2008 Aug 29, 10:44Cool 30's Soviet Union tourist brochure logos and designs. "Intourist was renowned as the official state travel agency of the Soviet Union. It was founded in 1929 by Joseph Stalin and was responsible
for managing the great majority of foreigners' access to, and travel within, the Soviet Union. It grew into one of the largest tourism organizations in the world, with a network embracing banks,
hotels, and money exchanges. Some of the best Intourist labels and brochures produced during the 1930's were designed by A. Selensky. Some of the labels in this set are signed by him, including a
rare constructivist style travel brochure I have included as well."
flickr photo propaganda graphic russia history design 2008 Aug 26, 3:42Links to write ups on how much energy it would take to destroy the Earth or at least make it inhabitable in various fashions: "Destroying the Earth, It is often asked what it would take to shatter
the Earth into little pieces. Erik Max Francis gives a rough answer. A less drastic measure would be to sterilise it by heating the outside. Brian Davis does the arithmetic, but I think he should
have calculated what it would take to boil the oceans, which is a few thousand times more by my BotEC. Occasionally it is asked what would happen if you shot a fast-moving projectile at the Earth;
I've written something up."
scifi science math 2008 Aug 21, 10:40"I see a lot of questions in the Media Center newsgroups and forums asking how to access recorded TV from another Media Center in the house. This is fairly easy to accomplish. In this entry I'll walk
you through it in Vista; XP is almost the same except for some of the steps for sharing and securing the folder."
tv vista windows mce sharing mediacenter dvr howto 2008 Aug 20, 10:51
In my Intro to Algorithms course in college the Fibonacci sequence was used as the example algorithm to which various types of algorithm creation methods were applied. As the course went on we made
better and better performing algorithms to find the nth Fibonacci number. In another course we were told about a matrix that when multiplied successively produced Fibonacci numbers. In my linear
algebra courses I realized I could diagonalize the matrix to find a non-recursive Fibonacci function. To my surprise this worked and I
found a function.
Looking online I found that of course this same function was already well known. Mostly I was irritated that after all the
algorithms we created for faster and faster Fibonacci functions we were never told about a constant time function like this.
I recently found my paper depicting this and thought it would be a good thing to use to try out MathML, a markup language for
displaying math. I went to the MathML implementations page and installed a plugin for IE to display MathML and then began writing up my paper in
MathML. I wrote the MathML by hand and must say that's not how its intended to be created. The language is very verbose and it took me a long time to get the page of equations transcribed.
MathML has presentation elements and content elements that can be used separately or together. I stuck to content elements and while it looked great in IE with my extension when I tried it in
FireFox which has builtin MathML support it didn't render. As it turns out FireFox doesn't support MathML content elements. I had already finished creating this page by hand and wasn't about to
switch to content elements. Also, in order to get IE to render a MathML document, the document needs directives at the top for specific IE extensions which is a pain. Thankfully, the W3C has a
MathML cross platform stylesheet. You just include this XSL at the top of your XHTML page and it turns content elements into appropriate
presentation elements, and inserts all the known IE extension goo required for you. So now my page can look lovely and all the ickiness to get it to render is contained in the W3C's XSL.
technical mathml fibonacci math 2008 Aug 18, 3:46Legal corner case bugs exploited for free rent in SF. "Getzow is getting pretty well known along the Polk Street corridor. Unlike other serial evictees, who move among different neighborhoods, all of
his eight evictions in San Francisco have occurred in a 20-block area known as Lower Nob Hill."
article legal rent house eviction san-francisco 2008 Aug 14, 5:04"Former FCC Chairman Michael Powell sent me this response to my criticism of John McCain's technology policies." Michael Powell helped draft McCains technology policy and is responding to Kevin
Werbach who helped draft Obama's technology policy.
mccain technology policy politics michael-powell kevin-werbach 2008 Aug 14, 5:01Thoughts on McCain's technology policy. '...Example: (a) "John McCain will focus on policies that leave consumers free to access the content they choose"; (b) "He championed laws that ... protected
kids from harmful Internet content"; ... BUT the "policy" fails to note that the laws referred to in (b) have been overturned by federal courts because they unconstitutionally make (a) impossible.'
politics mccain internet policy 2008 Aug 14, 2:23Lawrence Lessig's video presentation on history of Creative Commons.
lawrence-lessig lessig video legal law cc history copyright 2008 Aug 6, 1:43"Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad An ad for The Paris Hilton Presidential Campaign. Paid for by Funny Or Die". Found this just after I saw the McCain Ad mocked on the Daily Show.
paris-hilton humor politics video mccain 2008 Jul 24, 12:59I love this poster but I can't believe it was really displayed by the London Metro. Amazing. Reads: "Secure Beneath the Watchful Eyes, CCTV & Metropolitan Police on buses are just two ways we're
making your journey more secure."
poster propaganda london england cctv art bus photo flickr privacy security 2008 Jul 23, 5:19"Everyone can do an American accent... at least everyone thinks they can. After the BBC's Stephen Robb took a lesson from one of the movie industry's top accent coaches, we asked readers to record
their best US accents."
bbc audio accent language english 2008 Jul 22, 5:17Down on the Farm by Charles Stross. Short scifi story with elements of steampunk and a math/csc based version of the occult.
math scifi fiction free tor literature charles-stross 2008 Jul 22, 11:09Radiohead released the data points from their latest video as CSV free for us to use, so expect odd CG videos featuring Thom York.
radiohead cc remix video 2008 Jul 10, 2:31Creative-Commons licensed mostly electronic music. Check out "earth's assault on the central ai" from technology crisis and "chrono trigger - magus" from choralseptic.
creativecommons cc free music electronica 2008 Jul 7, 5:26"888-8888. This was his new cell-phone number, and his greatest philonumerical triumph. The number proved unusable. It received more than a hundred wrong numbers a day."
apple prank wired article phone education steve-wozniak 2008 Jul 3, 12:17Humorous Obama bumper sticker that says: "Re-elect *SENATOR* John McCain 2008 [Arizona Flag]"
politics humor bumper-sticker via:boingboing 2008 Jun 30, 3:55FCC wants nationwide free wifi that's free of porn. They should read this. "Periodically there are proposals to mandate the use of a special top level name or an IP address bit to flag "adult"
"unsafe" material or the like. This document explains why thi
domain dns rfc ietf internet porn government politics censorship 2008 Jun 24, 10:06
sequelguy posted a photo:
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sequelguy posted a photo:
I thought the phrase 'Im seein robots' was funny.
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