Terry Sanderson: From bookshops to art galleries, free expression is being stymied by the aggressive tactics of Christian campaign group

PDC 2008 happened not long ago so I get to write another “what’s new in GC” blog entry. For quite a while now I’ve been working on a new concurrent GC that replaces the existing one. And this new concurrent GC is called “background GC”. First of all let me apologize for having not written anything for so long. It’s been quite busy working on the new GC and other things. Let me refresh your ...

View the complete chart: 12 ships with impossibly large cargo

Apparently, the Obama-elect administration is going to meet with the Iraq Veterans Against the War. Now, while there may be one or two decent and well-intentioned folk among them, as whole, they generally are charlatans and liars (hence their dire need to testify to Congress NOT under oath). TSO at This Ain't Hell is all over them. Here's one of their posters. "Send McCain back to his cage in Hanoi" Mad as hell, are you? ...

View the work of photographer Fred Muram. (via rubinrecommends)

I have maintained for some time that Design ( and Architecture) and all these practices are in the main elitist! I say in the main as there exist more inclusive projects and perspectives such as - Design for the other 90 percent and Architects without frontiers. Though I have got into arguments defending these projects/ enterprises. When asked - but dont these people live i the west and locate their projects in the developing world? ...

DialPlus is a mobile start-up that wants to bring contextual caller information to your phone before, during, and after the call.

Political protests expose Thailand's social divide

Apple Special Event for September 2008 has ended. Steve Jobs has done his good job on presenting the new products. Nothing is really mind-blowing here. But from his keynote slides, I can see several interesting effects. For sure, we can employ those cool effects to work for our presentation slides. There are several keynote effects that I like from his presentation and hopefully, I've successfully clone those down to my keynote. These animations are as ...

矿难是重大安全生产事故，而众多记者收取"封口费"则是重大的新闻事故。对于新闻行业来说，这种事故的严重性不亚于煤矿爆炸………

Don’t mess with Knitted Robot. By the look in his eyes, he’s right off his face. Robot pattern by Jess Hutchinson and knitted by Lily Dustbin. Check Jess’s gorgeous illustration and toy design here. My favorite is this square based orange fellow. I want him! There’s an assorted collection of hand crafted robots over at Geek Crafts, some more elegant than others ;).

你是不是经常跟我一样在地铁上坐着坐着就会睡着，然后满脸哈喇子和眼屎的醒来，并绝望的大吼一声：“X，又坐过站了！” 现在日本发明家和漫画家的 Pyocotan 的这个小东西可以解决你的苦恼了：它由一个眼罩和电子显示屏组成，上面滚动播出“我要在XX站下车”的字，这样你就可以放心的睡去，快到站时就会有善良的人来摇晃你了：“你丫的快给我起来！下车！顺便把座儿让给我！” 不过你也发现了，上述过程中最关键的一步就是“善良的人”的出现，那么善良的人如果不出现涅？你就只好继续满脸哈喇子和眼屎的醒来，并绝望的大吼一声：“X，又坐过站了！” 不巧的是，Pyocotan 第一次在地铁上亲身试验，就得到了这样的下场……视频如下： via # 有35个同学发言了... 去看看大家说什么 » © maoz for 煎蛋, share. | 本文链接 | 投放广告 | 给煎蛋投稿 | 煎蛋讨论区 | 最新文章 | 最新评论

As the rock underground slouched towards mainstream acceptance in the late-’80s — well before the grungequake made such baby steps seem trivial — the Pixies fired a much-needed salvo of strident aggression and willful nonconformity across the bow of left-field music. Although the quartet became the influential darlings of college radio, the Pixies proved to be less hallowed institution than primary inspiration (to, among others, Nirvana) and prep school, readying its two principal figures — ...

Preview is the default image editor for your Mac. Even though it's shipped along with your Mac for free, but it's surprisingly useful for Mac users, especially for those who have upgraded to Mac OS X Leopard. First, I will guide you to learn the very first and important technique of using Preview application, i.e. opening multiple images at once in one Preview window. 1. Opening Multiple Images at Once Before you opened many images ...