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alasdairstuart posted a photo: I love the light on this. It looks like Russia, like the empty towns around Chernobyl are sitting, brooding, on the horizon. Of course they're not but the contrast between the warm,a artificial light and the cold, natural light is beautiful. - immaterial

needs an 'hl=en&' in there - immaterial

ie http://translate.google.com/transla... - immaterial

Of course it doesn't actually work like this (see Microsoft) - immaterial

Filed under: Fun, Internet I'm more of the "look out your window to find out what the weather's doing" type, but I have to admit...Tom Scott's Star Wars Weather page is just plain awesome. While I certainly don't need Tom's script to tell me weather in my home town is Hoth-like, it's a heck of a lot more fun than perusing the stodgy reports on the Weather Channel's site. I also hope he's wrong about me possibly having to crawl inside a taun taun to stay warm. If you're a Star Wars fan, this page is well worth a bookmark. Head on over to Star Wars Weather, and share your current conditions in the comments. Just be sure to watch out for falling Death Star debris... [via gHacks] Bored with your weather app? Try Tom Scott's Star Wars Weather originally appeared on Download Squad on Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments StarWars - Tom Scott - Death Star - Download Squad - Weather Channel - immaterial

Based on the book, Magic Moving Images, These are some designs that I created. - immaterial

Christmas shipping deadlines are upon us! Check the info here, and then order the t-shirt we both know you want. Also, big announcement at Snowflakes. - immaterial

Not sure this one makes sense anymore, but it's 2:30am. Good luck! - immaterial

A university lecturer in philosophy suggests that Gotham's hero and its worst villain share an unwilling awareness of society's fragility — and a profound isolation from others as a result. We're pretty sure we knew this, but validation is nice. Ron Novy, a lecturer at the University of Central Arkansas, argues that what Batman and the Joker have in common are formative traumas that highlight how easily order can slip away. Bruce Wayne, of course, saw his parents killed in front of him as a child, thus learning an unwelcome lesson about how peace can be upturned and the law can fail. Novy draws on Alan Moore's semi-canonical Batman: The Killing Joke to explain how the Joker's experience mirrors Batman's own. In Killing Joke, the man who'll become the Joker is a struggling stand-up comic forced to turn to crime. His pregnant wife dies just before a botched break-in at a chemical plant, where the comedian falls into a vat of chemicals that turn him into a chalk-faced, green-haired... - immaterial

Yes, this one diagram pretty much covers all the bases. Read the comments on this post... - immaterial

Brad’s phone rang with the telltale tone of an inner-office call. “Yeah,” he briskly blurted out as he picked up the phone, “what’cha ya need?” That was actually his nicewayof answering the phone. As the senior trader at Æxecor, one of the world’s largest energy trading companies, Brad didn’t need to impress anyone and, in his mind, displaying anything less than vicious hubris would be a sign of weakness. “Err,” the receptionist nervously answers, “there’s a… err, delivery for you, sir. They—” “Hmphf,” Brad’s scoff cut her off. “So just sign for it, then! Is that really that hard to do? You can do that, can’t you?” “Well sir,” the receptionist winced, “they’re asking for mooring instructions? And we need to pay wharfage charges? They said you’d know. I’m at a loss.” “Fine,” Brad scowled, “I guess I have to do everything around here!” He slammed down the phone and marched out of his corner office. Despite Æxecor’s location – the “old docks” district – their office was one of the most... - immaterial

I SHALL UPDATE. Man, I forgot how hard it is to update from set. Just two more before I can go home... - immaterial

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"And from that day on, I wore this little 'F' key pendant everywhere I went." - immaterial

The argument over file sharing is redundant: creative businesses must change, and the social value of free must be recognised Stewart Brand, during the first Hackers' Conference in 1984, uttered the infamous maxim, "Information wants to be free". The implication was that any attempt to control and limit the free dissemination of knowledge and information would be met with resistance. That was yesterday's news. Today's is that the British government is seeking to tackle the problem of online piracy by passing a law disciplining those wishing to freely share intellectual property that is under copyright protection. In 2007, Dan Ariely and Kristina Shampan'er, behavioural economists at MIT, published a paper that established the advantage of "free" over "cheap". They offered a group of subjects a choice between two chocolates, Hershey's Kisses for one cent and Lindt truffles for 15c. Three quarters of the subjects chose the truffles. When they repeated the experiment, reducing the price... - immaterial

Vampires aren't the only ones with tortured souls. Superheroes and their villainous counterparts get mopey every now and again. JSalvador's Super Emo Friends show chibi versions of comic book characters alone with their most depressing thoughts. [Etsy via Super Punch] Wolvie Hawley Spidey Wougie Gweenie Wundy Cappin Thowee Gobbie Soopie - immaterial

"How to Fix Capitalism" is an insanely ambitious post that ranges over, well, just about everything concerned with business and all it touches. The following proposals give some hint of its deep wisdom: # Abolish patents. They have not been proven to speed progress: the evidence seems to be to the contrary. They definitely increase costs, are an inefficient way of funding R & D and allow oligopolists to block competition. # Reduce the copyright term to the optimal length suggested by research of about 15 years. It ought to be obvious that works produced in the reign of Queen Victoria should not be in copyright in the 21st century. # Exclude works distributed with DRM from copyright to ensure that copyright works do fall into the public domain when the copyright expires. # Reduce the copyright term on computer software to two years, and make copyright contingent on disclosing source code (so others can alter the software when it comes out of copyright). This section also warmed the... - immaterial

Equality through mutually assured destruction? The 'It worked for Nukes' argument? hehe - immaterial

(re:autofocus) At a stretch:time of day to help work out lighting, but wow that's strange. Would love to know - immaterial

sadly the picture isn't so good - immaterial

Check out these cool robot inspired lamps by Croatian artist Robert Matysiak, these are bound to look great in any geeks apartment. These cool Robot lamps are made from a range of plumbing supplies and light bulbs, you can check out some more over at Robert’s Facebook page. - immaterial

Haha :) - immaterial

Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: "Buzzwords" - originally published 11/16/2009 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE! - immaterial

shirley bindun? - immaterial

Note: This blog post contains video or JavaScript effects that are illegal in RSS and will be removed by most feed readers. It should display perfectly if you open it in Safari, Chrome, or Firefox, though. In spite of some of the reaction to it, I find Google Wave to be surprisingly useful. One thing I don’t really understand, though, is its scrollbars. They behave quite differently from regular scrollbars, and I can’t discern any overwhelming advantages of Google’s implementation. It seems I’m not alone. The unofficial Google Wave manual deems it necessary to explain how the scrollbars work. Google’s own support site for Wave has an entry titled What’s the deal with the scrollbar?, Google has a video explaining the scrollbars, and there’s even a Chrome extension which replaces Google’s scrollbars with native scrollbars. As a general rule, there’s nothing wrong with replacing native widgets with different-looking versions; visual consistency is overrated. As long as people can clearly... - immaterial

seems broken now :'-( - immaterial

Microsoft has been granted a patent for a sudo command, because apparently you can patent a command that goes back to the mainframe days as long as you explain that it's a "personalized version" with a GUI. Groklaw has an explanation of the history of sudo and details about the patent, but it all boils down to this: Someone at the US Patent Office must've been snoozing when they approved this patent application. Either that or the command worked on a person. [USPTO via Groklaw] Photo by xkcd - immaterial

@adele_pthagonal banana can be a bit overpowering after a bit, how about potato & leek? - immaterial

"-with:public -with:blog-wave@appspot.com" brings back nothing and my Inbox is a mixture of public and private waves. - Kol Tregaskes

Yep, thanks, Chris. - Kol Tregaskes

It's still early days for Google Wave but already there are a large number of Gadgets and Robots being developed. If you don't know the difference, Gadgets are local, client-side (as in they run on your computer), Javascript and HTML. Robots run remotely on another server. Gadgets change how you interact with waves, whereas robots process your input in some way or pull in data from another service (such as Twitter or Wikipedia). Robots are generally more powerful, but Gadgets are more fun. This article is all about Gadgets. There will be another one on Robots soon: you folk that want to aggregate your Twitter and RSS feeds into Wave will have to wait a little longer! It's surprisingly hard to find good gadgets for Wave at the moment, so hold onto this guide even if you've not yet been invited to the beta. Note: You should bear in mind that these are all 'beta' gadgets. A lot of them work just fine but you might hit some bugs along the way. The 'direct import links' might also change... - immaterial

Megabarnitts smash puny smaller stores (ie everyone) - immaterial