March 2009
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Ingrid Newkirk's Unique Will →
This is a little extreme. (Via mikeysan.)
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The Perfect Crime →
Police are unable to charge twins with almost identical DNA; either of them could have committed the crime, and the police cannot assume both were present. (via kottke)
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Browser Ball →
A really cool browser experiment. (via manita via chrismessina)
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NZ Censor Threatens To Jail Parents Who Buy... →
New Zealand wants to pass a law that sends parents to jail for letting their children play games rated for an older audience:
Based on the law, parents prosecuted could face $10,000 fines or be put in jail for three months. Which do you think would do more harm to a child? Playing GTA or having their parent dragged through a show trial, for “shock value,” and dumped in jail for...
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Jesus Made Me Puke →
Inside look on what goes down during these mega-church retreats:
“I told my nephew to look around the house,” Fortenberry continued. “I said, ‘Do you have a copy of Harry Potter?’ And he said yes. And I said, ‘That’s your problem.’ So I told him to go get that copy of that book, tear it in half and throw it out the window. So he does it, and...
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Miracle Liquid →
The stuff is a simple mixture of table salt and tap water whose ions have been scrambled with an electric current. Researchers have dubbed it electrolyzed water — hardly as catchy as Mr. Clean. But at the Sheraton Delfina in Santa Monica, some hotel workers are calling it el liquido milagroso — the miracle liquid.
I’m excited. If you know anything about me, you know I hate...
February 2009
20 posts
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Time Warner Cable blames DDoS attack for spotty... →
From the article:
Kudos to TWC for stepping up and admitting the existence and scope of the problem—better to tell your customers there is an issue rather than let them sit around pulling out their hair.
My connection has been spotty at best over the last week. Glad TW is explaining the situation.
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CG Head →
Amazing TED video about the tech behind Benjamin Button. (Via rands)
Xbox Live game Braid headed to Mac →
I was considering buying a 360 just for this game.
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Dubai: Long-Stay Car Park →
Dubai is getting hit hard by the recession:
Police have found more than 3,000 cars outside Dubai’s international airport in recent months.
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The Definition of Fail: Microsoft Retail Stores →
The Macalope puts it best:
… Microsoft will assuredly throw a bazillion dollars into it, but right now this doesn’t exactly give off the sweet smell of success.
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Karl Theodor Maria Nikolaus Johann Jacob Philipp... →
Using Wikipedia to cite Wikipedia:
… But some prankster had added a “Wilhelm” in the middle, which got printed in several places. The change on Wikipedia was noticed and corrected, but then reverted to the incorrect Wilhelm version — with one of the press stories cited as the source.
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Super cows! →
I can’t believe that it’s natural. (Via kottke and siege.)
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End of the World Part II →
Get ready for the second wave of whack jobs claiming the LHC is going to destroy earth.
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Cognitive Computing →
IBM is building a multi-million dollar brain, and the first thing they’re going to teach it is how to play Unreal Tournament:
Meanwhile, at the University of California-Merced, Kello and his team are creating a virtual environment that could train the simulated brain to experience and learn. They are using the Unreal Tournament videogame engine to help train the system. When it’s...
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D-Pad Hero →
One of the coolest things I’ve seen in a long time (via ddribin.)
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Three years undercover with the identity thieves →
The definition of a great undercover cop:
Still, some of Mularski’s carder buddies refused to believe the reports. “These guys trusted me so much that even after the Wired article came out exposing me, for two days afterwards people were reaching out to me on ICQ thinking that it was a hoax and making sure I was alright.”
(Via kottke.)
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Police arrest five in UBC engineering prank →
The University’s Engineering department says this is the first time students have faced charges in connection to a prank.
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Tough Guy Challenge 2009 →
Wow.
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January 2009
21 posts
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Kodak Zi6 Firmware Update! →
This update lets you turn off the camera sounds. I’ve been wanting this feature since I got it. (Via blankbaby.)
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Steve Jobs a music visionary? →
Very good read. (Via gruber.)
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WatchThe Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition (Music Video)
I heard this song in the 500 Days of Summer trailer. The movie has potential, but the song is simply great.
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Muxtape is Reborn →
I loved this service when it was around for personal use. When it disappeared last year I was disappointed to see it go, but impressed at some of the open source solutions that came out like Opentape; I used Opentape to create a best of 2008 playlist.
This new release of Muxtape is a fresh idea, and it’s great to see that Justin Ouellette could still make something that the labels would...
“Contrary to popular myth, you don’t have to be a nerd to be a hacker. It...”
– Eric Steven Raymond on How To Become A Hacker.
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Layers →
This app is one of those “why the hell didn’t I think of that” kind of apps. Layers takes a screenshot of your desktop, but gives every item (windows, dock, desktop icons, etc.) its own layer in a PSD file (via gruber.)
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Listable →
Interesting concept for a website/web service. It’s a simple site, with no ads, that let’s you store lists and have them handy for later. You can generate the lists in JSON, MySQL, and plaint text.
Some of my favourites so far are the list of the first 493 Pokemon and the list of fonts most used by designers.
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A Disclosure →
Rands on being a manager:
Context Switcher. This is your morning. Six 30-minute 1:1s starting at 9am. This day is unique in that in your 4th 1:1, your architect resigns. The guy who has been designing the heart of your application for 18 months has been poached by a start-up and had piles of money thrown at him, and it sounds like there’s no way of saving him. Sounds grim. What’s harder is...
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Typechart →
Useful tool when deciding on type for a website. It also shows you ugly Windows font-rendering.
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WatchYou have to click through and watch the HD version to get the full effect: My son.
“Shot with Canon 5D Mark II and a Canon 85mm 1.2L lens.” - I need.
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The best Mac games of all time →
John Siracusa, writing for Macworld’s “The Mac at 25” series, decides the five best Mac games of all time. The one Mac game I remember playing the most was The Amazon Trail by MECC. My fondest memory of the game was after dying, the entire screen would turn red and play an 8-bit melodic tone.
“I felt like Charlie in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, except everything...”
– Gary Hustwit on visiting Jony Ive at Apple’s prototyping facility.
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'We're All Gonna Die - 100 meters of existence' →
Really cool “100 meter” photo (via kottke.)
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Shutting Off Mac Screen With Shortcut
Whenever I either go to bed or leave my computer for a while, I like to turn the screen brightness all the way down to save the screen. This unfortunately requires holding the lower brightness button for at least two painful seconds.
Instead of wasting those precious two seconds, just use the ctrl + shift + eject shortcut to shut that sucker off instantly!
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Is Obama President →
I love single-serving sites.
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“Murder in the City” - A very sweet and powerful song by The Avett Brothers (via merlin.)
I just bought this song in the iTunes Music Store.
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The Sacred First Post
I’m going to keep this short and sweet. I find a lot of cool stuff throughout the day - pictures, links, videos, etc. - and I want one place to keep track of it all. So I present to you, theniji.com by Marc Piche. Watch this space.