'D&#233;j&#224; Vu': You have not seen this before
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Denzel Washington tries on superstring theory for size in 'D&#233;j&#224; Vu.'
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Tycho:  With PAX coming up this weekend (!!!), we didn't really have time on Friday to invest in Virgil's Wikiscanner - that mystical oracle that takes a raw IP range and then excretes a list of that organization's Wikipedia edits.  This is the pulsing, possibly Martian device that dished up last week's awesome Electronic Arts edits.    I wasn't sure if we should feel sorry for them or not - now that EA is situated in the number two slot, does that make them the scrappy underdog? - but I quickly realized it probably doesn't matter.  They can come right out and say "Yes, we edit it all the time," mischaracterize the nature of the edits, and by the time it's on the second page the events in question never happened.  People don't remember anything these days that isn't on the first page of their feed aggregators. In any case, the entire affair is talking place  on Wikipedia.  Kudzu will grow over the propaganda soon enough.    Though time was indeed in short supply, we did fritter some portion of it pawing through ancient email headers, scraping for filth on old enemies.  Or enemies with whom we have resumed talks.  Or enemies who are now friends!  Even people I hope to make enemies in the future by my careless commentary must fall beneath the scanner's baleful eye.    Like a chugging trawler, we hauled up net after net of treasure onto the deck, sifting it on hands and knees.  I'd never expose it, of course - sparking a desperate arms race to find self-serving commentary is a conflict I'm likely to lose.  And with the deep catalogue of nemeses we've inspired worldwide (and even below the world, in the warrens of the pale Gambrya, where hate is eternal) it's not what I'd call a fabulous scenario.  For us, at least; no doubt, our foes have already begun their malevolent harvest.
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The 'ImageJ Plugins' project is a source of custom plugins for the Image/J software. Image/J is a public domain image processing and analysis program developed in Java (http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/).   Version 1.2 of the core ij-plugins is available.    Improvements: * sRGB  XYZ  CIE L*a*b* conversion modified to use approach presented   at http://www.brucelindbloom.com/. * Improvements to maximum entropy threshold plugins.  Bug fixes: * BUG-1503298: MetaImage Reader did not support some of MetaImage tags. * BUG-1812587: FastMedian Exception for even kernel size. * BUG-1881444: k-means macro always showed animations.  There are 26 plugins in this release:  * 3D IO   -- MetaImage Reader   -- MetaImage Writer   -- VTK Reader   -- VTK Writer  * 3D Toolkit   -- Connected Threshold Grower   -- Auto Clip Volume   -- Morphological Dilate 3D   -- Morphological Erode 3D  * Color (and miltiband images)   -- RGB to CIE L*a*b* stack   -- CIE L*a*b* stack to RGB   -- RGB to YCbCr stack   -- YCbCr stack to RGB   -- Multiband Sobel edges   -- Multiband Difference edges   -- Multiband Gradient edges   -- Intensity shift  * Filters   -- Coherence Enhancing Diffusion   -- Directional Coherence   -- Fast Median   -- Perona-Malik Anisotropic Diffusion   -- Speckle Reducing Anisotropic Diffusion  * Segmentation   -- k-means Clustering   -- Maximum Entropy Threshold   -- Maximum Entropy Multi-Threshold  * Graphics   -- Image Quilter
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Tycho:  I'm super depressed.  I thought I had invented a new word - mirthquake - and then I was going to say that you should prepare yourselves for the aforementioned, as today's comic strip was rated this or that number on the rictus scale.  I mean seriously, I've been excited all weekend.  A simple Google search put me in my place - the word is practically ubiquitous.  Expect it soon on Urban Dictionary, that mausoleum of once vibrant language.
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Here's a screen shot of the HTML source.  Looks like it's trying to serve some kind of ActiveX control. Happy to be using a Mac.  PS: Scoble just showed up and TM works on his cell phone so there's something weird going on.
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Tycho: But if you haven't seen it yet, you should - Street View in Google Maps. Holy F-ing S.(CW)TB
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Tycho: Gabe had to watch the other Gabe today, so we made the comic a day in advance. It's about the guy who wrote that ridiculous Mass Effect article. We decided to put it up a day early because, just as we predicted in the strip, he's taken a swipe at gamers. The young man quoted in his piece did not represent our community well, but locking horns with a professional liar would bring out the worst in anyone. (CW)TB
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What do you think of the Medicare drug discount-card program? (Check all that apply.). I&#39;m eligible but I don&#39;t use it. Biopsy results confirm a young Dublin man has contracted the human form of mad cow disease.
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Here&#39;s a news item on the discovery of a possible second case of mad cow disease in US cattle herds. If you find this article interesting, be sure to also read &#39;Hidden mad cow epidemic infected 300,000 cattle, says French government.
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Does virtualisation = energy savings? No, not "valley" as in John Ford's 1941 classic movie based on Richard Llewellyn's 1939 best-seller about a close-knit, hard-working Welsh coal-mining family at the turn of the twentieth century. Nor "vampires" as in the somewhat less classic episode from the Masters of Horror TV series that introduced the "V-word" concept. It's not even the euphemism increasingly being used to avoid saying "Vietnam" when analysing current events in Iraq.â¦
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Tycho:  Gabe keeps coming into the Goddamn office with his Goddamn tales of high adventure, telling me about how there's tokens or some shit in Burning Crusade now, or maybe tiers, and other words I had scoured from my consciousness.  He also says there is hot new five-man content, which initially sounded like pornography.  The comic is correct - I purchased it in a moment of weakness.  As I must often approach you, the cherished reader, to apologize for this or that indiscretion, it may be more appropriate to say that I have moments of strength which are suspended in cowardice and moral decay.
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Tycho: There were some truly unconscionable spelling issues with the 1.0 version of that last post. I think I got them all. But I am afraid to look.(CW)TB
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Ivo Jansch discovered something interesting by way of an applicant's resume - a hidden "trick" that PHP pulls on the user when they try to use a Java-like syntax with System.    So yesterday I was reviewing a code sample that a job applicant had written during a test and I encountered the following line of code:  It's not hard to guess what his background was :), but I was initially stunned that this actually works in php.    After a little investigating (and ruling out the Java Bridge), Ivo found that the line was being interpreted literally and was just being handled as a string instead of a constant. He gives two other examples to help with clarification.
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Paul Reinheimer, one of two behind the funcaday website (providing details on one PHP function each day and special content on the weekends) has posted a supplement to this weekend's posting covering escaping.   The disadvantage with the escape for now, not for later approach is simple. If you save a user's post to the database, then that user's post is displayed 2,000 times there will be some serious differences. [...] You will need to balance your security concerns with performance needs.   The comments on his post back up his suggestions (and include other tips like a recommendation to cache on an even higher level - page blocks).
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Really cool blog post about hidden Java features.  These are little tricks that you forget about from time to time but that make life more pleasant.  This is a good one:  "Instance initializers -- I've been exploiting these lately to abbreviate list initialization (in unit tests only): > List triple = new ArrayList(3) { >   { add("a"); add("b"); add("c"); } > };"  I've been using static code blocks but this looks like it might be a better trick.  Example:  "public static List = new ArrayList(); > static {     list.add( "foo" ); }"  Also this final Closure  hack seems pretty cool:
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Also: Science tattoos making the Web rounds. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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Bonjour mes amis! If you post a twit with my name in it following an at-sign that is exactly 140 characters in length, my little script will pick it up and add you Le Club 140. (Practicing my French!) For example... @davewiner, you are a very nice person and I enjoy sending you replies. I have actually nothing to say, but when has that stopped me before? If you posted that, your name would appear here... http://club140.org/  Of course you will be more original, won't you?  Meanwhile, in other news, Club 140 has caused at least one person to swear off Twitter forever. Too bad so sad! :-(