I like big books and I cannot lie
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68% complete! Eivind (like the Terrible) has read 68 of 100 books.
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Okay, det var god underholdning. Og selv om det blei litt kleint her og der, var det artig å se tilbake på hvor magisk datamaskiner og programmering var da boka blei skrivi.
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You can’t get hurt by looking at a bitmap. Or can you?
After the Internet, what came next?
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The number 65,536 is an awkward figure to everyone except a hacker, who recognizes it more readily than his own mother’s date of birth: It happens to be a power of 2—216 power to be exact—and even the exponent 16 is equal to 24, and 4 is equal to 22. Along with 256; 32,768; and 2,147,483,648; 65,536 is one of the foundation stones of the hacker universe, in which 2 is the only really important number because that’s how many digits a computer can recognize. One of those digits is 0, and the other is 1. Any number that can be created by fetishistically multiplying 2s by each other, and subtracting the occasional 1, will be instantly recognizable to a hacker.
@Rudi jeg tenkte også på at ei gjenlesing av David Copperfield hadde gjort seg, og tenkte å gjøre det rett etterpå, men det kokte bort i kålen.
An unforgettable novel about sisterhood, familial duties and love tells the story of two sisters who love the same man. …
On a battlefield near the River Escaut, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or …
On a battlefield near the River Escaut, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or …
A bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, history, and power
May …
A bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, history, and power
May …
'Well, he thought, so this is diplomacy. It’s lying, only for a better class of people.
They say that …
Everyone knows that the world is flat, and supported on the backs of four elephants. But weren't there supposed to …
Stranger in a Strange Land is the epic saga of an earthling, Valentine Michael Smith, …
Yeah, this guy just isn't for me.
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In this stunningly original reinterpretation of the New World, Grandin reveals how the United States …
In 1836, Texas settlers broke from Mexico. In 1845, the territory was annexed by the United States to become the twenty-eighth state, a slave state. Then, the following year, President James Polk manufactured a crisis at the Mexican border as pretext to launch a war on Mexico. Fighting lasted two long years, with Mexicans putting up more effective resistance than anticipated. The United States eventually won, taking 55 percent of Mexico’s territory—from Arizona’s desert sands to California’s Pacific beaches to Utah’s winter snows—and turning some hundred thousand Mexican citizens, of all races, into United States subjects.
In this stunningly original reinterpretation of the New World, Grandin reveals how the United States …
Moreover, Everett was also bothered by Mexico’s official name, Estados Unidos Mexicanos. He felt that Estados Unidos, or, in English, the United States, was proprietary to his country, the United States of America. Mexicans were both plagiarists and thieves, “borrowing one half our name” only “to rob us of the other.” This, as far as I know, was the first time that the name America was politicized in such a pointed way.
