Physics is a game you will lose if you are not careful
What a fantastic statement by some ‘rp’ in a comment to a “iPhone Bendgate” article on MacDailyNews. Physics is a game you will lose if you are not careful
Category: General
Denmark, an anti-whaling member nation of the EU, participates in slaughter of whales
http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/2014/08/30/sea-shepherd-crewmembers-arrested-for-intervening-against-brutal-faroese-pilot-whale-grind-hunt-1617 Fourteen Sea Shepherd Conservation Society volunteer crew members of pilot whale defense campaign Operation GrindStop 2014 were arrested today on the Faroese island of Sandoy, as they entered the water to defend pilot whales from the brutal mass slaughter known as “grindadráp” or “grind” – putting themselves directly between a pod of 33 whales […]
Paul Kalkbrenner’s Aaron vs Meshell Ndegeocello’s Late Petite Mort
Anyone ever noticed that the beat in Paul Kalkbrenner‘s Aaron is veeery similar to the base line in Meshell Ndegeocello‘s Late Petite Mort? Hear for yourself:
We should END captive dolphin facilities, not build more!
Dolphins and other marine mammals have been exploited in the name of entertainment for far too long. Two new marine mammal facilties have been preliminarily approved in The Bahamas. And what’s worse is, the public was not notified or given the chance to voice their opinion. End captive dolphin facilities These facilities are outdated and […]
How to be successful on Stack Overflow
In December last year (2012) an inner voice told me to be more active on Stack Overflow. More active? Ok, active at all. Up to then I had almost exclusively asked questions rather than answered other people’s questions. I quickly got the hang of it and challenged myself every day to do more. Until I […]
At Netscape, getting it right was not an option…
“At Netscape, getting it right was not an option…which is why there is no longer Netscape” – Douglas Crockford Douglas Crockford talking about shallow vs. deep scanning in JavaScript’s for in statement in JavaScript: The Good Parts, 18m 03s.
Mankind will never learn – sad but true
I’m naive enough to sign online petitions from time to time. Usually in order to help support animal or environmental cases. Surprisingly, some petitions make a difference indeed. One that failed (define failure) was when 32’000 stranded baby cows were slaughtered in Egypt. What a shame for this country. On the other hand, why should […]
Buffalo Sanchez, By Your Side
On Cafe Del Mar Dreams vol. 3 there’s this beautiful track by Buffalo Sanchez, By Your Side. The Internet knows very little about Buffalo Sanchez apart from that song. Do you know more?
Mozilla’s rapid release process, part II
A year ago I urged you readers to tell Mozilla to stop the madness called “rapid release process”. Sure, the update process has since improved a lot but still…I was quite happy to see that Mozilla’s own people start agreeing that there is a problem with the rapid release process indeed. Jono Xia, a former […]
5 harmonic colors for a theme
Found myself looking for five harmonic colors the other day. Since (graphic) design isn’t one of my strengths I asked Google. http://kuler.adobe.com/ came up and I didn’t look no further. Perfect match.