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links for 2008-07-27

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1 - B.V.L.G.: Metatale

Damn, ze hebben mij door.

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2 - The Loom: Machiavellian Monkeys

Deception is not just a side-effect of having a big brain or something that opportunistically emerges more often in big groups. Deception is a good indicator of “social intelligence.” Primates don’t just deceive one another

(tags: social evolution deception cognition brain anthropology)
3 - The 9 Most Devastating Insults From Around the World | Cracked.com

Bulgarian cursing is based on a hybrid of nature references and non sequiturs. Most of the good ones read like Tourette’s syndrome Mad Libs. They still embrace common baselines, but the modifiers around it are what really shine.

(tags: spain language insults humor gaelic funny culture communication china bulgaria)

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links for 2008-07-15

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1 - John Fithian fires back at Warner Bros.

Access Integrated Technologies has struck Phase 2 deals with Disney, Fox, Paramount and Universal. Warners and Sony are still in negotiations. Warners has, however, struck an international deal with deployer XDC in European markets.

(tags: 3D digital-cinema xdc warners)

links for 2008-07-12

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1 - Cory Doctorow: Getting tough on copyright enforcers | Technology | guardian.co.uk

I think we should permanently cut off the internet access of any company that sends out three erroneous copyright notices. Three strikes and you’re out, mate.

(tags: copyright filesharing mpaa politics riaa freedom)
2 - mir DMG: Aspect Ratios and Frame Sizes

In computer graphics, pixels are square. In video, pixels are rectangular. This is equivalent to saying that video has different spatial sampling in the horizontal and vertical directions.

(tags: pixel video television resolution aspectratio hd graphics)
3 - iPhone 3g: Mobistar, Proximus of Base kiezen? | Monuments by Ine Dehandschutter

Mobiel internet bij Proximus gaat snel, want zij bezitten momenteel het 3G netwerk met de grootste dekking van het land maar komt aan een dure prijs.

(tags: gsm data mobistar proximus base iphone edge 3G mobile)

links for 2008-07-11

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1 - 10 Ways to Take Stunning Portraits

1. Alter Your Perspective
2. Play with Eye Contact
3. Break the Rules of Composition
4. Experiment with Lighting
5. Move Your Subject Out of their Comfort Zone
6. Shoot Candidly
7. Introduce a Prop
8. Focus Upon One Body Part
9. Obscure Part of yo

(tags: fotografie photography picture portrait inspiration tips)
2 - How to Keep a Relationship | ThinkSimpleNow.com

1. Awareness
2. Express, Don’t Suppress
3. Recognize the Crying Baby
4. How to Calm the Baby
5. Pattern Interrupt
6. “Look into my Eyes”
7. Breathing
8. Ask yourself: “Am I arguing so that I could win the battle?”
9. Ask yourself: “Wha

(tags: advice relationships partner women love)
3 - What’s Your Wilhelm Scream? - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog

The Wilhelm Scream is probably the most repeated stock sound effect — having been jammed into more than 100 different movies. We’ve all heard it dozens of times (for example, in just about every Spielberg movie) without realizing it.

(tags: freakonomics movies scream sounds)
4 - The New York Times > Theater > Al Hirschfeld Archive

About NinaAlmost everyone knows that Al Hirschfeld hid his daughter’s name, Nina, in the designs of his drawings.

(tags: drawing easteregg hirschfeld illustrator nina)

links for 2008-07-09

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1 - Hack Attack: Automatically upload a folder’s photos to Flickr

Luckily a cross-platform script called uploadr.py can watch a folder of your choice for new pictures, then automatically upload them to your Flickr account.

(tags: flickr python upload tools)

links for 2008-07-08

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1 - Watermelon Works Like Viagra

A slice of cool, fresh watermelon is a juicy way to top off a Fourth of July cookout and one that researchers say has effects similar to Viagra — but don’t necessarily expect it to keep the fireworks all night long.

(tags: viagra watermelon nutrition men health diet)
2 - globeandmail.com: BIOLOGICAL CLOCK ALSO TICKS IN MEN

Women’s pregnancy rates drop and miscarriages increase when the baby’s father is older than 40, according to a study to be released today.
It has long been known that a woman’s chance of reproducing declines with age once she is in her mid-30s, but the n

(tags: children conception birth women men)
3 - Secrets of the milongueros | 2005

It took several years to get past being fascinated with the steps, which were my first draw to the dance. The dancers who were doing less footwork were uninteresting to me and I just didn’t see them. Then, years of advice from the milongueros to feel the

(tags: essay writing milonguero dance tango)

links for 2008-07-01

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1 - PhotoAcute Studio. Leading superresolution technology for better photos.

PhotoAcute Studio processes sets of images taken in continuous mode to produce high-resolution, low-noise pictures. It increases image resolution, removes noise without losing image details, corrects image geometry and chromatic aberrations and expands th

(tags: photo photography raw software)

links for 2008-06-29

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1 - Everybody’s Free (to wear sunscreen), Baz Lurhman

Don’t worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside y

(tags: worry inspiration life wisdom sunscreen advice lyrics)