甲組腳穿迷你裙

香港政府打算申辦2023年亞運會,我Daisy用七個字來形容此事──甲組腳穿迷你裙。什麼意思?獻醜不如藏拙。

香港最「拙」的是什麼?藝術?No,那是第二「拙」。冠「拙」香江(很遺憾不是冠「絕」香江),好明顯就是體

How Usenet used to be a filesystem stress test

Once upon a time, there was Usenet .Wait, that's not far enough back. Once upon a time, Usenet softwareused the simplest, most straightforward way to store articles. Eachnewsgroup was a separate directory in the obvious directory hierarchy(so rec.arts.anime.misc was rec/arts/anime/misc under the newsspool root directory) and each article was a file in that directory.Cross-posted articles were hardlinked between all of the newsgroupdirectories.

(Given that hardlinks can


talkonly十週年

如果你問我聽 talkonly 多久,一時間我也答不上來,翻查 紀錄 原來大概是 2005 年四月,也就是開始流行 Podcast 的時候。這些年來 talkonly 也越來越熱鬧,很多主持加入,但仍維持討論為主的作風,只是主題已由 IT,變成一種綜合時事、新聞、


詩生活

( 原刊 AV Magazine 24-09-2010,修訂版本)

人生音像城

詩生活

看韓國導演李滄東的新作《詩》,並出席了他的討論會,會上他很詳細地解答了觀眾的問題。

李滄東是我十分敬重的導演,他的作品不多,但每部都充滿力量,深


Installing Drush on Mac OS X "Snow Leopard"

To those wishing to install Drush on their Mac, but having difficulty, here's a surefire way to get it running great:

[ Edit : Umm... instead of doing all the steps below, you can use Homebrew (the 'missing package manager for Mac OS X') and enter $ brew install drush . Much simpler!]

  1. Fire up the Terminal (this is why you're using Drush, so you'd better get comfy in here!).
  2. cd to your Desktop, download

台北之旅‧3/9


經歷兩天瘋狂血拚, 忽然擔心隨後兩天的行程. 考慮到時間及體力, 決定取消原定到關渡的 十三行博物館 . 但先要祭五臟廟...


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邏輯頭腦

對大多數人來說,邏輯 --- 即使只是初階邏輯 --- 並不易學。天生有邏輯頭腦的人很少,因此,沒有受過邏輯訓練的人,很容易會犯一些其實很簡單的邏輯謬誤。心理學家Peter Cathcart Wason就設計過一個很有名的測試,結果顯示一般人

GUCCI GUILTY「原罪」香水新廣告

大概不想讓 CHANEL N°5 的史詩式大電影廣告專美吧, GUCCI 終於也不甘示弱,找來畫而優則導的 Frank Miller ,拍攝其最新一輯的女性香水廣告,產品是為 GUCCI GUILTY

單單是 GUILTY 此命名,已擺明車馬,要語不驚人誓不休,很火很爆。

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Frames were never necessary for menus and tables of contents

One of the big excuses for HTML frames, back in the days when anyonetried to use them at all, was that you needed them to do websiteswith tables of contents and similar things (I was reminded ofthis when a commentator sort of mentioned it in passing on here ). This excuse was always bunk.

We can see how much bunk it is by looking at pretty much any blog, whereyou will find things that look an awful lot like a table of contents(and menus and so on,


從詞彙貧瘠驗證社會反智(唐明)- 轉載自<信報>

2010年9月24日
新殖民誌

從詞彙貧瘠驗證社會反智

本月初,英國傳媒喜獲一卷彩色紀錄片段,攝於納粹瘋狂轟炸倫敦之際,由拍攝人的孫女捐出。影片所見,倫敦遍地頹垣,硝煙瀰漫,位於鬧市的百貨公司被炸掉大半