January 2012
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Freelance hacker helps drug rings avoid the wire →
[…] each crewmember gets a cell phone that operates using a prepaid SIM card; they also get a two-week plastic pill organizer filled with 14 SIM cards where the pills should be. […] Every morning, each crewmember swaps out his phone’s card for the card in next day’s compartment in the pill organizers. After all 14 cards are used, they start over at the first one. If the...
Jan 26th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 8th
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Jan 7th
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Jan 6th
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Jan 3rd
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December 2011
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Dec 13th
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November 2011
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Nov 24th
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Nov 18th
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Nov 13th
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Nov 12th
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Nov 9th
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Nov 1st
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October 2011
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Oct 18th
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Oct 18th
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Oct 16th
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Oct 14th
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Oct 7th
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September 2011
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Sep 30th
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Sep 27th
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Parks and Who →
frezned: vondell-swain: bradofarrell: vondell-swain: i just tried to imagine a crossover between doctor who and parks and recreation it didn’t work at all like, attempting to imagine it caused some sort of catastrophic failure in my imagination glands i just can’t…
Sep 27th
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thedailywhat: Well This Is Sufficiently Creepy of the Day: OpenFrameworks developer Arturo Castro shows off his real-time face-swapping technology, created using Kyle McDonald’s ofxFacetracker, Jason Saragih’s facetracker library, and “parts of Kevin Atkinson’s image clone code.” I have no idea what any of that means, but the result is pretty freakin’ creepy. In the comments, Castro tells...
Sep 20th
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Sep 19th
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Sep 19th
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Sep 12th
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August 2011
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Aug 22nd
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Philosophy -> Reason -> Natural science -> Science... →
Folklore says if you take any article on wikipedia, and click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, you will eventually end up at Philosophy. Mat Kelcey analyzed every article on wikipedia, and it is mostly true. About 3% of articles don’t make it to philosophy. But the interesting thing to emerge from this data, is that it’s actually a small loop of...
Aug 22nd
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Aug 19th
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“When the University of California at Irvine campus was first built, they just...”
– John Siracusa paraphrasing Larry Wall (source)
Aug 19th
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Aug 15th
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Aug 15th
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Aug 8th
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July 2011
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Jul 12th
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the loneliest mix →
For $8 you can get a cassette recording of the song of the only known hybrid humpback / blue whale.
Jul 8th
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Marriage, gay marriage, gender, sex. →
XKCD’s Randall Monroe wrote a short piece on why google+ requiring you to share your gender is harmful, and in it he linked to this interesting article about gender, and the many exceptions to the genetic definition of gender. An interesting read!
Jul 8th
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Jul 4th
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June 2011
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Jun 17th
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Richard Dreyfuss reads the iTunes EULA →
He reads, so you don’t have to.
Jun 8th
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Jun 5th
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Kid Gives Speech After Learning To Ride A... →
THUMBS UP EVERYBODY!
Jun 1st
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Jun 1st
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Jun 1st
May 2011
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If you have an hour to spare, I suggest you watch this excellent video of Douglas Adams speaking at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in 1996. Funny, mind-expanding.
May 22nd