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laughingsquid: New & Necessary Punctuation Marks

2013 Feb 25, 9:01


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New & Necessary Punctuation Marks

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laughingsquid: The Truth About Phones on Airplanes

2013 Jan 7, 11:57


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The Truth About Phones on Airplanes

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laughingsquid: Stick-N-Find, Tiny Bluetooth Stickers Help You...

2013 Jan 4, 5:35


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Stick-N-Find, Tiny Bluetooth Stickers Help You Keep Track of Things

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laughingsquid: Blind Man Shows How Blind People Use Instagram

2013 Jan 4, 5:34


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Blind Man Shows How Blind People Use Instagram

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Windows Remote Desktop via Internet

2012 Dec 7, 2:04
To setup my home Windows dev box to be accessible from outside I followed two main steps:
Last time I had to do this there was a service named dynamicdns.org which seems to still exist but no longer appears to be free. Instead I used dnsdynamic.org which is free and has a web API as well as links to and instructions for setting up native tools to dynamically update my IP address.
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laughingsquid: Solitaire.exe, A Real Deck of Cards Inspired by...

2012 Nov 19, 4:56


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Solitaire.exe, A Real Deck of Cards Inspired by the Windows 98 Solitaire PC Game

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laughingsquid: Windows 95 Tips, Tricks, and Tweaks Some very...

2012 Nov 14, 5:39


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Windows 95 Tips, Tricks, and Tweaks

Some very H. P. Lovecraft style redesigns of some classic Win95 UI.

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A Slower Speed of Light Official Trailer — MIT Game Lab (by...

2012 Nov 13, 7:41


A Slower Speed of Light Official Trailer — MIT Game Lab (by Steven Schirra)

“A Slower Speed of Light is a first-person game in which players navigate a 3D space while picking up orbs that reduce the speed of light in increments. A custom-built, open-source relativistic graphics engine allows the speed of light in the game to approach the player’s own maximum walking speed. Visual effects of special relativity gradually become apparent to the player, increasing the challenge of gameplay. These effects, rendered in realtime to vertex accuracy, include the Doppler effect; the searchlight effect; time dilation; Lorentz transformation; and the runtime effect.

A production of the MIT Game Lab.

Play now for Mac and PC! http://gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light/

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(via Real Myst “linking book”)

2012 Oct 30, 1:33


(via Real Myst “linking book”)

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DSL modem hack used to infect millions with banking fraud malware | Ars Technica

2012 Oct 1, 6:33

According to the links within this article, although the root URI of the router requires authentication, the /password.cgi URI doesn’t and the resulting returned HTML contains (but does not display) the plaintext of the password, as well as an HTML FORM to modify the password that is exploitable by CSRF.

The attack… infected more than 4.5 million DSL modems… The CSRF (cross-site request forgery) vulnerability allowed attackers to use a simple script to steal passwords required to remotely log in to and control the devices. The attackers then configured the modems to use malicious domain name system servers that caused users trying to visit popular websites to instead connect to booby-trapped imposter sites.

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laughingsquid: hi-Call, A Bluetooth Handset Glove

2012 Sep 26, 6:24


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hi-Call, A Bluetooth Handset Glove

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laughingsquid: The Curious Government of the City of London...

2012 Sep 21, 6:10


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The Curious Government of the City of London (not to be confused with London)

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laughingsquid: Photos: MakerBot Retail Store in Manhattan

2012 Sep 20, 2:14


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Photos: MakerBot Retail Store in Manhattan

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laughingsquid: Amp Tee, A Geeky T-Shirt Bringing Together Music...

2012 Sep 18, 2:37


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Amp Tee, A Geeky T-Shirt Bringing Together Music And HTML Code

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laughingsquid: Goldfish Phone Booth Aquariums Installed in...

2012 Sep 14, 4:27


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Goldfish Phone Booth Aquariums Installed in Japan by ‘Goldfish Club’

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This Week in Review: Reddit and news orgs’ shooting coverage, and Yahoo and Twitter’s identities » Nieman Journalism Lab

2012 Jul 28, 2:37

Link roundup and summary of Reddit and traditional news coverage of the Aurora shooting.

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laughingsquid: Nope. Nik Tesla.

2012 Jul 16, 7:38


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Nope. Nik Tesla.

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laughingsquid: The Universe Gets Its Own Twitter Account &...

2012 Jul 14, 3:47


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The Universe Gets Its Own Twitter Account & Humorously Responds When Mentioned

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laughingsquid: Back to the Future Time Circuit Replica I would...

2012 Jul 3, 2:38


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Back to the Future Time Circuit Replica

I would love this as a clock.

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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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