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A New Species Discovered ... On Flickr (npr.org)

2012 Aug 11, 9:17

Winterton, a senior entomologist at the California Department of Food and Agriculture, has seen a lot of bugs. But he hadn’t seen this species before.

There’s no off switch when you’re the senior entomologist. If you’re browsing the web you find your way to Flickr photos of insects or start correcting Wikipedia articles on insects.

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Zineth Release Trailer (by Russell Honor) This is a student...

2012 Aug 10, 2:24


Zineth Release Trailer (by Russell Honor)

This is a student game. Amazing design and music. A more abstract, massive and fast Jet Set Radio.

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Brainfuck beware: JavaScript is after you! | Patricio Palladino

2012 Aug 10, 10:18

“tl;dr I just made a tool to transform any javascript code into an equivalent sequence of ()[]{}!+ characters. You can try it here, or grab it from github or npm. Keep on reading if you want to know how it works.”

JavaScript has some crazy implicit casts.

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Decrypt.py: Act like a decrypting hacker on tv (github.com)

2012 Aug 8, 3:34

A python script that d3crypt5 the input pipe’s ASCII content from ASCII garbage slowly into the correct output.

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Alex walking via walker

2012 Aug 6, 4:44
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Nanex ~ 03-Aug-2012 ~ The Knightmare Explained

2012 Aug 6, 4:29

We believe Knight accidentally released the test software they used to verify that their market making software functioned properly, into NYSE’s live system.

I get chills breaking the build at work.  I can’t imagine how much worse it would feel to deploy your test suite and destroy the company you work for.

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The Netflix Tech Blog: Chaos Monkey released into the wild

2012 Jul 30, 3:49

Chaos Monkey randomly kills your Amazon Web Service VMs increasing the failure rate forcing your web service to deal with it.

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Newsroom: Miscellaneous: New Online Tool Gives Public Wider Access to Key U.S. Statistics

2012 Jul 28, 2:35

The U.S. Census Bureau today released a new online service that makes key demographic, socio-economic and housing statistics more accessible than ever before. The Census Bureau’s first-ever public Application Programming Interface (API) allows developers to design Web and mobile apps to explore or learn more about America’s changing population and economy.

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Windows Executable Walkthrough Graphic (corkami.com)

2012 Jul 19, 5:58

Breakdown of the bytes of a Windows executable in a big old chart!

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Wooden Train Set Dining Table (by 3foot3design)

2012 Jul 18, 3:28


Wooden Train Set Dining Table (by 3foot3design)

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Everybody hates Firefox updates - Evil Brain Jono's Natural Log

2012 Jul 16, 1:59

Former FireFox developer on the switch to their continuous update cycle. 

Oh no, Chrome is doing such-and-such; we’d better do something equivalent or we’ll fall behind! We thought we needed a rapid update process like Chrome. We were jealous of their rapid update capability, which let them deploy improvements to users continuously. We had to “catch up” with Chrome’s updating capability.

Dealing with servicing on IE for years had led me to some of the same thoughts when I heard FireFox was switching to continuous updates.

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Kalle Mattson - Water Falls (Official Video) / HYPNO SF (by...

2012 Jul 13, 6:46


Kalle Mattson - Water Falls (Official Video) / HYPNO SF (by KalleMattson)

Some wonderful sequences in this video!

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MOBY SONG (DIRECTOR’S CUT) (by AdamBuxton) How to on...

2012 Jul 11, 2:28


MOBY SONG (DIRECTOR’S CUT) (by AdamBuxton)

How to on identifying Moby

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How To Make A Video About How To Make A Video About How To Make...

2012 Jul 10, 7:27


How To Make A Video About How To Make A Video About How To Make A Video About How To Make a Video… (by Vihart)

Malkovich?

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Daria Episodes in good quality.

2012 Jul 3, 2:45

fuckyeadaria:

Submission from witchbabie. Thank you a lot!

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wired: cnet: Mp3 playing retainer transmits music through your...

2012 Jul 3, 2:31




wired:

cnet:

Mp3 playing retainer transmits music through your teeth:

Bone conduction audio, retainers, and shiny hip-hop teeth grills aren’t new inventions, but tech hacker Aisen Caro Chacin had the clever idea to put them all together.

The Play-A-Grill MP3 player prototype fits in your mouth like a retainer, shines on the outside like a precious metal rap grill, and plays music through bone conduction through your teeth.

Read more

Oh man, this would have made puberty just a touch cooler. Maybe. 

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Indicating Details of Problems to Machines in HTTP

2012 Jul 3, 2:28

This specification defines a “Problem Detail” as an extensible way to carry machine-readable details of errors in a response, to avoid the need to invent new response formats.

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Funny People: Steve Heinrich, You Don’t Know Jack head writer | Interview | The Gameological Society

2012 Jul 1, 3:38

A veteran of the satirical trivia game series since its first heyday in the 1990s, Heinrich talks about Jack’s writing process, its long hiatus, and that short-lived live-action TV version.

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Reddit explains Obamacare

2012 Jul 1, 5:16

PPACA (aka Obamacare) broken down into its main subsections with brief explinations and citations linking into the actual PPACA document (why is it always PDF?).

Its interesting to see the very small number of parts folks are complaining about versus the rest which mostly strikes me as “how could this not already be the case?”

I’m no expert, and everything I posted here I attribute mostly to Wikipedia or the actual bill itself, with an occasional Google search to clarify stuff. I am absolutely not a difinitive source or expert. I was just trying to simplify things as best I can without dumbing them down. I’m glad that many of you found this helpful.”

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Mike Merrill Is a Publicly Traded Person | Motherboard

2012 Jul 1, 2:01

By which is meant the following:

Essentially, each shareholder has decided to buy into Merrill ’s life and help him make better choices that will then hopefully up the stock price, allowing them to make money should they ever decide to cash out.

What? Oh, he lives in Portland.

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