Shaun of the Dead inspired print.
Sold already on Etsy. Unsure if the artist will offer more.
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Are you ready for the zombie apocalypse? Do you have a game plan? What pub will you be hiding out in until the whole thing blows over?
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The First Zombie-Proof House
Thanks +Keith Cramer for the share!
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I'm digging this zombie proof house.
http://all-that-is-interesting.com/post/4956385434/the-first-zombie-proof-house
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The First Zombie-Proof House Somehow, ritual drunk-conversation concerning team captains for the apocalypse has become a major part of the lives of 20-somethings. Having been matured in the…
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Welcome to the weekend. Chill.
Courtesy of +Marcelo Almeida. You all follow his posts, right? Of course you do. 😉
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#illustration by Dr. Lukas Brezak
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I want to do this with my VW Bug…
I want to do something like this in the hood storage area of my VW bug. I'm thinking it would be awesome for tailgating or picnics! Plus, it would just be plain cool to show off, I admit it.
Thanks +Marcelo Almeida for reinforcing the idea I've been mulling over. It's like getting a sign. 😉
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cool picnic
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The Tin Man by Schaffer the Darklord
This has been stuck in my head for days. Now it's your turn. 😉 Some of the lyrics are a little NSFW, so apologies for any offense. It's just so darn good.
Thanks to +Sandra Powers for the link she posted in a comment on a post by +SJB Gilmour. Original post:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/117902660405170807504/posts/iuHT2VexEyw
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This little girl has a future in show business!
Another re-share that I put in my "remember to watch it later" circle that I forgot to watch later. 😉
Thanks +Mike Ventura for the share!
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Do you want to see cute and funny tonight? Watch…
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Photoshop to [eventually] end blurry pics!
I put this in my "to view later" circle and forgot to view later. 😉 Extremely awesome technology. Re-sharing now in case anyone else missed it too!
Thanks +Robby Candra and +Brandon Hoover for the share.
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Photoshop Will End Blurry Pics Forever
Read the full article on Gizmodo: http://gizmodo.com/5848371/photoshop-will-end-blurry-pics-forever
"The motion blur-killer, demoed at the recent Adobe MAX 2011 conference, is experimental at this point. The Photoshop rep on stage won't say when it'll be implemented—only that they're working on it for some feature version. But it's absolutely incredible. With only a few clicks, a blurry image is quickly analyzed, allowed Photoshop to discern exactly how the image was messed up. That is to say, if you accidentally moved your hand slightly to the right and down while the shutter snapped, it'll pick that up. And then it reverses it—and that's the totally magical part."
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Follow the money? NPR host fired…
I find it funny that this happens at the same time they are doing a pledge drive for donations every time I turn on my local NPR station. Who are they really trying to please with this decision? I'm not accusing, but I am questioning.
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Lisa Simeone, a freelance content provider for a pair of radio shows that are broadcast by National Public Radio, is under fire today for her tangential participation in the OccupyDC movement. Simeone…
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Applebee's does nails.
Who knew? Thank you daughter. And yes, my finger is turning purple… 😉
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The Element of Surprise!
I kind of want this on a t-shirt.
Thanks +Bobbi Jo Woods and +David Sarachman for the share!
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This is funny on so many levels…okay maybe on one level…but it's an awesome level.
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Knit Beard Hat!
I want one in adult size. Where can I get it?!
[Edit: You too can look like Billy Mays! Thanks +Trenton Ray for pointing out the likeness!]
Thanks +Adam Markiewicz and +M Monica for the share!
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Awww… hat with beard attached. For a little lumberjack.
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Notice the difference?
LMFAO! 😉
Thanks +Richard Hews and +Quinndell Blackwell for the share!
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Do you notice the difference?….I swear this made my day…(re-share if you enjoy this, as much as i did)
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Smartphone and machine solve Rubik's cube in less than 6 seconds.
Can't you just see this at the local Toys-R-Us where they charge you a buck to "reset" your Rubik's cube? 😉 I'd love to know the level of tech and dollars that are in this.
Thanks +Giles Pettipher and +Erfun Kheirandish for the share!
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A smartphone and a machine solve the Rubik's cube in less than 6 seconds.
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Warning, requires actual reading…
No matter your level of knowledge this is an interesting read showing exactly how much is going on behind the scenes when we do something as simple as visiting the Google home page. It ends with a nice commentary on the patent system — worth reading just for that. Thanks +Alastair Roberts and +Jean-Baptiste Queru for the share.
I enjoy Google+ but anything that takes more than a second to digest gets washed downstream and lost way too quick. As I run into words I like, I'm going to start re-sharing them. Comments on the shared content should be left on the original post. -Scott
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Dizzying but invisible depth
You just went to the Google home page.
Simple, isn't it?
What just actually happened?
Well, when you know a bit of about how browsers work, it's not quite that simple. You've just put into play HTTP, HTML, CSS, ECMAscript, and more. Those are actually such incredibly complex technologies that they'll make any engineer dizzy if they think about them too much, and such that no single company can deal with that entire complexity.
Let's simplify.
You just connected your computer to www.google.com.
Simple, isn't it?
What just actually happened?
Well, when you know a bit about how networks work, it's not quite that simple. You've just put into play DNS, TCP, UDP, IP, Wifi, Ethernet, DOCSIS, OC, SONET, and more. Those are actually such incredibly complex technologies that they'll make any engineer dizzy if they think about them too much, and such that no single company can deal with that entire complexity.
Let's simplify.
You just typed www.google.com in the location bar of your browser.
Simple, isn't it?
What just actually happened?
Well, when you know a bit about how operating systems work, it's not quite that simple. You've just put into play a kernel, a USB host stack, an input dispatcher, an event handler, a font hinter, a sub-pixel rasterizer, a windowing system, a graphics driver, and more, all of those written in high-level languages that get processed by compilers, linkers, optimizers, interpreters, and more. Those are actually such incredibly complex technologies that they'll make any engineer dizzy if they think about them too much, and such that no single company can deal with that entire complexity.
Let's simplify.
You just pressed a key on your keyboard.
Simple, isn't it?
What just actually happened?
Well, when you know about bit about how input peripherals work, it's not quite that simple. You've just put into play a power regulator, a debouncer, an input multiplexer, a USB device stack, a USB hub stack, all of that implemented in a single chip. That chip is built around thinly sliced wafers of highly purified single-crystal silicon ingot, doped with minute quantities of other atoms that are blasted into the crystal structure, interconnected with multiple layers of aluminum or copper, that are deposited according to patterns of high-energy ultraviolet light that are focused to a precision of a fraction of a micron, connected to the outside world via thin gold wires, all inside a packaging made of a dimensionally and thermally stable resin. The doping patterns and the interconnects implement transistors, which are grouped together to create logic gates. In some parts of the chip, logic gates are combined to create arithmetic and bitwise functions, which are combined to create an ALU. In another part of the chip, logic gates are combined into bistable loops, which are lined up into rows, which are combined with selectors to create a register bank. In another part of the chip, logic gates are combined into bus controllers and instruction decoders and microcode to create an execution scheduler. In another part of the chip, they're combined into address and data multiplexers and timing circuitry to create a memory controller. There's even more. Those are actually such incredibly complex technologies that they'll make any engineer dizzy if they think about them too much, and such that no single company can deal with that entire complexity.
Can we simplify further?
In fact, very scarily, no, we can't. We can barely comprehend the complexity of a single chip in a computer keyboard, and yet there's no simpler level. The next step takes us to the software that is used to design the chip's logic, and that software itself has a level of complexity that requires to go back to the top of the loop.
Today's computers are so complex that they can only be designed and manufactured with slightly less complex computers. In turn the computers used for the design and manufacture are so complex that they themselves can only be designed and manufactured with slightly less complex computers. You'd have to go through many such loops to get back to a level that could possibly be re-built from scratch.
Once you start to understand how our modern devices work and how they're created, it's impossible to not be dizzy about the depth of everything that's involved, and to not be in awe about the fact that they work at all, when Murphy's law says that they simply shouldn't possibly work.
For non-technologists, this is all a black box. That is a great success of technology: all those layers of complexity are entirely hidden and people can use them without even knowing that they exist at all. That is the reason why many people can find computers so frustrating to use: there are so many things that can possibly go wrong that some of them inevitably will, but the complexity goes so deep that it's impossible for most users to be able to do anything about any error.
That is also why it's so hard for technologists and non-technologists to communicate together: technologists know too much about too many layers and non-technologists know too little about too few layers to be able to establish effective direct communication. The gap is so large that it's not even possible any more to have a single person be an intermediate between those two groups, and that's why e.g. we end up with those convoluted technical support call centers and their multiple tiers. Without such deep support structures, you end up with the frustrating situation that we see when end users have access to a bug database that is directly used by engineers: neither the end users nor the engineers get the information that they need to accomplish their goals.
That is why the mainstream press and the general population has talked so much about Steve Jobs' death and comparatively so little about Dennis Ritchie's: Steve's influence was at a layer that most people could see, while Dennis' was much deeper. On the one hand, I can imagine where the computing world would be without the work that Jobs did and the people he inspired: probably a bit less shiny, a bit more beige, a bit more square. Deep inside, though, our devices would still work the same way and do the same things. On the other hand, I literally can't imagine where the computing world would be without the work that Ritchie did and the people he inspired. By the mid 80s, Ritchie's influence had taken over, and even back then very little remained of the pre-Ritchie world.
Finally, last but not least, that is why our patent system is broken: technology has done such an amazing job at hiding its complexity that the people regulating and running the patent system are barely even aware of the complexity of what they're regulating and running. That's the ultimate bikeshedding: just like the proverbial discussions in the town hall about a nuclear power plant end up being about the paint color for the plant's bike shed, the patent discussions about modern computing systems end up being about screen sizes and icon ordering, because in both cases those are the only aspect that the people involved in the discussion are capable of discussing, even though they are irrelevant to the actual function of the overall system being discussed.
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Walking Dead Laptop Decal
L o v e i t.
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This is made for your MacBook. Have fun making up your own Mac with this unique vinyl decal and show the world you are Cool! – Fit
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Church congregations transfers accounts from BofA to credit union.
Thanks +Tristan Johnson for sharing +Rob Michael's post.
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I was speaking with one of my students re: #OccupyWallStreet yesterday and he shared this story with me:
The entire congregation at church decided they no longer wished to do business with BofA so they transfered their money out to our local credit union. We didn't carry signs, we didn't march, we didn't try to demonize the tellers or any other BofA employees. We simply took our money elsewhere.
In one day, they moved $3,000,000 from BofA.
This is one church (and not a terribly affluent one).
Imagine the very real impact that we can all have by taking similar, simple, common-sense measures.
…it's easy.
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Good article on the age divide in regards to OWS.
Thanks for sharing, Greg!
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The next time a Baby Boomer sneers at Occupy Wall Street and makes a quip about lazy people looking for hand outs, it means that they've either forgotten about all the hand ups they received while they were coming of age, or they mistakenly think those advantages still still exist.
Good article.
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The reason baby boomers don't understand the protesters.
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Real Life Mario Kart
I saw this a long time ago… but it still made me chuckle when I watched it again today. Mario Kart's was pretty much the only reason I bought the Wii. Anyone still play?
Thanks +Richard Green for reintroducing me to this video. 😉
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Rémi Kart! Hilarious French comedian!
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Ding Ding Ding Ding BOOM
Makes sense if you watched the season ender! 😉
Thanks +Florian Rohrweck and +Thomas Luf for the share.
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AHAHHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! xD
Hector for President!!!
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Not to be viewed alone late at night…
This resonates even more with Halloween right around the corner. Don't visit the site if you are home alone late at night. Fair warning. 😉
Thanks +Todor Imreorov +viktor skurko and +Zdzislaw Beksinski for the share.
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*Zdzislaw Beksinski *
www.beksinski.pl – Very nice site. Music … mood …
In album Zdzislaw Beksinski (38 ??????????)
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