Liu Bolin…The Invisible Man…
This guy paints himself… no trick photography … no photoshop …he just paints himself…
via Liu Bolin…The Invisible Man… – v1kram’s posterous. src: Bifurcated Rivets
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Monthly Archives: October 2009
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Q: How can I make Firefox start faster and run quicker?
A: Uninstall NoScript.
It updates, Firefox slows. And slows. I like fast.
Q: How can joining a game of Battlefield 1943 be improved?
A: EA buying some servers because the one they obviously have is crap.
Q: Is the build quality of official Sony PS3 Sixaxis controllers getting worse?
A: Yes.
Q: Are most lawyers complete twats?
A: Indeed they are.
Q2: But this is confined to the UK?
A: No, it’s a worldwide truth.
Q: Are MP’s lying cheating scammers out only to feather their own nests?
A: Unless you are called Dennis Skinner, yes.
Q2: If they are Conservative MP’s can we add philandering, embezzling and criminal to those “qualities”?
A: Certainly, and more besides.
Q: Do I believe David Cameron?
A: If the pope believes in contraception.
Q: Do I miss Twitter?
A: No, why would I?
Q: Facebook?
A: Freaky place. It’s ugly, takes money off you, strips your privacy and offers you nothing back. Very uneven relationship. Nasty even.
Q: Why does Google exist?
A: To let people find out how to do the simple things that Apple says you shouldn’t be doing. Like deleting your own backups…
Guardian gagged
I’d call this really really important. I wonder how – if – others will report this or try to report the actual event.
The Guardian has been prevented from reporting parliamentary proceedings on legal grounds which appear to call into question privileges guaranteeing free speech established under the 1688 Bill of Rights.
Today’s published Commons order papers contain a question to be answered by a minister later this week. The Guardian is prevented from identifying the MP who has asked the question, what the question is, which minister might answer it, or where the question is to be found.
via Guardian gagged from reporting parliament | Media | The Guardian.
Pics from the 40s
Some amazing pictures from Nazi Germany – http://saturnic.livejournal.com/174828.html. Couple of the images there are just so many people there. He didn’t look as evil in these either.
Time Machine – useless
Which fuckwit at Apple decided that everyone MUST backup every 60 minutes with Time Machine? Which other fuckwit decided that users are stupid and that giving them a choice is bad? So this pair of complete fuckwits should be shot. Imbeciles of the highest damn order. Yes I know there is software out there that will change this but default behaviours can be utterly crap at times and like just about everything from Apple this too is crap. Fucking useless.
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Edit: Ages ago i bought ChronoSync. It has a stack of options, lets me do lots of things and overall I will use a very small set of it’s choices. But what it does really well is step me through, let me check what will happen, reports any errors in a form I can read and understand. It’s a one-time learning curve and with their Support behind it. I used it before and I’m now setting it up. Lots of choices – unlike that crap Time Machine – means I get precisely what I want – unlike that crap Time Machine. This technology should enable me, not cripple me. Chronosync lets me think about what I want. Apple tells me what I want. Chronosync wins. Excellent program.
No shiny new Go here
“With the PSP Go, the purpose is clear, and in review after review one sees the case built: the system is a campaign of aggression against both retailers and consumers.”
via PSP Go launch has become a nightmare for gamers, Sony – Ars Technica.
I have a PSP 1003. Just had the buttons replaced – totally recommend http://www.consoledoctor.co.uk/ – and I have 27 UMD games. I have not the slightest intention at all of ever buying a PSPGo. None. As much as I love gadgets and new shiny stuff and as much as I have bought 2 PS1, 2 PS2, a PS3, the PSP and other Sony products I cannot see why I would buy a system as crippled as the Go. I do want a new PSP 3000 though to make the most of some improvements since the original. My eldest will probably be getting a job at a certain video game store in the next couple of weeks so why buy before a staff discount? :)
Of course what I should do is buy a Go and keep it sealed for future sale. (And what I should have done is bought both the Disgaea games for the PSP when they were released instead of the futile searching I am having to do.)
Q*bert | Edge Online
Our bosses wanted us to take chances, come up with new ideas. I liken it to the early days of movie making at the turn of the century. Eventually, certain genres were established and it became difficult, if not impossible, to create something outside one of the standard forms. That’s kind of where the game industry is now.”
Volumes do not exist
cd Volumes
ls
Carrie Ext-1 Mac2 Play
Play is the actual HD .
Carrie is an external HD but it is not attached. It is unplugged, not there, off.
Ext-1 is an external HD but it is not attached. It is unplugged, not there, off. It is actually called something else.
Mac2 is an external HD but it is not attached. It is unplugged, not there, off. I think this is what Carrie now is.
When I run Grand Perspective to see what space is occupied and by what it tells me that many gb of data is in /Volumes/Ext-1/ but it does not report both the drives, just that one and the name is still wrong. I can rollover the graphics in Grand Perspective (GP) and it will tell me the images and file names. So it’s not just saying “10gb” it lists every single image.
I can cd to Mac2 and it tells me the directory ‘d2′ is there. cd ext-1 and it says ‘Pictures’ is there. How? They don’t exist. Nothing is mapped, shared, connected. I cann0t cd Carrie because it is not attached. But I can to 2 that do not exist? Weird.
Now, were this Leopard I could in some odd way begin to think it could be remembering old data. But this is Snow Leopard, clean install. No archiving. So it is obviously not a clean install because SL has knowledge of something it could not remember? Or it stores and then uses information on external HD – why load old names?
Reboot.
It does exactly the same thing.
From GP, open an image file. It does – a long list of them in Finder. Get Info /Volumes/Ext-1/Pictures/2006/10-10-2006 (it’s a pigeon). But how?
Here’s the problem – if I set up Time Machine it’s going to copy that which does not exist. And even if it does not, why is Mac OS 10.6.1 not getting a clue and removing that which does not exist? Time to go look (again) in the Apple forums for the solution to (yet another) problem caused by Apple’s very own operating system.
The next day … the answer … http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=92023
It'a a PIN dammit.
It’s PIN. You cannot have a PIN number, you cannot be PIN-Numbered just as you could not be PIN numbered. Pity The Independent can’t get even this basic thing right. And how can you be Global Positioning Systemed? And would not ‘ever-increasing numbers’ be better than ‘ever-increasing quantities’? And databased? And what has ‘emailed’ got to do with disappearing? What a terrible introduction to an article.
Odd place, Britain. Every day, 13 million CCTV cameras track our movements. We’re PIN-numbered, databased, credit-rated, nannied, Neighbourhood Watched, Facebooked, emailed and GPS-ed. You wouldn’t think any of us could slip away unnoticed. But we do, in ever-increasing quantities.
Fudging numbers
NASA tweaks killer asteroid’s trajectory of death
NASA has recalculated the trajectory of asteroid Apophis and concluded that Bruce Willis can stand down from a state of doom-body-busting readiness. … Chesley said: “Updated computational techniques and newly available data indicate the probability of an Earth encounter on April 13, 2036, for Apophis has dropped from one-in-45,000 to about four-in-a million.”
So it was 1:45000 and now it’s 4:1000000. Why didn’t they say 1:250000 ? I know it’s still a remote possibility and that Bruce would be way too old but why use different numbers? That’s what governments do to hide bad news…