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“Here be dragons” (Latin “hic svnt dracones”) means dangerous or unexplored territories, in imitation of a supposed medieval practice of putting dragons, sea serpents and other mythological creatures in uncharted areas of maps.

Software programmers sometimes use this expression to indicate sections of particularly complex and obscure passages of the […]

Daniel Radcliffe stuns with racy Vanity Fair Italia shoot

Photographed by renowned British celebrity photographer Charlie Gray, the 26-year-old actor is seen throwing brooding poses in a variety of outfits — but it’s one pic with decidedly less clothing that has fans talking…

The shoot brings to mind Radcliffe’s Harry Potter co-star Matthew Lewis’s own racy magazine shoot last year — in which the former […]

What I’m reading – ‘Alone Together’ by Sherry Turkle

Alone Together – Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

From the interview (below): Her feelings about technology were once evangelical, but have been transformed by her own research.

Her book The Second Self (published in 1984) was a hopeful look at personal computers; the next, Life on the Screen, put her on […]

Men in porn… a revisit

I was speaking to a prospective male model recently. He has a look most females would find sexually arousing, yet he surprised me when he said he accepted that in porn the guy doesn’t matter anyway.

Traditionally, in mainstream porn, yes, that has certainly been the case. Yet it would seem even that assumption is being […]

Famous photographers photographing themselves…

Autorretratos de Fotógrafos Famosos

The term ” selfie ” has become part of our lexicon and self-portraits have never been so popular as of late. But teachers photographers did it first and did it better.

I show you a selection of self-portraits by famous photographers like Richard Avedon , Diane Arbus, Stanley Kubrick , Robert Mapplethorpe , […]

MIT deep-learning algorithm predicts your most memorable photos

From the article:

“A predictive algorithm developed by scientists at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) can predict which one of your selfies, Instagrams or Tinder profile pictures will be most memorable, or conversely, more forgettable.
By identifying what parts of a photo leave the greatest impression, the MemNet brain-like computer system can predict how […]

Why Pictures Speak Louder than Words

From a writer…

There’s something about a photograph, one that makes a statement or just takes your breath away with its sheer beauty, something that makes me wish I was the artist who was responsible for this masterpiece. I’m a writer; I write for a living; I write because I’m passionate about weaving stories with words. […]

Beyond this point there be dragons!

“Here be dragons” (Latin “hic svnt dracones”) means dangerous or unexplored territories, in imitation of a supposed medieval practice of putting dragons, sea serpents and other mythological creatures in uncharted areas of maps.

Software programmers sometimes use this expression to indicate sections of particularly complex and obscure passages of the source code of a program so […]

2018-01-12T14:36:12+11:00December 22nd, 2015|More of my thoughts and articles of interest by others I find online|Comments Off on Beyond this point there be dragons!

The School of Life – How to Think More About Sex


 

Miley Cyrus posts topless pic to fight censorship

Miley Cyrus posted a topless photo of herself on Instagram to show her support for the “Free The Nipple,” though given her history, she didn’t necessarily need the excuse…

“Free The Nipple” brands itself as an equality movement that tries to empower women across the world.

Read more:

http://www.epictimes.com/2014/12/miley-cyrus-posts-topless-pic…miley-cyrus-topless-590x776 […]

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