Topic: What I learned today! (Read 195038 times)

Mongrel · « **Reply #2520 on:** January 20, 2013, 09:31:22 PM »

Brentai · « **Reply #2521 on:** January 24, 2013, 01:27:24 AM »

VLC defaults to Limited Color (the shitty outdated SDTV gamut) unless you turn off hardware color conversion or hack it with an nVidia card. Good to know. The nVidia solution is much simpler than they make it out to be and is basically a control panel override: http://sekharpadikkal.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/fix-washed-out-colors-or-black-levels-in-vlc-player/

Mongrel · « **Reply #2522 on:** January 25, 2013, 06:16:57 PM »

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A famous case over the artist Thomas Forsythe’s “Food Chain Barbie” series is similar to this one. In the late nineteen-nineties, Forsythe created a line of artistic photographs of Barbie under attack by various vintage appliances. According to Forsythe, he wanted to “critique the objectification of women associated with [Barbie], and to lambast the conventional beauty myth and the societal acceptance of women as objects because this is what Barbie embodies.” His work made just thirty-seven hundred dollars, but Mattel sued for both copyright and trademark infringements. The courts threw out the complaints under a fair use and First Amendment rationale. The judges were so annoyed by the lawsuits that they awarded attorney’s fees of nearly two million dollars to the artist.

Mongrel · « **Reply #2523 on:** January 26, 2013, 04:55:01 PM »

What do Frank Darabont, Nicolas Roeg, Deepa Mehta, Terry Jones, and Carrie Fisher have in common? They all directed episodes of Young Indiana Jones.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #2524 on:** January 27, 2013, 10:00:35 PM »

Today I learned that there's a Korean MMO called Queen's Blade. Now, while not actually connected to the Japanese Queen's Blade franchise, I can't help but note that it's... the same thing. It's the same damn thing. Note, you do not want ANYONE to catch you watching that trailer. You have been warned.

That said, up until the girls show up, this trailer is incredibly badass.

That trailer is also not safe to view in front of other people. Also worth noting, I guess, is that it's being renamed "Scarlet Blade" in the west.

TA · « **Reply #2525 on:** January 27, 2013, 11:25:11 PM »

Tera 2: Tera Harder.

Brentai · « **Reply #2526 on:** January 27, 2013, 11:44:22 PM »

If I Tera'd any harder I'd Tera'd off.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #2527 on:** January 28, 2013, 01:21:37 AM »

Yeah, so apparently Scarlet Blade features a comprehensive underwear system.

Seriously.

Friday · « **Reply #2528 on:** January 28, 2013, 02:13:57 AM »

Mine is just a big pile on the floor.

A² · « **Reply #2529 on:** January 28, 2013, 02:18:00 AM »

Head wounds bleed.

Like, a lot.

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #2530 on:** January 28, 2013, 06:18:13 AM »

I learned that when I was four!

Büge · « **Reply #2531 on:** January 28, 2013, 07:44:27 AM »

They suuuuuuure do.

* Büge reminisces about the time my brother hit me in the head with a rock

* Büge shudders

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #2532 on:** January 28, 2013, 08:23:54 AM »

Mine was from falling off the top of a tractor!

patito · « **Reply #2533 on:** January 28, 2013, 11:06:41 AM »

Mine was from falling off the top of a guy into a folding chair. No, I wasn't wrestling but it was close enough.

Classic · « **Reply #2534 on:** January 28, 2013, 03:38:25 PM »

Mine was from safety glass being thrown into my face when the airbag popped.

Healy · « **Reply #2535 on:** January 29, 2013, 12:14:47 AM »

You know, I honestly can't remember how I got my first head wound, but I'm pretty sure I had to wear bandages on my forehead for a month.

Thad · « **Reply #2536 on:** January 31, 2013, 10:36:43 PM »

I was reading Neil Gaiman's blog and got to this bit:

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Somewhere shortly after arrival in Hobart, I joined forces with Polly Adams.

I'm a patron of Tasmania's Bookend Trust, and Polly has inherited her father's conservation mantle, if not his Rhino suit, and is a patron of Save the Rhino.

I read right over "Polly Adams" without registering who that was; it was "rhino suit" that got me to stop and back up a bit and realize who he was talking about. (The story of Douglas Adams's abortive attempt to climb Kilimanjaro in a rhino suit is related in The Salmon of Doubt.)

Nice to hear that Polly's all grown up and traveling the world and following in her father's philanthropic footsteps. (Or -- what's the equivalent of "philanthropic" when you're talking about kindness toward animals instead of people?)

I think I've mentioned before, the first Gaiman book I ever read -- before he wrote American Gods and before I was old enough to be interested in Sandman -- was Don't Panic. Lovely to hear he's still a friend of the family and they get to go on adventures together.

Brentai · « **Reply #2537 on:** January 31, 2013, 11:00:10 PM »

Philanimalic, I think ("animal" comes from its own Latin root). And I found out by accident that Polly has a Twitter feed, if you're the kind of guy who follows Twitter feeds.

Thad · « **Reply #2538 on:** January 31, 2013, 11:08:29 PM »

That can't be right. What's the Greek for animal?

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‏@tomdickins
Definition of daring: playing scrabble against @pollyjradams and @angedevery

@pollyjradams
@tomdickins @angedevery definition of losing: what you're doing right now.

@pollyjradams
@tomdickins irrelevant definition of lobster: Noun. A large marine crustacean.

Oh my. Now I want her to write a book.

(I'm sure she could write a better Hitchhiker's Guide book than Eoin Colfer. But, like Eoin Colfer, and pretty much everybody else for that matter, I would much rather she write something of her own. Which is perhaps ironic coming from a guy who's always been better at writing stories about other people's characters. Though I suppose I AM proud of Fig Minton and Vera Salazar.)

...zoo. Philzooy? That looks even weirder.

I'm just going to go with Be Kind to Aminals.

Popeye The Sailor 020 - Be Kind to Animals

Brentai · « **Reply #2539 on:** February 01, 2013, 12:01:18 AM »

Philzoic/philzoist. Zo is the root.

I'm guessing this means the reverse ought to be zophilia, unless they're distinguishing sex with a single animal from zoaphilia.

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