Wednesday, 23. October 12013
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Wikipedia’s list of musical works in unusual time signatures.

Scaling up an image with ImageMagick but without anti-aliasing.

I created a large version of my good ole p3k logo using the following ImageMagick command:

$ convert p3k-logo.gif -filter Point -resize 200 +antialias p3k-logo-200.png

Via www.alecjacobson.com.

Tuesday, 22. October 12013
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Supporting IE8 on our responsive platform means we cannot develop using these technologies natively: [List of cool stuff]” – (Via sebastian-werner.com.)

Saturday, 19. October 12013
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Hyperboria and the Darknet.

We should probably just start calling the Web the Spynet. (‘What are you up to this morning?’ ‘Nothing much, just shopping for some books on the Spynet.’)

Friday, 18. October 12013
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Congratulations, you reached level 42!
Tuesday, 15. October 12013
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Kite invite, anyone?

The dream of any conspiracy theorist.

“To many Americans, the shutdown came out of nowhere. But interviews with a wide array of conservatives show that the confrontation that precipitated the crisis was the outgrowth of a long-running effort to undo the law, the Affordable Care Act, since its passage in 2010 — waged by a galaxy of conservative groups with more money, organized tactics and interconnections than is commonly known.”

Sunday, 13. October 12013
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Walking through the Stasi Museum while watched by the NSA.

“What politics and ruling systems do to the lives of normal people they do slowly, like eroding stone or rusting iron. And they can go on that way, seeming like forever, until one day they crumble or snap.”

“For token women, the price of being ‘one of the boys’ is a willingness to turn occasionally against ‘the girls’.”

Friday, 11. October 12013
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Bummer.

Sleeping In on the Weekends Doesn't Fix All the Deficits Caused by Workweek Sleep Loss.