This site is a mine of information about the stupid things that happen in movies, such as explosions that can be heard in space, bullets that flash when they hit objects, amazing “infinite ammo” machine guns. Heh. The list goes on! (via 2012)
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Learn Prolog Now! Argh!
Via Keith comes this online course on learning Prolog.
Why do I mention this? Well, I remember Prolog. I remember defining white, red, and blue houses, and who ate fish in one, and meat in another. I remember turning my head inside out trying to figure out what the hell was happening! Never again I tell you! *shudder*
Down by the river..
By the River Lee in Mahon last night.
This image is made up of 4 photographs stitched together in the GIMP. I was playing around with Hugen, and Panorama tools but couldn’t get it to work at all well on any of the photos I tried. Back to the GIMP and I managed rather well IMO! It’s not perfect but at this low res it’s not that bad!
Click on the image for a larger version! And original .xcf file is available for any that ask!
Photography stuff
Via PhotographyBLOG comes 2 interesting sites:
- ePHOTOzine has 4 tutorials in their latest issue, on ND filters, fireworks, silhouettes and darkrooms. I have a Neutral Density filter in my camera bag and it rarely gets used.
- Digital Panoramics from about.com is pretty self explanatory and I’ll be reading it as I’ve failed spectacularly in the past to do panoramas!
- And it’s Mac Vs PC in a shoot out to find the best computer for digital photo manipulation!
You might want to take a look at photographyBLOG too, as he’s listed lots of newly announced cameras, gadgets and equipment including a 0.85 inch HDD with expected capacities of between 2GB and 4GB! There’s a picture and the drive fits on the end of a finger!
A planet that heats a sun!
According to this story, the star Sagittarius is orbitted very closely by a planet. As the planet orbits it’s followed by a hotspot on the star’s surface!
I mention this because my star sign is Sagittarius 🙂
Liquid layouts – the easy way
Good presentation on using CSS for liquid layout. Going through each step of the process and explaining each well. Including hacks to get around bugs in various versions of IE!
(via Dangerousmeta)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
I’m about halfway through this book, the inspiration for Blade Runner, and it’s a great read! It’s much better than the film, but also quite different!
I’ve actually had the book quite a while – the Waterstones price tag at the back still has the Irish Punt and Euro prices on it, and I’m sorry I didn’t read it earlier.
Go buy it if you haven’t read it yet!
What Linux browser do you use?
Jesse Long is carrying out a survey to find out what browser Linux users use. If you use Linux please visit her site and complete the survey. It’s short, and she’ll be publishing the results soon so get your votes in quick!
A thought occurred to me, she could simply use the browser identification to find out what browser the user is using, and they’ll usually have the OS in there somewhere too.
Update! Jesse mailed me saying it was a short term survey so check the CLUG archives for the url if you want to do it!
Are you a geek or a nerd?
Ryan Tubridy rattled on at length about being a nerd this morning, much to the amusement I’m sure of many of his listeners. Of course, he has no idea what the difference is between a geek and a nerd, and when someone mentioned Unix and Linux the poor fella sputtered and guessed that “Linus Paul” was the creater of Linux. I wonder did anyone text in with the correct answer? *grin*
Cybershot Club
The Cybershot Club looks like a reasonably good Sony digital camera site. It’s got tips and techniques for photo editing too, making it useful for others besides the aforementioned camera owners.