January 2012
Kamae equation | [ kenshi247.net ]
by Takwann
The prerequisite of beautiful kendo is a beautiful kamae
The importance of developing a good kamae is stressed by every kendo instructor that you meet: without a correct kamae, many sensei state categorically, you cannot do correct kendo. Only once your kamae is correct can this lead to execution of correct technique (and thus “beautiful” kendo). It naturally follows, then, that a kamae that is flawed can only lead to flawed strikes, even if the execution is fast and strong.
Nine Leading Companies and Fujisawa City to Collaborate on Sustainable Smart Town Project | Headquarters News | Panasonic Global
'Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town' will Lead the World by Installing Solar Panels and Home-use Storage Batteries in Every Household
Insane Entitlement: EMI Sues Irish Gov't For Not Passing SOPA-Like Censorship Law | Techdirt
wtf?major record label EMI (in the process of being acquired by Universal Music to make it the largest record label by far) is suing the Irish government because it feels the Irish government is taking too long to pass a SOPA-like law that would require ISPs to censor the internet and block access to sites it doesn't like.
December 2011
How to Design Functional Sub-Navigation Menus
by Monique
It can seem brilliant to setup fancy animations and fade-in effects for each of your sub-menus. And with the jQuery UI library it’s never been easier to scale these out into your own solutions, either. But everything fancy and sleek will simply not fit into each design. The purpose of any navigation is lead visitors deeper into your website by the simplest methods possible.
Komei Juku - Maui, Hawaii Iaijutsu
by Takwann
The first line of each couplet describes a natural phenomenon and the following line makes the point for the first line’s statement. This poem is not haiku but has a similar structure that sets a scene and follows with an allusion to an iaijutsu waza. The placement of the poem after the listed description of the Chuden wazas in the makimono suggests that it is not intended to be descriptions of or technical advice about the Chuden wazas. Rather the poem’s purpose seems to be to communicate the spirit and attitude that the practice of iaijutsu should develop. Therefore the poem should lead to understanding the spirit of iaijutsu.
Mobile API Design - Thinking Beyond REST — Stereoplex
There are some broken HTTP clients out there. I've run into one: Flash (circa 2009). Flash gets upset if it doesn't receive a 200 response from the server. In particular, if your server returns a 4xx HTTP code in an API response, Flash will not even pass the response to the Flash application.
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by garageband777
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Monitoring Israeli Colonization Activities
by sbrothier
Monitoring Israeli Colonizing activities in the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza is a joint project between the Applied Research Institute in Jerusalem (ARIJ) and the Land Research Center (LRC). The project, funded by the European Union, aims at inspecting and scrutinizing Israeli colonizing activities in their different forms in the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza, and to disseminate the related information to policy makers in the European countries and to the general public. Specifically, the project will be providing accurate updates on the expansion of existing Israeli colonies, associated by-pass roads and land confiscation. It will also provide detailed baseline data related to specific sites where new Israeli colonizing activities are planned or initiated. Methods used to collect data and monitor the colonizing activities will include remote sensing satellite images, field work, aerial photographs, colonies' masterplans, and topographic maps.
November 2011
Sunken Pedestrian Bridge in the Netherlands Parts Moat Waters Like Moses! RO & AD Moses Bridge – Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World
The Moses Bridge gives visitors a unique opportunity to pass through parted waters, to eventually meet a historic fortress of defense.
Applesoft BASIC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
by sylvainulg (via)
Applesoft, like Integer BASIC before it, did not come with any built-in commands for dealing with files or disks, other than a feature to save programs to, and load programs from, audiotape. The Apple II disk operating system, known simply as DOS, thus intercepted all input typed at the BASIC command prompt to determine whether it was a DOS command. Similarly, all output was scrutinized for a Control-D character (ASCII 4), which BASIC programs would send before seemingly PRINTing a disk command to get DOS's attention (the disk commands would not really get PRINTed but were intercepted by DOS and prevented from making it to the screen output).[3] ProDOS followed this lead, although the BASIC command interpreter was placed in a separate program called BASIC.SYSTEM and the hook worked in a different manner.[4]
October 2011
Android Apps: Guns’n'Glory WW2
by alamat & 1 other (via)
Enter the battle and lead your troops to glory!
Explosive defense action in World War II!
Grab your bazookas and ready your grenades in the thrilling successor to the award-winning action-strategy game Guns’n’Glory! Order your tanks into combat and march your troops to the frontlines of World War II. Axis or Allies – the battle will be decided by YOU!
September 2011
Why install time permissions suck. Why we wanted access to contacts in the Walmart app on Dion Almaer's Blog
by night.kame
Interestingly, on webOS, things are the other way around – any app can display the “People Picker” allowing the user to select a single contact to pass to the app, but there’s no way for an app to gain permission to read all contacts.
WebOS plus avancé qu'Android.
picto
by cloreen & 1 other
Welcome to ESL Flashcards! Download 100's of free flash cards. Every set of flashcards comes in color and 3 different sizes to make teaching easier. The Big set is great for vocabulary presentation, the Medium set is good for teaching small groups of students and playing language learning games. The Small sets of pictures are great for ESL games such as Down-Pass or Go Fish. Use the flashcards for teaching English, Spanish, Chinese or whatever language your students are studying. Best of all, they're all FREE! Currently there are 968 total images and 2904 total flashcards
August 2011
Fukushima Robot Operator Writes Tell-All Blog - IEEE Spectrum
An anonymous worker at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant has written dozens of blog posts describing the ups and downs of his experience as one of the lead robot operators at the crippled facility.
Bitch, please. - If you can't imagine a situation being bad enough to lead to rioting, you're so fucking privileged it hurts.
If you can’t imagine a situation being bad enough to lead to rioting, you’re so fucking privileged it hurts.
July 2011
Boitiers antivol et étiquettes antivol pour sécuriser votre boutique
by tduveret, 1 comment
Ma mère dirige un magasin intersport et souvent on parle des nouvelles techniques des voleurs pour essayer de piquer des trucs en magasin. Elle m'a donc renvoyé sur le site de Fors Secu pour voir ce qu'ils avaient comme moyen de lutter efficacement contre les tentative de vols. Bluffé par les nouveaux boitiers alarme qui sonnent quand on essaye de passer les caisses avec ou de l'ouvrir en magasin sans le pass d'ouverture.
Chinese manufacturers reportedly using Apple-rejected displays for iPad clones
by alamat & 1 other (via)
Asian industry sources have suggested that second-grade touch panels that don’t pass Apple’s quality standards for the iPad 2 are making their way into Chinese “white-box” iPad clones, according to a new report.
June 2011
Citizen science, civic media and radiation data hint at what's to come - O'Reilly Radar
"They were releasing data, it was just not very specific," said Sean Bonner, via Skype Interview. Bonner has served as the communications lead for Safecast since the project began. The Japanese government "would release data for some areas and not for others — or rather they didn't have it," he said. "I don't think they had data they weren't releasing. Our point is that the sensors to detect the data were not in place at all. So we decided to help with that."
Best Made — Welcome
by sbrothier & 1 other
Best Made Company is dedicated to equipping customers with quality tools and dependable information that they can use and pass down for generations. We seek to empower people to get outside, use their hands and in doing so embark on a life of fulfilling projects and lasting experiences.
Philosophie ist der Quell aller Links
by 84GHz
Der Entwickler Jeffrey Winter hat nun einen Tool entworfen, mit Hilfe dessen sich diese Theorie beweisen lässt: All Roads Lead to "Philosophy".
May 2011
Tough Talk On Emmanuelle Alt, Vogue Paris, Recycled Creativity, & Robo Websites - 2 Anne Enke's Sensuality Blog - AnneofCarversville.com
by sbrothier
I may have been the first fashion and style writer to call out big concerns about Emmanuelle Alt’s visionary capacity to lead Vogue Paris, but I’m no longer alone.
It’s fine for Alt to lead the magazine in a new direction, but creative, captivating originality and freshness must rule. Carine Roitfeld is a tough act to follow. If she goes into the magazine business as rumoured, let Vogue Paris pray it’s only a semi-annual or quarterly.
RØDE Microphones - VideoMic Pro
by sbrothier
The RØDE VideoMic Pro raises the bar set by the original RØDE VideoMic, by combining broadcast quality audio with an ultra compact and lightweight ergonomic design.
Incorporating new features specific to high end video, the VMP also evolves many of the features that have made the VideoMic so successful. Noise transference has been significantly reduced using both a revised, more elegant shock mounting system and a lightweight premium cable.
Broadcast recording quality condenser microphone
Compact design (only 150mm/6" length)
Ultra lightweight (only 85g/3oz)
9V battery powered, with up to 70 hours battery life (alkaline)
Integrated shock mounting
Integrated foam windshield
3.5mm stereo mini-jack output (dual mono)
Two step High Pass Filter (flat, 80Hz)
Three position level control (-10dB, 0, +20dB)
Camera shoe mount with 3/8" thread for easy boompole mounting
Ten year warranty*
Kendo Sen, and specific opportunities for striking
by Takwann
The lengendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi mentions the three sen (before, ahead) as a method of strategy by taking the lead or initiative. Taking the lead, initiative requires you to see through the opponent's spirit and strategy in order to defeat him. Practicing sen falls into the realm of keiko in which each opponent is different, and each timing and strategy instance is unique.
