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DrPizza: <- my reaction when there are new hats.

2015 Jan 27, 9:00
Peter Bright        ✔ @DrPizza :
http://fat.gfycat.com/ShadowyUnimportantHorsefly.gif … <- my reaction when there are new hats.
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Kirk or Picard? (I'm sure this has probably been asked already but whatever)

2015 Jan 26, 8:39

The Doctor.

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Kirk or Picard? (I'm sure this has probably been asked already but whatever)

2015 Jan 26, 8:39

The Doctor.

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mrcslws: Yes! Someone actually noticed! You just flooded me with memories from December 2012 :) (/cc )

2015 Jan 21, 12:40
Marcus Lewis @mrcslws :
@ericlaw Yes! Someone actually noticed! You just flooded me with memories from December 2012 :) (/cc @amfelds)
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WIRED: Our exclusive hands-on with Microsoft’s unbelievable new holographic goggles

2015 Jan 20, 9:15
WIRED        ✔ @WIRED :
Our exclusive hands-on with Microsoft’s unbelievable new holographic goggles http://wrd.cm/1CBSqwN  pic.twitter.com/VufKcTcSfE
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David_Risney: The Onion called it 2yrs ago: plans to launch video-on-demand service

2015 Jan 20, 1:29
David Risney @David_Risney :
The Onion called it 2yrs ago: http://Overstock.com  plans to launch video-on-demand service http://tmblr.co/ZykYww1bCzBoP 
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PFTompkins: Did you wish "Hitch" had been about weddings? YOU HAVE TWO WISHES LEFT.

2015 Jan 17, 4:42
Paul F. Tompkins        ✔ @PFTompkins :
Did you wish "Hitch" had been about weddings? YOU HAVE TWO WISHES LEFT.
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lunarcicadas: when did monsters that live under your bed start writing clickbait articles

2015 Jan 17, 4:05
Yandere Boyfriend LC @lunarcicadas :
when did monsters that live under your bed start writing clickbait articles pic.twitter.com/Fwsqh8gcBH
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David_Risney: "With crypto in UK crosshairs, secret US report says it’s vital". I think the secret is out on crypto.

2015 Jan 15, 10:10
David Risney @David_Risney :
"With crypto in UK crosshairs, secret US report says it’s vital". I think the secret is out on crypto. http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/01/with-crypto-in-uk-crosshairs-secret-us-report-says-its-vital/ …
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David_Risney: Reading about new Odd Couple TV series includes an interview with Gary Marshal but I can only hear voice

2015 Jan 15, 9:33
David Risney @David_Risney :
Reading about new Odd Couple TV series includes an interview with Gary Marshal but I can only hear @PFTompkins voice http://www.nerdist.com/2015/01/matthew-perry-and-thomas-lennon-introduce-us-to-their-odd-couple/ …
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waxpancake:

2015 Jan 15, 2:35
Andy Baio @waxpancake :
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The Interview ending interpretation

2014 Dec 25, 2:29

As the title suggests, spoilers for The Interview follow.

Towards the end of the movie, after Dave Skylark is shot, he miraculously has a bullet proof vest, blows up Kim Jong-un, finds a random tunnel and is picked up by Seal Team Six. These are the same details of the unbelievable scenario that Dave Skylark describes to Agent Lacey at the beginning of the movie.

This isn't a coincidence. Everything after Dave is shot is his fantasizing about how things should have gone as he dies in the interview chair. Unsurprisingly his fantasy closely matches his original ridiculous thoughts about how he would assassinate and escape.

This is similar to movies like Brazil in which the later fourth of the movie is the main character’s romantic fantasy as he is tortured and killed in real life. Or Total Recall where the end of the movie matches the description of the memories that the main character will have implanted at the beginning.

Its safe to assume that after Dave is killed, Aaron and Sook are captured and also killed.

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Retweet of OtherDanOBrien

2014 Nov 20, 6:02
[Testing Cat-Human Translator] Scientist: Cat, what is your name? Cat: I AM KANG THE DESTROYER Owner: It's not working. His name is Socks.
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Live coding in VR with the Oculus Rift, Firefox WebVR,...

2014 Oct 6, 2:45


Live coding in VR with the Oculus Rift, Firefox WebVR, JavaScript and Three.js

“I built a live-coding web app for the Oculus Rift where you code in JavaScript using Three.js and watch the world change around you in real-time.”

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Quadrilateral Cowboy gameplay video “Quadrilateral Cowboy...

2014 Oct 6, 2:41


Quadrilateral Cowboy gameplay video

“Quadrilateral Cowboy is a game we’ve been watching with great interest ever since Thirty Flights Of Loving creator Brendon Chung first debuted it last year. It’s about hacking, but not via irritating minigames or jargon-your-problems-away Hollywood magic. Instead, you learn basic (albeit fictional) code and take down everything from laser grids to gun emplacements with a twitch of your fingers and a wriggle of your brain. It’s already an extremely clever game, and it’s quite empowering despite the fact that you play as someone who probably couldn’t even heft an assault rifle - let alone fire one. Basically, it’s a wonderfully novel idea - more Neuromancer than Deus Ex - but words only do it so much justice. Thus, I’ve decided to play it for your enrichment, in hopes that you will understand why Quadrilateral should be driving your radar haywire.”

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How I Pranked My Roommate With Eerily Targeted Facebook Ads

2014 Sep 18, 2:27

“This is the chronicle of the most epic retaliation and how I pranked my roommate with targeted Facebook Ads to the point of complete paranoia and delusion.”

Funny anecdote but also a how-to on creating a Facebook ad campaign that targets a single person.

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Why do Nigerian Scammers Say They are from Nigeria? - Microsoft Research

2014 Aug 26, 3:53

Mass mailing Internet scams intentionally use poor spelling, grammar etc to filter down to target ignorant audience .

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The Strange & Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit

2014 Aug 21, 3:02

The story of Chris Knight, living in isolation in the woods of Maine for 27 years.

'Anyone who reveals what he's learned, Chris told me, is not by his definition a true hermit. Chris had come around on the idea of himself as a hermit, and eventually embraced it. When I mentioned Thoreau, who spent two years at Walden, Chris dismissed him with a single word: “dilettante.”'

'But still, I pressed on, there must have been some grand insight revealed to him in the wild…”Get enough sleep.”'

I don’t want to brag, but I’ve been telling that people all along and I didn’t have to live alone in the woods for decades.

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Fish vs Fish in Street Fighter II

2014 Aug 20, 6:22

Fish vs Fish in Street Fighter II - Computer vision translates the location of two fish in an aquarium into SF2 moves.

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The Secret Life of SIM Cards - DEFCON 21 - simhacks

2014 Aug 16, 1:07

A DEFCON talk “The Secret Life of SIM Cards” that covers running apps on your SIM card. Surprisingly they run a subset of Java and execute semi-independent of the Phone’s OS.

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