April 2010
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“When programmers say “possible,” they mean before the heat death of...”
– weilawei
Apr 30th
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500 days of Summer - Expectations vs Reality This and the scene where his boss is reading one of the greeting cards he wrote made that whole movie. :)
Apr 29th
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“If you spent the money on an original iPod in 2001 on Apple stock ($499), you...”
– Jason Baptiste
Apr 28th
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Sniffing Keystrokes with Lasers and Voltmeters. DefCon 17.
Apr 26th
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Apr 25th
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Apr 25th
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“The artist’s biggest enemy is not piracy but obscurity.”
– Splat
Apr 24th
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Lawrence Lessig - America’s Broadband Policy Lawrence Lessig explains why a change in government regulation has led to Americas Internet being so far behind the rest of the west and net neutrality. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
Apr 24th
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Apr 23rd
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Apr 22nd
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“The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an...”
– Douglas Adams, on choosing the number 42.
Apr 22nd
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Apr 20th
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Bizarre Rectum Bar Design in Vienna →
Now the question is really…would you buy a drink there? No the question is really… why would you want to buy a drink anywhere else? Thanks for linking me that Daniel, I can only assume you found after spending hours googling “rectum”. Having you named Buttmuncher on my MSN, is somewhat fitting now. :P
Apr 20th
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Beth Beth et. al. Robot Shark Laser! What Hackerspaces Do. DEFCON 17.
Apr 19th
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The shock of the old: Welcome to the elderly age →
Of all the people in human history who ever reached the age of 65, half are alive now. That’s a fun and on the surface scary statistics from a population standpoint. Luckily population growth is in decline, which according to one Hacker News comment peaked in the 1960s for percent growth and in 1980s for absolute growth. There was a related talk back in 2009 by Pete Alcorn given at TED. He...
Apr 19th
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Legend of Neil, Season 2, Ep. 3 — The Musical
Apr 18th
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Apr 18th
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Apr 17th
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“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in...”
– Eisenhower, 1953
Apr 17th
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Apr 16th
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Better Late… →
Shizo Kanakuri disappeared while running the marathon in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. He was listed as a missing person in Sweden for 50 years — until a journalist found him living quietly in southern Japan. Overcome with heat during the race, he had stopped at a garden party to drink orange juice, stayed for an hour, then took a train to a hotel and sailed home the next day, too...
Apr 16th
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Apr 15th
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Other World Kingdom →
The Other World Kingdom (OWK) is a large, commercial BDSM and femdom facility, resort, and micronation, which opened in 1997 using the buildings and grounds of a 16th century chateau located in Černá, Žďár nad Sázavou District, Czech Republic. Although it is not recognised by any other country, it maintains its own currency, passports, police force, courts, state flag, and state hymn. The OWK is...
Apr 15th
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Apr 14th
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Apr 14th
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Confidence Game Theater. DefCon 17.
Apr 13th
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“Depending on how much of a creeper you are, “kidnap Felicia Day”...”
– DavidCasper. Youtube Commenter.
Apr 13th
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Apr 12th
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Thread Synchronization Issues & Romance →
Busy waiting occurs when one thread continuously checks if it may proceed, robbing other threads of processing time. Romantic relationship example: A couple is getting dressed for a party. The man is dressed and ready to go. The woman is nowhere near done. The man keeps interrupting the woman to ask her if she’s ready yet. The man is busy waiting. Hahaha, that whole post is really cleverly...
Apr 12th
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Apr 11th
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Carlsberg workers strike over beer limits →
Carlsberg workers in Copenhagen have gone on strike against new rules that restrict the amount of free beer they can consume during their working day.
Apr 11th
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Apr 10th
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Apr 10th
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Apr 9th
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Apr 9th
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Apr 8th
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Scientists discover first multicellular life that... →
Oxygen may not be the staple of modern complex life that scientists once thought. Until now, the only life forms known to live exclusively in anoxic conditions were viruses, bacteria and Archaea. But in a new study, scientists have discovered three new multicellular marine species that appear to have never lived in aerobic conditions, and never metabolized oxygen.
Apr 8th
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Apr 7th
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Trains delayed by porn-surfing rail worker →
A 52-year-old rail worker reprimanded two years ago for visiting pornographic websites at work has escaped with just a second warning despite repeatedly causing trains to be delayed in eastern Sweden.  I’m glad this country hasn’t figured out what personal responsibility is yet. So how many warnings should you get before you are fired? It was nice of them to send him to a...
Apr 7th
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Apr 5th
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Apr 5th
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Apr 4th
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A study recently compared the positions of 50 recognizable points on the skulls of dogs and compared them to each other and other members of the order Carnivora. There was as much variety in the shape of the skulls of dogs as in the entire rest of the order, and the extremes were further apart. What does that mean, exactly? It means that the differences between the skulls of that Pug and Great...
Apr 4th
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Apr 3rd
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Naegleria gruberi grows a pair of flagella when under stress. But unlike a sperm tail, it puts these appendages out front, and swims by breast stroke. The organism is stained to emphasize its anatomy. So here I’m reading this short article about an amoeba that can push out “arms” and start swimming, get to the end and read this awesome bit: Fritz-Laylin is fascinated...
Apr 3rd
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Apr 2nd