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Happy Holidays

by Ryan Lane on December 12, 2011

We at Futile Heavy Industries have been a bit behind in keeping our blog up to date due to all the amazing stuff going on. So I’d like to wish all of our loyal followers a very happy holidays from us to you.

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Real-time People detection and tracking with multiple Kinect cameras

by Ryan Lane on December 3, 2010

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Retro Futurism

by Ryan Lane on December 1, 2010

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From the Futile Archives: Wilhelm

by Ryan Lane on October 1, 2010

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Futile Archives: Animal Stories

September 30, 2010

For your viewing pleasure I bring you something from futile.com’s past Animal Stories

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My bookshelf

June 16, 2009

Thanks to Delicious Monster, which is one of my favorite applications to use, I’ve created a listing of all the books I keep in my office.

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Cat on a hot plastic Roomba

May 18, 2009

I can’t help but smile every time I see this video

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Recycled Dresses

May 11, 2009

recycled dresses Originally uploaded by futileboy I was at the Plant Amnesty’s Festival of Trees yesterday here in Seattle and was somewhat surprised to see some amazing fashion on display. I was able to snap a few pictures and this was one of my favorites. On the left is a dress made up of mostly [...]

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Microsoft’s Cannon P.I.

May 7, 2009

Found this video on YouTube about the Microsoft Web Platform, the Web Platform Installer, and the Windows Web Application Gallery. Starring Scott Guthrie and Soma.  Great work. I actually saw them filming this on campus one day, but had no idea what this guy running around in a Hawaiian shirt was all about.

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Making Wordles

November 24, 2008

I put together a couple of Wordles recently using the ManyEyes software.  There’s actually a bit more art to it then I thought.  You really have to spend a good amount of time to find the source documents that you want mapped out.  The first one is for WPF   The other one is for [...]

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