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My hobby: getting reCAPTCHAs right.

So some person on the internet made an algorithmic arbitrary audio to dubstep generator. And another person fed Skrillex into it, took the result, fed it into it, repeat. This is the third iteration.

Unsolved question: is there a fixed point?

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Repeat Infringer Policy

We have adopted a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances and at our sole discretion, software licensees who are deemed to be repeat infringers.
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Microsoft KIN EULA

That’s a little extreme…

“Begone from my presence, you monster of nature, depository of lies, storehouse of deceit, silo of knavery, inventor of evil, proclaimer of nonsense, enemy of the respect that is due to royal persons!”

Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes, t. Edith Grossman

‘Silo of knavery’ is pretty great.

foldingcookie:

redinkstone:

locusts are grasshoppers. they enter into a swarming biological mode after interacting with a bunch of other grasshoppers. then they change colors and eat more.

you think someone would have mentioned that at some point, but no.

the entire idea of a biological mode blows my mind. phases of life are fine and dandy but phases that an individual doesn’t even necessarily enter into? huh?

what

I don’t even know if that’s true

You’re right, it’s more complicated than that. Locusts are several distinct species of grasshopper. They apparently aren’t taxonomically different as a separate group. So you aren’t going to get the grasshopper in your lawn to start swarming (well, unless you live in an area where locusts are endemic).

If two more long-separated people are reunited in that inn I’ll be forced to conclude that Don Quixote is right and it is enchanted.

edit: oh my god it happened again. I assume this is some sort of gag about a common trope in romances?

Oh cool, github finally replaced the smiley face icon to represent a public repository. Among other icon changes. That’s the best one though, it really baffles me why that was ever chosen.

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kismetfisher:

i c u goin thru mi blogg

CSS disasters: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19.

Some notes: (CSS reformatted for clarity)
p 
{
  font-size: 10px
  color: #322C3D
  background-color: #CEC6D9
}
Wow, let’s compare those colors.

A strong entry in the “completely fucking unreadable” Olympics.

Eh. It’s got a contrast ratio of 8.13:1, which more than clears WCAG 2.0’s AAA requirement. Still not pleasant to look at though.

(Source: janeyrockets)

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“I know that astrology isn’t a science,” said Gail. “Of course it isn’t. It’s just an arbitrary set of rules like chess or tennis or—what’s that strange thing you British play?”

“Er, cricket? Self-loathing?”

“Parliamentary democracy. The rules just kind of got there. They don’t make any kind of sense except in terms of themselves. But when you start to exercise those rules, all sorts of processes start to happen and you you start to find out all sorts of stuff about people. In astrology the rules happen to be about stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes for all the difference it would make. It’s just a way of thinking about a problem which lets the shape of the problem begin to emerge. The more rules, the tinier the rules, the more arbitrary they are, the better. It’s like throwing a handful of fine graphite dust on a piece of paper to see where the hidden indentations are. It lets you see the words that were written on the piece of paper above it that’s now been taken away and hidden. The graphite’s not important. It’s just the means of revealing their indentations. So you see, astrology’s nothing to do with astronomy. It’s just to do with people thinking about people.”
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