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Calendar girls: white women, this one’s for you?
And do you remember how there were always ads in the back where people would offer to do a drawing of your AD&D character for a fee, and you kind of wanted one but you were also kind of scared that she would turn out looking like that calendar and you were pretty clear that would be uncool, because your 17th level half-elf magic user had an Intelligence score of 21 so clearly she knew how to put on appropriate clothing, whereas apparently the women on the calendar had all swapped out most of their Intelligence points for Charisma?
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IM IN UR STUDI0 DRAWIN UR D00DZ
I’ve actually considered buying this book, but put it down pretty much as soon as I saw that “Sultry Women” chapter. There’s a reason I draw Miriah the way I do and, yeah. It’s this. -
Classic Mistakes Enumerated
Do you need to rescue a project that’s behind schedule? Add more people! Do you want to reduce your schedule? Schedule more aggressively! Is one of your key contributors aggravating the rest of the team? Wait until the end of the project to fire him! Do you have a rush project to complete? Take whatever developers are available right now and get started as soon as possible!
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Why Software Fails
Have you heard the one about the disappearing warehouse? One day, it vanished–not from physical view, but from the watchful eyes of a well-known retailer’s automated distribution system.
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Benchmarking our PHP
Benchmarking code is one of those often talked about things that most new to intermediate programmers have probably heard about, but don’t know how to actually do it.
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Adrift
In October 1871, the American steamer Polaris began to leak, and 19 men, women, and children crowded onto an ice floe in the Arctic Ocean. The ship got away from them and, incredibly, they spent the whole of the arctic winter riding the melting floe down the Greenland coast. Excerpts from the journal of steward John Herron
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Brüno VS. I Love You Phillip Morris. *spoilers*
Brüno’s hot pants wearing, dildo wielding, limp wristed and lisping cartoon doesn’t confront anything other than Cohen’s inability to connect. [...] Teh gay was used as a punch line, with a hefty dose of intolerance: from Cohen’s zero dimensional character, from the situations he threw together and obviously, he expected from the audience. He figured we’re a bunch of ignorant assholes and he was going to confront out prejudice!!!!111!!! That people’s reaction to this movie has been a lot of ‘eh? Not so much’ [...] is kind of wonderful.
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civil rights part two
Civil Rights do not belong to those we simply understand, agree with or like. Civil Rights belong even to those we prefer not to associate with. That means I must live in a country that allows signs such as the one pictured above to be displayed. But I also live in a country that allows me to speak and to leave a message at the number [...] of the sign owner!
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If You’ve Got Nothing Nice to Say…
An interesting list of opinions on “don’t” behaviour in fandom. Not everyone is going to agree on all of them, of course, and that’s at least half the fun. -
Adventures With Ubuntu
The other day I was bored. What does one do when bored? Well, generally it’s a good idea to install some variant of Linux. Why? Because Linux is supposed to be hard to install. You’re supposed to struggle in order to get it running smoothly on your machine. It should take hours. It’s supposed to earn you some mad geek cred.
Er, in 1999 maybe. Nowadays Linux — particularly Ubuntu — is aimed at the point-and-click crowd. Still, a good write-up of something everyone should try once (if only so you can uninstall it again almost immediately). -
Researcher raids browser history for webmail login tokens
This is kinda a bit “Bwah?”, since no-one should be storing session IDs in query string values anyway. Admittedly, this is a bit more easily executed than the ol’ man-in-the-middle variety (which usually requires the attacker to be on the same network), but even still. Bad idea people. Bad. Idea.