DirectX 11's Tessellation

I was planning on writing a long post about Tessellation, but This Nvidia Article does a good job and what I really wanted to post was these videos.

This first video shows off what tessellation is.



This second video is a good practical (i.e a none gimmicky) application of tessellation.



And then the future applications for this technique, which is really interesting.

Samsung's OLED Window

I am not saying that all windows in the future will be interactive, but I think the benefits of having clutter free screens around the home so you get the information you want, when you want it, is a very appealing idea.

Awesome Fonts Collection

There are some websites that I instantly bookmark when I see them and then rarely visit. One of them is the fonts websites DaFont probably has the best fonts collection site out there. These aren't fonts for reading, but more fonts to play with. They have a great video game section, movie section and even a food/drink section with fonts such as the CokaCola and PES fonts.

National Cybersecurity

I felt like I needed to comment on This BBC News Post about America's national computer security. It is full of statements like "we need leadership" and "it is upto industry to provide better solutions". Well the truth is, and has been for many years now, that industry and governments have all the solutions to protect their data and their users, but are too lazy to implement them properly. The tools that help organisations sleep at night are:

Antivirus
Firewall
Strong Passwords
Common Seance/Training
Backup Policy
Asset Management
Disaster Recovery Plan

The final two are not the kind of thing home users can implement, but the rest are good things for everybody to know about, and should be implemented on every computer on the planet. Why there are still organisations and governments floundering over IT security annoys me as it is not rocket science.