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Do Cute Kids Like Radiohead? - “Paranoid Android” -...

2012 Apr 27, 7:05


Do Cute Kids Like Radiohead? - “Paranoid Android” - You Review #09 (by noisey)

“I don’t think he’s got any friends”. Harsh.

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Can an Algorithm Write a Better News Story Than a Human Reporter? | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

2012 Apr 26, 9:53

As Hammond explained what he did, the critic became agitated. Times are tough enough in journalism, he said, and now you’re going to replace writers with robots? “I just looked at him,” Hammond recalls, “and asked him: Have you ever seen a reporter at a Little League game? That’s the most important thing about us. Nobody has lost a single job because of us.” At least not yet.

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"Additional Media Type Structured Syntax Suffixes" - Tony Hansen

2012 Apr 26, 3:15

This document defines several Structured Syntax Suffixes for use with media type registrations. In particular, it defines and registers the “+json”, “+ber”, “+der”, “+fastinfoset”, “+wbxml” and “+zip” Structured Syntax Suffixes, and updates the “+xml” Structured Syntax Suffix registration.

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Google Chrome - Fuzzing for Security

2012 Apr 26, 3:09

Overview of Google’s fuzzing security practices for Chrome.

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Internet Archive - Downloading in bulk using wget

2012 Apr 26, 2:08PermalinkCommentstechnical internet-archive wget http archive cli

Raising the bar on web uploads

2012 Apr 25, 5:00

Flickr’s new HTML5-ish photo upload feature technical overview.

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(via Descriptive Camera) A digital camera sends photos to...

2012 Apr 25, 4:23


(via Descriptive Camera)

A digital camera sends photos to Mechanical Turk service to generate a textual description and print the result on a thermal printer.  Thus a camera that prints out a textual description of what you photographed.

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(via DIY Building Blocks Furniture) Its jumbo Legos to make...

2012 Apr 25, 4:18


(via DIY Building Blocks Furniture)

Its jumbo Legos to make furniture. At least in theory very cool, although I wonder about the comfort of a chair made from this.

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Slow Jam The News with Barack Obama: Late Night with Jimmy...

2012 Apr 25, 3:45


Slow Jam The News with Barack Obama: Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (by latenight)

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DVD Exclusive - Paul F. Tompkins - Full Encore Performance (by...

2012 Apr 25, 3:36


DVD Exclusive - Paul F. Tompkins - Full Encore Performance (by comedycentral)

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First crawls of Alex (by Sarah Moffatt)

2012 Apr 23, 11:22


First crawls of Alex (by Sarah Moffatt)

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denialtwister: This line is as good as/better than the “Yes, I...

2012 Apr 23, 4:11








denialtwister:

This line is as good as/better than the 
“Yes, I am serious and don’t called me shirley.” line thing. 

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(via An Embroidered George McFly: I’m Your Density by Sabrina...

2012 Apr 20, 9:39


(via An Embroidered George McFly: I’m Your Density by Sabrina Parolin)

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The Metro Developer Show

2012 Apr 20, 9:15

The Metro Developer Show is the first podcast exclusively for Metro developers and enthusiasts.

Each week Ryan and Travis Lowdermilk traverse the exciting world of Metro (phone, tablet, desktop and Xbox); covering the latest news and exploring what it means for the developer community and everyday users.

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Diagramly

2012 Apr 20, 3:38

Web app for making diagrams like Visio.  Export your results as SVG, PNG, PDF and others.

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JavaScript in JavaScript (js.js): smaller, faster, and with demos (princeton.edu)

2012 Apr 19, 3:36

Unlike Inception, running a JS engine in a JS engine does not make the inner JS engine go faster.

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EFF White Paper Outlines How Businesses Can Avoid Assisting Repressive Regimes

2012 Apr 18, 6:24

A House subcommittee has passed the Global Online Freedom Act (GOFA), which would require disclosure from companies about their human rights practices and limit the export of technologies that “serve the primary purpose of” facilitating government surveillance or censorship to countries designated as “Internet-restricting.”

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A VC: The Twitter "Patent Hack"

2012 Apr 18, 6:19

Specifically Twitter has said that they will only used these assigned patent rights defensively to protect themselves against hostile actions. And further that any company that acquires these patent rights from Twitter will need the inventor’s consent to use them in an offensive action. Twitter has also provided the inventor with certain rights to license the patent to others for defensive purposes. You can read the entire set of provisions on GitHub.

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The Dancebulance - Gov Ball 2012 Lineup (by...

2012 Apr 18, 6:10


The Dancebulance - Gov Ball 2012 Lineup (by nathanjbarnatt)

Another Nathan Barnatt video with awesome music and dance moves.  Also enjoying the music video for third song in this video “Barbara Streisand” by Duck Sauce: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu_zwdmz0hE

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Another Comedy Bang Bang preview clip this time with Zach...

2012 Apr 18, 6:02


Another Comedy Bang Bang preview clip this time with Zach Galifianakis.

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