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theatlantic: 'Please Contact Us': It's Been a Tough Week for...

2013 Oct 11, 9:25


theatlantic:

'Please Contact Us': It's Been a Tough Week for the Nobel Prize's Twitter Feed

Tales of temporary rejection from an organization not used to being ignored.

Read more.

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laughingsquid: Fake Movie Posters Based on Fictional Films...

2013 Aug 26, 4:12


laughingsquid:

Fake Movie Posters Based on Fictional Films Mentioned on ‘Seinfeld’

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Moving PowerShell data into Excel

2013 Aug 15, 10:04
PowerShell nicely includes ConvertTo-CSV and ConvertFrom-CSV which allow you to serialize and deserialize your PowerShell objects to and from CSV. Unfortunately the CSV produced by ConvertTo-CSV is not easily opened by Excel which expects by default different sets of delimiters and such. Looking online you'll find folks who recommend using automation via COM to create a new Excel instance and copy over the data in that fashion. This turns out to be very slow and impractical if you have large sets of data. However you can use automation to open CSV files with not the default set of delimiters. So the following isn't the best but it gets Excel to open a CSV file produced via ConvertTo-CSV and is faster than the other options:
Param([Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][string]$Path);

$excel = New-Object -ComObject Excel.Application

$xlWindows=2
$xlDelimited=1 # 1 = delimited, 2 = fixed width
$xlTextQualifierDoubleQuote=1 # 1= doublt quote, -4142 = no delim, 2 = single quote
$consequitiveDelim = $False;
$tabDelim = $False;
$semicolonDelim = $False;
$commaDelim = $True;
$StartRow=1
$Semicolon=$True

$excel.visible=$true
$excel.workbooks.OpenText($Path,$xlWindows,$StartRow,$xlDelimited,$xlTextQualifierDoubleQuote,$consequitiveDelim,$tabDelim,$semicolonDelim, $commaDelim);
See Workbooks.OpenText documentation for more information.
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solarbird: Perfect.

2013 Jul 28, 1:46


solarbird:

Perfect.

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Would an American Jury Even Convict Edward Snowden?

2013 Jul 16, 4:17
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laughingsquid: Testing People’s Reaction Times With a Ruler in...

2013 Jul 5, 3:05


laughingsquid:

Testing People’s Reaction Times With a Ruler in Super Slow Motion

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In Depth Review: New NSA Documents Expose How Americans Can Be Spied on Without A Warrant

2013 Jun 21, 10:43

What It All Means: All Your Communications are Belong to U.S. In sum, if you use encryption they’ll keep your data forever. If you use Tor, they’ll keep your data for at least five years. If an American talks with someone outside the US, they’ll keep your data for five years. If you’re talking to your attorney, you don’t have any sense of privacy. And the NSA can hand over you information to the FBI for evidence of any crime, not just terrorism. All without a warrant or even a specific FISA order.

Not sure if this is saying all Tor data is collected or saying if someone uses Tor then start collecting that someone’s communication.

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Microsoft will pay up to $100K for new Windows exploit techniques

2013 Jun 21, 4:29


Good news everyone! Of course Microsoft employees are not eligible but that’s probably for the best.

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STRIP SEARCH SPOILERS FOLLOW! BEWARE! jspowerblogger: WARNING:...

2013 Jun 19, 2:50


STRIP SEARCH SPOILERS FOLLOW! BEWARE!

jspowerblogger:

WARNING: THIS POST CONTAINS RIDICULOUS STRIP SEARCH SPOILERS

So I lost. Wah, boohoo, etc etc. It doesn’t mean I’m going to give up. I love The Last Halloween. If you also loved The Last Halloween, don’t worry, it’s happening. But first I have to Kickstart it! The Kickstarter goes up within the next few days, and I hope you guys will fund it, if you’ll have me.

I’ll do a much larger post when the Kickstarter kickstarts so you’ll all know my feelings and how great everything is and how much you will be into backing it. 

I’m one of these guys being sshhhhhsh’ed. Abby had the best comics on Strip Search and so for my continued entertainment I shall help kickstart!

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laughingsquid: How Common Is Your Birthday, A Chart of Birth...

2013 Jun 10, 2:49


laughingsquid:

How Common Is Your Birthday, A Chart of Birth Date Frequencies

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laughingsquid: The Ultimate Spaceship Face-off, Interactive...

2013 May 22, 3:10


laughingsquid:

The Ultimate Spaceship Face-off, Interactive Guide For Comparing the Speeds of Famed Sci-Fi Ships

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lohikaappaus: same Classic.

2013 May 17, 12:07


lohikaappaus:

same

Classic.

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laughingsquid: Arrested Development Season 4 Trailer Brings...

2013 May 13, 2:47


laughingsquid:

Arrested Development Season 4 Trailer Brings Back the Dysfunctional Bluth Family

Come on!

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wilwheaton: owlturdcomix: Thoughts I have instead of smart...

2013 May 13, 2:31




wilwheaton:

owlturdcomix:

Thoughts I have instead of smart thoughts.

http://i.imgur.com/b9h1rc5.png

Owl Turd is rapidly becoming one of my favourite webcomics.

This may have been a Serial Experiments Lain episode synopsis.

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robhuebel: Axe Cop coming this summer!   Nick Offerman, Tyler...

2013 May 13, 2:26


robhuebel:

Axe Cop coming this summer!  

Nick Offerman, Tyler the Creator, Me (Rob Huebel), Giancarlo Esposito and Vincent Kartheiser.  

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Will Arnett Explains the Origins of His Arrested Development Chicken Dance

2013 May 8, 11:26

thebluthcompany:

To decide what Gob’s bad impression of a chicken might be, Arnett consulted on set in 2003 with series executive producers Mitch Hurwitz and James Vallely. They all tried out different versions for each other. “Jimmy started doing a little bit, then Mitch got up and did some, and then I began trying things,” remembers Arnett. “Picture three grown men hopping around, working out what it would be … They were pitching this really taunting dance, but I wanted to give it this very sharp, almost roosterlike, chest-sticking-out mannerism, like a real macho bravado dance.” And how did clapping get introduced to the move? “Because I wanted it to be only sort of threatening.”

Read More | Vulture

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laughingsquid: Time Travel in Movies Flowchart

2013 Apr 15, 3:41


laughingsquid:

Time Travel in Movies Flowchart

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eclecticmethod: Hackers

2013 Apr 13, 1:57

eclecticmethod:

You don’t use the same password over and over right? Let’s be honest this is the day and age of the hacker. Eclectic Method brings you “Hackers” , Hollywood’s celebration of basement dwelling 128 bit encryption masters. They’ll shut down before you can trace them, hack into the mainframe…

Hack the planet!

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laughingsquid: Tetris Stackable LED Desk Lamp

2013 Apr 13, 12:57


laughingsquid:

Tetris Stackable LED Desk Lamp

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wilwheaton: cameron-stewart: My contribution in full to the...

2013 Apr 4, 5:34








wilwheaton:

cameron-stewart:

My contribution in full to the #bartkira project. This was tons of fun to do.

Holy shit.

Everything’s coming up Milhouse

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