Frequency domain. Fast Fourier transform. Phase correlation. Log-polar coordinates. Complex conjugate. Rotation, translation and scale invariant image registration. Blackman windowing.

What a way to spend one's free time!

In the middle of his latest wonderful travelogue, Ta-Nehisi Coates gives a succinct explanation of a phenomenon that continues to bother many white Americans.

A month ago I was giving a talk at a college where someone asked my why it was wrong for white people to use the word "nigger" in a friendly way. I responded, as I always do, by pointing out that the names people use depend on their relations. That I should not expect to call another man's wife "honey" by pointing out that he calls her the same thing. That my wife and her friends use the word "bitch" between them, but that is not a name I should expect (or want) to employ. That whatever they say, I have no desire to address my gay friends as queer. If you respect the humanity of black people, then you respect that they get to do what other humans do--ironically employ epithets in a communal way.

Go read the rest, because his descriptions of being a stranger in a strange land are great.

The Smartest Invention Ever

Brando And Cats

The Great Phenol Plot

Old Man Yells At Cloud

... for the next six months. Someone stole one of the final Breaking Bad scripts from Bryan Cranston.

As long as it doesn't end with a jukebox playing "Don't Stop Believing", I'll be OK.

They Make Me Want To Die

WaPo:

SORGUES, France — A T-shirt worn by a 3-year-old nursery-schooler named Jihad has led to an unusual and politically charged criminal trial here that tests the limits of free speech — and common sense — in a France increasingly ill at ease with its growing Muslim population.

“I am a bomb,” the shirt said on the front. The back read, “Jihad Born Sept. 11.”

One of my college bands had a song called "I'm A Bomb". Wanna hear it? Here it go.

The case of the poison potato