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Primer - Full Movie (by mvjstrikesagain).  This movie is great. ...

2012 Apr 16, 1:46


Primer - Full Movie (by mvjstrikesagain). 

This movie is great.  There’s really no excuse now - Primer is on YouTube for free.  Best representation and exploration of time travel in a movie.

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RB 196: The Rally Cry of SOPA

2012 Apr 2, 8:28

Field producer Melissa Galvez speaks to Susan Crawford, Micah Sifry, Nicco Mele, and others to find out how the grassroots campaign to bring down SOPA/PIPA was built, and what it says about organizing on the internet.

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Self-Driving Car Test: Steve Mahan (by Google)

2012 Mar 30, 2:38


Self-Driving Car Test: Steve Mahan (by Google)

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More Walking Dead macro photos.

2012 Mar 21, 2:56


More Walking Dead macro photos.

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Changing System Environment Variables on Windows

2012 Mar 16, 3:13

Is this really the right way to do this? Feels icky:

To programmatically add or modify system environment variables, add them to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment registry key, then broadcast a WM_SETTINGCHANGE message with lParam set to the string “Environment”.

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European Parliament Blocks Copyright Reform With 113% Voter Turnout (falkvinge.net)

2012 Mar 15, 4:05

Hmmm

This rather embarrassing issue was pointed out to the committee, the fact that there were three votes too many, and that these three votes determined the outcome. When this was done, along with formally requesting a re-vote, that re-vote on the points in question was denied.”

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Dave Weston on security best practices in Win8 HTML Metro Apps.

2012 Mar 14, 9:29PermalinkCommentssecurity technical video david-weston wwa win8 programming html javascript

Alternate IPv4 Forms - URI Host Syntax Notes

2012 Mar 14, 4:30

By the URI RFC there is only one way to represent a particular IPv4 address in the host of a URI. This is the standard dotted decimal notation of four bytes in decimal with no leading zeroes delimited by periods. And no leading zeros are allowed which means there's only one textual representation of a particular IPv4 address.

However as discussed in the URI RFC, there are other forms of IPv4 addresses that although not officially allowed are generally accepted. Many implementations used inet_aton to parse the address from the URI which accepts more than just dotted decimal. Instead of dotted decimal, each dot delimited part can be in decimal, octal (if preceded by a '0') or hex (if preceded by '0x' or '0X'). And that's each section individually - they don't have to match. And there need not be 4 parts: there can be between 1 and 4 (inclusive). In case of less than 4, the last part in the string represents all of the left over bytes, not just one.

For example the following are all equivalent:

192.168.1.1
Standard dotted decimal form
0300.0250.01.01
Octal
0xC0.0XA8.0x1.0X1
Hex
192.168.257
Fewer parts
0300.0XA8.257
All of the above

The bread and butter of URI related security issues is when one part of the system disagrees with another about the interpretation of the URI. So this non-standard, non-normal form syntax has been been a great source of security issues in the past. Its mostly well known now (CreateUri normalizes these non-normal forms to dotted decimal), but occasionally a good tool for bypassing naive URI blocking systems.

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Fwd: Alex Water Lessons

2012 Mar 10, 9:42

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Fwd: Alex Water Lessons

2012 Mar 10, 9:42

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How I helped destroy Star Wars Galaxies (mediumdifficulty.com)

2012 Mar 7, 7:55

 is like a real life Connor Prikkel from For the Win.  Quits his job to focus on his takeover of the virtual economy of the Star Wars MMO to make real money.  Yes he was a Dark Jedi Master.

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areasofmyexpertise: I can’t believe the dumb TED conference...

2012 Mar 5, 8:25


areasofmyexpertise:

I can’t believe the dumb TED conference made me miss seeing prominent Ragnarok denier Eliott Kalan being sprayed by with seltzer by Jon Stewart. 

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The Blowholes - Summerbaby (Pete & Pete Reunion 2-24-12) (by...

2012 Mar 2, 4:48


The Blowholes - Summerbaby (Pete & Pete Reunion 2-24-12) (by matt00092)

Via http://www.avclub.com/articles/inside-the-adventures-of-pete-and-pete-reunion,70177/

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Nightlinez - with Special Guests “Pete & Pete”...

2012 Mar 2, 4:46


Nightlinez - with Special Guests “Pete & Pete” (by manboobscomedy)

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HTML5 Table Flipper Experiment

2012 Mar 2, 1:02

The goal of this experiment was to combine the flipping tables emoticons with the Threw It On The Ground video using shiny new HTML5-ish features and the end result is the table flipper flipping the Threw It On the Ground video.

The table flipper emoticon is CSS before content that changes on hover. Additionally on hover a CSS transform is applied to flip the video upside down several times and move it to the right and there's a CSS transition to animate the flipping. The only issue I ran into is that (at least on Windows) Flash doesn't like to have CSS transform rotations applied to it. So to get the most out of the flip experiment you must opt-in to HTML5 video on YouTube. And of course you must use a browser that supports the various things I just mentioned, like the latest Chrome (or not yet released IE10).

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paulftompkins: shahruz: Promo on IFC for the upcoming Comedy...

2012 Feb 29, 10:13
[Flash 10 is required to watch video.]

paulftompkins:

shahruz:

Promo on IFC for the upcoming Comedy Bang Bang TV show!!!

BE EXCITED.

I am excited Paul.

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Glitch Helperator

2012 Feb 29, 3:05

I've been working on the Glitch Helperator. It is a collection of tools and things I've put together for Glitch. It has a few features that I haven't seen elsewhere including:

Favorite Streets
A notebook in which you can save information about interesting streets and later use it to find your way back to them.
Birthday
Find out how old your Glitch is and the date of your next birthday in Glitch time or Earth time.
API Update History
A history of changes to the streets, skills and achievements of Glitch noting when new ones are added and when existing ones are changed.
It also has an interactive skill tree, find nearest feature tool, and achievement display. If you play Glitch, check it out.
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Super Mario Bloco em Santa! (by only4crap) Also, great...

2012 Feb 28, 7:20


Super Mario Bloco em Santa! (by only4crap)

Also, great BoingBoing comment:

beemohCollapse

The slow pace of the initial march and the placards makes it look more like an Occupy World 1-1 protest march.

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Minimal Mac: TV Is Broken

2012 Feb 27, 1:58

minimalmac:

I say all of this to set up the fact that Beatrix has little idea of how traditional TV works and seeing her first real exposure to it was enlightening to say the least.

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Grace Hopper on Letterman! (by cistheta2007)

2012 Feb 27, 1:25


Grace Hopper on Letterman! (by cistheta2007)

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