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Nihon Katchû Seisakuben -- An Online Japanese Armour Manual
by Takwann
It was originally my intention to produce an issue of the Compleat Anachronist pamphlet series which would enable an armourer with fairly average skills to produce a good Japanese armour. The idea has grown to the point where it’s probably too unweildy for such a publication. Also, using the Web to present the information allows me to use color photographs and color illustrations to clarify things that are simply not well presented in a black-and-white printed document. There was another problem, though: specifically, the issue of what constitutes “proper” Japanese armour for use in the Society for Creative Anachronism. Unfortunately, many aspects of Japanese armour fly in the face of thirty-odd years of SCA-style combat. What this means is that, in many instances, a decision will have to be made — namely, are you making armour for combat or for dress?
I will present dress armour primarily, as I am a firm believer in authenticity of appearance. Where concessions for SCA combat must be made, I will explain the necessary diversions and provide explanations on how to finish the armour in either functional or authentic form.
I Am Not A Number | Mitchell's Blog
by karlcow
That presence will be an odd collection of information and approaches and unexpected connections that is the online manifestation of who I am. It will be ideosyncratic, it will be flawed, but it will be me.
socket : Java Glossary
by sylvainulg
(via)
interesting hints about socket programming in Java, though i don't know how much of that is accurate/up to date (e.g. graceful shutdown looks odd)
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2008
writing | ben fry » Subjectively Attractive Client-Side Scripted Browser-Delivered Charts and Plots
by karlcow
The only thing that strikes me as odd, strictly from an interface perspective, is the fact that I can’t drag the “image” to the Desktop, the way that I would a JPEG or GIF image.
Language (API) Processing 1.0
by Neewok
& 1 other
The biggest changes in the months prior to release 1.0 are as follows:
- Libraries - All libraries must be placed in a folder named "libraries", inside the sketchbook folder. Do not use the main "libraries" directory in the Processing distribution, as it is reserved for the core libraries, and is not visible on Mac OS X.
- XML - The XML library is now included by default, so you won't find it in the Import Library menu anymore. In addition, the XML library since 0135 has been greatly improved, making it compatible with far more documents.
- Processing.app - The Mac OS X release of Processing is now a single .app file, more befitting an OS X application.
- Processing.exe - The Windows release has a new launcher based on launch4j. Unfortunately, some machines have a problem with the new launcher that we haven't been able to track down. If you have trouble, please help us find the problem. PDE files are also now double-clickable on Windows.
- OpenGL - All OpenGL sketches now use 2x full screen anti-aliasing. This means that these sketches are always smooth, and the smooth() and noSmooth() commands are ignored. To return to the behavior found in the beta releases, see the hint() reference.
- P2D and P3D - The P2D renderer has returned (see the size() reference) and smoothing is now enabled for both P2D and P3D. Smoothing support is unfortunately incomplete, however, and sometimes thin lines can be seen inside shapes. This is a very high priority bug to be fixed in a future release.
- Candy and PShape - The Candy SVG library has been merged into the core, which brings along a new loadShape() command and a new PShape object. The special powers of PShape will be rolled out in future releases. For the time being, loadShape() works best with the default renderer (JAVA2D). Complex shapes will often appear jagged or not at all when rendered with P2D, P3D, and OPENGL. We've also added better support for SVG files created with Inkscape.
- PVector - We've added a new class called PVector, which is a simple three-dimensional vector (also known as point or tuple) class. This is useful for storing point data, or operations on 3D points.
- Tools - A new Tools API has been created for developers who want to contribute code that extends the Processing Development Environment in some fashion. Let your creativity flow with fantastical contributions like "Color Selector 2.0", "ROT13 Code Mangler", and "I Am Rich". Visit the developer page on tools for more information. Similar to libraries, tools are installed in a folder of the same name within your sketchbook folder.
- Asynchronouse Images - Big JPEGs and small pipes? We've added a new requestImage() that loads an image in the background so that your sketch doesn't freeze when loading lots of large images over a slow connection.
- Present - Present mode (full screen) is handled differently. When run inside the PDE, only Mac OS X uses exclusive mode with Present. Windows and Linux just do full screen windows. When run outside the PDE, all three simply create an undecorated window the size of the entire screen, and on the Mac, an option is added to the Info.plist file to hide the dock and menubar (since that cannot be done programatically from Java).
- Compiler - We've removed the old Jikes compiler and are now using another. We've also tried hard to improve the quality of error messages, though some are still real gems that invoke the complaints of mainframe computers in 1970s films.
- Internationalization - For better internationalization support, we've changed to UTF-8 encoding when loading and saving sketches. Sketches that contain non-ASCII characters and were saved with Processing 0140 and earlier may look strange when opened. Garbled text and odd characters may appear where umlauts, cedillas, and Japanese formerly lived. If this happens, use the "Fix Encoding & Reload" option under the Tools menu. This will reload your sketch using the same method as previous versions of Processing, at which point you can re-save it which will write a proper UTF-8 version.
- Java - Linux and Windows now inlude Java 6 update 10 with the download. We still don't have support for Java 1.5 syntax yet, but we hope that the performance boosts in Java 6 will help applications run well.
PDFLab
by sbrothier
PDFLab lets you split and join PDF documents as well as insert images and blank pages. You will also be able to easily create PDF documents out of several images.
Its usage is really simple. You add your files in a list, select the pages you wish to include, order them the way you want and create a new PDF document.
PDFLab also ships with tools that let you quickly split a document into many documents, (one document per page or one document for odd pages and one for even pages), encrypt or decrypt a document, add a watermark, interleave several documents.
How to use itertools.cycle to set even and odd rows | t 1: Matt Wilson's blog
by karlcow
for htmlclass, x in zip(itertools.cycle(['odd', 'even']), list_of_x_objects):
The Tao of Mac - An update on my RSS setup
by karlcow
Utilisation d'un filtre bayesien pour trier les feeds et ne garder que le bon grain de l'ivraieOver the past couple of years, I eventually got to the point where I would have something like 200-odd feeds subscribed and yet only 60 or so new items a day – the magic resided in a companion script that did Bayesian classification of that veritable firehose of data and pared it down to the bare essentials1:
2007
lecool magazine
by topdos
& 2 others
le cool magazine is a free, weekly magazine presenting a selection of concerts, djs, exhibitions, odd movies and other cultural events and happenings. It is also a clever guide to the city's most worthwhile bars, restaurants, shopping and other experiences, without being necessarily trendy - just really good. Instead of printing and distributing a paper magazine it is sent every Thursday to its subscribers as a graphical e-mail, laid-out in a horizontal format with pages, as if it were a traditional magazine. Sign up now, it's free and totally painless!
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Bubblejive.com | Offbeat news with weird, strange, crazy and odd stories
by jdrsantos
Bubblejive.com provides the latest offbeat news as well as weird, strange, crazy and odd stories.
Lionel Fanthorpe
by borsky
To meet his grueling deadlines, Fanthorpe employed an unusual technique. He dictated his masterworks into a reel to reel tape recorder, oftentimes under the cover of a blanket to enhance his concentration. He would then ship those tapes off to a pool of typists for transcription. This created many unique problems. People who die in one chapter reappear a chapter or two later because it was forgotten that they were dead. Odd phrases turn up in the middle of paragraphs due to a misunderstanding by the transcriptionist.
Mastering Oracle Python, Part 2: Working with Times and Dates
by pvergain
Starting with the Python 2.4 release, cx_Oracle handles DATE and TIMESTAMP datatypes natively, mapping values of such columns to Python datetime objects from the datetime module. This offers certain advantages as datetime objects support arithmetic operations in-place. Built-in time zone support and several dedicated modules make Python a real time machine. The transition between Python and Oracle date/time datatypes is completely transparent to developers thanks to cx_Oracle's mapping mechanisms.
Python developers might find Oracle's date arithmetic a bit odd at first, but only with a few tips it becomes completely clear and very reasonable. This part of the series will give you an in-depth understanding of date arithmetic from both Oracle and Python's point of view. Each of them offers rich support for handling date/time datatypes, so it is the programmer's choice which one to rely on. If you tend to put application logic inside the database or whether you prefer to encapsulate date/time operations in the application itself, the seamless integration of Oracle with Python offers you maximum flexibility with limited programming effort.
Desi mallu videos
by chernobylnews
& 1 other
Odd name basically came from mallu movie lovers who generally adore b grade movies of shakeela, reshma , devika, panda car, silksmitha, silk smitha, jayamalini , alfonsa, abinaya sri etc
The Kevin Romaniuk Artistic Trust
by jessies_girl
& 4 others
Projects and artwork of artist Kevin Romaniuk. From Intellectual ideas to the bizarre and odd.
