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Culling the çream of imagery and concept.
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"When asked, "How could you possibly have done the first interactive graphics program, the first non-procedural programming language, the first object oriented software system, all in one year?" Ivan replied: "Well, I didn't know it was hard."" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
"When asked, "How could you possibly have done the first interactive graphics program, the first non-procedural programming language, the first object oriented software system, all in one year?" Ivan replied: "Well, I didn't know it was hard.""
Ivan Edward Sutherland (born 1938 in Hastings, Nebraska) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer. He received the Turing Award in 1988 for the invention of Sketchpad, an early predecessor to the sort of graphical user interface that has become ubiquitous in personal computers. - Schadenfreude from Bookmarklet
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teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
One of my favorite websites when I was a kid, Electric Sheep Comix, is back online. - http://www.electricsheepcomix.com/main...
One of my favorite websites when I was a kid, Electric Sheep Comix, is back online.
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"Freshers week footage of new students testing out the rare and exciting Paternoster. This one is found in the Attenborough Tower of the University of Leicester, UK. But what happens if you forget to get off at the top!?" - Schadenfreude from Bookmarklet
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Life tips. Take notes, this stuff is golden. - Schadenfreude from Bookmarklet
It's Always Sunny is my favorite comedy airing. - Stephen Mack
I love It's Always Sunny. - Nicholas Kreidberg
Best sitcom on TV. Hands down. - Kevin Mohr
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Eid al-Adha and the Hajj, 2009 - The Big Picture - Boston.com #eid #hajj - http://www.boston.com/bigpict...
Eid al-Adha and the Hajj, 2009 - The Big Picture - Boston.com #eid #hajj
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"Today, November 27th, marks the beginning of 2009's Eid al-Adha, the Muslim "Festival of Sacrifice", commemorating the willingness of Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his son to God. Muslims around the world will celebrate by slaughtering animals to commemorate God's gift of a ram to substitute for Abraham's son, distributing the meat amongst family, friends and the poor. Eid al-Adha also takes place immediately after the Hajj, a pilgrimage to Mecca that is a pillar of Islamic Faith. Some 2.5 million Muslim faithful from all over the world descended on Mecca this year, many encountering an unusual occurance: heavy flooding due to recent torrential rains. Collected below are photographs from this year's Hajj and observance of Eid al-Adha. (38 photos total)" - Schadenfreude from Bookmarklet
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Every time I run out of ink, I just buy a new printer. (i.imgur.com)
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This is really happening and the results are thousands of working printers going to landfills. It's a situation brought on by the lousy business models of the OEMs. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
This is the reason why the carts in new printers are only about 50% of the capacity of a new cart. So how does this fit in with cost effectiveness? Is it really cheaper on a volume of printing done scale? - alphaxion
I've actually done the same for years. But many new printers are not including all the cartridges needed; some only come with black ink, no color. This can be a good strategy if you use entry-level printers; just make sure the ink cartridges are included. - FF's Bubba of Arizona
/me pats his HP1600 colour laserjet. They're really the only type of printer you should invest in for the home. - alphaxion
My setup is the opposite. I have an old laser printer and refurbished toner cartridges for it are inexpensive. - Morton Fox
Yeah, I think that my next printer will be a used reasonably high-end model of HP networked color laserjet with tons of available refurb cartridges. I really don't want to deal with the printer/cartridge nonsense anymore than I have to. - Chieze Okoye
I've been tempted to take up the same practice... just my green conscience holding me back - Alistair (alpinefolk)
This does only work if you buy crap printers, Even though our printer uses like 8 different cartridges, it never reaches the price of a new printer. The new printers come with only half-filled tanks and does not come with 2 colors needed anyway. - Admiral Anika
I used to work for Lexmark. I understand how the manufacturers make their money. To re-stock, I have bought cartridges; I have bought printers. Mainly, though, I just don't print anymore. Between my Tablet PC, my phones and apps like EverNote and OneNote, paper has pretty much been a thing of the past for five years. I bought a printer in 2006 that's never made it out of the plastic. *takes her iPhone into the kitchen so she can read the Taiwanese Sweet Butter Brick Toast recipe* - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
This is why I've pretty much abandoned printing at home. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)
teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
I love everything about this. Everything. Every frame. Every sound. - teh Dork Knight aka Kenny from Bookmarklet
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There should really be a site or room on FF that tracks all the many StackOverflow clones I've been seeing lately. For some reason, I'm picturing another clone being created itself for this purpose; questions about clones of the original from a clone. THE META IS KILLING ME
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Fed Beaten: Bill To Audit Federal Reserve Passes Key Hurdle Youtube Video - http://is.gd/4ZIdx - - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009...
Fed Beaten: Bill To Audit Federal Reserve Passes Key Hurdle  Youtube Video - http://is.gd/4ZIdx -
"In an unprecedented defeat for the Federal Reserve, an amendment to audit the multi-trillion dollar institution was approved by the House Finance Committee with an overwhelming and bipartisan 43-26 vote on Thursday afternoon despite harried last-minute lobbying from top Fed officials and the surprise opposition of Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who had previously been a supporter." - Schadenfreude from Bookmarklet
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Minnesota dad spoke only Klingon to child for three years - http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter...
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""I was interested in the question of whether my son, going through his first language acquisition process, would acquire it like any human language," Speers told the Minnesota Daily. "He was definitely starting to learn it."" - Schadenfreude
"And get this, Speers says he isn't really a huge Star Trek fan. " - Schadenfreude
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Hacker News | I fell in love with a girl, so I built a web app to dedicate to her. (cupidco.de) - http://news.ycombinator.com/item...
"I fell head over heals for a girl. I thought about her way too often, missed her way more than a normal person ought to, and was pretty much in a constant state of love-induced sugar shock. I didn't want to seem overzealous or desperate, so I tried to play it cool -- and yet, the impulse to post embarrassing, saccharine love quotes to Facebook was overwhelming (I am but only a dork, after all)." - Schadenfreude from Bookmarklet
"So I did what any self-respecting geek would do in my position: I computed a SHA-2 hash of her name and put it in that weird little box thingy on the left hand side of my Facebook profile. It provided just the right balance of self expression and social tact. I was happy." - Schadenfreude
"I liked the idea so much that I decided I would wrap it in a small application and dedicate it to the object of my dorkitude. As I knew it would take a few weeks to flesh out and things were (shockingly) starting to work out between this lovely individual and myself, I thought that the final product might make for a cute little way of sharing my feelings. The idea of tiny "cupidcode"... more... - Schadenfreude
"Fast forward a few weeks, and cupidco.de is done. It's probably not well suited for the sorts of folks that read YC so I hope you don't mind me sharing my link with you. My hope is that this post will kick-start the spread of a few cupidcodes 'cross the nets so that my crush (who I've been seeing now for about two weeks!) may casually stumble upon one while checking her facebook or reading a blog and discover just how special she is to me." - Schadenfreude
....tl;dr -- fell in love with a chick, wanted to do something special for her, suck at everything else, so I built her a webapp. - Schadenfreude
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Hypocritical Mass: The Big Lie About Twitter | Atomic Tango - http://atomictango.com/2009...
Hypocritical Mass: The Big Lie About Twitter | Atomic Tango
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"The belief that Twitter is more than just another communications platform continues to spread, kind of like swine flu for media geeks. And like the flu, it’s plunging victims into feverish hallucinations: “Twitter saved the Iranian protestors!” they cry, neglecting the fact that it, uh, didn’t. “Twitter made the Kogi Korean BBQ Taco Truck a sensation!” Yay, a fast-food truck makes money. “Twitter kept us updated about Balloon Boy in real time!”" - Schadenfreude from Bookmarklet
This post is pretty inane, half-baked and not very considered. It's entertaining, but of little other value. - dkb
I'd consider it the exact opposite, dkb. - Schadenfreude
Fair enough, we'll have to agree to disagree. Obviously the individual points within the piece - eg. auto-follow is bad - I have no problem with, but to throw out Twitter entirely is both, frankly, misguided and intentionally dramatic to get click-throughs. As I said: entertaining, but of little professional value. - dkb
Twitter is platform with terrible security, terrible uptime, overhyped beyond belief by bloggers and "social media experts". Completely stupid in my opinion. - Schadenfreude
An opinion which makes sense, considering you posted the piece. As I said, we'll agree to disagree. - dkb
haha great photo selection!!!! #illustration #journalism - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Maxamad: what is the basis for those claims? what is the overall yearly uptime for twitter website or api, and how does this truly compare to other messaging platforms? what is wrong with its security? there is an HTTPS login https://twitter.com/ and OAuth is pretty reliable if implemented properly - Mike Chelen
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DENVER – The Colorado ski town of Breckenridge has voted overwhelmingly to legalize marijuana. - Schadenfreude from Bookmarklet
Holyshit! - Chase
Waiting to see a news story where the DEA conveniently decides to setup a secondary headquarters in Breckenridge... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
There are enough issues about Federal vs. state conflicting laws on marijuana, but this is the first time that I've heard of a conflict between local and state law on marijuana. Unfortunately for the good citizens of Breckenridge, the state holds all the cards in this case. Unless there's a future governor who owns a bakery or pizza parlor. - John E. Bredehoft
John: local political actions create pressure for relaxation of drug prohibition laws, even though states may have a higher authority. it is similar to how changes in state laws have influenced federal law - Mike Chelen
Colorado is a pretty conservative state. Interesting to see this little crack in the facade. - Jason Wehmhoener
road trip? - .LAG liked that
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Fun With the Minneapolis Mayoral Race - Boing Boing - http://www.boingboing.net/2009...
Fun With the Minneapolis Mayoral Race - Boing Boing
"I pulled up my sample ballot for Minneapolis elections today, and found something absolutely fabulous. Take a look at the second-from-last candidate. Specifically, his party affiliation. God, I love this town. The ballot just gets better when you know what an Edgertonite is." - Schadenfreude from Bookmarklet
Edgertonite-"The Edgertonite National Party exists to secure political independence for the people of the Midwestern United States and a homeland for the Lauraist religion. We use the term “Nation of Edgerton” to describe the area within a 240-mile radius of Minneapolis, Minnesota. We are a non-traditional Communist party, based on the ideology of Lauraism: the belief that Laura Ingalls... more... - Schadenfreude
umm.... odd? :) - mikepk
Laura Ingalls Wilder is God? - mikepk
We've got strange folk in Minneapolis. - Schadenfreude
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I spent some time looking around the net to find a font that mimics DEC VT220 terminal glyph appearance. There is none. There are some old bitmapped fonts from X11 and probably early MacOS distributions that claim to be DEC fonts, they are functional but their visual quality is lacking and nostalgic value is absent. What I wanted was a font that fills my virtual terminal window with the magic hacking glow. - Schadenfreude from Bookmarklet
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Xerox develops silver ink for wearable or throwaway electronics | VentureBeat - http://digital.venturebeat.com/2009...
Xerox develops silver ink for wearable or throwaway electronics | VentureBeat
"Xerox researchers have invented a kind of ink that can conduct electricity and be used to put electronic circuits on top of plastics, film, and textiles. That means in the coming years we’ll be able to wear or bend our electronics. You could even print out your electronic gadget on plastic sheets, as if you were printing a document." - Schadenfreude from Bookmarklet
Has anyone seen this technology in action? Is there a video somewhere? - Kamilah Gill
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English Russia » Darvaz: The Door to Hell - http://englishrussia.com/...
English Russia » Darvaz: The Door to Hell
English Russia » Darvaz: The Door to Hell
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"This place in Uzbekistan is called by locals “The Door to Hell”. It is situated near the small town of Darvaz. The story of this place lasts already for 35 years. Once the geologists were drilling for gas. Then suddenly during the drilling they have found an underground cavern, it was so big that all the drilling site with all the equipment and camps got deep deep under the ground. None dared to go down there because the cavern was filled with gas. So they ignited it so that no poisonous gas could come out of the hole, and since then, it’s burning, already for 35 years without any pause. Nobody knows how many tons of excellent gas has been burned for all those years but it just seems to be infinite there." - Schadenfreude from Bookmarklet
That's crazy - Eric Logan
Totally man. I can't believe I never heard of htis before. 35 years straight burning gas? And people wonder about all the global warming :) - Schadenfreude
English Russia? What a cute name! - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
industrial refineries also burn gases that are byproducts on an ongoing basis - Mike Chelen
incredible - Vezquex: God of FF
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Asiajin » Uroboros Programming With 11 Programming Languages - http://asiajin.com/blog...
Asiajin » Uroboros Programming With 11 Programming Languages
"A Japanese blogger Ku-ma-me made an interesting program code. It is a variation of Quine program. The Ruby code generates Python code, which generates Perl code, which generates Lua code, which generates OCaml code, which generates Haskell code, which generates C code, which generates Java code, which generates Brainfuck code, which generates Whitespace code, which generates Unlambda code, which generates the original Ruby code again." - Schadenfreude from Bookmarklet
Brainfuck isn't actually all that hard to learn. - Schadenfreude
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I have trouble understanding this graph though! - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
?= the more you are the sick of graphs, the more you not care until you were told to shut up? - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
You're trying too hard See-ming. Just sick of 'em. - Schadenfreude
Eric Logan
Stanford Unveils Robotic Pikes Peak Racer, Autonomous Valet System - http://www.ohgizmo.com/2009...
Stanford Unveils Robotic Pikes Peak Racer, Autonomous Valet System
On display was Stanford’s latest autonomous vehicle, a robotic Audi TTS named Shelley. Shelley currently holds the unofficial world speed record for an autonomous car at over 130 mph, and will be racing up Pikes Peak all by herself next year. Stanford also demonstrated an autonomous valet parking system, where an almost stock Volkswagen Passat entered a parking lot, located an empty space, and parked itself: - Eric Logan from Bookmarklet
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Dyson Air Multiplier: Amplifies Air Without Fan Blades - http://www.unplggd.com/unplggd...
Dyson Air Multiplier: Amplifies Air Without Fan Blades
Dyson Air Multiplier: Amplifies Air Without Fan Blades
Dyson Air Multiplier: Amplifies Air Without Fan Blades
"We're about to close for the day when our boss Maxwell emails over these "hold the presses" snapshots of a working model of Sir James Dyson's newest creation: the Dyson Air Multiplier is best described as one of their vacuum designs engineered in reverse, able to push out 118 gallons of air every minute for some serious air circulation. Mention of Stargate and a striking resemblance to an oversized magnifying glass are sure to be heard/thought upon first sight, but this device has a revolutionary design which allows for air flow without need for fan blades which is quite amazing (and very quiet)..." - Schadenfreude from Bookmarklet
Airam F.
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Amazon.com: Fisher Space Pen, Bullet Space Pen, Chrome Finish, Gift Boxed (400): Fisher Space Pen: Office Products - http://www.amazon.com/gp...
Amazon.com: Fisher Space Pen, Bullet Space Pen, Chrome Finish, Gift Boxed (400): Fisher Space Pen: Office Products
"# Writes at any angle, even in Zero Gravity. Simply the most versatile pen ever made. # Writes in extreme temperatures from -30F to 250F # Each Fisher Space Pen is precision assembled, hand tested, and carries an unconditional lifetime guarantee. # All Brass and steel construction" - Schadenfreude from Bookmarklet
i still love the (legendary) russian version: pencils - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
I know. I loved it too until I found out it was fake. http://www.snopes.com/busines... - Schadenfreude
Pen's still great though ;) - Schadenfreude
Airam F.
No one likes Bokeh Type on FF yet?! But it's beautiful and fun :D - Airam F.
I like it, yay! ^__^ - Vedrana Janković
very cool! - Ivan Zuzak
Yayyy! You guys like it! ♥ - Airam F.
Hyper-cool :D - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
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Talking of which, I once made this collection of robots on comic book covers: http://www.coverbrowser.com/my... - Philipp Lenssen
Hey Philipp, great link :) Thanks for sharing! - Airam F.
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