Daily Shaarli

All links of one day in a single page.

June 3, 2007

Cirque du Strange

"A loving tribute to the strangest, weirdest, or just plain wrong-est moments in PC gaming."

List of snowclones

"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."

Morrowind Graphics Extender

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.

The Future of Digital Interaction
Cthulhu Cthursday

on Table of Malcontents

Exclamation de Blake & Mortimer

By Jove !

Data Mining

"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."

The Holy War: Mac vs. DOS (Umberto Eco)

"Macintosh is Catholic and DOS is Protestant"

Synchronizer (abstractmachine:software)

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).

PR. Differently: What the Immersive Media Photo-Car Looks Like!
The new black

"_____ 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"

The Precession of Simulacra in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

"But what if God himself can be simulated...
reduced to the signs which attest his existence?"

Hérisson

cards & all

IsleOfEden.com

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Double Bubble -- from Wolfram MathWorld
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"A double bubble is pair of bubbles which intersect and are separated by a membrane bounded by the intersection"

Google Street View Van Spotted in Hayward
Gravanity dolls

"TinyPocketPeople produces made to order dolls, based on digital photographs that customers upload to the website."

Image macro

"An image macro is a picture with text superimposed, typically through the use of graphics software"

Charles Rennie Mackintosh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
about Google Face Search (google blogoscoped)

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More Tables...

those interactive tables...

Running the Numbers - An American Self-Portrait

"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."

Zen Parable or Just Someone Being Cruel?
Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

origin of the bloody expression and its 20000 variations

Look at Me, a collection of found photos
Gamervision Miitorial - Zoidberg