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Related: blogsBizarre Books: A Compendium of Classic Oddities Bizarre Books: A Compendium of Classic Oddities by Russel Ash and Brian Lake is said to “delight every true fan of trivia and the patently absurd.” That, in a nutshell, is me. I love reading about and learning useless information. Actually, that’s one of the reasons why I run this website — because the web is full of useless information and I just can’t get enough of it. Anyway, the book comes out on October 30, 2007, but you can pre-order it at Amazon.com for just over $10. I’d love to go through the pages of this book and see just what kind of strange things are listed and written about.
How to Start a Blog - The Free Beginner's Guide to Blogging Chapter 1 Welcome to The Blogger World Summary: This section provides background information to help you understand blogging basics, the how to's, and where to find sources of valuable reference material. We also describe a number of different blog types, how to choose your niche, and list some of the many reasons people like to blog.
How Jorn Barger Invented Blogging Jorn Barger and Where “Blog” Came From Blogs are everywhere. Everybody, every business, everywhere, has a blog these days, some run on free platforms like Blogger and WordPress, but some are popular custom blogs like Mashable and Huffington Post. There are blogs on family, health, writing, music, news, a million other things, and, yes, blogs on blogging. But it had to start somewhere, right? Sure, people have been writing things down on the internet since day one, but who decided to start writing things down in a web log format? T'HY'LA: I went to the Harry Potter studio tour! Well I finally went on friday, and it was uh-may-zing. There are honestly no words for it. I took 300 and something photos but I don't want to give it away to anyone who might be going so here are a few that I put on instagram. I think I might still have a few Helena Bonham Carter skin cells on my hand!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There were amazing painting things, this was one of my favourites because Harry looks like an old woman The Leaky Cauldron corridor, it's actually only about 7 feet long but at weird angles to make it look about 50 feet instead
Lost in Budapest, Found in a Ruin Bar It’s surprising, how many movies were shot in Budapest, or in Hungary. This popularity among filmmakers may be because of the cheap fees and the fact, that this city has a very mixed landscape and architecture, which makes it suitable to ’play the role’ of almost any other European cities. For example, in the 2005 movie München by Steven Spielberg Budapest was transfigured to Rome, Paris, London, and München, but our capital also portrayed Moscow (Die Hard 5), Baltimore, Belgrade (The Raven), and Berlin (Spy Game, The Debt) in other films, and even Argentina in Evita (1996). Brad Pitt and Robert Redford in Spy Game, with the Synagogue in the background
prosthetic knowledge This story is already doing the rounds but is still very interesting - Machine Learning research from Georgia Tech manages to clone game design from a video recording. The top GIF is the reconstructed clone, the bottom gif is from the video recording: Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have developed a new approach using an artificial intelligence to learn a complete game engine, the basic software of a game that governs everything from character movement to rendering graphics.Their AI system watches less than two minutes of gameplay video and then builds its own model of how the game operates by studying the frames and making predictions of future events, such as what path a character will choose or how enemies might react.To get their AI agent to create an accurate predictive model that could account for all the physics of a 2D platform-style game, the team trained the AI on a single “speedrunner” video, where a player heads straight for the goal.
BBC Radio 4's Digital Human For Todd Matthews, it all started with a ghost story shared among teenagers. It was Halloween night 1987. A 17-year-old Matthews listened as friends tried to spook each other with scary tales – but one story told was true. Lori Riddle, the woman who would become Matthews’ wife within a year, spoke of the dead body her father stumbled upon in Scott County, Kentucky in the spring of 1968.
Hi, I’m Claire Barratt you may remember me from such projects as…. Salvage Squad, C4 (3 series x 10 x 60 minutes of 8pm engineering then repeated endlessly on Discovery) An eccentric mix of hard-core engineering, dusty archive and hands-on greasy good fun. 30 projects each got an hour to strut their stuff so we managed to cover an awful lot. Salvage Squad was really all about the people who had fallen in love with the machines and convincing the audience to love them too. BLOG — Laura Miller I get a ton of emails asking for suggestions on what food processors and blenders to buy. I really want to emphasize that if you’re just getting started with raw food, definitely don’t feel like you have buy everything all at once! Start with what you’ve got, then figure out which of these you're actually using a lot or really feeling like you're missing.
Bad thermodynamics: Entropy Usually my blog entries comment on some specific news item, but in other cases I’m motivated not by a particular current event or pseudoscience eruption, but by student questions or offhand comments I hear that demonstrate and remind me of some example of common bad thinking. One such example is the dramatically wrong way thermodynamics – specifically the concept of entropy – is often depicted in the popular media, in particular by opponents of evolution by natural selection. Opponents of evolution are motivated by ignorance, and it shows. When they talk about thermodynamics and entropy, the supporters of creationism or “intelligent design” like to pretend they know something about the subject. This is really frustrating, as someone who has spent the better part of the last twenty years using thermodynamics to understand how rocks, water and bacteria interact with each other in nature. What is entropy, anyway?
Reaching for The Sky Today is Saturday, January 18, 2014. I’ve been thinking recently about all the times in my life when I have managed to cut the puppet strings, the times when I have refused to do the expected, the times I have forged my own path. Looking back, I realize that I should have done it sooner in some cases, that I could have done it a bit more smoothly in other cases. Still, I don’t regret any of the times that I refused to go along with society’s expectations. I only regret not having done it sooner, and more often.
"yeah thats not what I was looking for at all." From: Shannon WalkleyDate: Monday 21 June 2010 9.15amTo: David ThorneSubject: Poster Hi I opened the screen door yesterday and my cat got out and has been missing since then so I was wondering if you are not to busy you could make a poster for me. It has to be A4 and I will photocopy it and put it around my suburb this afternoon. Quincy, M.E. – The Punk Rock Episode Posted on 28. Aug, 2013 by Greg in Half-Assed Posts Ever since the late Jack Klugman passed away back last December, I’ve been meaning to do sort of a tribute. But, it’s more of a tribute to an episode of “Quincy, ME”, entitled “Next Stop, Nowhere”. Or as most people may know it, the punk rock episode of Quincy.
The ideological psychopaths behind Trump, Putin and Brexit – Infinite Coincidence I’ve seen several headlines comparing Steve Bannon, Trump’s Chief Strategist, to the Mad Monk Rasputin, given the coincidence of their seemingly hypnotic influence over the country’s most powerful man and their apparent commitment to arcane forms of Evil. Rasputin also has a counterpart in contemporary Russian politics, in the form of Vladislav Surkov, ‘Putin’s grey cardinal’, a figure who, according to the Atlantic, “has directed Russian society like one great reality show”, often using bizarre means of discrediting anyone who stands up to the Government. A meeting between Bannon and Surkov would put Malcolm Tucker and Jamie from ‘The Thick of It’ in the shade.