] == 'function') || (typeof elem[i][j] == 'undefined') || (elem[i][j] == null)) {
						continue;
					}
					if (elementCount != 0) {
						elements += ", ";
					}
					elements += elem[i][j];
					elementCount++;
				}
				mesg += i+"["+elementCount+"]: "+elements+"\n";
			}
		}
		else {
			mesg += i+": "+elem[i]+"\n";
		}
	}
	alert(mesg);
	return mesg;
}