Journal de prison (1)
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« La vie en prison continue. On ne peut pas dire que ce soit des plus gais. Dehors un merveilleux printemps, éblouissant, juteux, se déverse et nous n'en apercevons qu'une goutte à l'intérieur des cellules. Il n'y a que le chant des oiseaux qui pénètre jusqu'à nous, et les nuances du ciel. Parfois un avion passe dans le carré de ciel et semble briser l'épine dorsale de la maison. La solitude est toujours aussi terrible, ...
Tallest Lego Tower Record Already Beaten (1)
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Sometimes victory is fleeting. You have to realize that you can't have the tallest LEGO tower forever, and that some jerks from Vienna are probably gonna trump you within months of the feat. And that's exactly what happened. Hundreds of children helped construct the tower to celebrate the 100 Years of Friends of Children (WTF?) festival. And you know what? The kids didn't even have the common courtesy to blow the other tower out of ...
The 2008 Olympics: Now In LEGO Form (1)
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This is the Olympic village made entirely out of LEGO. It was recently on display in Hong Kong to get everyone excited about the games and contains over 300,000 blocks and 4,500 minifigs. Hit the jump for a whole bunch more, including a damn good looking Water Cube. You know, I was so inspired by the work that went into this that I decided to write my congressman about getting a medal above the gold ...
the five paragraph essay: "it's britney bitch" (1)
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It's Britney bitch: so begins the new Britney Spears album, before moving swiftly into that most vacuous of subgenres, songs about the perils of fame. It's not that such songs risk hypocrisy or narcissism (really, so what?), but that, since pop songs are defined by their own popularity, the active choice to make a song about nothing else is an entirely hermetic act. Such songs are pure, and empty. They practically guarantee a failed artist, ...
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Just putting a note here for the next time I’m working with the Yahoo! GeoPlanet APIs. The conudrum: a HTTP GET on a given resource (http://where.yaho...) works in the browser, and works with wget from the command line, but fails from within PHP with a 406 Not Acceptable. The solution, append format=XML to the resource URL, because the service is blowing out its brains on a missing Accepts header. And that folks is the magic ...Shared by Derivadow (1)Contribute comment
