zzz
1 day ago
July 22, 2008
July 19, 2008
“ Супплетивизм — образование … формы … слова … от другого корня…
July 17, 2008
“ When threatened from outside, Israeli Jews relate to one another like members of an extended family.
July 10, 2008
“ Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley
1 week ago
Jewmla
Israeli-made open source CMS 1 week ago
June 25, 2008
June 24, 2008
June 19, 2008
“ Knievel started the Sur-Kill Guide Service. He guaranteed that if a hunter employed his service and paid his fee, they would get the big game animal they wanted or he would refund their money. Business was very good until game wardens realized that Knievel was taking his clients into Yellowstone National Park to find prey.
June 16, 2008
“ an average Canadian family making $90,678 ends up paying $40,667 or close to 45% of their income in taxes
June 11, 2008
“ D-SLRs blow out white birds at the BDE. So when photographing egrets or gulls in direct sun, I reduce exposure one stop from the BDE (for example, I use 1⁄1600 sec. at ƒ/8 for ISO 100). Your D-SLR might require more or less.
“ Basic Daylight Exposure (BDE, for short): For a subject lit by direct frontal sunlight, the correct exposure is a shutter speed of 1/ISO at ƒ/16 or equivalent: at ISO 200, the exposure would be 1⁄200 sec. at ƒ/16 (since I work handheld and like faster shutter speeds, I’d use 1⁄800 sec. at ƒ/8). Switch to manual exposure mode, set the BDE, and it doesn’t matter what kind of reflections the sunlit bird swims across. As long as the bird remains sunlit, it will be correctly exposed—no need to reset anything as you shoot.
June 1, 2008
May 30, 2008
“ A recent study shows that men who watched sexy videos or handled lingerie sought immediate gratification—even when they were making decisions about money, soda, and candy. Authors Bram Van den Bergh, Siegfried DeWitte, and Luk Warlop (KULeuven, Belgium) found that the desire for immediate rewards increased in men who touched bras, looked at pictures of beautiful women, or watched video clips of young women in bikinis running through a park. “It seems that sexual appetite causes a greater urgency to consume anything rewarding,” the authors suggest. Thus, the activation of sexual desire appears to spill over into other brain systems involved in reward-seeking behaviors, even the cognitive desire for money.
Kottke
1 month ago