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  • Breakthrough of Digital Culture: Finland accepts the Demoscene on its national UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity – Demoscene – The Art of Coding
    "Finland became the forerunner of understanding and accepting digital culture in general and the Demoscene in particular as cultural heritage. Right before the Easter weekend the Finnish Heritage Agency announced, that the Ministry of Education and Culture listed the Demoscene on proposals from the National Board of Antiquities and the Intangible Cultural Heritage Expert Group as national cultural heritage of humanity together with eleven other cultural practices." Superb.
    (tags: culture demoscene technology art finland )
  • Computer programmer from Finland has lost finger replaced with USB drive – Telegraph
    "When I'm using the USB, I just leave my finger inside the slot and pick it up after I'm ready." Well, quite.
    (tags: technology future storage prosthetics finland )
  • Søren Vind >> pc_user
    "pc_user is a lightweight authentication library for CodeIgniter. It focuses on simplicity and security." Indeed it does.
    (tags: programming library development php codeigniter authenticating )
  • Metalosis Maligna
    "Metalosis Maligna is a fictitious documentary about a spectacular yet chronically disabling disease which affects patients who have been fitted with medical implants. Sourcing from such implants a wild metal growth ultimately transforms human patients into mechanical looking constructions." If you're squeamish, particularly when it comes to surgery or prosthetics, this is NOT for you. Otherwise, it's a remarkably good piece of animation/effects work, wrapped in a remarkably straight documentary wrapper, that perhaps makes the effects-work even more effective.
    (tags: design video fiction film horror effects medicine bodyhorror )
  • Is This the Best Customer Service Email Ever? | crackunit.com
    "It’s totally fantastic. It’s like someone’s got totally shitfaced on logistics-booze and then sat down and written an email." I think it all depends on your definition of "best", but Iain gets bonus points for "shitfaced on logistics booze".
    (tags: writing rubbish langauge customerservice southerntrains incomprehensible )
  • Unreal Tournament 3 And The New Lazarus Effect | Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    "It’s an incredible precedent to set: making a game a success almost 18 months after a poor launch. It’s something that could only have happened now, and with a system like Steam." Well, of course. Well done, Epic.
    (tags: games marketing epic sales steam gaas digitaldistribution ut3 )

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