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Otter Pups Swim Lesson (by Columbuszoomedia)

2012 May 27, 1:37


Otter Pups Swim Lesson (by Columbuszoomedia)

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ECCC 2012: Star Wars Trilogy: The Radio Play - Official Video...

2012 May 25, 1:29


ECCC 2012: Star Wars Trilogy: The Radio Play - Official Video (by emeraldcitycomicon)

Star Wars as read by voice actors in the voices of their famous roles: Bender, Stimpy, Morbo, Bubbles, Batman, and and and…

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Comedy Bang! Bang! - Episode 102

2012 May 24, 12:45

The second episode of Comedy Bang! Bang! available for your viewing pleasure immediately.  (episode one not yet available)

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Video

2012 May 23, 3:53


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We never recovered the bicycle, of course. The lock itself...

2012 May 11, 6:28


We never recovered the bicycle, of course. The lock itself wasn’t attacked at all, as you can see.

PermalinkCommentstechnical moral-of-the-story security via-ericlaw lock

Favorite Windows 8 Feature: Intra-Line Tab Completion

2012 May 9, 3:30

Fixed in Windows 8 is intra-line tab completion - you can try it out on the Windows 8 Consumer Preview now. If you open a command prompt, type a command, then move your cursor back into a token in the middle of the command and tab complete, the tab completion works on that whitespace delimited token and doesn't erase all text following the cursor. Like it does in pre Windows 8. And annoys the hell out of me. Yay!

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veryseriousbusiness: oldie but goodie, go to google translate...

2012 May 7, 1:02


veryseriousbusiness:

oldie but goodie, go to google translate and paste this in, turn it to GERMAN and hit the listen button.

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now turn it to JAPANESE, hit listen…LOL

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The Lazy Man's URL Parsing (joezimjs.com)

2012 May 7, 12:41

Web apps really make obvious the lack of URI APIs in the DOM or JavaScript.  This blog post goes over using DOM API side effects to resolve relative URIs and parse URIs.  An additonal benefit of this mechanism is that you avoid security issues caused by mismatched behavior between the browser’s URI parsing and your app’s URI parsing.

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(via Feature: Google gets license to test drive autonomous cars...

2012 May 7, 8:18


(via Feature: Google gets license to test drive autonomous cars on Nevada roads)

The coolest part of this article is that Nevada now has an autonomous vehicle license plate that’s red background and infinity on the left.

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Play Fez

2012 May 7, 3:30

I'm done playing Fez. The style is atmospheric retro nastalgia and on the surface the gameplay is standard 2D platformer with one interesting Flatland style game mechanic but dig deeper to find Myst style puzzles. Despite the following I thoroughly enjoyed the game and would recommend it to anyone intrigued by the previous. Five eighths through the game I ran into one of the game's infamous Fez save game breaking issues, but I enjoyed the game enough that I started over before any patches were released and had no further issues.

While playing the game I created some tools to help keep track of my Fez notes (spoilers) including a Pixelated Image Creator that makes it easy to generate data URIs for large, black and white pixelated images, and (spoilers) a Fez Transliteration Tool to help me translate the in-game writing system.

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I’m distressed when my coworkers don’t know their...

2012 May 6, 3:44


I’m distressed when my coworkers don’t know their backslash from their forward slash so I draw this to help them remember which is which.

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Timeline of the far future (wikipedia.org)

2012 May 6, 3:01

Answers those questions like “When will the Sun boil away the Earth’s oceans?” and “When will the Sun burn out?”, but brings up new questions like which supercontinent configuration will win? I’m hoping for Pangea Ultima as it has the best name.

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The frequent fliers who flew too much - latimes.com

2012 May 6, 10:24

“Both men bought tickets that gave them unlimited first-class travel for life on American Airlines. “

“He was airborne almost every other day. If a friend mentioned a new exhibit at the Louvre, Rothstein thought nothing of jetting from his Chicago home to San Francisco to pick her up and then fly to Paris together.”

“She pulled years of flight records for Rothstein and Vroom and calculated that each was costing American more than $1 million a year.”

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C++ Algorithms: next_permutation()

2012 May 4, 1:56

Breakdown of the STL’s implementation of next_permutation.  Ever wondered how that works?

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Perfect Stranges video game (via The World Deserves A Perfect...

2012 May 2, 1:34


Perfect Stranges video game (via The World Deserves A Perfect Strangers Video Game. Now, It Has One. [Perfect Strangers])

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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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(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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