Tag: photography
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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…
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Links van 13 november 2013 tot 14 november 2013
Ad Tech’s IPO Rager Spawns Wicked Hangover | DigidayThe guys investing in these companies are finance guys; they don’t know anything about the industry. They’re being told novel stories and making decisions on somewhat ignorant views and undeveloped valuation frameworks. Woordgeslacht van Engelse leenwoordenYou don't say: "Omdat verschillende regels elkaar kunnen tegenspreken, moet er een…
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Links van 25 januari 2012 tot 31 januari 2012
So klang Bismarck! – einestagesDer Kanzler war begeistert! 1889 wurde Otto von Bismarck ein Phonograph vorgeführt – und der altehrwürdige Staatsmann plauderte munter auf das revolutionäre Gerät. Mehr als ein Jahrhundert galt die wohl einzig jemals gemachte Aufnahme der fürstlichen Stimme als verschollen. Nun ist sie aufgetaucht. Forgotten.pl Abandoned PlacesStadsarcheologie in Polen. Rosling’s World –…