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The Dancing Traffic Light

2014 Oct 1, 3:18PermalinkCommentshumor traffic

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2014 Sep 29, 2:52


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99percentinvisible: Walking was invented in Europe, according...

2014 Sep 29, 2:50


99percentinvisible:

Walking was invented in Europe, according to this sign found by a friend in China. 

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2014 Sep 29, 4:41












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How I Pranked My Roommate With Eerily Targeted Facebook Ads

2014 Sep 18, 2:27

“This is the chronicle of the most epic retaliation and how I pranked my roommate with targeted Facebook Ads to the point of complete paranoia and delusion.”

Funny anecdote but also a how-to on creating a Facebook ad campaign that targets a single person.

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Fish vs Fish in Street Fighter II

2014 Aug 20, 6:22

Fish vs Fish in Street Fighter II - Computer vision translates the location of two fish in an aquarium into SF2 moves.

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gitfiti - github contributions pane pixel art

2014 Jun 2, 8:07

gitfiti - abusing github commit history for the lulz

A script that abuses github submissions to draw pixel art in your github contributions pane.

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Morgan Freeman’s unboxing videos. This episode: unboxing...

2014 Jun 1, 1:57


Morgan Freeman’s unboxing videos. This episode: unboxing Gwyneth Paltrow’s head.

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Know Your Double - A doppelganger field guide by John Martz

2014 May 25, 1:43PermalinkCommentscomic humor twin

ios - Capture image via captureStillImageAsynchronouslyFromConnection with no shutter sound - Stack Overflow

2014 May 24, 2:42

The best hack I’ve seen in a while. With no way to disable the shutter sound from the capture photo API, the developer creates the inverse waveform of the shutter sound and plays it at the same time to cancel out the shutter sound.

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GitHub - asciimoo/drawille

2014 May 21, 1:54

drawille - Drawing in terminal with unicode braille characters

Uses the Unicode Braille characters to make advanced (non-)ASCII art.

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Very Serious Button

2014 May 17, 1:34

A physical big red button that is a USB keyboard with a configurable single key. This looks wonderful. I’ll take 26.

RT @codinghorror The Very Serious USB Button https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/very-serious-button/

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exec($_GET

2014 Apr 29, 8:27

Does it betray my innocence that I’m shocked by the amount of exec($_GET you can easily find on github? Hilarious comment thread on hacker news: 

This is awful. Shell commands are not guaranteed to be idempotent, people! These should all be of the form exec($_POST, not exec($_GET.

ephemeralgomi

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http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wkumari-not-a-draft-00

2014 Apr 14, 7:22
tp://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wkumari-not-a-draft-00
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weeping-who-girl: Matt & David on Chris Hardwick’s Comic...

2014 Apr 8, 7:04




















weeping-who-girl:

Matt & David on Chris Hardwick’s Comic Con Blunder (x)

requested by tennanttardistime

Bonus Chris Hardwick in costume:

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2014 Mar 7, 4:48






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honeysweetsugaricklepie: Uhh has anyone notice Garry Marshall’s...

2014 Feb 24, 11:57


honeysweetsugaricklepie:

Uhh has anyone notice Garry Marshall’s Wikipedia page?

Hahaha

Wiki user ‘Gillian Marshal’ (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Garry_Marshall&diff=prev&oldid=596787114) updated his page yesterday. Nice and subtle only editing the summary section on the right.

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Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes. Co-op Oculus Rift + Razer Hydra

2014 Jan 28, 6:17PermalinkCommentshumor game videogame bomb

Jazzpunk Trailer

2014 Jan 28, 5:02

I don’t care whether the game is good or not, I just love this trailer. Make more trailers. Also 240kb should be enough for anyone.

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Results of the Grand C++ Error Explosion Competition

2014 Jan 28, 4:58

tgceec:

After much deliberation, the winners of the Grand C++ Error Explosion Competition are finally selected. There are two different award categories. The winners of the first category are those submissions that produced the largest error with the smallest amount of source code. These entries contain a…

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