swiss-miss.com: Declaring Email Bankruptcy
After three months of maternity leave I am so far behind on email that I am declaring bankruptcy.
If you have sent me an email (and you aren’t my husband or colleague), you might want to send it again. My sincerest apologies.
I am starting over.
J’adore le concept 🙂
Via: likecool.com:
Two Handed Great Sword
Combien de porcs ca prend pour faire passer le point que ca coupe? LOL.
gamesradar.com: Man beats Bejeweled 2 after three years – was it worth it?
Via: slashdot.org: Man Spends 2,200 Hours Defeating Bejeweled 2
Mike Leyde wants to be the best at everything he does, even if one of the things he does is play Bejeweled 2. PopCap Games recently profiled this 52-year-old steel contractor, revealing him to be the very first man to ever “beat” the puzzle sequel. It took him three years to do it, too!
Leyde earned a score of 2,147,483,647, which just so happens to be the highest score Bejeweled 2 is capable of processing. It took a total time of 2,205 hours and 51 minutes to collect the 4,872, 229 gems necessary and ostensibly “complete” a game that nobody else has managed to best, despite its immense popularity.
Excellente image tiree de South Park dans l’article 😉
Via: dvorak.org: Video – High Quality Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch
Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch (HD) Camera E-8 from Mark Gray on Vimeo.
This clip is raw from Camera E-8 on the launch umbilical tower/mobile launch program of Apollo 11, July 16, 1969. This is an HD transfer from the 16mm original. Even more excellent footage is available on our DVDs at our website at http://www.spacecraftfilms.com
The camera is running at 500 fps, making the total clip of over 8 minutes represent just 30 seconds of actual time. Narration is provided by Mark Gray (me), Executive Producer for Spacecraft Films.
bc.co.uk: The mystery of the mega-selling floppy disk
Via: slashdot.org: The Mystery of the Mega-selling Floppy Disk
Sony has said it will stop making floppy disks, after nearly three decades of manufacture. Yet millions of them are still being bought every year. But who is actually buying them?
The vast desks that control the light shows and sounds settings in theatres or music venues have until recently come with floppy drives as standard; the English National Opera is just one example of an organisation that uses them.
A volunteer at the National Museum of Computing says that many scientific instruments – so-called dataloggers, oscilloscopes and the like – record their data onto floppies.
But these relatively niche uses couldn’t possibly account for the number of floppies – something like a million a month – that are being consumed in the UK alone.
The answer may simply be that there are a great many old computers that read only floppies, and a great many computer users that have no need for the storage media that have supplanted them in other quarters.
yahoo.com: Roubini: “In A Few Days Time, There Might Not Be A Eurozone For Us To Discuss”
Nouriel, of course, takes that kind of thinking to its logical conclusion, and kicked off the panel by announcing that it was just in time: “in a few days,” he said, “there might not be a eurozone for us to discuss.” There’s no way that Greece can implement the 10% spending cut it needs to do in order to stop its debt spiralling out of control at current interest rates — and even if it did, the economic effects would be disastrous.
And guess what: Spain is worse than Greece, says Roubini. Ugh.
