{"id":45251,"date":"2015-06-30T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T21:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20150630-01\/?p=45251\/"},"modified":"2019-03-13T12:16:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T19:16:51","slug":"20150630-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20150630-01\/?p=45251","title":{"rendered":"2015 mid-year link clearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The semi-annual link clearance is here! <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>    Windows 8 comes with a data compression API.     I was going to write a Little Program to demonstrate it,     but it turns out     <a HREF=\"https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/windows\/desktop\/hh920923(v=vs.85).aspx\">    the MSDN sample<\/a> pretty much covers it,     so I&#8217;ll just incorporate it by reference. \n<li>    James Mickens says,     &#8220;<a HREF=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/111122950\">Life is terrible:     Let&#8217;s talk about the Web<\/a>&#8220;.     (Mickens appears to be making fun of Sweden in this talk.     The candles on the head are a tradition from     <a HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St_Lucy%27s_Day\">    St. Lucy&#8217;s Day<\/a>.) \n<li>    Tony Zhou explains     <a HREF=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/113439313\">    why Jackie Chan is the master of action comedy<\/a>. \n<li>    <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.pentadact.com\/2014-08-08-the-formula-for-an-episode-of-murder-she-wrote\/\">    The formula for an episode of <i>Murder: She Wrote<\/i><\/a> \n<li>    <a HREF=\"http:\/\/mmqb.si.com\/2015\/01\/15\/russell-wilson-body-doubles-former-football-players-commercials-movies-television\/\">    I&#8217;m Not Russell Wilson, But I Play Him on TV<\/a>:     The story of the people who play football in commercials,     movies, and TV shows. \n<li>    The show is on past my bedtime,     but I was intriguged by     <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.alex-buono.com\/how-we-did-it-snl-titles-sequence\/\">    how they created the SNL title sequence<\/a>.     Favorite part: <a HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bokeh\">bokeh<\/a>.     TL;DR: They used a variety of in-camera techinques. \n<li>    I am fascinated by the processes that operate behind the scenes.     <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2014\/11\/03\/floating-feasts\">    <i>Floating Feasts<\/i><\/a>     describes what it takes to feed an entire cruise ship,     specifically Royal Caribbean&#8217;s Oasis.     A dozen pillow-sized bags of uncooked French fries?     &#8220;That&#8217;s about five minutes&#8217; worth.&#8221;     The passengers &#8220;eat a metric ton of lobster during a typical     seven-day cruise.&#8221;     Also fascinating is how food consumption varies with     the type of passengers. \n<li>    <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.royalcaribbean.co.uk\/google-street-view-cruise-ship\/\">    Wander around the Allure of the Seas<\/a>,     courtesy of Google Street View.     (The Allure of the Seas is the sister ship of the Oasis.) \n<li>    Because Japan:     <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.bijint.com\/\">Bijin-tokei<\/a>,     the &#8220;beauty clock&#8221;.     Operated by the Japanese modeling agency     <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.bijin-co.jp\/\">Bijin<\/a>. \n<li>    Because Japan:     <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.uniqlo.jp\/uniqlock\/\">    Another Japanese clock<\/a> (warning: strange music),     this one run by Japanese casual-clothing company     <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.uniqlo.jp\/\">Uniqlo<\/a>.     I can&#8217;t describe this one except to say that it&#8217;s from Japan.     (They also have a     <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.uniqlo.com\/calendar\/\">calendar<\/a>     consisting of tilt-shift time-lapse movies.) \n<li>    6502 flashback:     <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.6502.org\/source\/interpreters\/sweet16.htm\">    Steve Wozniak&#8217;s Sweet 16 interpreter for the 6502<\/a>.     It&#8217;s been quipped that the 6502 is really a RISC chip with 256 registers     (the zero page), with the caveat that you have to write your     program in microcode.     Woz does it in 300 bytes.     Because he&#8217;s Woz. \n<li>    6502 flashback:     <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.6502.org\/source\/floats\/wozfp1.txt\">    Floating point routines for the 6502<\/a>,     by Roy Rankin and Steve Wozniak.     This, my friends, is how real programmers do it. \n<li>    And the last double of the day:     <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.startrekcontinues.com\/\">Star Trek Continues<\/a>,     <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.startrekphase2.de\/\">Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II<\/a>.     (Bonus reading:     <a HREF=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2014\/07\/04\/startrekphaseii.html\">    Getting every set detail down<\/a>.) <\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Midpoint check.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-45251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Midpoint check.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}