Display Tech
Organic LEDs – cheaper, clearer, smaller and require less power than LCDs. Perhaps the future of display technology?
Organic LEDs – cheaper, clearer, smaller and require less power than LCDs. Perhaps the future of display technology?
Cartoon for adults. Hillarious, irreverent, and witty! Anyhow, the main Bad Guy’s name is Lord Farquaad. The first time they said that I cracked up laughing, but no one else seemed to get the joke. So they’re saying Farquaad-this and Farquaad-that all through the movie and it’s still flying over peoples’ heads. (Don’t get it? Say it slowly. Farq. Quad. Don’t make me spell it out for you.)
The exams are over! The session is over! Unfortunately I have only one and a half weeks of holidays. Then I start working at EDS. Oh well, will be heading down to Kangaroo Valley for a few days with friends to relax a bit, will make the most of it.
Ok we all know Napster has crap all on it now. I haven’t had time to try the 100 different alternatives floating around out there, but Morpheus does the job quite nicely. It’s got the usual file resumption and segmented download features. More importantly, it reaches around a quarter million users trading 100 terabytes of files during peak time. Pretty reliable (for a dialup connection) and it finds most of the stuff I look for. Seems to be growing too. (Download)
This illusion is addictive. Stare at the dot and then move your head towards and away from the monitor.
Nothing interesting ever happens during exam time. Although I have noticed Neoflux has turned into “Why America’s high school system is so damn stupid.” Only in America :). Anyway, excuse me, I have to get back to overcoming my “evil impulses”.
Well not quite, but I, pornographic distributor extraordinaire (hah!), got this in the e-mail which I thought was quite amusing (and evidently, so did the prankster who submitted the URL in the first place):
It has recently been brought to our attention that you are, or have been, in violation of the Net Authority Acceptable Internet Usage Guidelines. It has been reported that you both distribute and view offensive materials over the Internet.
Net Authority has investigated these claims by checking your webpage at http://hearye.fissure.org and verified that they are true.
As a result, your personal information has been added to one or more Net Authority Internet offender databases. Your information will be stored in the databases until enough evidence has been gathered against you to warrant further actions. To help avoid such a situation, it is strongly recommended that you cease your immoral actions on the Internet at once.
You have been added to the following databases:
– Hate Literature Offenders
– Pornography Offenders
– Child Pornography Offenders
– Bestiality Offenders
– Homosexual Pornography Offenders
– Interracial Pornography Offenders
– General Blasphemy OffendersIf you would like more information about Net Authority or the Net Authority Acceptable Internet Usage Guidelines, you may read the details at http://www.netauthority.org/. It is imperative that you fully understand the guidelines if you wish to avoid further prosecution.
While the individual who reported your actions to us will remain anonymous, he or she wished to pass these words on to you:
“Stu, you are one dirty bastard!”
May God be with you as you struggle to overcome these evil impulses. You will be in our prayers at night.
God speed,
Net Authority Investigations Department
investigations@netauthority.org
http://www.netauthority.org/
“Interracial porngraphy offenders”? What the? Oh so it’s not ok to be racist, but it’s alright to discriminate pornography based on race? Interesting categorisation, eh?
Another monolithic update during a break from studying the finer points of link-layer protocols (networks exam is next Tuesday). I now “know” more than I ever wanted to know about PPP, multiple access protocols and 802.11. Handed in that bastard revised research proposal yesterday.
Everyone’s been drooling over this 61″ (1.55m) plasma TV from NEC. I’d hate to think of the cost. A 40″ one goes for about $13k, a 51″ for about $40k+.
An interesting archive of subway/train system network maps all around the world. The full New York MTA map is simply gigantic.
I have a Malaysian flatmate and he’s got the typical thick, distinctive Malaysian accent. He speaks fluent Manglish. Anyhow the Coxford Singlish Dictionary has a rather comprehensive list of Singlish/Manglish phrases. (Singlish is Singaporean English, Manglish is Mangled (Malaysian) English. Because those two countries are a melting pot of cultures and language dialects, many expressions from dialects such as Hokkien, Cantonese and Malay are integrated into English. This, combined with a restructuring of English grammar, produces a unique variant of English. Sometimes very blur one, lah.)
Here’s a few things I got for my b’day:
You would not believe how fucking busy it has been over the last month. Hell, I can’t believe it myself. It doesn’t end until the 26th, when session ends. I hereby promise to return to regular updates after then. But for now…