Thanks to the nice last.fm site I found out
about an excellent music artist calling himself Jap Jap. If you like artists like
Boards of Canada or Ulrich Schnauss, you will
most certainly like Jap Jap.

• Jap Jap: Shapes Are (2005) full EP download cca (60MB)
• Jap Jap: Blue Shimmery Fall (2006) download cca (90MB)

“You
can’t handle the truth!”^*

I almost choked when he said “we had lawyers go over it and it’s legal”.

I don’t recall having to replace a flat tire much in my life. So to keep the
average, it had to come some day. In 2006 I punctured my bike tire 6 (!!)
times. This is astounding especially as I haven’t been riding much this year.
Once I even had two holes at one time (counting double puncture on the sides as
one). Either I’ve gotten too fat, or very unlucky.

I also drove my 206 onto a screw which is rather an art and even got a flat
with Linda’s baby cart today.

Congratulations to the GNOME team!

To give another teaser for the upcoming GIMP 2.4 release, here’s a small
demo of a new tool, the perspective clone. Also created as part of the cool
Google summer of
code.

Of course with food comes apetite, so I’m a bit sad one cannot yet
define multiple planes or use other tools with perspective correction (the new
healing
brush would benefit here too. Or regular copy and paste would get to a
completely new level). But good job nevertheless. Thanks Pedro, Mitch, Google!

• download demo in divx avi (15MB)
• download demo in ogg theora format (6.5MB)

The next thing after trying to minimize the consequences of a water leak
that ruined our bathroom after we came from vacation was obviously a cvs update
of GIMP.

Very happy to see mitch merging the healing brush branch into HEAD that
Kevin Sookocheff worked on as a Google
Summer of Code project. When touching up photos the tool of choice has
traditionally been the Clone tool. It’s great for getting rid of
unwanted tourists or making your house look bigger by adding an additional
floor. Yet the most common touchups are more likely to be removing scan
scratches, a zot from a face of your lovely girlfriend or a dust particle on a
CCD that made its appearance on all your vacation shots.

In many cases the clone tool works fine, granted you can find a source spot
with similar appearance of the target area. In many cases however, one would
like to take a texture of an area that is unfortunately lit differently than
the target area. And that is exactly where healing brush comes to the rescue.

I’ll start crunching the insanely huge Inbox on monday. :/

• download demo in divx avi (4.2MB)
• download demo in ogg theora format (1.6MB)