A look inside Materialise, the Belgian 3D printing pioneer
Ben ik nu helemaal verkeerd als ik denk dat dít is hoe het zou moeten? Echte dingen doen, winst maken, werknemers hebben? Vergelijk Materialise met al die gebakken lucht-verkopers, en i snap niet hoe die niet door de grond zakken. — "Think 3D printing is new? Please. Materialise founder and CEO Wilfried Vancraen bought his first 3D printer in 1990, and saw the future. Almost 25 years and 900 employees later, his company is thriving."

BBB3viz » Corona corner
I’m going to get into trouble some day if I keep doing everything Peter Guthrie tells me to do. Anyway, after he mentioned having had lots of fun with the still-in-development Corona render engine, I thought I’d have a go too.

Amazon.com: Kokuyo Harinacs Japanese Stapleless Stapler Black: Office Products
Eight pieces of paper increasing twice as much as conventional products is possible. You can staple paper without needle and not need the needle supply. In addition, it is not necessary to separate it when you discard stapled paper, and you don't have to worry to get mixed with others with a needle. It is the design which is stylish with the compact which you can put away in a drawer of the desk. Eight pieces can be stapled, and is hard to come off; is eight pieces of handy types! ! ※ When you staple paper, there is a hole. ※ It is stapled, and, depending on a kind of the paper, the number of sheets decreases and may not be closed. In addition, please be careful because retentivity may become weak. (the thin paper including thermal paper, the copying slip, tender paper) is not available to a thing except the paper such as ※ films, the thing with the adhesive. ※ Please use it after testing it with unnecessary paper by all means.

Dangerous Women: George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois: 9780765332066: Amazon.com: Books
All new and original to this volume, the 21 stories in Dangerous Women include work by twelve New York Times bestsellers, and seven stories set in the authors’ bestselling continuities—including a new “Outlander” story by Diana Gabaldon, a  tale of Harry Dresden’s world by Jim Butcher, a story from Lev Grossman set in the world of The Magicians, and a 35,000-word novella by George R. R. Martin about the Dance of the Dragons, the vast civil war that tore Westeros apart nearly two centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones.

Microsoft releases wonderfully loopy experimental GIF-jiggler • The Register
Microsoft Research has released something rather interesting: a GIF-maker that analyses the patterns in a video and re-orders discrete sections of the frames to produce the best possible output.