Clint tells it like it is
Found on Miss Cellania. Click to enlarge.
Archive for November, 2007
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29
9 badass Bible verses
Even better than Ezekiel 25:17? Cracked.com has a list of 9 badass Bible verses.
Nov
28
User interfaces of the future
Smashing magazine has a write up of these user interfaces of the future. Not yet ready for prime time, but interesting nonetheless.
Nov
23
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23
Photo finish
Dutchman Simon Kuipers (top) secures the 4th place in this year’s speed skating World Cup. He was narrowly beaten by American Shani Davis (bottom), who finished third - winning him the bronze medal. True story.
Nov
23
Dynasty
A fascinating list of the world’s richest families. Life is easy if your grandfather founded a multinational 
Nov
22
Famous bastards
Mental Floss has this interesting list of famous bastards, including - for example - Leonardo da Vinci.
Nov
21
Nov
21
Rainbow tables
Rainbow tables are an elegant way to restore ‘forgotten’ passwords (cough). Basically, it helps computing the reverse of an MD5-hash.
Wikipedia tries to explain it, but I found this nice write-up much more accessible. Bad graphics though
Nov
17
Blast pictures
I found this website with pictures of nuclear blasts. Nuclear blasts are bad, but those pictures are great!
Nov
16
An exceptionally simple theory of everything
This guy has apparently come up with a relatively simple, testable alternative for string theory. Let’s see if it holds up.
The article talks about E8-geometry. Never heard of it, but in this animation it sure looks pretty.
Nov
16
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12
Billy!
Who would have thought there’s a system to Ikea’s naming madness? Apparently there is! Wikipedia has the full story.
Nov
11
How brainwashing works
I’ve been a member of a student fraternity for a short while, and I found the following description of how brainwashing works eerily recognizable. Could very well be applied to religion or politics.
Nov
10
The history of Mario
A (short?) history of Mario - from his humble roots in Donkey Kong to the new Super Mario Galaxy. Nice.
Nov
9
Nov
9
Rita Tovenaar
Rita Verdonk is a Dutch politician that I dislike quite a bit. That’s probably the reason why I really like this short clip by the Dutch collective KoefNoen.
Press play or go to YouTube.
Nov
9
Thirty
Today I turned 30. This is bad enough already, so I decided to give myself a nice present: a blog. Woohoo, finally I got myself a blog
Everyone seems to have one already, but somehow - despite my background in technology - I never had one. I will try to write something interesting every once in a while, most likely about technology or politics.
But not today - today I’ll just celebrate my birthday. Hurray!