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| What are you gonna do, play with your prick for another 30 years? ... George Carlin |
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THE MONSTER ENGINE - What if a kid's imagination....was better represented? |
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| Topic: Arts |
10:54 am EST, Mar 17, 2006 |
This guy really is good at what he does. Kid's draw pictures of their 'monsters' and super-heros, and he takes those pictures, and paints them realistically, all the while leaving the basic lines and scope of the drawings. My son really enjoyed this site, as did I. It is very interesting! [Awesome!] THE MONSTER ENGINE - What if a kid's imagination....was better represented? |
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RE: 100 Amish rebuild destroyed house in 24 hours |
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4:51 pm EST, Mar 16, 2006 |
Catonic wrote: Effing amazing. 100 Amish came out of the woodwork and rebuilt a man's house destroyed by a tornado. I wish more of this happened. It really makes you proud to be a alive sometimes.
Maybe they REALLY didn't want the guy crashing in their barns, so they just built the pain in the ass a house. RE: 100 Amish rebuild destroyed house in 24 hours |
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South Korea gets rare yellow snowfall - Yahoo! News |
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11:35 am EST, Mar 16, 2006 |
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Koreans were treated to a rare
weather phenomenon on Monday when yellow snow fell in the
capital and elsewhere across the country.
Pink snow in Russia... Yellow Snow in Korea. South Korea gets rare yellow snowfall - Yahoo! News |
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Slashdot | Interview With Cryptographer Elonka Dunin |
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9:43 am EST, Mar 15, 2006 |
Interview With Cryptographer Elonka Dunin from the old-school-geeks dept. An anonymous reader writes "Whitedust is running a very interesting article with the DEF CON speaker and cryptographer Elonka Dunin. The article covers her career and specifically her involvement with the CIA and other US Military agencies."
Top link on slashdot for the nanosecond... Update: Pushed my book's Amazon ranking, too. Current high-water mark, #2,783. Slashdot | Interview With Cryptographer Elonka Dunin |
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Report: Greenspan predicts indie presidential candidate - Mar. 10, 2006 |
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| Topic: Society |
12:18 pm EST, Mar 10, 2006 |
Recently retired Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan believes that there will be a major independent candidate for president from the nation's political center, according to a published report.
Report: Greenspan predicts indie presidential candidate - Mar. 10, 2006 |
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Boing Boing: Funny handmade car registration sticker |
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| Topic: Humor |
12:47 pm EST, Mar 8, 2006 |
A blogger named Opportunist walked by a car with a bunch of parking tickets under its windshield wiper. He took a closer look and discovered that the registration sticker was hand drawn. He notes that the bar code was peeled from a library book
Boing Boing: Funny handmade car registration sticker |
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Mike Davidson -- sIFR 2.0: Rich Accessible Typography for the Masses |
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4:27 pm EST, Mar 7, 2006 |
Over the last several months, a small group of web developers and designers have been hard at work perfecting a method to insert rich typography into web pages without sacrificing accessibility, search engine friendliness, or markup semantics. The method, dubbed sIFR (or Scalable Inman Flash Replacement), is the result of many hundreds of hours of designing, scripting, testing, and debugging by Mike Davidson (umm, that's me) and Mark Wubben. Through this extensive work, we, along with a invaluable stable of beta testers, supporters, and educators like Stephanie Sullivan and Danilo Celic of Community MX, have completely rebuilt a DOM replacement method originally conceived by Shaun Inman into a typography solution for the masses. It is this technology which provides the nice looking custom type headlines you see on sites like this one, Nike, ABCNews, Aston Martin, and others. We've released sIFR to the world as open source, under the CC-GNU LGPL license, so anyone can use it free of charge.
Mike Davidson -- sIFR 2.0: Rich Accessible Typography for the Masses |
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Camera Obscura and Paleolithic Drawings |
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5:13 pm EST, Mar 6, 2006 |
"Louisville artist Matt Gatton started thinking of primitive people hunkering inside caves and arrived at a radical, quite possibly revolutionary and insistently plausible theory of the origin of representational art. It struck Gatton, a St. Francis High School art teacher, that the question of how Paleolithic people got the notion to create representational art could be answered by their living conditions. Holes in the animal hides that covered their dwellings could have projected images from outside -- a phenomenon of physics we now call camera obscura. The people could then have traced the images onto their cave walls." Camera Obscura and Paleolithic Drawings |
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