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Category Archives: Hyperlinks
3D street paintings
Via Metafilter: three dimensional street paintings. Really pretty and amazing. The only point I was thinking of that these paintings should only be seen from one direction: if you think about it, how would the shadowing work anyways? Conveniently, the … Continue reading
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Rock. Paper. Scissors!
Everybody’s favourite event, The 2003 International Rock Paper Scissors Championship, was held in Toronto this year and someone took his camera. If you’re just as foreign as me (hey, that is the best excuse I can give anyone), you can … Continue reading
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Cold war
A couple of items around reminded me of the Eighties, the years of the Cold War. First off, Alan M. remembers the actual thoughts most Europeans had about the Red Threat and the chances of an all-out nuclear war. The … Continue reading
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Still images from ‘Der Ewige Jude’ (1940)
At the height of the German Blitzkrieg, the part of the Second World War that ended in the dramatic surrender of most West European countries, the Nazi’s readied their propaganda machine by releasing their anti-semitic movie ‘Der Ewige Jude’ (The … Continue reading
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Dancing and singing and Lars von Trier?
I was mindlessly watching Lars von Trier’s ‘Dancer in the Dark’ (original site) last night. Not actually following but I was a bit blown away by the performance of both Bjork and Catherine Deneuve. A rather cute musical and I … Continue reading
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Hello. Halo!
While chasing for pictures showing Proteus (the laptop) in fullsize, I stumbled into Photo Editor’s About box.
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Many-o pictures-o
Plenty of pictures in the media about last nights lunar eclipse. Space.com has the best pictures. The blogworld did actually good too. Next year, please no more Pepsi-like lunar eclipses. Pretty please. Thank you.
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What. Was. Going. On?
Fragments of the Prince Paul case dripped into the media here too. The Globe and Mail adds their view: “Rumours swirled across Britain Friday about what exactly prompted Prince Charles’s entourage to deny in the most categorical terms allegations that … Continue reading
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Hungarian notation
An article over at Techreview mentions Charles Simonyi’s efforts to simplify programming. The former Microsoft Chief architect (and yes, if you’re a programmer you recognize his name for the person who invented the Hungarian notation [link goes to Microsoft, so … Continue reading
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Old Europe vs. the New World
You can say everything about the ‘Old Europe’, but at least they sometimes do the right thing over there. Take this case for example: A German general got sacked after it became known he praised a German MP who compared … Continue reading
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Talking about the Matrix
The Superstation has The Matrix on until tomorrow. At least they showed the uncut version and had a couple of extras too, like quick background stories how things were done. A couple of comments on the movie: Nope, I haven’t … Continue reading
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Pick out seven books
Jim’s (Everything Burns) latest blogitem: “For whatever reason [ed:…cut…], you find that you have to cut and run, leaving most everything behind to live on the lam for a while. After packing all the essentials (You packed a flashlight, right? … Continue reading
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Logos and slogans
And, earlier there was ESR’s attempt to build community spirit by providing us mere mortals with a logo. I’m wary of people suggesting we all should rejoyce behind a logo or a slogan. Maybe that suspicion is part of the … Continue reading
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