"Swiss photographer Raymond Meier is a regular contributor to Vogue and New York Times T Magazine. He moved to New York in 1986, to concentrate on still life and fashion. Since then he has come to be recognized as one of the leading photographers in his field."
- Mark
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"Swedish photographer Honer Akrawi creates stunning fashion editorials. He became known internationally through his editorials for i-D magazine."
- Mark
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"Gregory Crewdson constructs impresive photographs of America’s Suburbia in which beauty and a strong sense of the bizzare converge in perfect harmony. His works seem to be largely inspired by American Film and the Barroque Tenebrist Painters (such as Rembrandt), and tend to show an almost frozen protagonist surrounded by beautiful chaos."
- Mark
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"Here are our favorite illustrations from A Sigh Of Relief (most ironic title for a book ever) along with the nightmares they have induced."
- Mark
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Just started a new batch of strawberry wine. We tweaked the recipe a tad. This batch looks like chicken gravy. Here's hoping it doesn't taste like it looks.
- Mark
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"Simply defined, quantum mechanics is the application of the uncertainty principle to our interpretation of real life. The uncertainty principle basically states that certain pairs of related properties can not both be measured accurately. Attempting to measure one property always disturbs the measurement of the other property. This has been proven to be the case with subatomic particles, in which it is impossible to measure both the velocity and the position of a particle."
- Mark
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Lovely. I have heard of the Heisenberg Principle, but as a layman I never knew quantum mechanics was based on a similar principle.
- Ahsan Ali
"The next day, with a fresh cup of coffee in my hand I started my beloved Firefox 3.5 browser on my freshly booted system. I was expecting to see the browser dialog within seconds to re-experience the web at light speed, but nothing happened. Well, something did happen, my PC's hard-disk was busy like I was running three virus-scan sessions at the same time. After 35 seconds or so, it finally managed to find all the bits and pieces it apparently needed and showed me the familiar face of the Firefox browser dialog and I was on my way to the outside world!"
- Mark
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"So what was it, what's the cause of this slowness? It's NSS. What? The Network Security System. It turns out that NSS needs to do all kinds of encryption and other security related tasks (which seems kind of logical), and for that it needs random numbers. Sounds reasonable, right? Well, it kind of does."
- Mark
"To solve the problem of the randomization, the NSS team came up with something clever, something so great, that no-one else had ever thought of that before: they decided to read the files in all possible temp folders on disk with multiple threads so these files can be used as seeds for the randomization. Brilliant. Temp folders! Why hasn't anyone else thought of using a disk-based...
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- Mark
"That is, if you're on the NSS team. In the outside world, things are a tad different. You see, Firefox v3.5 reads the Internet Explorer Cache and the central Windows temp folder in your user profile, through its NSS subsystem. Not only is it, in my humble opinion, not done to read another application's caches or temp folders, it's also amazingly ignorant towards the real bottlenecks of...
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- Mark
"Learning Snacks are short, interactive learning presentations about Microsoft technologies and include various media, such as animations and recorded demos. Are you an expert? Be part of this growing and vibrant community - create your own Learning Snack and share it with the world here!"
- Mark
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"(1) A person who publishes or utters blasphemous matter shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable upon conviction on indictment to a fine not exceeding €100,000. [Amended to €25,000]"
- Mark
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