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27 Jul 23:57

Programmers Always Have Problems to Solve

Programmers Always Have Problems to Solve

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27 Jul 23:54

Hypnotic Animated GIFs from Mat Lucas

by Christopher Jobson

Hypnotic Animated GIFs from Mat Lucas gifs animation

Hypnotic Animated GIFs from Mat Lucas gifs animation

Hypnotic Animated GIFs from Mat Lucas gifs animation

Hypnotic Animated GIFs from Mat Lucas gifs animation

Hypnotic Animated GIFs from Mat Lucas gifs animation

Hypnotic Animated GIFs from Mat Lucas gifs animation

Hypnotic Animated GIFs from Mat Lucas gifs animation

UK-based artist Mat Lucas works by day as a graphic designer and by night runs a Tumblr of experimental art called 89—A. Lucas tells me that many of his GIFs begin as a problem he’s facing while learning various graphics and video applications like Cinema4D, After Effects, and Photoshop. The byproduct of his experimentation are often ethereal geometric forms that pulsate, rotate and contract in various hypnotic patterns. Above are some of my favorite pieces but you can see much more here. If you liked this also check out the work of Matthew DiVito and Paolo Čerić.

26 Jul 19:38

Here's The Beautiful First Trailer To Miyazaki's Next Animated Film

by Luke Plunkett

Kaze Tachinu is the latest film from acclaimed Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, his first at the helm since 2008's Ponyo.

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26 Jul 19:32

sonofabruce: tastefullyoffensive: [subculturex] Horrifyingly...



sonofabruce:

tastefullyoffensive:

[subculturex]

Horrifyingly brilliant.

26 Jul 18:58

William Shakespeare’s Star Wars, A Book by Ian Doescher

by Justin Page

William Shakespeare’s Star Wars

William Shakespeare’s Star Wars is a book by Portland-based creative director and author Ian Doescher that reimagines the story of Star Wars in the distinct style of William Shakespeare. It was published by Quirk Books and features twenty fantastic illustrations by artist Nicolas Delort. Hardcover and e-book editions of the book are available to purchase online at Amazon (e-book) and Barnes & Noble.

Return once more to a galaxy far, far away with this sublime retelling of George Lucas’s epic Star Wars in the style of the immortal Bard of Avon. The saga of a wise (Jedi) knight and an evil (Sith) lord, of a beautiful princess held captive and a young hero coming of age, Star Wars abounds with all the valor and villainy of Shakespeare’s greatest plays. ’Tis a tale told by fretful droids, full of faithful Wookiees and fearstome stormtroopers, signifying…pretty much everything.

Reimagined in glorious iambic pentameter—and complete with twenty gorgeous Elizabethan illustrations–William Shakespeare’s Star Wars will astound and edify Rebels and Imperials alike. Zounds! This is the book you’re looking for.

Here is a trailer for William Shakespeare’s Star Wars from Quirk Books:

William Shakespeare’s Star Wars

William Shakespeare’s Star Wars

images and video via Quirk Books

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26 Jul 18:51

laughterkey: fuckyeahcourtneyy: This is the greatest knock...









laughterkey:

fuckyeahcourtneyy:

This is the greatest knock knock joke in the history of all knock knocks jokes ever.

Still one of my favorite posts on Tumblr.

26 Jul 18:51

via reddit



via reddit

26 Jul 18:50

i odnt know what this is from, i just thought it was an awesome fucking gif.

26 Jul 18:49

a gentle jedi



a gentle jedi

26 Jul 17:00

Have You Ever Felt so Lazy You Just Slid Down the Stairs?

lazy,stairs,cats are liquids,funny

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26 Jul 06:09

HP Keeps Installing Secret Backdoors In Enterprise Storage

by samzenpus
Nerval's Lobster writes "For the second time in a month, Hewlett-Packard has been forced to admit it built secret backdoors into its enterprise storage products. The admission, in a security bulletin posted July 9, confirms reports from the blogger Technion, who flagged the security issue in HP's StoreOnce systems in June, before finding more backdoors in other HP storage and SAN products. The most recent statement from HP, following another warning from Technion, admitted that 'all HP StoreVirtual Storage systems are equipped with a mechanism that allows HP support to access the underlying operating system if permission and access is provided by the customer.' While HP describes the backdoors as being usable only with permission of the customer, that restriction is part of HP's own customer-service rules—not a limitation built in to limit use of backdoors. The entry points consist of a hidden administrator account with root access to StoreVirtual systems and software, and a separate copy of the LeftHand OS, the software that runs HP's StoreVirtual and HP P4000 products. Even with root access, the secret admin account does not give support techs or hackers access to data stored on the HP machines, according to the company. But it does provide enough access and control over the hardware in a storage cluster to reboot specific nodes, which would 'cripple the cluster,' according to information provided to The Register by an unnamed source. The account also provides access to a factory-reset control that would allow intruders to destroy much of the data and configurations of a network of HP storage products. And it's not hard to find: 'Open up your favourite SSH client, key in the IP of an HP D2D unit. Enter in yourself the username HPSupport, and the password which has a SHA1 of 78a7ecf065324604540ad3c41c3bb8fe1d084c50. Say hello to an administrative account you didn't know existed,' according to Technion, who claims to have attempted to notify HP for weeks with no result before deciding to go public."

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13 Jul 10:01

Mastermind of 9/11 Attacks Designs a Secret Vacuum Cleaner

by timothy
HonorPoncaCityDotCom writes "AP reports that while confined to the basement of a CIA secret prison in Romania about a decade ago, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the admitted mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, asked his jailers whether he could design a vacuum cleaner. After all KSM earned his bachelor's in mechanical engineering, the agency had no long-term plan for him, but might thought he might someday prove useful and might even stand trial one day and for that, he'd need to be sane. They were concerned that his long imprisonment might do so much psychological damage that he would no longer be useful as source for information. "We didn't want them to go nuts," said a former senior CIA official. So, using schematics from the Internet as his guide, Mohammed began re-engineering one of the most mundane of household appliances. It remains a mystery how far Mohammed got with his designs or whether the plans still exist and even Mohammed's military lawyer, Jason Wright, says he is prohibited from discussing his client's interest in vacuums. 'It sounds ridiculous, but answering this question, or confirming or denying the very existence of a vacuum cleaner design, a Swiffer design, or even a design for a better hand towel would apparently expose the U.S. government and its citizens to exceptionally grave danger,' says Wright. So now, says Doug Mataconis, if you happen to start seeing ads for the CIA's revolutionary new home cleaning device, you'll know where it came from." Sounds perfect for In-Q-Tel.

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07 Jul 22:37

Let's Play Ancient Greek Geometry

07 Jul 22:32

“Hot latex beds”: The strangest searches that bring readers to Ars

by Nate Anderson

Search engine traffic brings plenty of readers to Ars Technica, most looking for gadget reviews and technology writing. After looking through site logs, the top 20 incoming search terms for the first half of 2013 were largely expected:

  • ars technica
  • arstechnica
  • ars
  • iphone 5
  • ps4
  • porn
  • blackberry z10
  • raspberry pi
  • blackberry 10
  • xbox one
  • htc one
  • tablet
  • youtube
  • images
  • revenge porn
  • ars tech
  • ios 7
  • bitcoin
  • wii u

Pretty standard stuff. But what about the oddball requests—you know, the true outliers that are so strange they appear only a single time in our logs? Well, they're present, too, and by the tens of thousands. Here are a small selection of the stranger search terms that somehow led users to Ars in the last six months:

  • my downspout frozen
  • can you change condo bylaws if someone is not paying hoa fees to not vote
  • club of the month discounts
  • u.s. military policy on pornography
  • how dip i determine a neighbors wi-fi passkey
  • how bad does it hurt to dislocate your kneecap
  • can you be prosecuted by your ip address
  • joining air force without agreeing to the policy
  • why are cats so fascinated by laser pointers
  • west wing the american president similarities
  • too hot outside central air unit not cooling house
  • mold in brita filter
  • should i watch amelie dubbed or with subtitles
  • how to make a cheap repurposed fire pit
  • hot latex bed
  • is youth xl the same size as adult small in shirts
  • naked picture posted that was not distributed; how do i get it removed? no way to contact website owner
  • are robots taking our jobs or creating them
  • can apple detect my pirated music
  • cause of turbulence in pipe flow
  • why di they put bike seats so high
  • sore tongue after eating fresh pineapple
  • awesome evil names

Some of these queries are quite difficult to answer; others are surprisingly easy. Amélie should be watched dubbed, for instance, while Apple can probably see that you're a dirty pirate but is unlikely to act on that knowledge. (Update: Amélie should of course be watched subtitledThe writer responsible has been locked in a room with nothing but dubbed versions of Gérard Depardieu films.) As for evil names, try Franz von Schicklgruber.

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25 Jun 18:18

Download me—Saying “yes” to the Web’s most dangerous search terms

by Ars Staff
Daniel

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Aurich Lawson / Thinkstock

There’s a saying—"there’s no such thing as a free lunch." On the Web, however, it sure seems like there is. In the time span of a lunch break, a few keywords in a search engine promise free entertainment, just several clicks away. We all know the catch, though. These freebies can come with freeloading adware, malware, and other unwanted programs and plugins. This was particularly true in the Internet’s early days, but in the past decade, tech giants such as Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo—the three major players in search today—have deployed significant resources to prevent adware and malware from compromising their Web browsers, e-mail services, and websites. It can't be that bad in 2013, right?

Answering this question required a little experiment, one inspired by the documentary Super-Size Me. That film chronicles Morgan Spurlock’s month-long fast food “diet” during which he limited his exercise and knowledge about healthy eating, had to order everything on the McDonald’s menu at least once, and never said no to an upgrade offer.

What could possibly go wrong?
Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half

The Web version of this is simpler and better for an individual's (physical) health. From a clean computer fresh off an OS install, enter some of the most popular, plausible generic free keyword searches on a popular Web browser. Next, open all of the links in the search results (ads and otherwise) and download the first thing on the landing pages, recording where it went and what it did. Like Spurlock, I would limit my knowledge about what was safe or risky and take no (Internet) precautions beyond the default settings. The same rules applied for installing the program afterward. And in the Web's version of "would you like to super-size that?" I had to say yes to whatever was offered. There would be no avoiding a Web culture of excess and extras.

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24 May 12:01

I was struck by lightning yesterday—and boy am I sore

by Jason Marlin
Aurich Lawson / Derek Riggs

"Sir, look at me—did you have any shoes on?" asked the emergency medical tech. "Were you wearing shoes when you were struck?"

"Huh?" I wondered, a little dazed. "What's with the shoe obsession?"

Let me back up. My family and I moved from Chicago to Asheville, North Carolina last autumn, ostensibly to get closer to nature. Mostly, this has been great. We still have an urban center we can walk to, but the woodland behind my house hosts all manner of flora and fauna. We've traded rat-infested dumpsters for trash bins overturned by bears; instead of skyscrapers, we now have mountains. Unfortunately, mountains don't have lightning rods.

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22 May 17:49

hey kids! let's learn about... computers!

archive - contact - sexy exciting merchandise - cute - search - about
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April 17th, 2013: When I was a kid my dad told me that the person who designed the 386 went insane afterwards, and while I can't find any information online to confirm that story today, it did make my 386DX seem a little more badass.

Hey, out today is Adventure Time #15, a stand-alone story! It's available at your local comics shop and all sorts of places AND it's exciting because yesterday it was announced that the series is up for three different Eisner awards! And Meredith Gran's Adventure Time series is also nominated. IT IS A GOOD YEAR FOR COMICS

You can read the first few pages of AT #15 here!

– Ryan

22 May 14:06

Episode #124 - Stolen

by Dan McCoy
With movies like this in the world, every day is like Cagemas. Meanwhile, Elliott discusses the troubles with carrier Con Air, Dan makes reference to commercials you'd only see if you watch cable news in the middle of the day, and Stuart's giant penis reemerges for spring.

0:00 - 0:32 - Introduction and theme.
0:33 - 36:00 - Some people just feel like home, y'know? Like Nic Cage in Stolen.
36:01 - 38:56 - Final judgments..
38:57 - 58:32 - Flop House Movie Mailbag
58:33- 1:08:11 - The sad bastards recommend.
1:08:12 - 1:09:45 - Goodbyes, theme, and outtakes.


 Download the MP3 directly, HERE.

Paste theflophouse.libsyn.com/rss into iTunes (or your favorite podcatching software) to have new episodes of The Flop House delivered to you directly, as they're released.
Subject is hatless. I repeat: hatless.

Wikipedia synopsis of Stolen.

The trailer that launched a thousand jokes:

22 May 11:22

The Enlightenment Guide To Winning The Lottery

Condamine/VoltaireFrançois-Marie Arouet knew how to get into trouble. After a very public scuffle with a nobleman nearly ended in a duel, the young playwright was exiled from Paris, the city where his plays were only just coming into fashion. He lived in dreary England for two whole years before slinking back to France, where he lived in the house of a pharmacist. There he experimented with various potions and poultices, but nothing would cure the vague sense of impotence and dread that dogged him.

Finally in 1729 the gates of Paris were opened to Arouet again, but he was still ill-at-ease. At a dinner party held by the chemist Charles du Fay, Arouet, better known by his pen-name Voltaire, found the cure he had been looking for. He met a brilliant mathematician called Charles Marie De La Condamine, who promised a panacea better than any Voltaire had found at his pharmacist.

It wasn’t medicine--it was money. Condamine had a plan that would make both him and Voltaire more money than he could ever scratch together by writing plays or poems, enough money to allow Voltaire to never have to worry about money again. He would be free to live how he wanted and write what he wanted. The plan was simple. Condamine planned to outsmart luck herself. He was going to arrange to win the lottery.

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22 May 11:21

Night Takes Rook

Engineers need to have faith in their designs, but not many would necessarily be confident enough to put their lives at risk just to prove it. It takes a great deal of faith to design a lighthouse for the most dangerous reef in the English Channel, especially when no-one has ever built a lighthouse on the open sea before. It takes rather more to actually build it. And one approaches the shores of hubris when one decides to visit said lighthouse with a massive gale on the way. But when Henry Winstanley, an 18th-century English eccentric, designed and constructed the world’s first open-sea lighthouse on a small and extraordinarily treacherous group of rocks fourteen miles out from Plymouth, he was so confident in his building that he blithely assured all doubters he would be willing to weather the strongest storm within its confines – a boast he had the chance to live up to when he found himself in his lighthouse as the most violent tempest in England’s history approached its shores.

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22 May 11:20

Carl Sagan's Cosmo

"The Cosmo is full beyond measure of elegant truths, of exquisite interrelationships, of the awesome machinery of nature." (Click for larger version)