April 02, 2011

What Happens When Geeks Look At Art (open thread) [ArthurK]
— Open Blogger

The Bayeux Tapestry from an Information Technology Point of View.

Good Morning.


Posted by: Open Blogger at 07:58 AM | Comments (40)
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1 If this is a castle, where are the tapestries?!!!

Posted by: Indiana Jones at April 02, 2011 07:59 AM (zgZzy)

2 First, first, first? 

Posted by: journolist at April 02, 2011 08:00 AM (iHfo1)

3 third, third, third?

Posted by: journolist at April 02, 2011 08:01 AM (iHfo1)

4 First?  Journolist, prepare to meet Kali . . . in Hell!

Posted by: Indiana Jones at April 02, 2011 08:03 AM (zgZzy)

5 Pretty interesting calling it "tape media"... I suppose it is, but it's pretty primitive.  My Atari 400 had more ROM.

Posted by: Truman North at April 02, 2011 08:04 AM (8ay4x)

6

Please, shut down the government.

Lolz.  Kay Baily Hutichison on Fox just said that if the government shuts down, veterans don't get their pensions.  She's a bag of unstable vaginas.

Posted by: Truman North at April 02, 2011 08:07 AM (8ay4x)

7 The DC has a story about all the kickbacks and payoffs to unions and favored corporations hidden in the healthcare law.

When the fuck are people going to wake up?

Posted by: Johnny at April 02, 2011 08:07 AM (mhmc7)

8

When the fuck are people going to wake up?

 

When the unions tell us to do, silly!

Posted by: Teachers at April 02, 2011 08:08 AM (zgZzy)

9 When the fuck are people going to wake up?

Posted by: Johnny at April 02, 2011 12:07 PM (mhmc7)

When they have absolutely no other choice.  Or when Rand Paul wakes them up.

Posted by: FUBAR, Randbot at April 02, 2011 08:10 AM (McG46)

10 Anybody else get the impression that Marco Rubio is secretly gay?

Posted by: Truman North at April 02, 2011 08:11 AM (8ay4x)

11

She's a bag of unstable vaginas.

 

You rang?

Posted by: The cast of Jersey Shore at April 02, 2011 08:11 AM (zgZzy)

12 a bit rate for tapestry writing?  oh geez.

Posted by: chemjeff at April 02, 2011 08:11 AM (vj0dH)

13

When the fuck are people going to wake up?

I'm beginning to think that the Democrats might not be worthy of our trust.

Posted by: garrett at April 02, 2011 08:12 AM (i4eli)

14 10 Anybody else get the impression that Marco Rubio is secretly gay?             Dude, you just made the hairs on the back of Ace's neck stand up!

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 02, 2011 08:12 AM (zgZzy)

15 "Ow!  The doctor said I wasn't supposed to get arrows in my eye!!"

Posted by: King Harold at April 02, 2011 08:13 AM (cEsKb)

16

Anybody else get the impression that Marco Rubio is secretly gay?

I don't care if he's gay.

Posted by: Wicket at April 02, 2011 08:13 AM (i4eli)

17 4 First?  Journolist, prepare to meet Kali . . . in Hell!

Posted by: Indiana Jones at April 02, 2011 12:03 PM (zgZzy)

< Hey, good blog Indiana. Let's talk. Snark and brilliant writing .... you interested in slumming over at a west coast based cloud computed unlimited bandwidth double profolacted security protocoled political blog we run out of a vacant office across from the Mondrian on Sunset?  No pay but the chicks dig our gig.

Posted by: journolist at April 02, 2011 08:16 AM (iHfo1)

18 Posted by: The cast of Jersey Shore at April 02, 2011 12:11 PM (zgZzy)

Including the guys.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at April 02, 2011 08:16 AM (LH6ir)

19 Anybody else get the impression that Marco Rubio is secretly gay?

He does have that subtle lisp thing going.  I could care less either way.

Posted by: Johnny at April 02, 2011 08:16 AM (mhmc7)

20 Anybody else get the impression that Marco Rubio is secretly gay?

Then I hope to be voting for our country's first (openly) gay presidential candidate!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at April 02, 2011 08:18 AM (LH6ir)

Posted by: WIRE at April 02, 2011 08:23 AM (i4eli)

22

The Snark is Strong in Steyn:

 If a coalition plane bombing Gadhafi's forces runs into a coalition plane bombing the rebel forces, are they allowed to open fire on each other? Or would that exceed the U.N. resolution?

Posted by: Beagle at April 02, 2011 08:25 AM (sOtz/)

23 Look how they ran out of room while writing "Harold Rex Interfectus Est".

Reminds me of some trust-fund revolutionary scribbling a slogan on his cardboard sign for the latest WTO protest.

Posted by: Waterhouse at April 02, 2011 08:25 AM (2YixX)

24 The real question is how does help diversity? Obviously this tapestry was made by evil racist white men. It needs to be rewoven to include the experiences of other cultures and ethnicities to be fully inclusive of everyone's contributions to history. If those experiences don't exist, or the history is still too white, then we need to invent history to be impartial to factual biases. Hell it worked with Quwanza didn't it?

Posted by: Typical Prog at April 02, 2011 08:25 AM (ijjAe)

25

"Doctor, it doth pain me when I doeth this." *blinks*

"Then, Your Highness, doeth not that which pains thee."

*rumpeth, tumpeth*

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at April 02, 2011 08:26 AM (d0Tfm)

26 Hell it worked with Quwanza didn't it?

Posted by: Typical Prog at April 02, 2011 12:25 PM (ijjAe)

You realize that Kwanzaa has been celebrated for millions of years in Africa?

Posted by: Superior Prog at April 02, 2011 08:29 AM (McG46)

27 "You realize that Kwanzaa has been celebrated for millions of years in Africa?" I know and yet the white stupid farmers and Native Americans keep insisting that corn isn't indigenous to Africa and can't possibly have anything do with the holiday. Next thing you know they'll insist that Africa really had a bunch of limited unrelated advanced civilizations which never practiced anything like Kwanzaa. Or that most of the continent was actually inhabited by fairly feral warring tribes without civilizations any more, and often less, civilized than Native Americans.

Posted by: Typical Prog at April 02, 2011 08:33 AM (ijjAe)

28 I wrote a paper on the Battle of Hastings in college. It is fascinating. Found lot's and lot's of books to choose from when it came to research. What I found was the books written in the 50's were more based on factual study using the Tapestry and other empirical evidence vs. later books about opinions and theories about the royals and why they did what they did. That was the exact moment when I started taking a double take at college learnin. When I compared books and stories I discovered the later Authors just made shit up to fit their theories. I pointed that out to my Prof, He did not seem interested. I must look for that paper. The story itself is a fascinating insight to the time and also it was the first time a longbow was used in battle.

Posted by: oldsailor's poet at April 02, 2011 08:33 AM (cDRYC)

29

The story itself is a fascinating insight to the time and also it was the first time a longbow was used in battle.

Here we go...

Posted by: garrett at April 02, 2011 08:34 AM (i4eli)

Posted by: Racefan at April 02, 2011 08:34 AM (5k1wq)

31 Here is a gravity map of the earth recently completed by the Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite. 

Posted by: The Geek Squad Posters (GSP) at April 02, 2011 08:35 AM (HvT4i)

32

So I've read some articles about the upcoming budget and I noted that these papers do not agree about whether a specific fix is occuring. One article says Medicaid is going to block grants and Medicare to vouchers, another says Medicaid block grants but several plans for Medicare, and another says several ideas for both. At least they all agree on targets being set for both programs. From The Weekly Standard, this is their take:

 "The Ryan budget will include significant cuts to domestic discretionary spending. But more fundamentally, it will reform Medicaid into block grants to states to give governors maximum flexibility. It will transform Medicare into a defined... contribution program that will be stable for decades to come. And it will propose fundamental tax reform to remove loopholes and increase efficiency and spur economic growth. This is a comprehensive strategy that, over the long term, will reduce spending not by billions but by trillions of dollars."

Chairman Ryan also said earlier this week that we only have a few years left before the collapse, yet Boehner is trying to tie his hands on details. Oh, joy...

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 02, 2011 08:37 AM (UO6+e)

33 Yes Garret, I understand it was around before that. The longbow was first recorded as being used by the Welsh in 633 C.E., when Offrid, the son of Edwin, king of Northumbria, was killed by an arrow shot from a Welsh longbow during a battle between the Welsh and the Mercians -- more than five centuries before any record of its military use in England. Each book I read stated it was the first time that a longbow was used in a major battle. Maybe the historians were using some sort of qualifier I didn't get.

Posted by: oldsailor's poet at April 02, 2011 08:44 AM (cDRYC)

34 32 I should add that this is a change because the papers and news channels were mostly all saying block grants and vouchers until last night. Don't know why the change unless it had to do with making some final decisions, which the Vice Chairman of budget said the leadership wanted Budget to tread very lightly when it came to specific plans. Bad thing is that, with a consensus budget that has to be approved by the leadership, you can't just say that you get to do whatever you want; you have to largely do what they want or they might revoke the privilege of addressing certain ideas.

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at April 02, 2011 08:45 AM (UO6+e)

35

The story itself is a fascinating insight to the time and also it was the first time a longbow was used in battle.

Here we go...

Hahaha.

I'm still not sure why Ace got upset with that. I found it fascinating.

Posted by: Waterhouse at April 02, 2011 08:45 AM (2YixX)

36 Dammit, I must be the easily-suggestible type. I keep using words from stuff I'm quoting in my own comments.

Posted by: Waterhouse at April 02, 2011 08:47 AM (2YixX)

37 Neat idea for an article, though as the article comments point out, the math is wonky.

Posted by: The Chap etc at April 02, 2011 12:35 PM (8DINN)

38 gosh, I love that guy!

Posted by: paulryangivesmeawoody at April 02, 2011 02:30 PM (tb6mj)

Posted by: 0574mina at April 02, 2011 06:26 PM (a004l)

40 a father and son bonding moment... Free Classified Advertising

Posted by: gofry at April 03, 2011 05:47 AM (iWRab)

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