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- Daily Mail fail: Samantha Cameron and Gwyneth Paltrow Photoshopped together - "Why, it's Prime Minister David Cameron's wife Samantha posing with Hollywood A-lister Gwyneth Paltrow of course! Except... wait a minute... what's this?!" One of the worst Photoshop jobs ever seen in a national newspaper (and the Mail has done some pretty bad ones in the past).
- The Art of Assembly Language Programming - "Amazing! You're actually reading this. That puts you into one of three categories: a student who is being forced to read this stuff for a class, someone who picked up this book by accident (probably because you have yet to be indoctrinated by the world at large), or one of the few who actually have an interest in learning assembly language." A complete online textbook. Now you too can program computers the way John Von Neumann intended
- Isaac Asimov Marvels At Miniaturization - "A few years ago, the idea of a computer you could put in your pocket was just science fiction." I remember this 1982 ad for the TRS-80 Pocket Computer
- You Will Never Be A Centaur!: Woman Injects Herself With Horse Blood For 'Art' - "French 'artist' Marion Laval-Jeantet has been injecting herself with horse blood as part of a performance/WTF art piece entitled 'May The Horse Live In Me'. Why? I don't know, but rest assured not a good reason."
- How The Transistor Got Its Name - "It’s Labor Day here in the US — a good time to look over the work of folks who have gone before us, and maybe learn something new about our past. So I thought it would be neat to share this Bell Laboratories memo from the spring of 1948. The memo, distributed to the senior technical staff, contained a ballot asking them to choose a name for a new device invented the previous winter – the semiconductor triode. Several options were presented, including my personal favorite, the Iotatron." Here's the complete memo.
- What we SHOULD have been taught in our senior year of high school - Comic The Oatmeal once again hits numerous nails on the head: "Up until now the social structure in our school has taught you that the number of friends you have depends on your ability to play sports. But after high school, that means **** all."
- Free-Market Meat Market - "Two weeks ago, Ayn Rand aficionado Alan Greenspan admitted to a House subcommittee that his libertarian economic worldview had been shaken by events on Wall Street; last week, Governor Paterson approvingly cited Rand’s advocacy of stout individualism, which he says citizens of New York State will need during the budget crisis. Meanwhile, on TheAtlasphere.com, a dating site, Rand fans are just looking for love; below, excerpts from user profiles." Some of these are real catches; I'm sure all the CUK laydees will go weak at the knees for "I love intelligent, sassy girls, particularly those working in consulting or investment banking (but other fields are great too). Really, nothing is hotter than an accomplished girl in a suit, as long as she is willing to settle down and have my children."
- Gloomy Crowds Captured as Shadows After Soviet Union Collapse - "After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, photographer Alexey Titarenko observed how St. Petersburg streets that used to be lively and filled with joyful people had suddenly turned dark and gloomy, with people confused, malnourished, and worn out. He decided to capture this change by shooting the streets at slow shutter speeds, turning the downtrodden crowds into shadowy figures. He titled the resulting project 'City of Shadows'."
- Ariane 5 User's Manual (PDF) - "This User’s Manual provides essential data on the Ariane 5 launch System, which together with Soyuz and Vega constitutes the European Space Transportation union." The Soyuz and Vega manuals are also available, giving you all you need to know to get that payload of yours into orbit
- Your Amazon is Irrelevant - "Weird and Strange Amazon Products" Including such worthy tomes as Do-It-Yourself Coffins:
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