221 private links
1 Panama Canal = 6705.6 T-Rex
"I actually enjoy most aspects of administration. I also enjoy being purely creative too. I am beginning to think that the two activities are mutually exclusive, if they are to be done well."
"Geminoid is a remote-control doppelganger droid designed by and modeled after Hiroshi Ishiguro"
"With cameras for eyes and microphones for ears, and with 197 tactile sensors embedded in the layer of soft silicone skin covering its entire body...."
MPEGs ! (so there's actually a thing called "MPEG-7" and even "MPEG-21" !)
"Hello, I'm a Mac" "And I'm a PC, vroaaam"
"imagine a game machine where you're just going to pick up the bat and swing it or the tennis racket and swing it"
"A program needs your permission to continue"
"It is a Chinese dictionary, a Japanese dictionary, and a Hanzi dictionary among its other uses. "
"A loving tribute to the strangest, weirdest, or just plain wrong-est moments in PC gaming."
"TinyPocketPeople produces made to order dolls, based on digital photographs that customers upload to the website."
"Snowclones are a type of formula-based cliché which uses an old idiom in a new context. These are roughly ordered by known year of original usage."
"_____ is the new black" is a catch phrase and snowclone used to indicate the sudden popularity or versatility of an idea at the expense of the popularity of a second idea. It is also the origin of a snowclone of the form "X is the new Y"
"An image macro is a picture with text superimposed, typically through the use of graphics software"
Adds an oblivion style distant land feature/ Adds a fake HDR effect/ Allows morrowind to make use of the graphics drivers ‘application preference’ setting for antialiasing, anisotropic filtering and vWait, mipmap detail, refresh rate, etc.
"But what if God himself can be simulated...
reduced to the signs which attest his existence?"
&imgtype=face
those interactive tables...
cards & all
"Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on."
on Table of Malcontents
Fresh Luscious Body Care. Fabulous One-of-a-Kind Whipped Body Scrubs! Customize Your Own Sugar & Salt Scrubs! Gorgeous & Unique Layered Parfait Body Treats! Whipped with Pure Organic Oils! 500+ Scents to Choose From! Cocktail-Inspired Line of Body Treats!
By Jove !
"An automated classification into clusters or sub populations with related musical genres reveals the structure of musical preferences among the users in a relatively large sample population."
"A double bubble is pair of bubbles which intersect and are separated by a membrane bounded by the intersection"
"Macintosh is Catholic and DOS is Protestant"
origin of the bloody expression and its 20000 variations
Firefox extension that synchronize browsers of EVERYONE who installed the extension. Basically, it gets everyone on the same page. You can be passive (let other people browse for you) or active (change the collective current page).
"'Why has this rubbish aspirational ornament only got one mouse button?' Losing that second mouse button feels like losing a limb."