Clint tells it like it is

By akie

Found on Miss Cellania. Click to enlarge.

9 badass Bible verses

By akie

Even better than Ezekiel 25:17? Cracked.com has a list of 9 badass Bible verses.

User interfaces of the future

By akie

Smashing magazine has a write up of these user interfaces of the future. Not yet ready for prime time, but interesting nonetheless.

Surrealist video

By akie

Dali would be proud. Press play or go to YouTube.

New York City in ruins

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I don’t know the artist, but I really like this picture. Click to enlarge.

Photo finish

By akie

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.

Dynasty

By akie

A fascinating list of the world’s richest families. Life is easy if your grandfather founded a multinational

Famous bastards

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Mental Floss has this interesting list of famous bastards, including - for example - Leonardo da Vinci.

Breakout

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I disagree! From the (sometimes) excellent XKCD comic.

Rainbow tables

By akie

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

Blast pictures

By akie

I found this website with pictures of nuclear blasts. Nuclear blasts are bad, but those pictures are great!

An exceptionally simple theory of everything

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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.

Pick a lock

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This might come in handy some time :)Press play or go to Metacafe.

Retirement

By akie

I like this cartoon I found on Miss Cellania:

Billy!

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Who would have thought there’s a system to Ikea’s naming madness? Apparently there is! Wikipedia has the full story.

How brainwashing works

By akie

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.

The history of Mario

By akie

A (short?) history of Mario - from his humble roots in Donkey Kong to the new Super Mario Galaxy. Nice.

Spam art

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I found this nice collection of spam art on Boing Boing. I really like it

Rita Tovenaar

By akie

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.

Thirty

By akie

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!