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Staring at the sun.

Nice GIF, inane article

With a GIF like that, I was expecting an exciting scientific piece. It ended up being a pompously and ponderously dull article.

#20170326_5682 / 26 Mar 2017 / 23:39 / Environment

Five bucks for installing Flash.

FedEx pays customers to install and use Flash

#20170326_5680 / 26 Mar 2017 / 23:25 / Humour

Programming in 1992.

Borland Software Corporation

#20170325_5677 / 25 Mar 2017 / 11:44 / Software

Android O.

The Developer Preview of Android O has arrived

#20170323_5675 / 23 Mar 2017 / 11:15 / Geek Stuff

Interstellar travel with nanocraft…

The best we can envisage is robotic nanocraft pushed by giant lasers to 20% of the speed of light. These nanocraft weigh a few grams and would take about 240 years to reach their destination and send pictures back. It is feasible and is something that I am very excited about.

Professor Stephen Hawking
#20170321_5673 / 21 Mar 2017 / 20:49 / Science

The oldest White Stripes review on Amazon from 1999.

"…if you like it neat, cheap, and served in a dirty glass, the WHITE STRIPES gonna set you up fine."

Red it in it’s full glory on Amazon.

[Via]

#20170321_5671 / 21 Mar 2017 / 15:35 / Music

Guetzli, the JPEG encoder.

Guetzli is a new open source JPEG encoder from Google that seems to compress better and with less artifacts

#20170319_5669 / 19 Mar 2017 / 23:06 / Geek Stuff

New feature in Windows 10: Ads in File Explorer.

Nothing is sacred anymore

Ads in free apps? OK, I get that.

Ads in software that you paid for? What is the world coming to?

#20170319_5667 / 19 Mar 2017 / 22:18 / Software

Kalendervorschau 2016.

DEUTSCHE & JAPANER

Deutsche & Japaner have some beautiful work in their book.

#20170319_5665 / 19 Mar 2017 / 11:53 / Design

Billelis.

Sacrilege

Stunning ethereal illustrations by Billy Bogiatzoglou that are simply surreal.

#20170318_5663 / 18 Mar 2017 / 18:50 / Art

The scientific side to luck.

#20170318_5662 / 18 Mar 2017 / 16:41 / Science

Butter, not guns.

Jena Myung

#20170318_5660 / 18 Mar 2017 / 14:27 / Design

Cielo Yu.

Remember to forget

#20170318_5658 / 18 Mar 2017 / 0:32 / Photography

The Academy of British Cover Design.

Designed by Helen Crawford-White

#20170317_5656 / 17 Mar 2017 / 22:25 / Books

Alt-J — 3WW.

#20170315_5655 / 15 Mar 2017 / 22:55 / Random Music Video

Mouse spam.

Windows hacks, they say

#20170315_5652 / 15 Mar 2017 / 6:06 / Geek Stuff

“You’re a tourist in your own youth.”

Nostalgia, that's why I watched T2 Trainspotting

#20170315_5649 / 15 Mar 2017 / 1:00 / Film

On rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic…

[…] we should foster a creative spirit, irreverent takes, even irrational ideas as we educate our children. Not because irrationality is bliss, but because a dose of illogical creativity will complement the rationality of the machine. It’ll keep guaranteeing us a place on the table of evolution.

Professor Viktor Mayer-Schonberger
#20170311_5647 / 11 Mar 2017 / 20:06 / Design
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