Tales of Drudgery & Boredom.
Microsoft ‘flattered’ with Apple’s iOS 5 Windows Phone features | WinRumors
The OS, which powers Apple’s iPad and iPhone devices, will be available in the fall and will include more than 200 new features. A number of the features are very similar to ones used in Android and Windows Phone 7.
Where in the world is Tim?
Omdat het whiteboard een beetche vol begint te hangen.
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Warren Ellis heeft voor altijd Conan, what is best in life? verneukt, kijk maar, en ik daag u uit om zonder safe search op “images” te klikken. Maar eigenlijk, en met pijn in het hart: Conan (1982) heeft voor mij Conan zoals die bij mij in de rij Elric van Melniboné – John Carter – Bob Morane – Tarzan stond, kapotgemaakt.
Met alle respect voor The Governator natuurlijk, maar sinds Schwarzenegger heb ik het altijd moeilijk gehad om Conan te zien zoals ik hem zag in mijn hoofd toen ik klein was, en zoals Robert E. Howard hem schreef.
…maar kijk:
Jason Momoa, die ik tegenwoordig helemaal genietbaar vind als Khal Drogo in Game of Thrones, gaat de Cimmeriaan neerzetten. Ik zie het eigenlijk wel zitten: geen blok vlees zoals Schwarzenegger, wel een panterachtige supermens zoals in de boeken. Ik bedoel, dit is meer Momoa dan Schwarzenegger, toch?
Conan did not hesitate, nor did he even glance toward the chest that held the wealth of an epoch. With a quickness that would have shamed the spring of a hungry jaguar, he swooped, grasped the girl’s arm just as her fingers slipped from the smooth stone, and snatched her up on the span with one explosive heave.
Whee!
Oh, en hij doet ook geen pijn aan de ogen, heb ik horen zeggen. “Valt wel mee,” wist Zelie:
Niet dat het mij veel uitmaakt hoe die mens er zonder kleren uitziet: ik hoop gewoon van enorm ganser harte dat het een uitstekende film wordt, en dat het dan ook een langlopende serie wordt, genre Lord of the Rings meets James Bond meets Game of Thrones.
Een mens kan maar dromen: beeld u in dat er ook zo een film of twintig gemaakt worden, over een periode van twintig dertig veertig jaar, Conan van zijn dertig jaar tot zijn zeventig, van dief tot soldaat en piraat en generaal en koning.
Of dat ze er gewoon een on-demand download-serie van maken.
Voor wie wil lezen, trouwens: The Phoenix on the Sword (1932) | The Scarlet Citadel (1933) | The Tower of the Elephant (1933) | Black Colossus (1933) | The Slithering Shadow (1933) | The Pool of the Black One (1933) | Gods of the North (1934) | Rogues in the House (1934) | Shadows in the Moonlight (1934) | Queen of the Black Coast (1934) | The Devil in Iron (1934) | The People of the Black Circle (1934) | A Witch Shall be Born(1934) | Jewels of Gwahlur (1935) | Beyond the Black River (1935) | Shadows in Zamboula (1935) | Red Nails (1936) | The Hour of the Dragon (1936) | The Hyborian Age (1938).
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2012: Supernova (2009) (V) – Goofs
Miscellaneous: Despite the title, this movie has no connection whatsoever with 2012.
Nook Simple Touch compared to Kindle 3 – Marco.org
My ideal e-reader would be the Nook hardware and interface, but backed by the Kindle’s ecosystem and services. It’s easier for Amazon to achieve Nook-like hardware design than for B&N to achieve a Kindle-like ecosystem, so it’s much more likely that the next Kindle will be a better fit than the current (or next) Nook.
BBC News – Archaeologists unearth Britain’s ‘first building boom’
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Omnes Viae: Itinerarium Romanum
A route planner with all main roads and cities of the Roman Empire. Based on an ancient Roman map of which a copy survived that is now known as the 'Tabula Peutingeriana'.
On Fallout: We had a time travel [setting] with dinosaurs for a while
Matt Barton's Matt Chat started as a series of discussions on classic video games from Elite to System Shock 2. It now features interviews with the likes of Chris Avellone (Planescape Torment), Tim Cain (Fallout pt.1, pt.2); Arcanum, Brian Fargo (The Fall of Interplay, Waste land and Fallout, Bard's Tale and Wizardry), John Romero (Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake and the infamous Daikatana) and Al Lowe (Leasure Suite Larry pt.1 and pt.2).
AF Fine Tuning: What it is. How to do it.
About a year ago I heard about AF fine tuning for the first time and passed over it without much interest. I had never experienced any of the issues that proponents of it kept recounting in forums, so I thought I was safe ignoring it. Well, after assembling a good range of glass and having not too long ago upgraded to a Nikon D7000, I started to notice that sometimes things were a bit…off.
Why Code Readability Matters » the Void
Lately my colleagues have been commenting on my relentless notes on code styling in our internal code-reviews. Evidently I’ve been paying more and more attention to what could rightly be called cosmetics. Sure there are bad conventions and, well, better ones. Admittedly, coding conventions are just that, conventions. No matter how much we debate tabs vs. spaces and how much we search for truth, they remain subjective and very much a personal preference. Yet, one can’t deny that there are some better conventions that do in fact improve the overall quality of the code.
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Anna kwam naar beneden en ik had haar vast en dan zei ik dat ik ze nooit zou los laten.
Ze klom uit mijn armen en ze zei “haha, ik ben er toch uitgegraakt“.
Louis heeft daarnet een stegosaurus geboetseerd. Met een thagomizer op zijn staart:
We kijken regelmatig eens naar het verzamelde werk van Gary Larson, ja.
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The Legend of Captain Jack: From Birdy to Sparrow
In the late 16th century a young boy collecting scraps of wreckage from the docks wondered if he’d ever leave Faversham in the borough of Kent, the hottest place in the entire United Kingdom. It was a marshy place of little importance to anyone but the brigand. Its docks were a haven for smugglers and pirates and other such unsavory folk. That boy was John Ward, whose dreams would one day come true, though perhaps not in the way he had wanted; he would become Jack Birdy, the most fearsome pirate in the world, and towards the end of his life, Yusuf Reis, penitent Muslim, wealthy beyond any man’s dreams, spending the remainder of his life in his Tunisian palace.
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Well, What’s the Matter? – The COMPLETE definitive Catwoman origin.
For Bruce Wayne, it took seeing his parents murdered in front of him; Jonathan Crane, a lifetime of ridicule and pain; Harley Quinn, all-consuming obsessive love. All the best heroes and villains in every medium, from literature to film to comic books, have traceable motivations for their behavior. It humanizes them and makes them easier for us, the audience, to understand and sympathize with.
For Selina, there was no one defining moment–at least, not in the way that there was for Bruce Wayne. Instead, it took numerous experiences, some positive and some negative, conspiring to strengthen her, both inside and out. A series of misfortunes, teachers, mistakes to learn from and some very lucky twists of fate to put Selina Kyle in the position for the stars to align just right for her to become the Feline Fatale we all know today.
Chromeography: chrome badges, emblems, logos on cars, cameras, appliances
In praise of the chrome logos and lettering affixed to vintage automobiles and electric appliances — those unsung metal emblems and badges that are overlooked, forgotten, damaged, lost to time or the dump.
typographie
Kurt Weidemann spreekt
Telehack: May the command line live forever
meeeeemories…
The human race is incurably idiotic
wahey!
Phallic Symbols at Denver International Airport
I'm also known as the Third Eagle of the Apocalypse
kreayshawn — gucci gucci
Gucci Gucci, Louis Louis, Fendi Fendi, Prada Basic bitches wear that shit so I don't even bother
Kindle typography
The Kindle MOBI format implements only a limited subset of HTML and provides no access to the underlying rendering algorithm, so currently we cannot save native ebooks on the device. However, the Kindle 3 ships with a WebKit-based browser, so we can use JavaScript and CSS to dynamically reflow and style web content on the device. This article outlines an approach to implement hyphenation & justification on the Kindle with support for “advanced” features like hanging punctuation and non-rectangular paragraph shapes. We first discuss the Knuth & Plass line breaking algorithm, then how to render the resulting lines using either the word-spacing property or the flexible box model.
Ninety gaffes in ninety years – Home News, UK – The Independent
From Papua New Guinea to Stoke-on-Trent, Prince Philip has left his mark around the world. As his 90th birthday looms, Hannah Ewan recalls the soundbites that could only have come from one man
danwebb.net – It’s About The Hashbangs
After quite a lot of thought and some attention to some of the issues that surround web apps that use hashbang URLs I’ve come to conclusion that it most definitely is about the hashbangs. This technique, on its own, is destructive to the web. The implementation is inappropriate, even as a temporary measure or as a downgrade experience.
E-sales to imprints: Amazon’s ambitious publishing plan
In a series of public moves, Amazon.com has signaled its determination to enter the book publishing business, a move with broad implications for the online retailer as well as the traditional publishing industry.
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Schattig, eigenlijk wel, als g’een steen omdraait en het zit vol, vol, vol oorwormen:
En een heel klein vliegje, kijk maar naar rechtsboven, da’s een klein wormpje:
En een dood vogeltje met een made op zijn snavel:
En een mierenverhuis:
En een klein spintmijtje dat snelsnel aan het over en weer lopen was rond het korstmos op de brievenbus:
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Zelie en Louis dansen bij Isabelle Beernaert’s Dance Factory, en daar was vanavond een meet & greet met de ploeg die The Ultimate Dance Battle gewonnen heeft:
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Jan: aften. Koorts.
Grrrr.
Heel hard te hopen dat het allemaal niet zo erg is als bij Louis vorige maand.
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yog-blogsoth
to draw EVERY creature Lovecraft ever describes from Elder Things and The Great Race (who are described in immense detail) to Vooniths and Wamps (who are only mentioned).
YouTube – There’s no such thing as a jellyfish
By all accounts, jellyfish are creatures that kill people, eat microbes, grow to tens of meters, filter phytoplankton, take over ecosystems, and live forever. Because of the immense diversity of gelatinous plankton, jelly-like creatures can individually have each of these properties. However this way of looking at them both overstates and underestimates their true diversity. Taxonomically, they are far more varied than a handful of exemplars that are used to represent jellyfish or especially the so-called "true" jellyfish. Ecologically, they are even more adaptable than one would expect by looking only at the conspicuous bloom forming families and species that draw most of the attention. In reality, the most abundant and diverse gelatinous groups in the ocean are not the ones that anyone ever sees.
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Cartier-Bresson, zie.
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Zeg
Dat frisse gevoel… Stel je voor dat je dat tijdens je regels ook kan bewaren…
Want dat klinkt beter dan
Stel je voor dat je je tijdens je regels niét muf zou voelen.
Ene meneer Vettel, blijkbaar een autocoureur, staat met een GSM in zijn handen te meesmuilen terwijl andere mensen “actief” doen:
Velkom to my vorld. De vorld ov Ret Bool.
Genant.
Zelie vraagt nu al een paar dagen na elkaar welke TV-reclame ik nu eigenlijk niét slecht vind. Ik heb er nog geen gevonden, eigenlijk.
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’t Schijnt is dit een test om te zien of iemand kan programmeren of niet:
Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print “Fizz” instead of the number and for the multiples of five print “Buzz”. For numbers which are multiples of both three and five print “FizzBuzz”.
Serieus, gasten.
for(x=1;x<=100;x++) {
t='';
if(!(x%3))t+='Fizz';if(!(x%5))t+='Buzz';
document.write((t.length?t:x)+' ');
}
Dat doet proper
1 2 Fizz 4 Buzz Fizz 7 8 Fizz Buzz 11 Fizz 13 14 FizzBuzz 16 17 Fizz 19 Buzz Fizz 22 23 Fizz Buzz 26 Fizz 28 29 FizzBuzz 31 32 Fizz 34 Buzz Fizz 37 38 Fizz Buzz 41 Fizz 43 44 FizzBuzz 46 47 Fizz 49 Buzz Fizz 52 53 Fizz Buzz 56 Fizz 58 59 FizzBuzz 61 62 Fizz 64 Buzz Fizz 67 68 Fizz Buzz 71 Fizz 73 74 FizzBuzz 76 77 Fizz 79 Buzz Fizz 82 83 Fizz Buzz 86 Fizz 88 89 FizzBuzz 91 92 Fizz 94 Buzz Fizz 97 98 Fizz Buzz
Ik dacht dat het een strikvraag was.
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Wahey, wijs, kinderen die elkaar verrot schieten! Gelukkig dat dat alleen in videocliepsen gebeurt!
Ik zou daar parlementaire vragen over laten stellen, ik, moest ik in Frankrijk wonen. 🙂 [via]
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