the new year’s weather
invites me to stay inside
I gladly comply
The weather is, indeed, terrible: +2C, raining and slippery.
Fireworks and champagne are better enjoyed indoors anyway.
Dec 312012
Dec 312012
The Royal Mail celebrates 50 years of Doctor Who with a stamp issue containing the faces of all the doctors.
A followup with some of the classic villains and enemies would be appreciated as well. After all, who wouldn’t want to lick a dalek!
Dec 312012
KO for kolpakko (stein). This is the classic nubbly design from Tapio Wirkkala (which is sadly way too rarely seen these days).
Kirjaimet #12: KO.
Dec 302012
A real pencil on virtual paper. Dec 302012
An Arxiv paper on Possible Bubbles of Spacetime Curvature in the South Pacific takes on the abode of Cthulhu.
The mathematics alone are a cause for low-level SAN loss.
Dec 302012
Good to know that there’s a wikipedia article on the concept of applying blunt force to a malfunctioning device.
My personal hall of fame-contribution to the annals of technical tapping is a hairline fracture in the right big toe on account of a television (this was the eighties, a modern screen would burst into atoms at such treatment).
Dec 302012
Most computer gaming/hardware/whatever magazines have slowly but irrevocably turned into vehicles of consumption, only rarely do they contain anything singnificant on creating something or understanding things any deeper than the surface.
The new marshall in town, Skrolli (in finnish), aims to correct that.
The zeroth issue (a four-pager .pdf) is out already, and the first proper magazine should see daylight in early 2013.
Dec 302012
Andrew Baldwin’s blog (another previously Nokia intranet-only) provides insight into GL shading the easy way (in QML).
Dec 302012
Vice lets us in on what happened to Diaspora, the open social network hailed as yet another Facebook killer.
Dec 302012
AV Club has posted their take on the fifty best films of the nineties.
Seen 24 / 50 (and some of the omissions are indeed glaringly embarrassing).
Dec 302012
Was forced to take gravatar into use (github peer pressure).
Hence I no longer appear in the comments as a random geometrical shape, but with my real face.
Dec 302012
When it comes to christmas tree decorations, I’m very much a traditionalist: living flame and straw all the way.
Photo Thursday #268: Tradition.
Dec 302012
Dec 142012
SI for vesi (water).
This is the Niagara Falls, on a very wet journey to see the falls up close.
Kirjaimet #11: SI.
Dec 132012
In an unexpected first time for everything (I guess), there’s a verbatim novelization of the Planescape computer game.
Dec 122012
Elmo gets close with a bug-in-a-fist- trick.Dec 112012
So far, so good.
Dec 102012
Oatmeal vs. hapless writer who doesn’t fact-check.
It gets ugly immedately.
And stays funny to the very end.
Dec 092012
Meanwhile, in rainy Brussels. Dec 082012
Good old Games has quietly opened its gates for Mac games.
As the initial selection includes classics such as Master of Orion, Ultima Underworld and Star Control, now is definitely a good time to check out the quality of the porting effort.
Dec 072012
The Hobbit-skinned Moleskines are not yet available locally, so it’s hard to say how awesome these really are.
My bet is on “very”.
Dec 062012
Dec 052012
Metallica goes independent and now owns their master tapes.
Meaning that someone in addition to me has now paid for Lulu.
Dec 042012
The second video off the forthcoming Signed and Sealed in Blood is a humorous take of an bostonian irish christmas.
Dec 042012
