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Saint Nicholas' Day.
Here's how it is.
Every year Saint Nicholas, also known as Sinterklaas, visits Holland to distribute presents to all the good children of the land. His birthday is on December 6, but on December 5 all the sweet Dutch kids eagerly await his visit and the presents that go along with it.
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Adobe's new Lossy Digital Negative format: brilliant.
Photography nerdery ahead. Be warned!
Some years ago Adobe introduced the Digital Negative Format, or DNG, as a universal RAW format for photography.
A quick primer. JPEG files store 8 bits of image data in each channel, so a JPEG file can describe 16.7 million colors. This is beyond the capacity of the human eye to distinguish, or the capacity of ( Read more... ) -
Audio trailer for Rukis' and Alector's comic Red Lantern!
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7185637
Audio trailer for Rukis' and Alector's comic Red Lantern. Direction, editing and sound design by Rahne Kallon, voices by Rahne, yours truly and Sparf, and music by the awesome Fox Amoore, who also did the sensational theme to Heathen City.
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"Reëlection" - does English use the diaeresis?
In this article on the New Yorker, Richard Socarides uses the spelling "reëlection". This is the first time I've seen the diaeresis, the two points over the e, used in this fashion.
Germans call it Umlaut, but use it primarily to modify the sound of vowels. In Dutch we call it a 'trema' and use it exclusively to separate two adjoining monopthong ( Read more... ) -
Bad Dog Books is joining FurPlanet!
Bad Dog Books and FurPlanet have long been partners, and now it's time to tie the knot! So to speak.
Effective immediately, Bad Dog Books will transition from an independent publisher to an imprint of FurPlanet, bringing with it the portfolio of novels and the anthology series ROAR and FANG. The anthologies will continue to be produced by their ( Read more... )
