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Conan Tells Taylor Swift What Being ’22′ Is Really Like

Thursday, May 23, 2013

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http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/conan-tells-taylor-swift-what-being-22-is-really-like-20130522

Cold Faith

Monday, May 20, 2013

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http://www.futilitycloset.com/2013/04/28/cold-faith/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: FutilityCloset (Futility Closet)

Terrorist Entered Witness Protection, Then Fled the United States

Friday, May 17, 2013

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http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/05/terrorist-witness-protection/

US Spies Pay Suitcases of Cash for Traitors Info

Thursday, May 16, 2013

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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-14/russia-captures-us-embassy-worker-act-cia-recruitment

Saudi Cooking Rice in USA Sets off FBI Terror Scare

Monday, May 13, 2013

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2323316/FBI-surrounds-house-Saudi-student-following-sightings-pressure-cooker-pot-cooking-rice.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Feynman: Theory and Practice

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

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http://www.futilitycloset.com/2013/04/24/theory-and-practice/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: FutilityCloset (Futility Closet)

Plutonium – Futurepedia – The Back to the Future Wiki

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

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http://backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/Plutonium Doc: “Unfortunately it requires something with a little more kick: plutonium.” Marty: “Oh, plutonium. Whoa Doc, do you mean to tell me this sucker is nuclear?!” Doc: “No, no, no, no. This sucker’s electrical, but I need a nuclear reaction to- to generate the 1.21 gigowatts of electricity I need.” — Doc and Marty, [...]

Name Sense

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

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http://www.futilitycloset.com/2013/04/25/name-sense/

What happens when pirates play a game development simulator and then go bankrupt because of piracy?

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

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http://www.greenheartgames.com/2013/04/29/what-happens-when-pirates-play-a-game-development-simulator-and-then-go-bankrupt-because-of-piracy/

DMCA Safe Harbor May Not Apply To Old Copyrighted Works

Friday, April 26, 2013

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http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/04/25/1241203/dmca-safe-harbor-may-not-apply-to-old-copyrighted-works

Trusted Sistine Chapel Janitor Convicted Of Sexually Abusing Last 4 Popes

Thursday, April 25, 2013

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http://www.theonion.com/articles/trusted-sistine-chapel-janitor-convicted-of-sexual,27934/

Security theater, martial law, and a tale that trumps every cop-and-donut joke you’ve ever heard

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

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http://www.popehat.com/2013/04/20/security-theater-martial-law-and-a-tale-that-trumps-every-cop-and-donut-joke-youve-ever-heard/

British Professor: Coked out bankers caused economic crisis

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

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http://newsfixnow.com/2013/04/23/british-professor-coked-out-bankers-caused-economic-crisis/

Esquivalience

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esquivalience

Whatever It Is, It’s Not Money! – Steve Forbes on Bitcoin

Thursday, April 18, 2013

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2013/04/16/bitcoin-whatever-it-is-its-not-money/ We don’t really know how this coin is created. You can’t have a functional money without a basic transparency….. When you buy a pound of hamburger you expect to get 16 ounces of meat. An hour has 60 minutes. A mile has 5280 feet. These measurements don’t “float.” [ed: 1 USD = 1 USD, [...]

Create a physical Bitcoin QR code using beads

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

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http://imgur.com/a/fcmCr

Introduction to Machine Learning: Logistic Regression for Predicting Bad Trips

Friday, April 5, 2013

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http://analyticsmadeskeezy.com/2012/10/29/introduction-to-machine-learning-logistic-regression-for-predicting-bad-trips/

Geo for Bootstrap, a Timeless Theme by Divshot

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

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http://divshot.github.com/geo-bootstrap/

FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition

Monday, March 25, 2013

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https://github.com/Mikkeren/FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition

LazyHusband the App

Thursday, March 21, 2013

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http://www.lazyhusbandapp.com/

Border Patrol Seeks Hazmat Teams for Drugs Smuggled in Toxic Waste

Thursday, March 21, 2013

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http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/03/toxic-drugs/

LULZ: National Vulnerability Database taken down by vulnerability-exploiting hack

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

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http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/03/national-vulnerability-database-taken-down-by-vulnerability-exploiting-hack/

How our government helps us, in vibrant vintage illustrations from 1969

Thursday, March 14, 2013

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http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/03/11/how-our-government-helps-us/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: brainpickings/rss (Brain Pickings)

TSA OKs Hockey Sticks, Knives Aboard Flights, Bats Remain Outlawed

Friday, March 8, 2013

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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/03/tsa-hockey-sticks-carry-on/

Cops’ firing for drugs reversed

Friday, March 8, 2013

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http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/03/cops_firing_for_drugs_reversed Some of them made excuses for their failed tests, including Bridgeforth, who told the commission he may have had false positive tests because he brushed white powder off the seat of his cruiser, which he “assumed was confectionery powder from doughnuts.” He also said he lived in a townhouse that shared a heating vent [...]

Coding Confessional

Thursday, February 28, 2013

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http://www.codingconfessional.com/

Culinary World Stunned As Horse Meat Found At 3-Star Michelin Restaurant The Horse & Pony

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

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http://www.theonion.com/articles/culinary-world-stunned-as-horse-meat-found-at-3sta,31451/?ref=auto

al-Qaed’a’s 21 Tips For Not Getting Droned

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

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http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2013/02/23/al-qaedas-21-tips-fo-not-getting-droned/

Unsuspecting Movie Stars Follow Fake Red Carpet Into Back Of Kidnappers’ Van

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

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http://www.theonion.com/articles/unsuspecting-movie-stars-follow-fake-red-carpet-in,31427/?ref=auto

Angry Birds on a hacked ATM

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

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Angry Birds on a hacked ATM

TOM THE DANCING BUG: Obama’s Secret Legal Technology for Drones

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

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http://boingboing.net/2013/02/13/tom-the-dancing-bug-obamas.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: boingboing/iBag (Boing Boing)

Did Rails have a major security flaw today?

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

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http://www.didrailshaveamajorsecurityflawtoday.com/

Comix I/O: Create your own xkcd-style comics using HTML markup

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

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http://cmx.io/

Reusable Code – The Daily WTF

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

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http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Reusable-Code.aspx

Ron Paul Calls on United Nations to Confiscate RonPaul.com

Sunday, February 10, 2013

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http://www.ronpaul.com/2013-02-08/ron-paul-vs-ronpaul-com/

Super Bowl blackout was caused by device designed to prevent power outages

Sunday, February 10, 2013

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/power-company-says-cause-of-super-bowl-outage-was-faulty-electrical-relay-device-now-removed/2013/02/08/4dae327e-71fd-11e2-b3f3-b263d708ca37_story.html

Kickstarter For An Open-Source Death Star Has Raised More Than $300K

Sunday, February 10, 2013

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http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-02/death-star-kickstarter-raising-money-finally-crush-rebel-scum

xkcd: Password Strength

Thursday, February 7, 2013

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http://xkcd.com/936/

Drone That Destroyed Wrong Target Casually Flying Away Like Nothing Even Happened

Thursday, February 7, 2013

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http://www.theonion.com/articles/drone-that-destroyed-wrong-target-casually-flying,31192/?ref=auto

LMAO: Site Copies Content and Uses the DMCA to Take Down the Original Articles

Thursday, February 7, 2013

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http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/02/06/1556238/site-copies-content-and-uses-the-dmca-to-take-down-the-original-articles

The Centrifuge Brain Project

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

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The Centrifuge Brain Project from Till Nowak on Vimeo.

Beer Can Engines

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

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http://beercanengines.info/

PULP-O-MIZER: the custom pulp magazine cover generator

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

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http://thrilling-tales.webomator.com/derange-o-lab/pulp-o-mizer/pulp-o-mizer.html

Personal Data of 40,000 Bankers Leaked by Anonymous

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

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http://www.hotforsecurity.com/blog/personal-data-of-40000-bankers-leaked-by-anonymous-5276.html

North Korea Official Video: Nuking the US to the tune of “We are the World”

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/9849231/North-Korea-video-shows-US-city-under-attack.html

White House bans Photoshopping Obama Skeet Shooting? Here’s our Top 10.

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

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http://silverunderground.com/2013/02/white-house-bans-photoshopping-obama-heres-our-top-10/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: silvercirclemovieblog (Silver Underground Blog)

Bitcoin: Let’s Count to 21 Million with Images

Saturday, February 2, 2013

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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=77535.msg1498645#msg1498645

North Korea Celebrates As Kim Jong-Un Becomes First Man To Walk On Moon

Thursday, January 31, 2013

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http://www.theonion.com/articles/north-korea-celebrates-as-kim-jongun-becomes-first,31085/?ref=auto

Thousands of Publicly Accessible Printers Searchable On Google

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

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http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/01/25/2059234/thousands-of-publicly-accessible-printers-searchable-on-google?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Raspberry Pi Dog Treat Machine Dispenses a Treat When You Email Your Pet

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

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http://lifehacker.com/5979256/raspberry-pi-dog-treat-machine-dispenses-a-treat-when-you-email-your-pet?popular=true

Antigua Government Set to Launch “Legal Piracy” Website To Punish United States

Friday, January 25, 2013

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http://torrentfreak.com/antigua-government-set-to-launch-pirate-website-to-punish-united-states-130124/

Prince Harry: ‘I Killed Taliban-Looking People’

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

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http://www.theonion.com/articles/prince-harry-i-killed-talibanlooking-people,30991/?ref=auto

An even more useless machine

Monday, January 21, 2013

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http://hackaday.com/2012/12/22/an-even-more-useless-machine/

When Pinball Was Illegal in New York (and Chicago and L.A.)

Sunday, January 20, 2013

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http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2013/01/when-pinball-was-illegal-new-york-and-chicago-and-l/4438/ As he saw it, circa January 1942, “pinball machine pushers were ‘slimy crews of tinhorns, well dressed and living in luxury on penny thievery’ and the game was part of a broader ‘craze’ for gambling,” June writes. “He ordered the city’s police to make Prohibition-style pinball raids and seizures its ‘top priority,’ and was [...]

Dev: Learn from Zombies to be a more effective tech team

Thursday, January 17, 2013

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http://www.eewei.com/design-thinking/learn-from-zombies-to-be-a-more-effective-team/

Gun Problem Solved -> Deputize Everyone

Thursday, January 17, 2013

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http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/126570-2013-01-16-gun-problem-solved.htm?EdNo=001&From=

US programmer secretly outsourced his own corporate job to China

Thursday, January 17, 2013

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http://rt.com/usa/news/us-employee-outsourcing-china-177/

Silent Circle Encrypted Voice And Video Calls – $20K USD Per Month with Guaranteed Gov Surveillance Access

Thursday, January 17, 2013

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2013/01/16/silent-circle-adds-android-for-encrypted-voice-and-video-calls/

Afghanistan War Veteran Solemnly Recalls Seeing Entire Platoon Killed By Undiagnosed PTSD

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

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http://www.theonion.com/articles/afghanistan-war-veteran-solemnly-recalls-seeing-en,30914/?ref=auto

Hayek versus Keynes: The Big Picture in Cartoon Form

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

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http://bastiat.mises.org/2013/01/hayek-versus-keynes-the-big-picture-in-cartoon-form/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: MisesBlog (Mises Economics Blog)

The Austrian School Referenced in The Simpsons

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

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http://bastiat.mises.org/2013/01/the-austrian-school-referenced-in-the-simpsons/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: MisesBlog (Mises Economics Blog)

Swedish School Makes Minecraft Lessons Compulsory

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

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http://games.slashdot.org/story/13/01/14/2212242/swedish-school-makes-minecraft-lessons-compulsory?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

What Austrians Can Learn from Steve Martin

Monday, January 14, 2013

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http://mises.org/daily/6247/What-Austrians-Can-Learn-from-Steve-Martin

The Great New England Vampire Panic

Friday, January 11, 2013

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http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/The-Great-New-England-Vampire-Panic-169791986.html?c=y&story=fullstory

Facebook Charging $100 to Message Mark Zuckerberg

Friday, January 11, 2013

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http://mashable.com/2013/01/11/facebook-message-mark-zuckerberg/

Motorist Claims Corporation Papers Are Carpool Passengers

Friday, January 11, 2013

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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/01/corporation-carpool-flap/

Dead on Facebook: Pranksters kill accounts with fake death reports

Thursday, January 10, 2013

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http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/dead-facebook-pranksters-kill-accounts-fake-death-reports-1B7833218

The Least Stressful Jobs Of 2013: #1 Uni Professor

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2013/01/03/the-least-stressful-jobs-of-2013/

Father Hires In-Game “Hitmen” To Deter Son From Playing

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

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http://kotaku.com/5972406/father-hires-in game-hitmen-to-deter-son-from-playing

Man suffers heart attack dancing to ‘Gangnam style’

Saturday, December 15, 2012

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http://www.ksat.com/news/Man-suffers-heart-attack-dancing-to-Gangnam-style/-/478452/17762810/-/format/rsss_2.0/-/5wtsstz/-/index.html

xkcd: Spinal Tap Amps

Thursday, December 13, 2012

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https://xkcd.com/670/

Dear TEDx India Licensees

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

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http://pastebin.com/v9wHUWrh

Text Message Spammer Wants FCC To Declare Spam Filters Illegal

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

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http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/12/12/0315246/text-message-spammer-wants-fcc-to-declare-spam-filters-illegal

Randomized Consumerism

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

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http://randomshopper.tumblr.com/

That square QR barcode on the poster? Check it’s not a sticker Scam

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/10/qr_code_sticker_scam/

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