Archive for December, 2009
New Year’s Resolution Generator
December 30th, 2009
Lack the drive to even come up with resolutions, let alone complete them? Try this beautifully-designed resolution generator!
Dubai
December 30th, 2009
Martin Becka took a series of photographs of Dubai with a 150-year-old camera.
An Obfuscated Christmas
December 24th, 2009
Compile and run this C code for a cheerful holiday message.
#include <stdio.h>
main(t,_,a)
char *a;
{
return!0<t?t<3?main(-79,-13,a+main(-87,1-_,main(-86,0,a+1)+a)):
1,t<_?main(t+1,_,a):3,main(-94,-27+t,a)&&t==2?_<13?
main(2,_+1,"%s %d %d\n"):9:16:t<0?t<-72?main(_,t,
"@n'+,#'/*{}w+/w#cdnr/+,{}r/*de}+,/*{*+,/w{%+,/w#q#n+,/#{l+,/n{n+,/+#n+,/#\
;#q#n+,/+k#;*+,/'r :'d*'3,}{w+K w'K:'+}e#';dq#'l \
q#'+d'K#!/+k#;q#'r}eKK#}w'r}eKK{nl]'/#;#q#n'){)#}w'){){nl]'/+#n';d}rw' i;#\
){nl]!/n{n#'; r{#w'r nc{nl]'/#{l,+'K {rw' iK{;[{nl]'/w#q#n'wk nw' \
iwk{KK{nl]!/w{%'l##w#' i; :{nl]'/*{q#'ld;r'}{nlwb!/*de}'c \
;;{nl'-{}rw]'/+,}##'*}#nc,',#nw]'/+kd'+e}+;#'rdq#w! nr'/ ') }+}{rl#'{n' ')# \
}'+}##(!!/")
:t<-50?_==*a?putchar(31[a]):main(-65,_,a+1):main((*a=='/')+t,_,a+1) :0<t?main(2,2,"%s"):*a=='/'||main(0,main(-61,*a, "!ek;dc i@bK'(q)-[w]*%n+r3#l,{}:\nuwloca-O;m .vpbks,fxntdCeghiry"),a+1); }
Thanks, researchers at Bell Labs circa 1998!
Gävle Goat Burned Again
December 23rd, 2009
My pyromaniacal readers will no doubt be thrilled to hear that the Gävle goat has once again been reduced to cinders.
Gavle city spokeswoman Anna Ostman said someone set fire to the 43-foot-high (13-meter-high) creature around 3 a.m. local time. Only a charred wooden skeleton of the traditional Swedish Christmas symbol remained on Wednesday morning.
“It feels very sad,” Ostman said. “We had really hoped that he would survive Christmas and New Year’s.”
Vandals have burned down the goat 24 times since it was first set up in Gavle in 1966 to mark the holiday season. It has also been smashed several times, run over by a car and had its legs cut off.
Birds of Britain
December 22nd, 2009
I’m thinking that this would be a good model for our eventual documentary on trolls and trolling.
The Phantom Menace: A Review
December 22nd, 2009
Happy Day-After-Solstice, everyone. Here’s a 70-minute critique of The Phantom Menace, in 7 parts.
So we’re back to the three guys we know nothing about fighting each other in a scene we have no interest in. Their flawless choreography lacks all humanity and emotion.
So we’re back to the three guys we know nothing about fighting each other in a scene we have no interest in. Their flawless choreography lacks all humanity and emotion.
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