Camelopardus flagrans

hotgiraffe @ 2009-07-10T23:04:00

2009-07-10T19:04:59Z

Медведев: России проще будет вступить в ВТО одной
только что-то остальные не хотят оттуда выходить

песнь о зависшем ботнете

2009-07-10T11:20:46Z

но он нам ничего не отвечал
и только тихо ботами качал

hotgiraffe @ 2009-07-09T18:10:00

2009-07-09T14:11:09Z

да, идея о том, что под 64-битной виндой 64-битные "системные" DLL-ки должны лежать в \Windows\System32, а 32-битные - в \Windows\SysWOW64, хороша

hotgiraffe @ 2009-07-09T17:36:00

2009-07-09T13:36:20Z

live-android: a LiveCD for Android on x86

hotgiraffe @ 2009-07-09T15:58:00

2009-07-09T11:58:36Z

chromeosleak, он же хромойослик

hotgiraffe @ 2009-07-08T13:49:00

2009-07-08T09:49:38Z

It is difficult, if not impossible, to know the extent to which the person with whom you are speaking about a book is lying about having read it. Not only because there is hardly another domain in which such pronounced hypocrisy holds sway, but above all because each speaker cannot possibly know the other person's history with the book and they are thus deluding themselves if they think they can answer the question.

Such a conversation amounts to a game of dupes, in which the participants fool themselves even before fooling others, and in which their memories of books will be marked by the stakes of the situation at hand. It would, after all, be a misunderstanding of the act of reading to try to separate those who have read a certain book and those who are ignorant of it into two camps, as Lodge's professor [from Changing Places] foolishly tried to do. It is a misunderstanding both by so-called readers, who disregard the erasure and loss that accompanies every act of reading, and so-called non-readers, who ignore the creative impulse that can arise from every encounter with a book.

To liberate ourselves from the idea that the Other knows whether we're lying—the Other being just as much ourselves—is thus one of the primary conditions for being able to talk about books with grace, whether we've read them or not. In truth, of course, the knowledge at stake in our comments on books is intrinsically uncertain. And the Other, meanwhile, is a disapproving image of ourselves that we project onto our listeners, an image we have internalized based on a culture so exhaustive, and whose importance is so firmly drummed into us in school, that it impedes us from living and thinking.

-- Pierre Bayard, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read (tr. Jeffrey Mehlman)

hotgiraffe @ 2009-07-08T12:56:00

2009-07-08T08:56:06Z

в "Фаланстере" в пару к "Русской книге мёртвых" Леонида Шевченко уцепил странную книженцию
Sebastian Knight & Voolkan "Эпидермия", тираж 500 экз
с аннотацией "Трагическая повесть о таинственной болезни, захлестнувшей Россию"
почитам

ДСЛиВ

2009-07-08T08:40:55Z

дорогие россияне!
с Днём семьи, любви и верности!
позвоните любовнице!

кысь in Potion

2009-07-06T09:23:10Z

author =
    if (title == 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell'):
      'Susanna Clarke'.
    elsif (title == 'The Star Diaries'):
      'Stanislaw Lem'.
    elsif (title == 'The Slynx'):
      'Tatyana Tolstaya'.
    else:
      '... probably Philip K. Dick'.

-- Potion: A Short Pamphlet

hotgiraffe @ 2009-07-06T13:21:00

2009-07-06T09:21:20Z

Potion’s mantra is: Everything is an object. But objects aren’t everything.
Etched beneath that in faint pencil: Oh, and everything is a function.

-- Potion: A Short Pamphlet by _why the lucky stiff

е-буки (PDF day)

2009-07-05T20:16:34Z

John Crowley - Novelties & Souvenirs (collected short fiction)
John Crowley - The Translator
John Crowley - Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land
John Crowley - Four Freedoms

из коллекции спунеризмов

2009-07-05T11:37:35Z

сквозь слёзы сияло нам гронце свободы
и Путин великий нам лень озарил

hotgiraffe @ 2009-07-03T15:37:00

2009-07-03T11:37:15Z

The hens were kept mainly for their eggs, and generally you ate the old cockerels unless you had visitors. Roza had a farmyard folk tale about an old cockerel that was replaced by a new one, Realising that he might soon be eaten, he challenged the young cock to a race, specifying that he wanted a start, in order to make fair allowance for his age. The young cock was agreeable, and so the older one began to run off, soon to be followed by the younger one. The farmer saw this out of the window, and the upshot was that the farmer ate the younger one, on the grounds that no one needs a homosexual rooster. I was never any good at telling jokes.

-- Louis de Bernières, A Partisan's Daughter

лондонские кошшки носят шпильки и чулошшки

2009-07-03T11:31:28Z

I said, "It's not one of those places where they get men to come in and then give them lots of drinks, and then give them a huge bill at the end? I heard about how they catch foreigners like that. People who don't understand pounds."
"No, love, that's a clip joint. This is a hostess club. It's different. There is one drawback, though."
"Oh, yes?" I said. "So, what's that?" and he replied, "You've got to dress up like a bleedin' pussycat."
"A pussycat?"
"Yeah, a bleedin' pussycat. You know, tail and ears and whiskers, and all that, and black fishnet stockings and stilettos."
I said, "Do cats wear stilettos and stockings, then?" and he said, "London ones do, darling. You mean you 'aven't noticed?"

-- Louis de Bernières, A Partisan's Daughter

hotgiraffe @ 2009-07-03T15:20:00

2009-07-03T11:20:49Z

The most interesting response, however, came from an Adobe PR person—by e-mail, suggesting a conference call with a Flash product manager.
It was the world’s shortest conference call. The product manager said: “We do have some memory leak issues, and we’re working on some solutions.”
I sat there for a moment, eyebrows raised in surprise. “Uh—any timeline for a fix?”
“No, we have nothing to announce.”
OK, bye!

hotgiraffe @ 2009-07-01T18:33:00

2009-07-01T14:32:58Z

история гей-порно под названием "Bigger Than Life"

hotgiraffe @ 2009-07-01T17:55:00

2009-07-01T13:55:39Z

а Сан-то не зря предупреждал про G1
добавляем в командную строку волшебные слова "-XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:+UseG1GC" - и информация о памяти исчезает из JMX-а напрочь
та дааа

hotgiraffe @ 2009-07-01T16:05:00

2009-07-01T12:05:01Z

а новые айфончеги-то греюцца...

hotgiraffe @ 2009-07-01T15:23:00

2009-07-01T11:23:01Z

Согласно разъяснениям министерства юстиции [Украины], порнографию отныне можно хранить только для использования "в медицинских целях".

ну я для здоровья, исключительно
кстати, вот и травки пакетик, тоже в медицинских, ага

К доказательствам порноторговли министерство, в числе прочего, отнесло наличие "большого количества идентичных изображений".

минута стандартного порноролика с ритмично входящими друг в друга гениталиями - ух, сколько кадров идентичных наберёцца
а вообще конечно порнухой торговать неэтично - вон сколько бесплатной в интернете

hotgiraffe @ 2009-06-30T15:11:00

2009-06-30T11:11:36Z

Google encourages computer programmers to develop applications for the Android environment. But learning how to create such applications is daunting to the uninitiated, particularly for developers who have never before worked with the user interface controls, Web services, and other resources involved. A recently published book, Unlocking Android, is designed to help such developers.

а книжка-то (судя по проплывавшему MEAP) вроде ничего
не для unwashed masses, как можно подумать из начала рецензии
хотя я бы всё-таки наверное выбрал "для продолжающих" апрессовский Pro Android

hotgiraffe @ 2009-06-30T14:32:00

2009-06-30T10:32:33Z

По мнению высокопоставленного священнослужителя, каноны церкви особенно осуждают корыстные действия в период кризиса. "Церковь считает такую ситуацию недопустимой: обману, преступным действиям, ущемляющим законные права человека, не место в экономических взаимоотношениях между работодателями и тружениками", передает РИА Новости слова епископа.

почём опиум для народа, Аристарх?

hotgiraffe @ 2009-06-29T18:31:00

2009-06-29T14:31:47Z

Palm Pre Mojo SDK leaked

hotgiraffe @ 2009-06-29T01:31:00

2009-06-28T21:31:14Z

интересно, кстати, зарегистрировать сайтик с именем, к примеру, OlegOlegovich.ru и выкладывать на нём извращённые фантазии неведомого Олега Олеговича из кирпичиков Лего
быстро уведомление пришлют?

amused now

2009-06-28T21:28:45Z

When the Web site FreeLegoPorn.com began publishing pornographic images created with Lego toys, trademark owner Lego Juris AS, which sells the popular plastic building blocks for children, acted quickly. "The content available on the site consisted of animated mini-figures doing very explicit things. We were not amused," says Peter Kjaer, an attorney for Billund, Denmark-based Lego.

Lego didn't go to court. Instead it filed a complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Center, which ruled in its favor. The domain registrar for FreeLegoPorn.com, Scottsdale, Ariz.-based GoDaddy.com Inc., eventually shut down the site and transferred the domain name to Lego, in compliance with the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy.

[from ComputerWorld via /.]

таким вот нехитрым способом у Лего появился бесплатный домен с интересным именем

а ещё немножко на "Санту-Барбару"

2009-06-28T10:33:29Z

По словам генерального директора компании "Централ Партнершип" продюсера Рубена Дишдишяна, новый сериал будет одновременно похож на "Клан Сопрано" и "Доктора Хауса".