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> morning after Fukushima

Did you know that there is 2 tons of contaminated fish buried at the corner of the Tsukiji Fish Market? The meanwhile perhaps forgotten incident happened in 1954, when a boat was in the fallout zone from the test of the Bikini Atoll. As a result of the incident in total 460 ton contaminated fish was buried countrywide, spreading panic.

At Tukiji you can see the commemorative plate https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%AC%AC%E4%BA%94%E7%A6%8F%E7...

There is a museum in Shinkiba exhibiting the boat http://d5f.org/en/

Re:Stallman: Why it is important not to have children (2012) on Saturday November 12, 2016 @10:52AM (#12938420)
This is a site which works through further arguments.

http://vhemt.org/

Re:Stallman: Why it is important not to have children (2012) on Saturday November 12, 2016 @10:28AM (#12938278)
The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement It fits on a bumper sticker: May we live long and die out.

https://vimeo.com/7652051

"A short film by Nina Paley that explores the topic of human population growth and how it is affecting life on the planet. Using humor and some great clips featuring Les Knight of VHEMT.org, and Cris Korda of the Church of Euthanasia, Paley brings light to a topic that gets little attention in the traditional media."

Re:8-Bit and '8 Bitish' Graphics [video] on Saturday April 16, 2016 @05:49AM (#11509978)
Just for sake of completeness, I mention here another unmatched pixel art legend, Paul Robertson.

His recent work: http://probertson.tumblr.com/

His animation, called "Kings of Power 4 Billion%": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZy5S-jUIlw

If you have a chance, watch without YouTube's compression artifacts.

I would have expected the film to be completely blackened, once brought to proximity of a strong source of gamma radiation. (i.e. the "Most Dangerous Radioactive Material")

Even if the camera was put into lead encasing, the shielding shutter was opened for quite a long time and pointed directly at the source of the gamma rays.

Re:Monads Explained Quickly on Saturday April 09, 2016 @03:21AM (#11460335)
These are some tangible explanations of Maybe monad in C#. Was helpful for me to understand, and now using some the concepts in my projects.

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/109026/Chained-null-chec...