Interlaced Video / Thought
This book is a collection of probes into the moment-by-moment works of the brain. It’s not a textbook—more of a buffet, really. Each hack is one probe into the operation of the brain, one small demonstration. By seeing how the brain responds, we pick up traces of the structures present and the design decision made, learning a little bit more about how the brain is put together.
- from the preface of the book Mind Hacks, O’Reilly Press
I just started reading the above on my safari account. Looks like an interesting book which I was twigged onto this weekend after hearing the author talk on CBC’s “Quirks and Quarks“. When I first saw the title on O’Reilly’s site, I figured it was a gimmicky, pop-science excursion into the workings of the human mind — and it is! The author, Dr. Tom Stafford sounded interesting enough to give it some further reading.
I learned something else this weekend: my PowerBook performs extremely well as a video output device. The S-Video port presents several different resolutions for output, including a very nice 854×480 interlaced display with overscan. The result is a rock-solid., full-screen experience for video output. I watched several episodes of Arrested Development, some Samurai Champloo and a Battlestar Galactica episode and I daresay, the output looks better than converting those high-quality Xvid encodes to DVD through iDVD. Sound is provided by the S/PDIF connector on my Emagic EMI6|2m.
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