Balamory Polyamory


Balamory, not to be mistaken with polyamory. Hmm... but they were a closeknit community, and those rainbow colours... # 3:43 PM - 26 Nov 2014

"What ever happened to the cast of Balamory?" http://showbizgeek.com/what-ever-happened-to-the-cast-of-balamory/ I got a little sad reading this, however, only 1 death & 1 porn star... # 3:41 PM - 26 Nov 2014

Once again, death brings publicity



Wayne Static once again proved that there's nothing quite like dying to drive interest in your music. #

Personally, I hadn't heard of this Static-X fellow before he died, but I've been listening to his music since. Very nice late-1990s/2000 vibe. #

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqiVvOXotyw

Lookalike looks like...


Three years later, self-described Unabomber Lookalike, unwittingly becomes FHRITP lookalike.
"the classic "Unabomber" look. Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, grew up in Evergreen Park, Illinois, just a few miles from where I grew up in Brainerd, on the south side of Chicago. Back there we all used to dress like this, and no one thought anything about it. Now, whenever I go into a liquor store to pick up a couple of 6 packs, and I turn around, I am usually looking at the Denver SWAT team. It almost makes you want to switch to club soda."
source: http://davidnhoyt.blogspot.com/2011/01/classic-unabomber-look.html

Unabomber turns photo-bomber, you might say.

context: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/fuck-her-right-in-the-pussy

The return of politically motivated falling oil prices



The price of crude oil hasn't taken a nose dive like this since 2008, when Georgia decided to start a war with Russia #

With sanctions on Russia not biting enough, America tells the Saudi's to: "pump, ye bastards!"

story: http://www.euronews.com/2014/11/27/russian-economy-stumbles-under-oil-price-pressure/

Illegal Pixels



An image that has been reduced to it's constituent pixel parts, which are then rearranged to produce another image [noise]. It is based on this procedure seen previously: http://oioiiooixiii.blogspot.com/2014/03/a-novel-approach-to-encrypting-images.html

This may, or may not, be the exact pixel content of an image that may, or may not, have been stolen from a cracked iCloud account #

Images, analogue or digital, are such intangible things. At what point do pixels become illegal. #

Given the right list of co-ordinates for each pixel, another image may be created from this image, that may, or may not, be the original image that was started with.

But was it an "illegal image" to begin with?



Keep them guessing, deny everything, plead the fifth... #

Tweets - Irish Water / Uisce Éireann

I've done my best to remain completely ignorant of the forthcoming Irish domestic water rates, but it's getting quite tricky these days. #

Irish doing a great job of self-policing Water' protests. It was the same way with the Black&Tans: "Don't be fighting with the lovely men". #

That's why it took so long to "get the Brits out", too much in-fighting. Unified Ireland? Ha! A nation of "I'm alright, Jack" gombeens. #

I can't wait for the "broadcast tax". An unavoidable levy, to pay Brian Dobson and Marian Finucane, to spit their slobber into a microphone. #

They should scrap all these new taxes and just issue a yearly €2000 invoice to every citizen, for bank debt repayment. Spare us the bullshit #

That's if it were just about bank debt, but its also control. The paddies went out of control with the money, so they need economic shackles #

Enda Kenny is a turnip hanging from a string. He gyrates every so often, when an external force is applied. #

Mini "Web Browser", with CSS




Using CSS transform to scale down an iframe and it's contents. The iframe will scale by half (0.5) but will occupy the space originally specified (1000x600). The iframe must be placed in div tags ("outside"), set to half the dimensions (500x300), to reduce the overall footprint.
<style>
#outside
{
    height:300px;
    width:500px;
}

#inside 
{
    width: 1000px;
    height: 600px;
    border: none;
    -moz-transform: scale(0.5);
    -moz-transform-origin: 0 0;
    -o-transform: scale(0.5);
    -o-transform-origin: 0 0;
    -webkit-transform: scale(0.5);
    -webkit-transform-origin: 0 0;
    -ms-transform: scale(0.5);
    -ms-transform-origin: 0 0;
}
</style>

<div id="outside">
<iframe id="inside" src="https://oioiiooixiii.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-machine-2013.html"></iframe>
</div>
-moz Mozilla (Firefox)
-o Opera
-webkit Google Chrome
-ms Microsoft IE

Emily Browning: Pompeii (2014)



It might not have been her best look, but OP is being a bit dramatic. The film was atrocious, let's leave it at that 

source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1921064/board/thread/226231966

Gesture: They're at it again...


"Austria's Stefanie Koehle gestures as sh
Credit: JOE KLAMAR / Staff
Caption:Austria's Stefanie Koehle gestures as she finishes the women's Alpine skiing World cup in Semmering on December 28,2010. AFP PHOTO/JOE KLAMAR (Photo credit should read JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images)"


Undoing the bindings on your ski boots is "gesturing" now.
GESTURE /ˈdʒɛstʃə/

noun
1. a movement or position of the hand, arm, body, head, or face that is expressive of an idea, opinion, emotion, etc.:
the gestures of an orator; a threatening gesture.
2. the use of such movements to express thought, emotion, etc.
3. any action, courtesy, communication, etc., intended for effect or as a formality; considered expression; demonstration:
a gesture of friendship.

verb (used without object), gestured, gesturing.
4. to make or use a gesture or gestures.

source: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gesture
related: http://oioiiooixiii.blogspot.com/2014/06/reaction-photography.html

Viewing Instagram in different web browsers



An Instagram page, as rendered by an Icecat (Firefox) web browser.



The same Instagram page when JavaScript is disabled in Icecat.



With, and without JavaScript, in a Google Chrome browser.

Below, the popular terminal based web browser, "Lynx", has nothing to display when visiting the Instagram page.


Two other terminal based browsers for comparison, ELinks and W3M. W3M even offers framebuffer support for image display.


And for comparison, this blog, as viewed in ELinks and W3M.


Visiting Instagram without JavaScript is a complete non-experience, you won't be greeted with even a crippled HTML version. This is reminiscent of the era of Flash based websites. It's similar but, surprisingly, lacks the general consternation that the use of Flash caused.

Add to this, the deliberate low resolution and bad quality of images utilised by Instagram, and you come to one conclusion: If you are using Instagram, you are committing crimes against photography, the Internet, and the technological advancement of mankind.

Julia Mancuso's Instagram account (without indictment): http://instagram.com/juliamancuso