2010 Mar 12, 11:11"All of the sculpted noses on the planet Viltvodle VI were fashioned after Douglas Adams' own. The creators used a 3D model he had created for the game Starship Titanic." The noses mentioned in the
previous sentence were depicted in the movie in a church. The religion of this church maintains that the universe was created by their god sneezing out the universe and so they have statues of their
god's nose throughout the church. Of course this is intended to seem absurd, however based on the previous sentence -- that the nose belonged to Douglas Adams -- then they really were worshping the
nose of their creator.
douglas-adams book hhgttg movie religion nose 2010 Mar 12, 10:03Eschuk has fairly detailed strategy for last person on Earth scenario. Humrous comments follow.
itdest1983: "I hate to be a debbie downer and question this incredibly awesome and very intelligent plan, but my question is: Why? Other than sustaining life simply to avoid death, why? ..."
Eschuk : "Then someones got some existential shit to hash out. ..."
humor reddit strategy apocalypse 2010 Mar 12, 9:20Charles Stross on the business and technical aspects of writing and selling a series of books - specifically The Family Trade series for which the next in the series is due out soon.
charles-stross family-trade book literature business 2010 Mar 11, 11:50Side by side comparison of the BSG+Sabotage mashup and the original Sabotage music video. Cool remix certainly although it really must be watched in this side by side comparison form to be
appreciated. By itself the remix isn't really coherent.
bsg video humor music music-video sabotage beastie-boys 2010 Mar 11, 11:16A humorous video detailing Tim Burton's process for creating a movie...
parody tim-burton danny-elfman movie humor video 2010 Mar 11, 3:48Conan is doing a tour entitled "The Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour". Coming to Seattle mid April...
conan-obrien humor tour 2010 Mar 10, 5:19Covers same origin policy and how it applies to different HTML and HTTP features.
technical web browser javascript csrf ajax html security xss XMLHttpRequest 2010 Mar 10, 3:40Notes on the features and performance of an HTML minification tool.
html javascript performance toolweb minifier web technical 2010 Mar 9, 10:43Documentary 'The Achievers' follows Lebowski Fest is going in my Netflix queue...
the-big-lebowski movie review documentary the-achievers 2010 Mar 9, 9:08
I've just put up an update for Encode-O-Matic with the following improvements:
- Hex editor: the output and input views can now be switched between a UTF8 textbox view and a hex editor view. This is built using the free Be.HexEditor.
- Compression: I've added the .NET GZip, deflate, and inflate streams to the list of supported encodings.
- Quick Show Output: There are now 'Show Output' radio buttons next to each encoding in the encoding stack. Clicking on them changes the output view to show the output from that encoding in the
stack. This lets you easily jump between different parts of your encoding process. Adding or removing an encoding to the stack resets the view.
- Minor visuals improvement: added app icon, changed buttons with one word symbols to command names.
technical encodeomatic project 2010 Mar 9, 6:13"Lebowski Fest returns to Seattle on Oct 15th and 16th, 2010!"
the-big-lebowski humor event seattle washington movie 2010 Mar 9, 5:26I have often wondered where furniture stores get their fake TVs, PCs, etc. Yes, apparently there is a store where they buy that. Now about the chotchkies in Applebees or Red Robin...
electronics fake tv pc store purchase 2010 Mar 5, 12:33ClickOnce is a .NET app deployment technology that lets you easily install apps with minimal user interaction even from the web. This is what Google Chrome uses to install so easily.
msdn technical development security windows .net csharp programming clickonce google chrome 2010 Mar 5, 3:15A full archive of Popular Science magazines.
popular-science google books magazine history archive 2010 Mar 4, 10:58IE team sends flowers to the IE6 funeral. Humorous.
humor funeral ie ie6 web browser microsoft 2010 Mar 4, 1:15The 'What do you suggest' site lets you explore Google suggestions word by word in a lovely tree view. For instance, apparently folks are terrified of Canadians...
humor google suggest visualization canada 2010 Mar 4, 1:00Its a game-ification link roundup on Dive Into Mark.
game achievement office unit-test foursquare humor 2010 Mar 3, 2:59'Imagine watching Raging Bull in a dilapidated ring, or Shawshank Redemption in an abandoned prison. That is the concept behind Banksy’s latest stunt, for the UK premiere of his film “Exit Through
the Gift Shop“.'
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