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2015 Oct 29, 8:16
Starting at midnight, prepare for this Halloween's most terrifying horror game: TWITCH INSTALLS LINUX. https://www.twitchinstalls.com 
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2015 Mar 30, 1:19
Pastebin single-payment lifetime accounts on sale. Check out pastebin's greatest hits: http://pastebin.com/trends/all 
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2015 Mar 26, 9:13
How Punch-Out save game passwords work, including bugs http://tomorrowcorporation.com/posts/retro-game-internals-punch-out-passwords …
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2015 Mar 18, 12:02
it is so much faster to find things on the internet than it is to find things on my local computer. Has been for years
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From Inside Edward Snowden’s Life as a Robot: Wizner had...

2014 Jun 23, 7:04


From Inside Edward Snowden’s Life as a Robot:

Wizner had to jump on a phone call during a meeting with his whistleblower client. When he got off the phone, he found that Snowden had rolled the bot into civil liberties lawyer Jameel Jaffer’s office and was discussing the 702 provision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. “It was kind of cool,” Wizner says.

It is neat but they’re marketing video is at times strangely terrifying. Put different music on when the Susan-bot comes up behind the unknowing Mark and this could be a horror movie trailer.

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

2012 Nov 14, 5:39


laughingsquid:

Windows 95 Tips, Tricks, and Tweaks

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

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The Zombie Podcast - We're Alive - A Story of Survival

2010 Oct 28, 10:14PermalinkCommentspodcast zombie audio horror radio-show

Coding Horror: You're Reading The World's Most Dangerous Programming Blog

2010 Jan 20, 8:28GZip vs Deflate execution speeds. Deflate found to be much faster in particular cases and about the same in the rest.PermalinkCommentsgzip deflate performance technical http compression programming development blog

Get cached images from your visitors | Diovo

2009 Dec 15, 2:01"Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror fame) was in for a horror when he realized that his server crashed and his data was gone and due to some reason, the backup mechanism was not working. ... So what should Jeff do now? Since Coding horror is a high traffic blog, I think there is a way to get back at least some of the images." Reconstruct the HTML from Google's cache, change the HTTP server to tell the client it has the correct cached image for all the images, add script to the HTML to grab the images and send them back. Awesome idea. Of course now I want to setup Fiddler to swap in random images...PermalinkCommentsvia:ericlaw jeff-atwood backup web http cache image javascript technical

Coding Horror: The Paper Data Storage Option

2009 Aug 3, 11:06"But how efficient is the alphabet at encoding information on a page?"PermalinkCommentsvia:ericlaw humor paper storage encoding

Simon Pegg on why the undead should never be allowed to run | Film | The Guardian

2009 Jul 14, 8:26"...the zombie trumps all by personifying our deepest fear: death. Zombies are our destiny writ large. Slow and steady in their approach, weak, clumsy, often absurd, the zombie relentlessly closes in, unstoppable, intractable."PermalinkCommentshumor tv zombie horror film simon-pegg essay culture

WGMX 4 - Zombocalypse on Vimeo

2009 Jun 30, 4:59"Congratulations on not being devoured and purchasing the Wagglemax Zombocalypse TM Survival Kit"PermalinkCommentshumor video commercial ad apocalypse zombie horror for:hellosarah videogame

Platonic Ideals in Anathem and The Atrocity Archives

2009 Apr 7, 11:58
The Atrocity ArchivesThe Jennifer MorgueAnathem

This past week I finished Anathem and despite the intimidating physical size of the book (difficult to take and read on the bus) I became very engrossed and was able to finish it in several orders of magnitude less time than what I spent on the Baroque Cycle. Whereas reading the Baroque Cycle you can imagine Neal Stephenson sifting through giant economic tomes (or at least that's where my mind went whenever the characters began to explain macro-economics to one another), in Anathem you can see Neal Stephenson staying up late pouring over philosophy of mathematics. When not exploring philosophy, Anathem has an appropriate amount of humor, love interests, nuclear bombs, etc. as you might hope from reading Snow Crash or Diamond Age. I thoroughly enjoyed Anathem.

On the topic of made up words: I get made up words for made up things, but there's already a name for cell-phone in English: its "cell-phone". The narrator notes that the book has been translated into English so I guess I'll blame the fictional translator. Anyway, I wasn't bothered by the made up words nearly as much as some folk. Its a good thing I'm long out of college because I can easily imagine confusing the names of actual concepts and people with those from the book, like Hemn space for Hamming distance. Towards the beginning, the description of slines and the post-post-apocalyptic setting reminded me briefly of Idiocracy.

Recently, I've been reading everything of Charles Stross that I can, including about a month ago, The Jennifer Morgue from the surprisingly awesome amalgamation genre of spy thriller and Lovecraft horror. Its the second in a series set in a universe in which magic exists as a form of mathematics and follows Bob Howard programmer/hacker, cube dweller, and begrudging spy who works for a government agency tasked to suppress this knowledge and protect the world from its use. For a taste, try a short story from the series that's freely available on Tor's website, Down on the Farm.

Coincidentally, both Anathem and the Bob Howard series take an interest in the world of Platonic ideals. In the case of Anathem (without spoiling anything) the universe of Platonic ideals, under a different name of course, is debated by the characters to be either just a concept or an actual separate universe and later becomes the underpinning of major events in the book. In the Bob Howard series, magic is applied mathematics that through particular proofs or computations awakens/disturbs/provokes unnamed horrors in the universe of Platonic ideals to produce some desired effect in Bob's universe.

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The Vacationeer's "The Googling"

2008 Sep 11, 11:09The Vacationeer's short video series "The Googling". Like a cross between the Twilight Zone and ads for Google. Very funny.PermalinkCommentshumor video youtube google vacationeer horror twilight-zone

apophenia: a google horror story: what happens when you are disappeared

2008 Feb 11, 4:27Google's adminstrative red tape destroys a person's online identity. There is a happy ending to this story... but it could happen TO YOU!PermalinkCommentsgmail data backup identity google web online article

Enough With The Rainbow Tables: What You Need To Know About Secure Password Schemes

2007 Sep 11, 12:01PermalinkCommentshack hackers crypto cryptography security blog article hash password authentication via:swannman

Coding Horror: How To Advertise on Your Blog Without (Completely) Selling Out

2007 Jul 2, 9:18Advice on various forms of advertising for your blog.PermalinkCommentsarticle blog advertising howto reference via:swannman

The "Works on My Machine" Certification Program (Coding Horror)

2007 Mar 21, 11:32A badge I think I can apply to many of my personal projects. Note to self: remember this later when someone breaks the build.PermalinkCommentsbadge certificate humor programming development software
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