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“Marketing and advertising are practices dating back to medieval times and we encounter them even in the world of books. While rare, surviving book advertisements are fascinating because they highlight what salesmen thought potential buyers deemed important about their products. Advertisements form, in an unusual way, a unique keyhole view into the hearts and minds of readers that lived a thousand years ago. Fascinatingly, surviving book advertisements come in very recognisable – modern – formats: some are window displays, others are spam in books, and yet others are flyers posted in public places.” • #прокниги - urbansheep@gmail.com

“Marketing tricks, sending out spam, and using colourful letters to attract clients: medieval advertisements are as effective today as they were 600 years ago.” - urbansheep@gmail.com

Понятно, что всё поломают и уже сейчас видно, что всё это будет глючить и тормозить, но это же TVTropes! Это круче Википедии! Им надо пожертвовать два бакса, которые недопросил этот чувак Джимми Уэльс! - urbansheep@gmail.com

“The one shortcoming that the YotaPhone 2 will struggle to overcome, though, is its affordability compared to its competitors. Its UK price of £555 is nearly £200 more than it would cost me to buy a Nexus 5 and an Amazon Kindle. In fact, it’s more expensive than an Xperia Z3 plus a Kindle or an Xperia Z3 Compact — the top phone that I’d currently recommend — together with the illuminated Kindle Paperwhite. And yet, none of those combinations give me both the phone and the e-reader in one curvy package that slides easily into my pocket. The YotaPhone 2 is expensive, but it’s also unique.” - urbansheep@gmail.com

(То есть, как экспериментальное второе устройство для андроида его было бы прикольно, наверное, получить, но при прочих равных жаба душит.) • #вишлист - urbansheep@gmail.com

Мы, ленивцы, народ работящий...(с) - the girl

двупалый или трехпалый? :) - Michael Bravo

«В качестве «основных методов воспитательного воздействия на осужденных» наравне с приказами и принуждением впервые в законодательство включены шутки и ирония. Это следует из проекта положения Министерства юстиции РФ «Об организации воспитательной работы с осужденными к лишению свободы», с которым ознакомились «Известия». • #the_daily_wtf - urbansheep@gmail.com

«Согласно условий эксперимента с этого момента мы перестаем говорить вам правду» - голос в темноте

“Many of you have been in this community for a long time, but whether you’ve just joined or you’ve been a member since day one, this is your first impression of the new DeviantArt.” • #редизайн - urbansheep@gmail.com

"Выступление Президента не помогло укреплению рубля. Мы не ожидаем принятия жестких мер и запретов в ближайшее время, - комментируют эксперты ИК "Фридом-Финанс". - Пожалуй, единственным рыночным рычагом влияния на курс может быть ограничение рублевой ликвидности со стороны Банка России. Это может быть сделано уже в декабре при условии продолжения обесценения рубля. Мы полагаем равновестным курс около 48 руб. за доллар при цене на нефть $70 за баррель". - urbansheep@gmail.com

Граммотные все стали. - urbansheep@gmail.com

обесценение ок. надо только говорить его как Президент — с ударением на четвертый слог http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Conway’s life

“The year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review.” • #прокниги - urbansheep@gmail.com

а лечить будут летаргию? - man's life being brief

“I became interested in trying to create the ideal text underline in CSS after reading an excellent post about it on (and about) Medium. In that post, Marcin Wichary offers a list of goals for his ideal link underline: So, the ideal technological solution would allow us to: change the width of the line (with additional half-pixel/retina support), change the distance from the text, change the color (even if just to simulate thinner width by using lighter grays instead of black), clear the descenders, (perhaps) have a separate style for visited links. Wichary goes on to detail Medium’s solution, which uses a CSS background-gradient to fulfill the first three goals in his list, but does not separate character descenders (e.g. the part of a letter that descends below the baseline) from the underline.” - urbansheep@gmail.com

#рубрика_прекрасное ∙ #now_this_is_awesome - urbansheep@gmail.com

“It's a story as old as, well, the Internet. A woman is a video game journalist. She receives rape and death threats. The end. But in a delightful new take on the old story, said video game journalist has reached out to the mothers of her harassers, just to let them know what their sons are up to.” - urbansheep@gmail.com

Старая добрая ремнетерапия наносит много ответных ударов по филейным частям преследователей. - темноводное

А наутро взрослые ему сообщили, что «барабан куда-то пропал». I can relate. - urbansheep@gmail.com

— Прочитай, что в итоге получилось? — Ничего. Бессмысленный набор букв. - urbansheep@gmail.com

Брендинг-шмендинг. - urbansheep@gmail.com

"I’m writing this post freshly after a single restore of 370 gigabytes of database that took almost a week of wrestling with broken storage, incomplete archives, interrupted transfers, stuck communication, and — most of all — Waiting for Stuff to Complete, for hours and hours. In fact, much of this post has been written during the Waiting. Many of the issues I have wrestled with were caused by mistakes on my side: misconfiguration, insufficient monitoring that should have detected issues earlier, and the fact that over last month I was not able to pay enough attention to the day-to-day maintenance, which allowed the suckage to accumulate. At the same time, the software systems should automate out the common parts, make it easy to get things right, and be easy debug when they aren’t. All of the backup systems I’ve ever used or seen fails miserably at two or more out of these three points. But let’s start from the beginning." - urbansheep@gmail.com

“The point of all this is that when it comes to letters of extortion, attackers can actually be quite effective in carrying out their threats. They can destroy businesses to that extent that a Bitcoin or two to keep it alive suddenly doesn't seem like such a bad deal and that’s enormously worrying. But the spate of extortion we’ve seen this year goes well beyond mere threats to damage the victim’s business, increasingly the attacker already owns the target and now they’re talking ransom.” • #безжалостный_постмодернизм - urbansheep@gmail.com

“I am living a nightmare before lunchtime. First, the sofa delivery people gave me a window of 7 AM to 7 PM, so I'm a prisoner in my own apartment. Second, worse, I am out of cat food, and in consequence my beloved companion Squee has, under the duress of feline starvation, started a brutal ankle-biting campaign. I do not blame him. For Squee, bless his tortoiseshell heart, is a Cat Most Special with Issues of Digestion, and, to maintain his sleek coat and sterling disposition, must only ever eat cat food of great expense, and I am out of it. Simple, you say! Just buy some food! But I cannot leave this abode for fear of missing the sofa. Also: The very smallest bag of said food is a full eighteen ounces too heavy for micro-delivery, which means hand-delivery on a major surge day. And so I have to spend All The Money to get cat food hand-Ubered or risk not obtaining my sofa. My ankles are suffering, friends. I look forward to the healing balm of your supportive replies.” - urbansheep@gmail.com