Tag: photography
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Links van 12 tot 26 oktober 2026
Secret of Orange Cats Finally Revealed After 60-Year Search : ScienceAlert If you've ever lived with an orange cat, you already know they're built different. It turns out, genetically speaking, they really are. Orange fur is one of the most recognizable traits in the feline world, and one of the most stubborn mysteries in cat…
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Links van 17 maart tot 9 oktober 2026
Reinvention and revolution: Pierre Alexandre Wille | British Museum Explore the works of this talented draughtsman, offering a fascinating insight into French society before, during and after the Revolution. ugentbe, design inspiration British Museum Welcome to the British Museum – discover two million years of human history and culture. ugentbe, design inspiration Enigma — The…
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Links van 16 tot 20 maart 2026
ƎXCLUSIVE ARCHITECTURE This article examines the gradual development of Canon's superimposed display systems. The project visualizes the most significant steps from Canon's very first to their most advanced superimposed display system. photography, focus, canon Stanford University Our mission of discovery and learning is energized by a spirit of optimism and possibility that dates to our…
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Links van 31 januari tot 9 februari 2026
5,500-Year-Old Sumerian Star Map Recorded the Impact of a Massive Asteroid – Archaeology Worlds With modern computer programs that can simulate trajectories and reconstruct the night sky thousands of years ago the researchers have established what the Planisphere tablet refers to. It is a copy of the night notebook of a Sumerian astronomer as he…
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Links van 8 tot 10 januari 2026
The Napoleon Technique: Postponing Things to Increase Productivity – Effectiviology The Napoleon technique is a productivity technique that involves postponing dealing with something if it’s likely to get resolved without your immediate input. For example, based on the Napoleon technique, you could decide to wait a day before replying to emails that ask for your…
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Links van 4 tot 5 januari 2026
Adventure 751 (1980) | Renga in Blue Adventure 751 has been, by my reckoning, the most sought-after variation of Crowther/Woods Adventure. It was generally available on the online portal CompuServe from nearly the beginning of the service and it disappeared when they shut down their games in the 90s. Arthur O’Dwyer started a web page…
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Links van 25 december 2025 tot 1 januari 2026
Knuth: Knight's Tours in Olin Hall Knuth is a national treasure — Knight's tours are one of humankind's earliest known combinatorial patterns. They originated in Kashmir and Persia, about 1200 years ago, and they've had a substantial, continuous history ever since then — first in Asia, then eventually in Europe, and finally in the Americas,…
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Links van 14 tot 18 december 2025
The Rise of Computer Games, Part I: Adventure – Creatures of Thought Author’s note: I originally intended for this post to cover adventure games, computer role-playing games, wargames and other simulations, a brief look at the home video game market, and finally the rise of hybrids that fused home video game systems with personal computers.…
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Links van 27 september 2017 tot 1 oktober 2017
De lotgevallen van de Witte: Over privileges, rechten en macht. – Jan Blommaert (en z’n gedachten)Wat het “white privilege” verhaaltje dus niet doet, is de macht zoeken waar ze werkelijk ligt. Neen, ze smeert de macht uit over een oneindig aantal “witte mensen”, zodat ze in wezen onzichtbaar wordt en nooit onder vuur komt te…
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Links van 10 augustus 2014 tot 12 augustus 2014
A Diablo 3 Story: A Diablo 3 StoryTLDR: I made about 100 000 euro from Diablo 3 in exactly 1 year. Below I will tell you in great detail how. Almost Perfect by W. E. Pete Peterson The Rise and Fall of WordPerfect CorporationThe book, Almost Perfect, was originally published by Prima Publishing in 1994.…
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Links van 14 juli 2014 tot 18 juli 2014
Gamasutra – The History of CivilizationGamasutra is proud to be partnering with the IGDA's Preservation SIG to present detailed official histories of each of the first ten games voted into the Digital Game Canon. The Canon "provides a starting-point for the difficult task of preserving this history inspired by the role of that the U.S.…
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Links van 15 april 2014 tot 20 april 2014
New Statesman | H G Wells: “It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin”In 1934, H G Wells arrived in Moscow to meet Soviet writers interested in joining the international PEN Club, of which he was then president. While there, Stalin granted him an interview. His deferential conversation…
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Links van 10 maart 2014 tot 28 maart 2014
The slow, sad death of Last.fmLast.fm used to know about bands before they were cool. Alas, there’s nothing up-and-coming about Last.fm these days. Steve Jobs wasn’t even okay with Google hiring former Apple engineers | Breaking Apple News, Tips and Reviews from The Unofficial Apple Weblogit would be much easier to "move on, forget, forgive" if…
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Links van 8 januari 2014 tot 9 januari 2014
The Jesus Blog: The Testimonium Flavianum, Eusebius, and Consensus (Guest Post) – OlsonIn this post, I’ll try to make clear why I am skeptical toward common scholarly claims about what an early Christian writer would or would not have written in a brief passage about Jesus. Native Ads Are The Worst Idea In The World…
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Links van 15 december 2013 tot 16 december 2013
nsa-backdoor/nsa-backdoor.php at master · aaronjorbin/nsa-backdoorGrin. "Description: Make it easy for the NSA to have admin access to your site" A Great Old-Timey Game-Programming Hack – Tom Moertel’s BlogThis was in the 8-bit PC era, so the gaming hardware was almost impossibly slow by today’s standards. It might not surprise you, then, to learn that, back…