Beens' Blog

I read an interesting fact today while researching biodiversity:

"Although about 80 percent of our food supply comes from just 20 kinds of plants, humans use at least 40,000 species of plants and animals a day."

Sort of redefines the 80/20 rule, doesn't it?  :)

"HD DVD, the beloved format of Toshiba and three Hollywood studios, died Friday after a brief illness. The cause of death was determined to be the decision by Wal-Mart to stock only high-definition DVDs and players using the Blu-ray format."

Read the rest of the story at the NY Times.

Don't want to lug around a tripod? Try this cheap alternative:

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1041948/1_image_stabilizer_for_any_camera_lose_the_tripod/

"Audio Video Standard, or AVS, is a compression codec for digital audio and video, and is competing with H.264/AAC to potentially replace MPEG-2. Chinese companies own 90% of AVS patents. The audio and video files have an .avs extension as a container format, and the designers claim that it will have twice the efficiency of MPEG2."

Hmmm, I've learned something today. More here and here.

Can you Guess?
Originally uploaded by Peter Beens.
Here's a new picture of mine that's achieving some success. Can anyone guess what it is?