2010-03-04T14:08:13-06:00Travis Emslanderhttp://www.travisemslander.com/http://www.travisemslander.com/?pid=7542010-03-04T14:08:13-06:002010-03-04T14:08:13-06:00<p> You can find <a href="http://www.derekyu.com/avgpa/">just about anything</a> on the Internet. </p>http://www.travisemslander.com/?pid=7532010-03-02T09:01:11-06:002010-03-02T09:01:11-06:00<p> I bought a <a href="http://www.google.com/phone">Nexus One</a> a few weeks ago. I'll probably put up a review type thing eventually, there's some stuff I love about it and some stuff that bugs me. But right now I just wanted to put up some information about <a href="http://www.displaymate.com/Nexus_One_ShootOut.htm">DisplayMate.com's Nexus One OLED Shoot-Out</a> that makes it sound like the Nexus One's screen is crappy. </p> <p> The report does a lot of analysis that is probably accurate, but unfortunately most people just look at the screenshots on the page which are very misleading to the point that it seems intentional. The report shows an image of the <a href="http://apod.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0506/marssunset_spirit_big.jpg">mars sunset</a> on both the iPhone and the Nexus One. The iPhone's looks accurate, although with washed out colors. The Nexus One looks abysmal. Instead of a nice smooth gradual change in colors, you get rough bands of color -- a problem with too few colors termed "banding". </p> <p> It's pretty shocking stuff, and a very serious problem with the Nexus One's screen, except for, it isn't. As I'm sure all Nexus One owners who read the report did, I fired up my browser and went to the mars sunset i mage to find that it looked perfectly fine. I immediately got pissed off and yelled out "SHENANIGANS!" Later, and after a few skimmings of forums, I realized that the report didn't photoshop the images, but had opened them in Android's Gallery application. Because of a bug/limitation with Gallery, the images show up with the messy banded colors just like in the report. The problem is the report makes people believe it is a hardware limitation with the screen, and also explicitly says they used the web browser when in reality it is just a problem with Gallery or an underlying library that Gallery uses. </p> <p> So, with that said, here's some shots I took. They're not perfectly focused but I think they do a decent job of showing that the Nexus One displays images just fine. </p> <table style="border:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:320px;padding-bottom:1em;vertical-align:top;"> <a href="http://www.travisemslander.com/files/miscpics/nexus_one_screen/comparison_website.jpg"><img src="http://www.travisemslander.com/files/miscpics/nexus_one_screen/comparison_website_thumb.jpg" alt="displaymate report rendered by nexus one" style="border:none;width:320px;height:212px;"/></a><br /> The images on DisplayMate.com's report as seen by the Nexus One browser. </td> <td style="width:320px;padding-bottom:1em;vertical-align:top;"> <a href="http://www.travisemslander.com/files/miscpics/nexus_one_screen/mars_image_browser.jpg"><img src="http://www.travisemslander.com/files/miscpics/nexus_one_screen/mars_image_browser_thumb.jpg" alt="mars sunset image rendered by nexus one browser" style="border:none;width:320px;height:212px;"/></a><br /> Mars sunset image in the Nexus One browser. </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width:320px;padding-bottom:1em;vertical-align:top;"> <a href="http://www.travisemslander.com/files/miscpics/nexus_one_screen/mars_image_browser_daylight.jpg"><img src="http://www.travisemslander.com/files/miscpics/nexus_one_screen/mars_image_browser_daylight_thumb.jpg" alt="mars sunset image rendered by nexus one browser" style="border:none;width:320px;height:212px;"/></a><br /> Mars sunset image in the Nexus One browser. Ignore the moire pattern that the camera picked up, the screen didn't actually look like that. </td> <td style="width:320px;padding-bottom:1em;vertical-align:top;"> <a href="http://www.travisemslander.com/files/miscpics/nexus_one_screen/mars_image_gallery_daylight.jpg"><img src="http://www.travisemslander.com/files/miscpics/nexus_one_screen/mars_image_gallery_daylight_thumb.jpg" alt="mars sunset image rendered by nexus one Gallery app" style="border:none;width:320px;height:212px;"/></a> The Mars sunset image in the Gallery app. The banding problem only shows up at this point. </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> Also, I put together a little Youtube video demonstrating how the image looks fine until opened in Gallery. Make sure you watch it in high def otherwise you'll see a lot of banding in all images due to Youtube's compression.<br /> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmLJrrZ5Zt4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmLJrrZ5Zt4</a> </p>http://www.travisemslander.com/?pid=7522010-02-09T08:39:59-06:002010-02-09T08:39:59-06:00<p> This is just fantastic. </p> <object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9316456&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9316456&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/9316456">Colbert Report: "Sarah Palin's an f****** retard!"</a>.</p>http://www.travisemslander.com/?pid=7512010-01-20T14:50:07-06:002010-01-20T14:50:07-06:00<p style="text-align: center;"> <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/sX3Z6mthWbg&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/sX3Z6mthWbg&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX3Z6mthWbg">Domino Animals</a> </p>http://www.travisemslander.com/?pid=7502010-01-12T08:21:55-06:002010-01-12T08:21:55-06:00<p style="text-align: center;"> <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/A43JOxLa5MM&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/A43JOxLa5MM&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> <br /> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A43JOxLa5MM">Death Metal Rooster</a> </p>http://www.travisemslander.com/?pid=7492009-12-18T15:35:59-06:002009-12-18T15:35:59-06:00<p> This is too funny. <a href="http://www.youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http://www.youtube.com/v/HsF_2CNV9v4&start1=3&video2=http://www.youtube.com/v/06CvUjLgK5g&start2=0">Usher mashed up with a video of a goat making yelling noises.</a> </p> <p> Here's <a href="http://www.youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http://www.youtube.com/v/le89JY3Angg&start1=213&video2=http://www.youtube.com/v/aY7Nji-zzhg&start2=0">another good youtube doubling</a>. </p>http://www.travisemslander.com/?pid=7482009-12-11T08:16:14-06:002009-12-11T08:16:14-06:00<p style="text-align:center;background:black;padding:1em;"> <a href="http://segerbutton.com/"><img src="http://www.travisemslander.com/files/miscpics/btn_seger.gif" border="0" alt="SEGER BUTTON" width="409" height"142"/></a> </p>http://www.travisemslander.com/?pid=7472009-12-09T15:31:01-06:002009-12-09T15:31:01-06:00<p> You're fucking kidding me. Bears can play hockey? </p> <p style="text-align: center;"> <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nah3nMStXV4&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nah3nMStXV4&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nah3nMStXV4">Real bears playing Hockey</a> </p> <p style="font-size:75%;">via <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/09/bears-playing-hockey.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+boingboing/iBag+(Boing+Boing)&utm_content=Google+Reader">Boing Boing</a></p>http://www.travisemslander.com/?pid=7462009-12-09T07:24:18-06:002009-12-09T07:24:18-06:00<p style="text-align: center;"> <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SItFvB0Upb8&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SItFvB0Upb8&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SItFvB0Upb8">WE GOT THAT B ROLL!</a> </p>http://www.travisemslander.com/?pid=7452009-11-09T07:02:52-06:002009-11-09T07:02:52-06:00<p> Mental picture: A group of lab coat wearing scientists jumping up and down and hugging enthusiastically. They have just captured an image of something no one thought possible. A fart. </p> <p> Yes, that's right. We now have a picture of a fart. Check it out. </p> <p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/picture-galleries/6514909/Science-Photo-Library-photos-of-the-week.html"><img src="http://www.travisemslander.com/files/miscpics/flatulence.jpg" style="width:500px;height:375px;border:none;" alt="fart" /></a> </p> <p style="font-size:75%;"> via <a href="http://bullshit.tumblr.com/post/237231656/chumblespuzz-proving-that-science-can-be-fun">Triumph of Bullshit</a> </p>