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Posted This I like. First world cat problems..
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Posted Just read an interesting article on the ethics of brain boosting (tDCS) devices.And then found this even more fascinating message board post from someone who attempted to build and use a tDCS device based off the public info..
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Posted Interesting (at least to a Programmer) analysis of all the issues with the standard C string copy functions. What seems like a simple task that should be straightforward, is actually a lot more complex than expected..
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Posted Seriously. The SOPA supporters didn't get a chance to get their message across? Do they really expect us to believe that? The only reason they didn't put their message out on the mainstream news was because they were trying to sneak the legislation through. They could have easily talked about it on any one of the many outlets (radio, newspapers, and TV) that they OWN if they hadn't been trying to hide it from the American public..
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Posted Good article on how the smokescreen of "piracy" as the MPAA uses it not an accurate description of what is really going on..
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Posted Love this analogy "As a rough analogy, since antipiracy crusaders are fond of equating filesharing with shoplifting: suppose the CEO of Wal-Mart came to Congress demanding a $50 million program to deploy FBI agents to frisk suspicious-looking teens in towns near Wal-Marts..
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Posted Hollywood to Democrats: We bought you fair and square..
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Posted "We should delight in the stand we’ve taken in favor of things like, say, notifications, and trials, and proof before censoring someone, but we should get ready to do it again next year, and the year after that. The risk now is not that SOPA will pass. The risk is that we’ll think we’ve won. We haven’t; they’ll be back. Get ready to have this fight again.".
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Posted A very good and thoughtful article on the situation that caused a bill like SOPA to exist in the first place..
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Posted This site made me want to go out and buy some stick on googly eyes..
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Posted On the Daily Show, Jon Stewart attempted to wrap his head around SOPA and its draconian take on internet piracy. He saved his harshest criticisms for its sponsors in Congress and their inability to truly understand And their flippant use of the word "nerd" isn't helping either..
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Posted Good info on who is supporting the Internet Censorship bills and how much the movie and technology industries have contributed to their campaigns..
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Posted If you had the slightest doubt about Hollywood's attitude toward free speech, read the statement issued under the name of the movie industry's chief lobbyist, former U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd. He says, in part, regarding tomorrow's Internet protest:Going dark may be a good or bad idea (I'm doing it with several sites), but it is an expression of free speech. Dodd and his copyright cartel employers have contempt for it -- unless they're the ones who control the speaking..
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Posted Something very interesting: We often here about a "top 1%" of the economy, but what that means depends a lot on where you live. (For example, in the Bay Area, a typical annual rent for a 2-bedroom apartment is around $15k. This means that the nationwide median income of $26k/year would represent serious financial hardship if you earned it there. "Hey, I'd be rich if I lived in Oklahoma!" rings pretty damned hollow if you don't)So here's an interactive app that lets you see how particular income levels compare to income distributions, rather than nationwide means..
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Posted So The White House has responded to the SOPA/PIPA petition.I like the response, but I didn't like the fact that it didn't actually say the President would veto any of the things that were listed as items that it would not support. There is all kinds of legislation that the White House didn't support, but signed anyway. Most of the time the excuse for signing it was that something had to be done and the bad law was better than not having the law at all. What I would like to see is a black and white statement that Obama will veto ANY legislation that includes those items that he "doesn't support." And this response wasn't even close to that..
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Posted It's totally true! in the wardrobe, under the bed, in the cupboards!.
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Posted Nice to see a code cleanup project that is actually working. Sometimes I wish I had the time to do the same with some of my projects..
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Posted Thanks to for sharing this one..
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Posted Sometimes stupid region restrictions really get to me. I recently read the first two parts of a three part series and really wanted to read the third. But the book seems to be out of print (digital and dead tree versions) here in the US. I had about decided to get a used copy, but then I found out there is an Omnibus(all three in one) Kindle version of the series. A used copy of the book would run me about a dollar. The kindle omnibus version was listed at 10 pounds which I think is about 15 dollars US. For the added convenience of getting it on my kindle, I was willing to pay the extra.But then I found you can only buy it if you are in the UK.So here I am really wanting to PAY money to the publishers for a book, and they refuse to sell it to me because I live in the wrong place. So instead of getting money from me, the publishers are getting nothing because I ended up buying the used one..
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Posted North Koreans who cried, but without conviction, over the death of dictator Kim Jong Il are being sentenced to six months hard labor, according to the South Korean newspaper.
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Posted We are a bit surprised by Twitter's comments about Search plus Your World, because they chose not to renew their agreement with us last summer (), and since then we have observed their rel=nofollow instructions..
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Posted Wow. I knew we had a lot of drones, but I had no idea it was that many..
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Posted I think I've had this conversation before..
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Posted This article reminded me of the often ignored biblical principle of "fleeing temptation."According to recent research into willpower, the best way to keep from falling for whatever you are tempted by, is to avoid getting into situations where you will encounter the temptation in the first place.From the article: "It’s not that these people have immaculate wills, able to stare down tempting calories. Instead, they are able to intelligently steer clear of situations that trigger problematic desires. They don’t resist temptation — they avoid it entirely. ".
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Posted How things have changed.
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Posted The blog's creed: WE ARE THE COMIC SANS DEFENDERS. WE FEAR NO FONTS AND WE WILL MAKE THE WHOLE WORLD COMIC SANS. BECAUSE HELVETICA IS SOOO 2011Funny, if you're into that type of thing:.
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Posted I always wondered about how and why American/Canadian accents diverged so much from British accents. Turns out that even though both accents have changed, it is really the British version that has changed the most..
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Posted This is really cool. Every time we start to think we are so much more advanced than people in ancient societies, we find something like this..
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Posted Today's fun activity: Improve nearly all New York Times headlines by appending the words "with a poop flinging monkey" at the end. Examples:"Romney Waves Away Opponent's Intensifying Attacks With a Poop Flinging Monkey""Merkel and Sarkozky Raise Pressure on Greece With a Poop Flinging Monkey""Islamists in Egypt Back Military on Handover With a Poop Flinging Monkey"and so on..
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Posted Saw this quote in a post by and had to share."You know that Apple built that phone on the backs of 9 year olds on Mars? Think of the Mars children!".
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Posted Great development the Internet censorship battle: Al Gore denounces SOPA..
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Posted Needed my G+ stream to be in RSS. I did a little digging and found a nice little PHP parsing script that will take my public posts and format them into an RSS feed..
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