Date: April 25 – 26, 2009 (Saturday & Sunday)
Location: Cambridge, MA
Registration opens Feb 14, 2009
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From The Gothamist: The Greenwich Village Bakery in Manhattan started making a new cookie called “Drunken Negro Face” cookies in honor of our new president. According to the article, the owner’s explanation is “They’re in honor of our new president. He’s following in the same path of Abraham Lincoln; he will get his.”
"Drunken Negro Face" Cookies
This is an impressive level of racism. I hope he gets his from all the publicity this causes.
I published a post a while ago on what I thought was wrong with Java. To be honest, I never really understood why some of these problems existed. Well, in my new job, I’ve dug a little deeper into them.
In my searches, I found this article on Java generics, and why you simply can’t do anything serious with them and not get warning messaches about unchecked conversions. The short answer is, to remain binary compatible and to not break millions of lines of code, generics type information is thrown away using erasure, and is not available at runtime. They aren’t reified. It offers several solutions, too.
I also found this other article on serialized classes, and what the serialVersionUID field is for.
And finally, a good explanation of closures in Java, and how they could be added in.
Originally from Slashdot. Jamie Price is a very cool dude. He designed and built a robotic bartender. No, that doesn’t quite capture capture the degree of his awesomeness.
piZap is an online tool for modifying images in fun ways. You can caption them, change body parts, add distortion effects, and more. Being Adobe Flash-based, it works with pretty much anything (though they say they have problems with 64-bit Vista. Then again, so does everyone who uses 64-bit Vista). There’s no registration, no credit cards, no annoying popups.
Pizap is a fun free photo editor that lets people easily create wacky images with their digital pictures. PiZap was created as a tool primarily for social networking users who want to post their images to their favorite social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, Hi5, Orkut, Friendster, Bebo, miGente, Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, Tagged, and many more. PiZap provides a very easy to use photo editor that lets you add photo effects, custom text or speech bubbles, hundreds of original colorful stickers, a full painting program, and much more. PiZap also has built in tools for sending e-cards, downloading your image, embedding your image in any website, or sharing the link directly to your image. We have also partnered with Zazzle.com to provide you with the ability to add your image to thousands of customizable products. Above all piZap was made for people to have fun and be creative with the thousands of digital images that they currently store on their computers. With expert tools like Photoshop only available to a few, and many other online photo editors being clunky or hard to use, piZap is here to save the day. Have fun piZapping! .