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James Joyce and Virginia Woolf copyrights expire tonight

2011 Dec 31, 2:35

More amazing works entering public domain. A shame that US works take such an extreme amount of time.

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Sarah and Alex first Christmas

2011 Dec 31, 11:30

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Sarah and Alex first Christmas

2011 Dec 31, 11:30

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Alex and monkey

2011 Dec 30, 12:43

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Alex and monkey

2011 Dec 30, 12:43

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Hacking Google for Fun and Profit (andrewcantino.com)

2011 Dec 28, 5:34

First hand account of security researcher reporting security issues to Google and details on the security issues.

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Report: Kindle produces nearly no electrical interference. FAA: "LALALALALA"

2011 Dec 28, 3:34

FTA: “Nick Bilton put the FAA’s claims regarding Kindles and airline avionics to the test. The result? They emit less EM interference than planes are required by law to withstand.” Much less, apparently.

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Save the Rich - Garfunkel and Oates with Weird Al Yankovic

2011 Dec 23, 6:45PermalinkCommentshumor video weird-al garfunkel-and-oates 99-percent occupy-wallstreet

"Another World" (game) Code Review (fabiensanglard.net)

2011 Dec 23, 1:38

Description of architecture and reverse engineering of code for the classic game Another World.

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 lol-tastic surprise ending! (via Frog plays Ant Smasher)

2011 Dec 23, 1:22


 lol-tastic surprise ending! (via Frog plays Ant Smasher)

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(via VIDEO: Pandas Playing in the Snow)

2011 Dec 19, 6:57


(via VIDEO: Pandas Playing in the Snow)

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(via Artist repairs vandalized mural with giant QR code (that...

2011 Dec 14, 6:38


(via Artist repairs vandalized mural with giant QR code (that leads back to the pre-defaced artwork) [Street Art])

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I Know What You Downloaded on BitTorrent… (torrentfreak.com)

2011 Dec 10, 6:49

Public site that tracks who (by IP address) downloads what and lets anyone view this.

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No Copyright Intended

2011 Dec 9, 4:31

“How pervasive is it? There are about 489,000 YouTube videos that say “no copyright intended” or some variation, and about 664,000 videos have a “copyright disclaimer” citing the fair use provision in Section 107 of the Copyright Act”

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(via Hand-stitched Kanye West tweets)

2011 Dec 9, 1:16


(via Hand-stitched Kanye West tweets)

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Video

2011 Dec 9, 1:14


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(via Sugru Loves Lego)

2011 Dec 7, 11:27


(via Sugru Loves Lego)

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Google+ Now Lets You Conference People Into Hangouts With Free Voice Calls | TechCrunch

2011 Dec 4, 2:55

“To activate the feature, simply start a Hangout, click the Invite button at the top, select “Phone”, and enter a phone number. If the recipient picks up, they’ll be instantly connected. The free offer is supposed to last through 2012.”

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Swiss government keeps downloading legal after piracy study

2011 Dec 4, 2:28

“One in three people in Switzerland download unauthorized music, movies and games from the Internet and since last year the government has been wondering what to do about it. … The overall conclusion of the study is that the current copyright law, under which downloading copyrighted material for personal use is permitted, doesn’t have to change.” Wow, that sounds like almost reasonable and understandable copyright law.

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JavaScript Array methods in the latest browsers

2011 Dec 3, 6:46

Cool and (relatively) new methods on the JavaScript Array object are here in the most recent versions of your favorite browser! More about them on ECMAScript5, MSDN, the IE blog, or Mozilla's documentation. Here's the list that's got me excited:

some & every
Does your callback function return true for any (some) or all (every) of the array's elements?
filter
Filters out elements for which your callback function returns false (in a new copy of the Array).
map
Each element is replaced with the result of it run through your callback function (in a new copy of the Array).
reduce & reduceRight
Your callback is called on each element in the array in sequence (from start to finish in reduce and from finish to start in reduceRight) with the result of the previous callback call passed to the next. Reduce your array to a single value aggregated in any manner you like via your callback function.
forEach
Simply calls your callback passing in each element of your array in turn. I have vague performance concerns as compared to using a normal for loop.
indexOf & lastIndexOf
Finds the first or last (respectively) element in the array that matches the provided value via strict equality operator and returns the index of that element or -1 if there is no such element. Surprisingly, no custom comparison callback method mechanism is provided.
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