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FTFA:

We also informed the subcommittee of the following: ...

- We discovered that the intruders had planted a file on one of our Sony Online Entertainment servers named "Anonymous" with the words "We are Legion." ...

Well, it may be slander, but they claimed (Under Oath?), that they were informed that Anonymous was responsible for the break-ins on the SOE servers. I don't think they actually said "Anonymous is behind the attacks", they just listed the evidence they have found since then.

Sony itself freely admits that Anonymous may have not been involved in the attack itself, but states that the initial intrusion seems to have happened at the same point that the initial Anonymous DoS attack did, and that the initial attack, knowingly or not, helped provide concealment for the breach.

Specifically read the last 3-4 paragraphs on:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/playstationblog/5687533298/in/set-72157626521862165/lightbox/ and the first one on http://www.flickr.com/photos/playstationblog/5687532796/in/set-72157626521862165/lightbox/
(I'd copy and paste the relevant paragraphs, but its tough to do that with pictures, so if you really care, go read what they wrote).

If Anonymous ISN'T behind these attacks and just patsies/dupes (as Sony admits is possible), then they should probably use much of their world renowned internet ability to help track down who ACTUALLY broke into the servers, if for no other reason than to clear their name.

FTFA:

We also informed the subcommittee of the following: ...

- We discovered that the intruders had planted a file on one of our Sony Online Entertainment servers named "Anonymous" with the words "We are Legion." ...

Well, it may be slander, but they claimed (Under Oath?), that they were informed that Anonymous was responsible for the break-ins on the SOE servers. I don't think they actually said "Anonymous is behind the attacks", they just listed the evidence they have found since then.

Sony itself freely admits that Anonymous may have not been involved in the attack itself, but states that the initial intrusion seems to have happened at the same point that the initial Anonymous DoS attack did, and that the initial attack, knowingly or not, helped provide concealment for the breach.

Specifically read the last 3-4 paragraphs on:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/playstationblog/5687533298/in/set-72157626521862165/lightbox/ and the first one on http://www.flickr.com/photos/playstationblog/5687532796/in/set-72157626521862165/lightbox/
(I'd copy and paste the relevant paragraphs, but its tough to do that with pictures, so if you really care, go read what they wrote).

If Anonymous ISN'T behind these attacks and just patsies/dupes (as Sony admits is possible), then they should probably use much of their world renowned internet ability to help track down who ACTUALLY broke into the servers, if for no other reason than to clear their name.

If you read the letter (which is made needlessly annoying by the fact that it's scanned in and the raw text isn't made available, fuck you very much Sony), you'll see that on page 2 they explain:

When Sony Online Entertainment discovered this past Sunday afternoon that data from its servers had been stolen, it also discovered that the intruders had placed a file on one of those servers named "Anonymous" with the words "We are Legion."

So that's how they come to that conclusion. Which I guess means we can blame Anonymous, in so much as anyone calling themselves Anonymous is Anonymous.

Not that I really believe that the attacker really is "Anonymous," but they do make a good scape goat. And who knows, maybe the attacker did decide that this attack might as well be carried out under the "anonymous" banner.

random google image search..

Here's two tourists "hey, lets check out that nice town" who have now discovered that fucking UBL is probably somewhere in the background :-)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2185/2347384304_785d311309.jpg

animals kissing (completely not goatse or anything)

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5264/5676211571_b3660843f1_b.jpg K-meleon and Opera == 19 Mb FireFox 4 , PaleMoon, Chrome ,etc much bigger=

The term application might have been used quite a bit but I think historically Mac OS X is the OS that used it in it's implementation.

1984 or so:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_Environment_Manager

GEM AES (Application Environment Services), provided the window management and UI elements

"apps": http://farm1.static.flickr.com/35/72215061_445ba4a777.jpg

And if I remember correctly, while most programs used the extension .prg, .app was also available and used.

I thought that the iPad's progenitor was the Etch A Sketch.

But only oneof them can be used for serious artistic work.

They've been doing it for years.

http://www.trilug.org/pipermail/trilug/Week-of-Mon-20050418/034205.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gubatron/4065512250/

Take a look at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/

Click their "RELOAD!" button as fast as you can... but hurry, there are usually over 5000 new photos a minute. An endless flood of personal infomation, posted by people who don't know (or care) about privacy.

Nor over 15 years either... this training course was taught in 1996:

Similar enough?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/andyrkett/4368260369/

(2002)

Sony Ericsson P800

year 2002

http://www.flickr.com/photos/andyrkett/4368260369/

... and many forget when it began. In 2002.

Sony Ericsson P800 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/andyrkett/4368260369/

I can't think of any other natural shape for a tablet to be honest...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30580398@N03/4768040515/

Jets of cooling water, can anyone explain?

wtf.

I know IC's are pretty much water resistant by the way they are designed... but wouldn't humidity be a bad thing in a data center?

the problem I've had with blender is that the UI IS CONSTANTLY CHANGING. I do on/off graphics for fun and learning, but with blender the ui is changing too often.
sure it fills a lot of tickboxes, but it's hard to find the basic stuff you'd like, grouping, axis locks, lathe objects and such. it doesn't help that they're changed constantly from ui to ui and the default colors hurt the eyes.

anyhow, so most of the time i'm using a buggy modeller from 2002 or so, that's available for free and outputs a format I can easily use in my own programs(it's just text, since the modeller i'm talking about is moray and it's meant for use with povray, inserting code comments to objects can be done as well). some parts are quirky, maybe, and using it effectively to do some stuff needs some imagination and work - but it would need it with any modeller. the good thing about this is that as there's no updates THE GUI DOESN'T CHANGE. this is important as it makes the work fluid.

btw I'd kill for the source for moray. well, not a human being, but I'd definetely kill a puppy for it(if it would help), it just needs _slight_ work to be even more awesome.

obligatory link for some pic http://www.flickr.com/photos/glasslife/4399943074/in/photostream/lightbox/

also, only now I have a fast enough pc to try out some povray stuff in good quality I wanted to try ten years ago.

June 4, 1989

You mean, the date on which nothing happened?

(Why yes, the "Simpsons Did It...)

Firstly, that's Penrith Station in Cumbria, UK. Secondly, it's 'shopped. The real signs say "Passing trains cause air turbulence".

Gaston is a veritable Da Vinci of comic books! He has covered every field -- chemistry, mechanical engineering, electronics, computers, biology, music theory, rocket science. He's european and not a superhero, so I guess that's why you never heard of him

Examples:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3195/2998324088_9106a0bd77_o.jpg
http://briconique.free.fr/images/GastonLagaffe.gif
http://www.sceneario.com/Planche_bd_8065_GASTON.jpg
http://multimedia.fnac.com/multimedia/images_produits/zoom_planche_bd/8/6/9/9782800126968_1.jpg
http://www.dupuis.com/Couvertures/G/9782800145853-G.JPG

The Roman Church acknowledges the apostolic succession is intact in the Orthodox Church and that their sacraments are valid. There are already something like 15 eastern Rites which are in communion with Rome, and I am optimistic that the Orthodox Church will someday soon be among them. They have a rich tradition and culture.

I live near downtown Washington, D.C., and while everyone visits the National Cathedral, which is a really impressive piece of architecture, very few people probably realize that only a few blocks away is the Greek Orthodox Cathedral, Saint Sophia, which while much smaller is no less impressive.

As a Roman Catholic, the idea of being in full communion with this wonderful tradition is something to be hoped and prayed for, as is the reuniting of all Christianity.

The Roman Church acknowledges the apostolic succession is intact in the Orthodox Church and that their sacraments are valid. There are already something like 15 eastern Rites which are in communion with Rome, and I am optimistic that the Orthodox Church will someday soon be among them. They have a rich tradition and culture.

I live near downtown Washington, D.C., and while everyone visits the National Cathedral, which is a really impressive piece of architecture, very few people probably realize that only a few blocks away is the Greek Orthodox Cathedral, Saint Sophia, which while much smaller is no less impressive.

As a Roman Catholic, the idea of being in full communion with this wonderful tradition is something to be hoped and prayed for, as is the reuniting of all Christianity.

Every time you kick a puppy, God kills a kitten.

Every time God kills a kitten, I kick a puppy.

cat everytimeyoumasturbategodkillsakitten.jpg | sed s/kittens/puppies/g | sed s/Domo-kun/"A sweat-stained Steve Ballmer, his gut and moobs jiggling with every stride"/g > images.slashdot.org.

OK, so there are a few things that are better done with a GUI instead of a command line, but please, think of the developers.

1 April 2006, the most magical day on the internet. Slashdot gave us this:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/45/121120624_5b9fb34dcb.jpg

Even if you watch a movie without 3D, you are "tricking the brain into making you think you are physically moving in relation to your surroundings." There is a large overlap in the neural circuitry that processes motion parallax (the 3D effect that you get when you have a moving camera) and stereopsis (the 3D effect that you get when you have two different images projected onto your two retinas). This is the mechanism behind 3D animated GIFs, and one of the major depth cues in a 2D movie. Motion parallax is even more intricately linked to the vestibular system, since you need to know whether the image on your retina is changing because your head is moving or because the object you are looking at is in motion. (This is probably part of the reason that an ordinary movie is not an immersive 3D experience.) In contrast, stereopsis does not require motion to work as a depth cue, although all of these depth cues are ultimately integrated.

The potential for motion parallax without vestibular signals to alter the development of visual areas dedicated to depth perception seems at least as great as the potential for moving stereoscopic images without vestibular signals to alter the development of these areas. No one knew about this when the motion picture was invented, and kids who grew up with a TV are still perfectly capable of making use of vestibular signals.

Overall, that 3D is somehow "bad for the brain" is highly speculative. You don't get a headache or nausea when viewing 3D movies from very close up because you are damaging your brain. The malaise doesn't even necessarily have to do with the lack of a vestibular signal, and quite possibly doesn't, since you don't get nausea from simulated camera movement without associated head movement even though you have conflicting cues there as well. It can come from the visual system alone. If you are close enough to the screen, you are viewing 3D images with such high disparity that you can't fuse them. The brain interprets this as a sign that there is a problem with your visual system. You might even feel sick to your stomach, since in the environment in which we evolved, this kind of problem with your visual system would most likely have been caused by ingesting some kind of harmful psychotropic substance. There is absolutely no evidence that there is any permanent damage to or alteration of the brain itself.

If someone can show that there is any change in cortical thickness in the visual areas of children exposed to 3D movies from a very young age, or that these children exhibit significantly different performance in some set of psychophysical paradigms, I might reconsider, but the "evidence" presented in this article is complete bullshit.

People like you, who would remove all risk from the world, are the drones of humanity. Get the fuck out of the way, drone, and let the warriors do what they will. What I am trying to say is that you need to shut your punkass mouth and mind your own miserable pussywhipped business. There now, is that clear enough for you, you pussy ?

Your ideas intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

I didn't find Evergreen to be all that different from the way Dayton, or most any other air museum, has their displays arraigned. (I remember sitting on the nose wheel of Bock's Car at Dayton). I was a bit bummed about the cost for the Spruce Goose, but that is their star attraction and earner, especially since their B-17 is no longer flyable due to the dreaded wing spar AD. They're also a pretty new facility, so I don't blame them for having a bit of fluff and filler. Didn't see much in the way of obvious replicas for that matter, just a collection that needs a bit of guidance and theme. Right now they're in the "here's a plane, here's another one, here's a helicopter, here's some stuff a guy gave us, here's some more stuff" hole that lots of museums end up in.

Here's my flickr set from my trip a while back. Judge for yourself:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tenthousandmarbles/sets/72157626254980751/

Their space section was quite nice, but the area they have allocated was pretty bare. Excellent SR-71 display. Interesting they way they had the engine bay open and the start cart parked nearby. Much better than the usual "Ooooh, look at the pointy black thing" setup that most places use. Given that they're one of the few really nice facilities on the west coast, I don't doubt that they'll be getting a shuttle. They've shown that they're willing to spend, and they're well funded.

If they had to learn a new system, why stick with Windows?

Because however obnoxious the Windows tax is, its not a full 100% of the cost of the hardware?

You can't. It's a size issue. this idea of everyone living in a city is absurd.

Sure you can - It just takes city planners with vision. Look at these pictures from my city (Vancouver, Canada). I have lots of friends raising families in the city, with parks, schools, supermarkets nearby and all walkable.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2734/4112965898_7112701b00.jpg

http://static-p4.fotolia.com/jpg/00/08/70/45/400_F_8704550_q9V0W99I76eCkun4RbXmAi8sjTieGEix.jpg

The buildings you see in those pictures are all residential.

I thought that was a rubber band around the IE logo at first, had to zoom in to see that it's probably just sugar. (These cakes aren't gags ... yet)

Unless, of course, you mean creating gold on WoW. Tablets don't yet have the punch for games like that yet.

I have not played WOW but am pretty sure you are wrong about that. The iPad 2 graphics have advanced significantly.

And Tablets offer the simplicity of consoles in that there is no setup... even more simpler in that you don't have to hook it to a display (but then I guess Gameboy and PSP owners already know about that).

Although the iPad could seemingly handle WOW I have to say I fear a little for the world when such a mobile variant of WOW is possible... but perhaps the benefit of allowing people to leave desktops and play WOW in other environs will be more healthy than the enablement it provides for.

Like a QR code? I hear it's all the rage in Japan (and catching on pretty fast here, too).

I made some cards for my photography: front is a little section of photo with a QR code to that particular photo on my site, back is my name and URL. But, as it happens, I haven't actually really used them yet –as much because paper is inconvenient as because photography is a hobby, not a business, for me.

I always end up throwing away business cards –small paper objects do not have any permenant place in any of my filing systems –but a physical object with easy and non-error-prone analog-to-digital conversion seems useful (especially if they have space for annotation somewhere on them).

I like:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ranh/106709219/

Link to the two trials with different output:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/timo/5481044733/in/photostream/lightbox/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/timo/5481047867/in/photostream/lightbox/

They follow the exact same path and yet the graph of bars are completely different. Almost opposite, really... I obviously expected there to be some variance, but these are not even close.

Link to the two trials with different output:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/timo/5481044733/in/photostream/lightbox/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/timo/5481047867/in/photostream/lightbox/

They follow the exact same path and yet the graph of bars are completely different. Almost opposite, really... I obviously expected there to be some variance, but these are not even close.

So there's an easy way of solving this: somebody just needs to figure a way of getting Tetris exhibited in a gallery, and problem solved.

Screw Tetris -- I miss loading ANSI.SYS, connecting to various BBSs and watching the terminal scroll all the beautiful ANSI / ASCII (actually CodePage 437) art at 14.4Kbps. I spent months designing artwork & animations in with cp437 + ANSI for my own BBS, clearly some was trash or utilitarian, but many others were beautiful art. Hell, I even created a multi-player Tetris door game for my BBS using ANSI to update the movements (the line noise interspersed randomly created beautiful abstract art that put elephant or even monkey made paintings to shame).

Just recently I figured out how to change the Linux terminal to codepage 437 & "watched" my old BBS graphics, and tons more art from the archives. (Hint: I Use a small Perl script to read chars from the file and output them to the terminal at the desired bitrate for better emulation -- use an actual VT, not the terminal emulator).

Yes, ANSI art has been on exhibit (some even with custom built scolling picture frames), so it is indeed (by your definition) art.

Some links with pics from some of the exhibits: aitek dh foxgirl1 foxgirl2 t12 joe grand skully doug pinguino

I posit that if some moron converts digital photos to push-pin by number, and manually fills pixels according to the computer's algorithm, and that gets considered "art"; Then ANSI / ASCII graphics (manually filling text cells with color & symbols to make pictures WITHOUT THE COMPUTER TELLING YOU WHAT TO COLOR WHERE) must be art too.

If novels can be "art", then look no further than old text adventure games, or MUD door games to prove that games can be art.

So there's an easy way of solving this: somebody just needs to figure a way of getting Tetris exhibited in a gallery, and problem solved.

Screw Tetris -- I miss loading ANSI.SYS, connecting to various BBSs and watching the terminal scroll all the beautiful ANSI / ASCII (actually CodePage 437) art at 14.4Kbps. I spent months designing artwork & animations in with cp437 + ANSI for my own BBS, clearly some was trash or utilitarian, but many others were beautiful art. Hell, I even created a multi-player Tetris door game for my BBS using ANSI to update the movements (the line noise interspersed randomly created beautiful abstract art that put elephant or even monkey made paintings to shame).

Just recently I figured out how to change the Linux terminal to codepage 437 & "watched" my old BBS graphics, and tons more art from the archives. (Hint: I Use a small Perl script to read chars from the file and output them to the terminal at the desired bitrate for better emulation -- use an actual VT, not the terminal emulator).

Yes, ANSI art has been on exhibit (some even with custom built scolling picture frames), so it is indeed (by your definition) art.

Some links with pics from some of the exhibits: aitek dh foxgirl1 foxgirl2 t12 joe grand skully doug pinguino

I posit that if some moron converts digital photos to push-pin by number, and manually fills pixels according to the computer's algorithm, and that gets considered "art"; Then ANSI / ASCII graphics (manually filling text cells with color & symbols to make pictures WITHOUT THE COMPUTER TELLING YOU WHAT TO COLOR WHERE) must be art too.

If novels can be "art", then look no further than old text adventure games, or MUD door games to prove that games can be art.

So there's an easy way of solving this: somebody just needs to figure a way of getting Tetris exhibited in a gallery, and problem solved.

Screw Tetris -- I miss loading ANSI.SYS, connecting to various BBSs and watching the terminal scroll all the beautiful ANSI / ASCII (actually CodePage 437) art at 14.4Kbps. I spent months designing artwork & animations in with cp437 + ANSI for my own BBS, clearly some was trash or utilitarian, but many others were beautiful art. Hell, I even created a multi-player Tetris door game for my BBS using ANSI to update the movements (the line noise interspersed randomly created beautiful abstract art that put elephant or even monkey made paintings to shame).

Just recently I figured out how to change the Linux terminal to codepage 437 & "watched" my old BBS graphics, and tons more art from the archives. (Hint: I Use a small Perl script to read chars from the file and output them to the terminal at the desired bitrate for better emulation -- use an actual VT, not the terminal emulator).

Yes, ANSI art has been on exhibit (some even with custom built scolling picture frames), so it is indeed (by your definition) art.

Some links with pics from some of the exhibits: aitek dh foxgirl1 foxgirl2 t12 joe grand skully doug pinguino

I posit that if some moron converts digital photos to push-pin by number, and manually fills pixels according to the computer's algorithm, and that gets considered "art"; Then ANSI / ASCII graphics (manually filling text cells with color & symbols to make pictures WITHOUT THE COMPUTER TELLING YOU WHAT TO COLOR WHERE) must be art too.

If novels can be "art", then look no further than old text adventure games, or MUD door games to prove that games can be art.

So there's an easy way of solving this: somebody just needs to figure a way of getting Tetris exhibited in a gallery, and problem solved.

Screw Tetris -- I miss loading ANSI.SYS, connecting to various BBSs and watching the terminal scroll all the beautiful ANSI / ASCII (actually CodePage 437) art at 14.4Kbps. I spent months designing artwork & animations in with cp437 + ANSI for my own BBS, clearly some was trash or utilitarian, but many others were beautiful art. Hell, I even created a multi-player Tetris door game for my BBS using ANSI to update the movements (the line noise interspersed randomly created beautiful abstract art that put elephant or even monkey made paintings to shame).

Just recently I figured out how to change the Linux terminal to codepage 437 & "watched" my old BBS graphics, and tons more art from the archives. (Hint: I Use a small Perl script to read chars from the file and output them to the terminal at the desired bitrate for better emulation -- use an actual VT, not the terminal emulator).

Yes, ANSI art has been on exhibit (some even with custom built scolling picture frames), so it is indeed (by your definition) art.

Some links with pics from some of the exhibits: aitek dh foxgirl1 foxgirl2 t12 joe grand skully doug pinguino

I posit that if some moron converts digital photos to push-pin by number, and manually fills pixels according to the computer's algorithm, and that gets considered "art"; Then ANSI / ASCII graphics (manually filling text cells with color & symbols to make pictures WITHOUT THE COMPUTER TELLING YOU WHAT TO COLOR WHERE) must be art too.

If novels can be "art", then look no further than old text adventure games, or MUD door games to prove that games can be art.

So there's an easy way of solving this: somebody just needs to figure a way of getting Tetris exhibited in a gallery, and problem solved.

Screw Tetris -- I miss loading ANSI.SYS, connecting to various BBSs and watching the terminal scroll all the beautiful ANSI / ASCII (actually CodePage 437) art at 14.4Kbps. I spent months designing artwork & animations in with cp437 + ANSI for my own BBS, clearly some was trash or utilitarian, but many others were beautiful art. Hell, I even created a multi-player Tetris door game for my BBS using ANSI to update the movements (the line noise interspersed randomly created beautiful abstract art that put elephant or even monkey made paintings to shame).

Just recently I figured out how to change the Linux terminal to codepage 437 & "watched" my old BBS graphics, and tons more art from the archives. (Hint: I Use a small Perl script to read chars from the file and output them to the terminal at the desired bitrate for better emulation -- use an actual VT, not the terminal emulator).

Yes, ANSI art has been on exhibit (some even with custom built scolling picture frames), so it is indeed (by your definition) art.

Some links with pics from some of the exhibits: aitek dh foxgirl1 foxgirl2 t12 joe grand skully doug pinguino

I posit that if some moron converts digital photos to push-pin by number, and manually fills pixels according to the computer's algorithm, and that gets considered "art"; Then ANSI / ASCII graphics (manually filling text cells with color & symbols to make pictures WITHOUT THE COMPUTER TELLING YOU WHAT TO COLOR WHERE) must be art too.

If novels can be "art", then look no further than old text adventure games, or MUD door games to prove that games can be art.

So there's an easy way of solving this: somebody just needs to figure a way of getting Tetris exhibited in a gallery, and problem solved.

Screw Tetris -- I miss loading ANSI.SYS, connecting to various BBSs and watching the terminal scroll all the beautiful ANSI / ASCII (actually CodePage 437) art at 14.4Kbps. I spent months designing artwork & animations in with cp437 + ANSI for my own BBS, clearly some was trash or utilitarian, but many others were beautiful art. Hell, I even created a multi-player Tetris door game for my BBS using ANSI to update the movements (the line noise interspersed randomly created beautiful abstract art that put elephant or even monkey made paintings to shame).

Just recently I figured out how to change the Linux terminal to codepage 437 & "watched" my old BBS graphics, and tons more art from the archives. (Hint: I Use a small Perl script to read chars from the file and output them to the terminal at the desired bitrate for better emulation -- use an actual VT, not the terminal emulator).

Yes, ANSI art has been on exhibit (some even with custom built scolling picture frames), so it is indeed (by your definition) art.

Some links with pics from some of the exhibits: aitek dh foxgirl1 foxgirl2 t12 joe grand skully doug pinguino

I posit that if some moron converts digital photos to push-pin by number, and manually fills pixels according to the computer's algorithm, and that gets considered "art"; Then ANSI / ASCII graphics (manually filling text cells with color & symbols to make pictures WITHOUT THE COMPUTER TELLING YOU WHAT TO COLOR WHERE) must be art too.

If novels can be "art", then look no further than old text adventure games, or MUD door games to prove that games can be art.

So there's an easy way of solving this: somebody just needs to figure a way of getting Tetris exhibited in a gallery, and problem solved.

Screw Tetris -- I miss loading ANSI.SYS, connecting to various BBSs and watching the terminal scroll all the beautiful ANSI / ASCII (actually CodePage 437) art at 14.4Kbps. I spent months designing artwork & animations in with cp437 + ANSI for my own BBS, clearly some was trash or utilitarian, but many others were beautiful art. Hell, I even created a multi-player Tetris door game for my BBS using ANSI to update the movements (the line noise interspersed randomly created beautiful abstract art that put elephant or even monkey made paintings to shame).

Just recently I figured out how to change the Linux terminal to codepage 437 & "watched" my old BBS graphics, and tons more art from the archives. (Hint: I Use a small Perl script to read chars from the file and output them to the terminal at the desired bitrate for better emulation -- use an actual VT, not the terminal emulator).

Yes, ANSI art has been on exhibit (some even with custom built scolling picture frames), so it is indeed (by your definition) art.

Some links with pics from some of the exhibits: aitek dh foxgirl1 foxgirl2 t12 joe grand skully doug pinguino

I posit that if some moron converts digital photos to push-pin by number, and manually fills pixels according to the computer's algorithm, and that gets considered "art"; Then ANSI / ASCII graphics (manually filling text cells with color & symbols to make pictures WITHOUT THE COMPUTER TELLING YOU WHAT TO COLOR WHERE) must be art too.

If novels can be "art", then look no further than old text adventure games, or MUD door games to prove that games can be art.

Which is just another thing in which Blizzard plagiarizes Games Workshop :p

GW HQ

Statue and the very WH40k-esque building front has been there since mid-90's at least.

Can't wait for the pics in front of the Orc on the Blizzard campus. Far more impressive than Lucas' Yoda. ;-)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anshinritsumai/4799301377/

SpeakEasy specifically told me in pre-sales chats that I could use 100 percent of my bandwidth 24/7/365 if I wanted. Then they later told me, informally, that if I downloaded more than 100G/mo, they would cancel me. Then they threatened me with a $300 earliy termination fee, even though it was them terminating me. They offered to waive it if I didn't talk about it online. I did not pay it, and I kept talking about it online. The best part is that I took screenshots of their pre-sales chats to cover my ass -- found here -- which is just nice after the fact, because several thousand people have now been made aware of their asshattery, and I can only assume they lost far more than my business with their lies.

I had a shaft-drive bike, and changing a flat on the rear was a messy pain. Belts (my wife has one) are also trickier than chains (need to break the rear triangle, not compatible with quick-release), but not quite as much so.

My next bike will have a belt drive -- largely because I'm riding folders these days, and not having all the grease floating around is a huge advantage when you make a habit of bringing your bike inside, throwing it into onto leather car seats, etc.

No, I'm thinking about this one.

Thanks for fucking up the market for the rest of the world. This image comes to mind..

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3014/2907411559_117ac480b5.jpg

An article about a "beauty re-touch" function without pictures? How useless is that!

I found two examples on the internets and the most obvious difference is a blurring/smoothing filter applied to the regions with skin tones. I'm not convinced this makes anyone more beautiful (the womans white teeth look a bit creepy).
http://www.flickr.com/photos/workshop/5432481125/
http://panasonic.net/avc/lumix/compact/fx78_fx77/img/touch/retouch_image.jpg

I think I still prefer the brown-paper-bag-over-the-head approach for making people beautiful. That, or beer.

The call "solder" sodder -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mppc4ReOMw
They frequently say "I could care less"
They call people with the name "Craig" "Creg" (I shit you not!)

They mix foods which simply wouldn't be mixed by a normal, sane thinking person. http://pictures.mastermarf.com/blog/2009/090831-pancake-sausage-stick.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2359/2303384158_1f540432bf.jpg
(An excellent breakfast, IF on either 2 separate days or 2 separate plates,... but maple syrup on the bacon? n.please, what is wrong with these people? - gluttony and stupidity come to mind)