December 2010
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“Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvellous. They cause...”
– Terry Pratchett
Polar bears get the better of spy cameras →
The cameras used for a documentary on polar bears were designed to be as unobtrusive and resilient as possible. Polar Bear: Spy on The Ice used hi-tech “spy cams” to get as close as possible to the bears during summer in the Arctic islands of Svalbard.
But while they were built to withstand temperatures as low as -40C, in the end most could not cope with the curiosity displayed...
“I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I...”
– Emo Phillips
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Resident Evil: Afterlife OST
Resident Evil: Afterlife certainly isn’t among the titles I’d recommend to anyone who isn’t much into original Resident Evil game series. The movie is so overloaded with CGI and special effects, everything looks like plastic. There’s also a whole lot of such scenes that seem terribly pitiful, making things only worse.
Ali Larter, Resident Evil: Afterlife
In such manner,...
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“Next to a circus there ain’t nothing that packs up and tears out faster...”
– Frank McKinney Hubbard
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Opera Browser, this time with extensions!
Few days ago I stumbled upon the news regarding new release of Opera Browser. “The best browser just got a whole lot better, meet Opera 11!”, or something like that — well, why not at least give a try! So I did for a little while… and started to think about changing my browser preferences somewhere along the process.
Omelion, one of the finest skins for Opera 11
The...
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READ! SOOOOOOOOOO IMPORTANT!
Since plenty of you don’t even bother to have that funny “Ask me” thing enabled, I figured out how to spam you all with my late Xmas greetings anyway. Posting to Tumblr, cleverly, the *regular* way. Soooooooooo…
Hooo-hooo-hooo. Merry Xmas, Happy New Year. You’re awesome, I wish you all the best. Here’s a picture of an angelic noodly tree-topper I sincerely...
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Little Timmy Cthulhu's Christmas Miracle
Did you know that there are Elder Things born without tentacles? It’s TRUE. LITTLE LAME TIMMY CTHULHU was only born with three PSEUDOPODS! BUT a CHRISTMAS MIRACLE HAPPENED! LET Me tell you about how LITTLE TIMMY CTHULHU’s childlike FAITH in Christmas and SHUB-NIGGURATH made a CHRISTMAS MIracle! It ALL started when LITTLE TIMMY CTHULHU’s crutches broke! “THING-THAT-SPAWNED...
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“Well you see, Norm, it’s like this… A herd of buffalo can only move...”
– urban legend, “The Buffalo Theory”
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Whatever happened to status bar in Firefox 4?
Today I thought it wouldn’t be a bad idea to see what’s all the fuss about and install the pre-release version of Firefox 4. In addition to an impressive number of new features and great improvements in overall browser performance, Firefox 4 also brings to the table a couple of changes. One of the changes directly involves browser status bar, in rather a precipitous fashion —...
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“I’d been painting rats for three years before someone said...”
– Banksy, “Wall and Piece”
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Exit Through the Gift Shop: A Banksy Film
When we went to see Exit Through the Gift Shop in the cinema, I was expecting a documentary movie with a bit of silly humor in it. That’s what the description said — “documentary comedy”, it seemed encouraging enough. We needed to see a movie, and Banksy film felt like the best option from all of what they had in the repertoire at the time. How could I possibly know that...
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“Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength, carrying...”
– Corrie ten Boom
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Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights
This is Stein’s playful, surreal treatment of the Faust legend. Here Stein not only uses her delightful repetitions and rhymes, she gives the story a modern perspective by emphasizing the woman’s point of view and by having Faustus’ deal with devil be a quest for electric light.
I like her “flow-of-thought” and “circular” manner of expressing things. The piece opens...
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“You know what a bore is… Someone who deprives you of solitude without...”
– Oscar Wilde
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“The Linux philosophy is “Laugh in the face of danger.” Oops. Wrong...”
– Linus Torvalds
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Salix OS, a Slackware-based Linux distribution
Salix is a linux distribution based on Slackware that is simple, fast and easy to use. Salix is also fully backwards compatible with Slackware, so Slackware users can benefit from Salix repositories, which they can use as an “extra” quality source of software for their favorite distribution. Like a bonsai, Salix is small, light & the product of infinite care.
If it works as...
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
– Philip K. Dick
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Expect Moody Conditions, With Surreal Gusts
Hello Internet, I saw a good movie today. A psychological thriller film, actually. The movie is Inland Empire, it’s a wonderful work of art for a demanding viewer. It’s disturbing, has a complex story-line; it’s so different to all of what makes it through to the mainstream cinema these days I just *must* write about it here.
Inland Empire poster (click-through for more...
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“I was walking through Central Park, and I saw an old man smoking. Nothing makes...”
– Bill Hicks, “Shock and Awe”
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A wonderful, grid-based lousy copy with a playful...
I was looking through the Themes section lately, it’s astonishing. Notations and the Boston Polaroid Theme in particular; these two look so good I wish I could use both at the same time. If only they looked just a little bit simpler. I was browsing some more, found something different: the Surveillance, a wonderful grid-based minimalist theme heavily influenced by Swiss design, particularly...