20091027
What the hell is with people thinking that the internet is for actual serious business and not being an ass to each other lately.
Why the hell is everyone online a goddamn hippie all of a sudden.
Cut that shit out.
I woke up this morning and THIS was the first thing i thought of. Fuck yeah, nostalgia.
VGG Character names. Fuck yeah, version 1.0 graphics.
20091026
Cthulhu by AlMaNeGrA.
20091023
An excellent word that English badly needs. From dailymeh:
The word is avmakt, which is Norwegian for “the opposite of power”. I went through a thesaurus and none of the antonyms of “power” captured the precise meaning of this word. It’s being powerless, but not any old powerlessness. […]
Avmakt is more the peculiar feeling of being part of a system you are powerless to direct or change, and knowing it. It’s not about being on the fringes of society or lacking in basic liberties or facilities, it’s rather about being stuck squarely inside the system, with various symbols and signs of wealth and nominal power, forced to watch how money, position and “democratic rights” still leave you powerless to change or direct the system. The feeling of being a cog in the machinery, of powerlessness in the face of the Man, of being unsure what exactly you want or how to achieve it or even if it can be achieved, but knowing that whatever it is you want it’s not the status quo. The feeling that the system humiliates you: it swallows you whole, it gives you a host of privileges and then forces you to watch as each of them prove to be worthless when it comes to effecting actual change. On top of that, you get to feel guilt ‘cause you’re part of the system after all and so infinitely better off than billions of other people in the world…
via inky.
Spanish could use this word too.
How the Aliens’ animatronic mandibles work (1:03)
via zsommand
via aliensandpredators.
Awesome. No inner jaw though?
20091019
CARICATURE MAP OF EUROPE 1914
From Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld.
The Clanker Powers:
Germany is a massive military machine with weapons aimed outwards to all surrounding countries. It points threateningly at Britain, not so much as a sign of direct aggression, but more as an indicator that it was now Germany’s turn to start a grand global Empire to challenge the world’s current one.
Austria Hungary is an aggressive armoured giant, teetering on shoddy foundations. It is also the primary aggressor in a land grab against Serbia, with two bayonets piercing the border.
The Ottoman empire is a teetering automaton, collapsing under the weight of a paranoid and ungainly spying network that gazes at Europe through many lenses and spy glasses.
The Swiss watch ticks away the time, comfortable to wait it all out.
The Darwinist Powers:
Britain is an militaristic lion with a Roman Imperial italic-type helmet. It sits upon a mound of riches gathered from its Empire.
France’s elephant beast (wearing the French kepi they started the war with before adapting their firefighter helmets) is influenced by the Elephantine Collossus built for the Universal Exhibition of 1889 in Paris (later it ended up going to the Moulin Rouge.)
Russia is a huge imperialist bear, rotting and filled with maggots.
Serbia’s imagery is an indicator of the huge amounts of civilian deaths and suffering they’ll find themselves subject to.
Norway and Sweden are both Scandinavian trolls in the style of John Bauer, an inspirational illustrator from the era who produced a lot of phenomenal work during the war.
Portugal is a parrot for the Entente trying to goad a slumbering Spain into the war.
Ireland looks askance to Britain and brandishes a shillelagh. An indicator of their very rough relationship at the time, and of their upcoming involvement with the Central powers.
Italy is a clutch of snakes with intents on the Central powers despite existing agreements. A foreshadowing of their arrangements at the secret 1915 Treaty of London where they were promised land in exchange for involvement. It was heavily influenced by Italian Prime Minister, Antonio Salandra’s open policy of serving Italy’s “divine self-interest.”
20091016
- kcalder: so the game I've been playing a lot on iPhone (Defender Chronicles) was updated to 1.3
- kcalder: and there was apparently a big bug, so even though it was approved by Apple it was pulled from the store
- kcalder: by the developer
- kcalder: and then they submittted 1.3.1
- inky: cool story bro
- kcalder: which was approved, and I just downloaded it
- kcalder: and it has a huge bug that basically undoes your progress in the game, and doesn't allow you to play the one new level in the game
- kcalder: So now they're working on 1.3.2
- kcalder: What a disaster.
- inky: I wish I could go one day without reading about the iPhone app store
- kcalder: The developer screws up with major bugs that undermine the very point of the release, and Apple approves them anyway.
- kcalder: And there's no way that I know of to un-upgrade to 1.2
- ckolderup: that's why I upgrade stuff on the phone
- nostrich: this is an excellent story
- ckolderup: if I discover a bug, I can delete it and re-sync the version that's stored on my Mac
- ckolderup: p.s. sarcastic comment about your story
- kcalder: good idea, ckolderup
- inky: what ever happened to "copy files from source folder to destination folder"?
- inky: damn iPhones
- Vidar: so basically, kcalder, you're trying to say that you just lost the game, right?
- kcalder: I lost the game?
- Vidar: yep, you just did
- kcalder: no, I'm saying that I will stop playing the game until the next update comes out.
- inky: gggg Vidar
20091007
Tattoo art, Regino Gonzales
via arsvitaest.
20091001
