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May Ten Quickies
Paul wrote in to point us to the GNU Jobs Page.
^BR wrote in to say that the may issue of Daemon News is out for your BSDies out there, and
CaVi wrote in to say that the Linux Gazette is out (sorry that
these took so long to announce... moving was a bitch).
Bitscape sent us a Salon story about Coding in Vampire Mode.
Mikesch noted that www.palmcolors.com is selling colored Palm Pilots rsn.
Looking for new backgrounds?
President John F. Kennedy wrote in to tell us that the Volume 7 of Propoganda is up. And for those who are curious, he actually did send me beer!
robert@budzynski.ddns.org sent us this art gallery with fodder and
dayeight sent us a photomosaic picture for you Lara Craft Perverts out there.
HighJack noted that the latest version of JWZs X Screensaver distribution contains a new one that looks like those funky falling charachters from The Matrix.
And finally for some crazy fun stuff,
dave sent us hilarious proof that Star Trek is Satanic,
and chrisd sent us one of the best ebay auction items in recent memory.
Psst-this is Hemos. It was Rob's birthday on May 10-he thinks he escaped. E-mail him and tell him how much you love him.
if we pulled our resources and bought the ark of the covenant and sent it to Bill Gates? ***sizzle sizzle***
Oh, come on.
First, the links says "for you Lara Croft perverts." Did you seriously not brace yourself for the possibility of something pornographic when you clicked it?
Second, as previously mentioned, it's questionable as to whether the image was pornographic.
On the other hand, it is true that most porn these days is targetted at men, and is something of an "acquired taste". I think it's reasonable for Slashdot to give a warning when linking to stuff like that. It's not everyone's cup of tea.
fish and pipes
What my post was trying to say was, it's reasonable to say that links to porn should have warnings attached, because it is offensive to some people. But to say it's offensive to women specifically is not only factually inaccurate, but the sort of dangerous generalisation that leads to oppressive behaviour.
Actually, bizarrely, I've known more women who like Playboy than men. But that's probably just a statistical blip, I think Playboy would be a rather different magazine if most of its readership were female :-) Personally, I can't stand that airbrushed crap. Anyway, if you look closely at the Lara Croft pic, the pictures clearly aren't the sort that appear in Playboy.
Supposing for a moment this is still true in an age where every second TV ad has a "hunk" taking his shirt off, how is it relevant to this discussion?
I agree, I wasn't at all saying that not liking porn made anyone assexual. What I was saying was that the widescale acceptance of the idea of female assexuality was a major cause of the belief (and hence the reality) that women didn't enjoy porn. I considered it too obvious to be worth stating that women are no more assexual than men.
Your argument seems to revolve around a very limited idea of what it means to be a woman. And you seem to be implying that men are all tasteless sex-crazed exhibitionists. Trying to understand your homogenous idea of the world is making me depressed. I refuse to conform to any predefined pattern of behaviour on the basis of on the configuration of my genitalia!
fish and pipes
Pixie / GeekChick
Whenever I see a URL pointing into the middle of a site, let's say:
http://members.tripod.com/~tzimisc e69/satantrek.html
I click the location box in my web browser and hit backspace until I end up with something like:
http://members.tripod.com/~tzimisce69
Which often helps to get things into context.
Sometimes I end up in a directory listing, which is a great way to explore a site. Unfortunately, some sites are rude enough to leave directories without index.html and block directory listing. Bad, bad webmaster. No cookie today.
Stop worrying about the risks of nuclear power and start worrying about the risks of not using nuclear power.
How do some people make this shit up?
--Ivan, weenie NT4 user, Jon Katz hater: bite me!
--weenie NT4 user: bite me!
"Computers are nothing but a perfect illusion of order" -- Iggy Pop
I don't have a link for it, but you can look it up via freshmeat.
RinkRat
we all love ya...
I thought this was a wonderful parody, but as I read it, I kept having nagging doubts that maybe this person was serious.
When I saw the Inquisition graphic I thought, okay, definitely parody. Then after all the bible quotes I began to doubt that hypothesis.
If this guy is serious, he is a poster child for intolerance and religious bigotry. Thank God I'm an atheist!
I think the best thing about the site is its ambiguity. Real or parody? Does it matter?
A dyslexic man walks into a bra.
That way people can filter it out if they don't want. Pretty sensible.
"If one is really a superior person, the fact is likely to leak out without too much assistance" -- John Andrew Holmes
It's a really simple program to make. You can get bigger tiles and finer detail by dividing the tiles into smaller squares.
Algorithm:
1) Grid the source image and computer the avg color for each square.
2) Grid each tile into 9 smaller tiles (3 by 3). Find the color values for each subtile.
3) For each 3 by 3 section in the source image find the tile with best match. Use the normal sum of squares of differences.
The last section is the most compute-intensive (for large tile libraries). It's extremely easy to parallize though. Clever people can also sort the tiles ahead of time somehow.
The hard part is getting a source library of a couple thousand tiles (10s of thousands?). This is probably why porn was used.
Porn = inexhaustible supply of images
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