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Euchre · uF Game Warden Joined: 29 Aug 2007 Posts: 3342

Looking at some of the international sites listed on Paramount's international site is very interesting. IMDB asserts that Belgium is getting the movie on January 23rd, but if you click Belgium in the list of sites it takes you to the Netherlands site, which shows the debut of February 7th.

The poster art on the Netherlands site is roughly the same, but the color is a bit different. I wonder what sort of differences in taste motivate the subtle changes?

**Posted:** Sat Oct 27, 2007 5:12 pm

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smartmart · Unfettered Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 351

**Posted:** Sat Oct 27, 2007 7:35 pm

e2c

**Posted:** Sat Oct 27, 2007 7:51 pm

Euchre · uF Game Warden Joined: 29 Aug 2007 Posts: 3342

**Posted:** Sun Oct 28, 2007 1:10 am

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hmghosthoost

Since you obviously don't believe me when I say that my family name is Jensen, or what I said about that name being Danish and nothing to do with "Jason" (which is from Greece), here's a source. I'm not gonna list them all.

FROM BabyNamesWorld.com:

The name Jensen
Origin: Danish (Scandanavian)/ Scottish thru Danish conquest
Meaning: Son of Johannes (John/James)

The name Jason
Origin: Greek
Meaning: Healer

**Posted:** Sun Oct 28, 2007 1:52 pm

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Additionally, the funds to complete the statue's pedestal were brought in after Joseph Pulitzer announced a campaign to fund the deficit in the construction fund through editorials in the newspaper, The World (not to mention, doubling and then redoubling that newspaper's readership. I can even provide a scan of the front page announcement, if you'd like. Smile

) - Source: Statue of Liberty - Oscar Handlin (Page 54-55).

Not some 'inspired catholic school girls' like your rhetoric claimed, don't try to push off something with a half-hearted mention of "I saw that in a PBS documentary" or "countless books and historical sites" without posting a title or link. It's foolish when we have the books and resources that we can list at a moment's notice.

clownnation, thanks for the time and dedication you've invested here.

As for this...

**Posted:** Sun Oct 28, 2007 3:44 pm

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TVRotBrain · Veteran Joined: 25 Jul 2007 Posts: 132

I found this a while back. It's about dynamic resizing of images. Pretty interesting stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIFCV2spKtg

**Posted:** Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:34 am

A_champion · Veteran Joined: 05 Oct 2007 Posts: 129

**Posted:** Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:55 am

Kingpin

**Posted:** Mon Oct 29, 2007 7:13 am

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WillowOnline

Interesting video! Also, some of the replies to it are interesting, like the fact that it could ruin the original thought and care that the photographer or artist put into the making of the picture.

**Posted:** Mon Oct 29, 2007 7:18 am

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After checking the seam carving video posted above, I found this free online software:

FotoFlexer

FotoFlexer Demo Video

Another online tool using Flash: Rsizer.

Photoshop Smart Resize plugin (free for images 640x480 or less)

Gimp Plugin (free)

More information and links

These will all perform the aforementioned Seam Carving with relative ease. Anyone want to try their hand at recreating the resized French poster? The author of the tool used in the original video now works for Adobe, so expect a plugin/feature update sometime soon.

**Posted:** Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:43 am

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CloverfieldClues.com · Entrenched Joined: 03 Aug 2007 Posts: 757

**Posted:** Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:54 am

e2c

ahh sorry...thought a mod cud/wud do that.
done now

also thnx for the vid. i heard bout that technology a while ago when it was still in beta testing me thinks. its great stuff. they cud hav idd used it for the poster.

**Posted:** Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:03 pm

Euchre · uF Game Warden Joined: 29 Aug 2007 Posts: 3342

**Posted:** Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:14 pm

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Matt Dark

I just think no one in france really cares about what new york looks like so they made the buildings bigger to fit them onto the screen. Have you guys ever sat down and looked at a sheet of paper thinking there was actually writing on it that maybe you couldn't see? Cause that's how you're acting I think. Pretty sure it's irrelevant.

**Posted:** Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:58 am

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