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“Monday, 16:30″

I will miss you.
The world will miss you.
What you started will be continued, like a snowball on a hill.
May our children find a better world because of what we do.

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society does.

Read it up, the guys fucking sank ten whaling ships. They also currently battle Japanese whaling operations in whale sanctuaries. The Japanese of course “don’t do no whaling” anymore, these are just science research vessels for their Institute of Cetacean Research And Sushi Bar

“I stand in honorable company as a modern-day pirate, though I’ve not shot anyone, burned any ships, looted any cargoes or kidnapped anyone. We are also pirates with a sense of humor and a moral code of non-violence. In 30 years of eco-piracy we have never injured a single poacher, though we’ve sent nine whalers to the bottom. Instead of cannon balls, our guns shoot coconut cream and chocolate pie-filling. We toss stink bombs instead of grenades and we are so non-violent we don’t even eat meat or fish on our ships. No fish, fowl or mammals have died in the making of our high seas campaigns. What we do is defend the whales from illegal slaughter by ruthless and merciless killers. If people want to call us pirates for that, we’re proud to be so. We have whales to save and Japanese ships to attack.”

Няма да пускам английския текст, да не се вижда как се разминава превода, но почти навсякъде сричките се напасват (само един Изгрев трябва да е изгрЕв и някои думи трябва да се изтъгъдъкат), така че да става за пеене. Демек, чуйте го с песента, няма да стане само с четене ;) Нишката на мисълта (кавичка, кавичка) се губи и в оригинала, но какво пък, това е песен, не философска поезия ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVLCHDw9vOk

Сричките са напасвани с чистите вокали, при другите и без тва няма значение какво се пее ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU2ovtmL7Zk

It’s happened before in silicone: “popular” article, the original research paper.

In short, Adrian Thompson wanted to “evolve” a circuit (using reprogrammable hardware) that distinguishes between two “tones”. He set an “impossible” for human designers limit: use only 100 logical gates (supposedly “traditional” human methods on solving this would take 10-100 times more gates). The result? The evolution came up with a solution using only 32 cells, and of them 5 didn’t appear to affect the output. Strangely though, when these were removed, the circuit wasn’t working anymore. Evolution came up with a solution that worked on intricate effects in this particular piece of hardware, but it still worked.

In unrelated news, Christian challenges atheist bus advert

Mr Green has challenged the adverts on grounds of “truthfulness” and “substantiation”, suggesting that there is not “a shred of supporting evidence” that there is probably no God.

Come on! We all know that Jesus was the son of the Flying Spaghetti Monster! (collect $1M if you can prove otherwise)

Edit: Also see “evolved antenna”

A great Fool died on 22th. Let’s all mutter a silent “Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker, Tits” for his soul, wherever it is, and whoever’s mind it fucks with.

Education
Abortion
Religion
Euphemisms
Death
Voting
Bullshit and Politics (”I call him “Governor Bush”, because it’s the only elected office he held legally in our country”)
Stuff
Dirty words

The internals of a poker bot explained. It, apparently, also wins.

There’s this meme going around the “nearby” blogs - you write about something, usually answering a set of questions, and then you “pass along the challenge” to N bloggers around you. Talk about exponential meme growth. Here’s the ball Frostie passed me:

Name three books …
1. … you have read most recently.
2. … you have bought most recently.
3. … you would reread again.

1.1. Strangers in Paradise, a comic series by Terry Moore. It is hard to describe this, I think it is revolutionary in the way people are portrayed in a comic book - realistic to the last detail in both character and appearance. The topics swing from the mundane to the extraordinary, but all confined in a believable frame. It has sex in it, but it’s not about sex. It has relationships, but it’s not about relationships. It has conspiracies, but it’s not about conspiracies. I can’t describe it in any other way, but here’s what Gaiman has to say about it:

What most people don’t know about love, sex, and relations with other human beings would fill a book. Strangers in Paradise is that book. I have long suspected that what people did in private was much funnier than it ever was erotic. Terry Moore obviously thinks so too.

It has 106 issues, so technically I have met the requirements, but I’ll go on because I’ve read other interesting stuff as well :)

1.2. Freakonomics. It’s a book on how economic incentives affect everything around us, and how data mining can reflect trends and truths which are not visible in any other light. A sample from the book: What The Bagel Man Saw. Other topics include insider information on a crack cocaine gang (aka “If drug sellers are so rich, why do they live with their mothers”) and how legalizing abortion put a stop on crime in the US. (Wikipedia has more on the subject)

1.3. Spook Country by William Gibson. Every book from this man is a gem, this one is no exception.

2. I don’t buy many paper books lately, and I can’t remember three books I’ve bought last. One is “The Big Fat Kill” by Frank Miller (yes, a comic translated in Bulgarian), but I can’t name any other. Probably Pratchett or Bulgarian sci-fi.

3. I love rereading, and I have clear winners for doing so. One: Pratchett is an author who can never be read just once. I reread all his books, and there is always half a dozen of them I haven’t read since more than a year, so I can’t really tire of it. Two: Bujold’s Miles Vorkossigan series. I have read pieces of it when it was partially published in Bulgarian, then after having collected the entire Miles universe in English, I have read it twice. Give me a year and I’ll do it again, I love the little bugger and his ways of dealing with trouble. Third: the early books of Neal Stephenson. Zodiac and The Big U are for me much greater than his later books. I would read Cryptonomicon again, but his other books are too commertial or tiresome (I couldn’t reach even the midpoint of that crap about Newton). As a last third option ;) , I’ll point Douglas Adams, another very rereadable author whom I haven’t read since several years. Ahh, Had I but world enough, and time …

I hereby pass the meme snowball to:
Lady Thistle
Firefox (Hey, how come you’re not in the sidebar? Fixed.)
and The Mountain King

Please update your links/bookmarks if you’re interested in the security content, or sigh in relief if you aren’t.

(In case you wonder, “incipitur” should mean “is started”, “codex”, meaning book, is the closest to “blog” I could think of, “securitatis” is “of security”, and “vale mundum” is the ubiquitous “hello world”)

“… Swift Death, I did but jest”

… and there are little more suited demonstrations than this account of a 1708 hoax (that’s way before the Internet, mind you), carried by (spoiler alert) Johnatan Swift (too late, you read it!).

Finally, [ John Partridge ] had succumbed to his fever at 7:05 PM—just four hours off the time predicted by Bickerstaff.

The news left London in a state of shock and wonder. At the same moment it had lost one of its oldest and most respected almanac writers, the city had gained what was surely the first indisputably genuine astrologer in history. The implications were staggering.

It’s likely that no one was as surprised to hear the news as John Partridge.

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=955

This is even better than the fake volcano erruption story!