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Artist Wins £20,000 Grant To Study Women's Butts 202

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday June 30, 2009 @12:23AM from the been-doing-a-lot-of-extra-credit-lately dept.

Sue Williams has been awarded a £20,000 grant by the Arts Council of Wales, to "explore cultural attitudes towards female buttocks." Sue plans to examine racial attitudes towards bottoms in Europe and Africa and create plaster casts of women's behinds to try to understand their place in contemporary culture. And here I've been studying the issue all these years for free like a sucker!

Hacking VIM 308

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 10, 2007 @03:44PM from the read-all-about-it dept.

Craig Maloney writes "Throughout the years, there have been many clones and re-implementations of the venerable vi editor. One variant of vi that emerged and stayed with us is VIM. Since its introduction, VIM has proven itself a worthy successor to the traditional vi editor. VIM has rightfully taken the place of standard vi implementations as the spiritual successor to vi, completely replacing the vi editor on many, if not all of the current Linux distributions. Many improvements have been made to VIM such as tabs, spell checking, folding, and many, many more. However many of these new enhancements may still remain hidden to anyone who isn't keeping up on the cutting edge of VIM development. Hacking VIM is a good resource for becoming more familiar with the new features of VIM and how to make them work best for you." Read below for the rest of Craig's review.

Comment Re:Not a tech issue (Score 2, Informative) 209

by Mickut on Tuesday August 24, 2004 @04:41AM (#10053973) Attached to: New Devices Help Track Olympic Winners

If you look at the finish line, you might notice a small flickering box at the side of the track. Look at it closer (use slow motion if necessary), and you'll notice that it's actually a fast scrolling swatch ad, nothing virtual there. Thus the line scan camera sees different parts of the ad.

And, if the ad moves at a steady pace, it can also be used as an alignment pattern to fix possible timing fluctuations in the line camera.

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