Happy Halloween Comment Tags and Graphics and History Halloween (15 Gitf Sexy Halloween)
October 29, 2009 / 3873
Halloween has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain (Irish pronunciation: [ˈsˠaunʲ]; from the Old Irish samain).
The festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture, and is sometimes regarded as the “Celtic New Year”. Traditionally, the festival was a time used by the ancient pagans to take stock of supplies and slaughter livestock for winter stores. Read more …
Halloween Graphics and Gifs (39 Graphics and Gifs)
October 29, 2009 / 2699
Halloween Comment Tags (47 Gifs Animated)
October 29, 2009 / 3535
Emoticons Smyles and More (11 Gift Animated)
August 12, 2009 / 3666
The National Telegraphic Review and Operators Guide in April 1857 documented the use of the number 73 in Morse code to express “love and kisses” (later reduced to the more formal “best regards”). Dodge’s Manual in 1908 documented the reintroduction of “love and kisses” as the number 88. Gajadhar and Green comment that both Morse code abbreviations are more succinct than modern abbreviations such as LOL. Read more …
Horror by RayneHaschel (Animated Gif)
July 15, 2009 / 3334
Horror by RayneHaschel (Animated Gif)
Applications Personal Computer, Halloween PC, Ufo Gifts and Guiños (33 Gifts)
June 11, 2009 / 5940
Application software employs the capabilities of a computer directly and thoroughly to a task that the user wishes to perform. This should be contrasted with system software which is involved in integrating a computer’s various capabilities, but typically does not directly apply them in the performance of tasks that benefit the user. In this context the term application refers to both the application software and its implementation. A simple, if imperfect analogy in the world of hardware would be the relationship of an electric light bulb (an application) to an electric power generation plant (a system). The power plant merely generates electricity, not itself of any real use until harnessed to an application like the electric light that performs a service that benefits the user.
Typical examples of software applications are word processors, spreadsheets, and media players. Multiple applications bundled together as a package are sometimes referred to as an application suite. Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org, which bundle together a word processor, a spreadsheet, and several other discrete applications, are typical examples. Read more …
Aliens Ufo Gifs Animated: Extraterrestrials in Fiction (10 Gifs Animated)
April 20, 2009 / 3724
Historical ideas
The fictionalization of extraterrestrial life occurred before the 20th century. The didactic poet Henry More took up the classical theme of Cosmic pluralism of the Greek Democritus in “Democritus Platonissans, or an Essay Upon the Infinity of Worlds” (1647). With the new relative viewpoint that understood “our world’s sunne / Becomes a starre elsewhere”, More made the speculative leap to extrasolar planets,
the frigid spheres that ’bout them fare;
Which of themselves quite dead and barren are,
But by the wakening warmth of kindly dayes,
And the sweet dewie nights, in due course raise
Long hidden shapes and life, to their great Maker’s praise. Read more …
