⇒ hitboxes

understanding hit boxes in fighting games.

Useful both for playing and for backend.

Also useful beyond fighting games

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⇒ 50 worst gadgets of the decade

50 worst gadgets of the decade. Good read and I agree with all the (highly justified) Sony bashing. They had the arrogance to cram proprietary formats down consumers' throats for years so they got spanked by the iPod.

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⇒ telescope buying guide

telescope buying guide. If you're into that sort of thing.

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⇒ bread and butter pudding

Ingredients (serves 5+)
50g butter
9-10 slices white bread (depending on arrangement, size of tray)
4 eggs plus 4 egg yolks
175g caster sugar
300ml thin cream
300ml thickened cream
vanilla essence

Utensils:
Egg beater/whisk
saucepan
baking dish
roasting pan
large mixing bowl


Directions:
Lightly butter a 2-litre baking dish.
Butter the bread, remove the crusts, then cut each slice into 2 triangles.
Arrange triangles in layers in the dish.
Whisk together the eggs, egg yolks and caster sugar.
Place both creams in a saucepan with the vanilla and bring to scalding point.
Pour cream over the egg mixture and whisk lightly to combine. Strain mixture over bread slices, making sure not to dislodge them. Set pudding aside for at least 30 minutes - this ensures that the pudding will be light and not stodgy.
Preheat the oven to 180°C.
Place the baking dish in a large roasting pan and pour enough boiling water into the pan to come halfway up the sides of the baking dish.
Cover the dish loosely with foil, place in the oven and bake for 15 minutes. Remove the foil and bake the pudding uncovered for a further 15 minutes or until golden
Serve immediately.

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⇒ Lechner distance

the lechner distance
summary: the distance required to resolve quality deficit in HDTV.

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⇒ Other big, long-reaching news

iiNet d. AFACT in copyright case
Awesome. The result has global implications for all ISPs and copyright cases. Keep fighting the good fight, iiNet.

Colorful analogy from the 200 page ruling:

"To use the rather colourful imagery that internet piracy conjures up in a highly imperfect analogy, the file being shared in the swarm is the treasure, the BitTorrent client is the ship, the .torrent file is the treasure map, The Pirate Bay provides treasure maps free of charge and the tracker is the wise old man that needs to be consulted to understand the treasure map."

full result and Ars Technica's thoughts

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⇒ a little aged but useful

information consumption by 'average' Americans. Well HDTV does deliver 720p+ sight and sound regardless of whether or not we pay attention.

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⇒ OVERDUE halloween roundup

best costumes I've seen:



related: how to cast concrete tombstones:

principles can be applied to other applications of concrete

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⇒ Marissa Mayer's Stanford talk

warning: 49" video

innovation keypoints:

• ideas come from everywhere


• share everything you can

for me, it depends on your workplace.

• You're brilliant. We're hiring

i.e. surround yourself with brilliant people

• a license to pursue dreams


• innovation, not instant perfection

the key is iteration; learn from mistakes. Part of the reason I left graphic design for web design

• data is a-political


• creativity loves constraint

agreed-the point about the marked paper is excellent-I feel burdened by a
• blank canvas and making the commitment of the first stroke.


• users not money


• don't kill projects. morph them.


• take risks. Do something you're not ready to do.


• serif or sans-serif? Serif = more readable. Sans-serif = more legible

a response to the 5-year question. Again, I'm in agreement, if you knew where you were going to be in 5 years, how depressing would that be?

• competition benefits end users. "The rising tide floats all boats"


• doing something meaningful and self-fulfilling

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⇒ Google Wave explained

looking forward to it

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⇒ HD

HD media player face off:


related: gadget decision-making flowchart

thanks Scordit

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⇒ Pro data-visualisations

alot more over on their flickr pages. They learned their three C's well...

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⇒ crane construction

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⇒ Nuke viz's

by the Guardian (UK):


you know, looking at the pleasant vector graphics kind of disturbs me how placated I can be on the subject matter...oh well.

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⇒ the most important flowchart in computing history

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⇒ random web things

Royalty free subscription images: shuttershock
clothing templates
Web Accessability Initiative
your AU domain here: netregistry.com.au
good general advice for the self-employed

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⇒ random AI tutes

tutes
effects
faster tracing
vector clapper board icon

Vector lady's
site: free tutes, samples and techniques =)

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⇒ random PS tutes

tutes
15 great photoeffect tutes
40 icon tutes

awesome printer icon tute:


nice ringbinder icon tute
application icon
transparency tute
camera lens tute
glossy cone tute
retro geometry

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⇒ how polystyrene is made

is this the same stuff in a bean bag? the bean bag bean?

also, this:

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⇒ web technical

MAMP

MAMP: Mac, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP. Personally, I learnt the LAMP architecture

Firefox

3p6alpha: to be faster, better, rander gradients in code

Wordpress PHP hierarchy

shorten your URLs

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