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  • Does Airport Security Really Make Us Safer? | Culture | Vanity Fair
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    The best memorial to the victims of 9/11, in Schneier’s view, would be to forget most of the ā€œlessonsā€ of 9/11. ā€œIt’s infuriating,ā€ he said, waving my fraudulent boarding pass to indicate the mass of waiting passengers, the humming X-ray machines, the piles of unloaded computers and cell phones on the conveyor belts, the uniformed T.S.A. officers instructing people to remove their shoes and take loose change from their pockets. ā€œWe’re spending billions upon billions of dollars doing this—and it is almost entirely pointless. Not only is it not done right, but even if it was done right it would be the wrong thing to do.ā€ Heaps of federal money, endless bureaucracy, and constant travel delays are the most visible by-products of the Transportation Security Administration. Too bad ā€œincreased safetyā€ doesn’t fit on that list.
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  • Poe's Law - RationalWiki
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    Poe's Law is an axiom suggesting that it's difficult to distinguish between parodies of religious fundamentalism and its genuine proponents, since they both seem equally insane. For example, some conservatives consider noted homophobe Fred Phelps to be so over-the-top that they argue he's a "deep cover liberal" trying to discredit more mainstream homophobes. Poe's Law states:[1]
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  • Firefox Share Alpha — the next step for fast sharing in Firefox
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  • VH1's Behind the Music + Dungeons & Dragons = Most Awesome Music Video Ever [Video]
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  • Tinderbox applications - On the Road Toward a Sufficient Daybook
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  • The Fans Are All Right (Pinboard Blog)
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    I learned a lot about fandom couple of years ago in conversations with my friend Britta, who was working at the time as community manager for Delicious. She taught me that fans were among the heaviest users of the bookmarking site, and had constructed an edifice of incredibly elaborate tagging conventions, plugins, and scripts to organize their output along a bewildering number of dimensions. If you wanted to read a 3000 word fic where Picard forces Gandalf into sexual bondage, and it seems unconsensual but secretly both want it, and it's R-explicit but not NC-17 explicit, all you had to do was search along the appropriate combination of tags (and if you couldn't find it, someone would probably write it for you). By 2008 a whole suite of theoretical ideas about folksonomy, crowdsourcing, faceted infomation retrieval, collaborative editing and emergent ontology had been implemented by a bunch of friendly people so that they could read about Kirk drilling Spock.
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  • McDonald's condom hoax - it was filled with ice-cream, schoolgirls admit | News.com.au
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    This is an utterly content-free rant in which I express my anger at recent Internet Explorer preview releases requiring installation of what is effectively an entirely new operating system. I would…
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  • ā€œI’m appalledā€ – Spotify users swarm Get Satisfaction over Facebook requirement
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    Well... I had been thinking about paying for Spotify, until now at least
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  • The timer knob keeps falling off while grinding :: Baratza :: Question :: Answer ::
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    End user fix requires scotch tape. Quality manufacturing tolerances, there
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  • A Short Rant About Hosting (Pinboard Blog)
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  • Political Animal - Cantor’s wealthy backers: raise our taxes
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  • Boston.com
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  • Blogger/Twitter co-founder Evan Williams on blogging’s future
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  • What every programmer should know about time
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  • To the Limit - NYTimes.com
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    It isn’t at all unthinkable that the battle to raise the federal debt ceiling could end in failure.
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  • DIGIDAY:DAILY - Entrepreneurs Should Say No to Silicon Valley's Bully
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    Again: Who reads TechCrunch anymore?
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  • Terravania | Terraria Online
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  • Dev Derby – a monthly competition of demos using open technologies ✩ Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
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    Starting from June, Mozilla runs a monthly competition to showcase newest web technologies. In an international competition individuals can submit demos that show the world just how much is possible ...
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  • The Life of Kenneth: So You Want to Build Electronics
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    So here is a gigantic list of everything I would buy right now to replace my entire workshop if mine were to disappear. I'm going to try and separate it into some sort of reasonable order as far as importance, but the point is that you see all of this, and use it as inspiration to put together your own collection. The equipment you need to get started in building electronics. If you look back through the last two years ofĀ  posts on this blog, you'll s...
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  • France attempts to "civilize" the Internet; Internet fights back
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    Maybe they want to go back to just the Minitel network? A major "e-G8" gathering in Paris today saw French President Sarkozy telling …
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  • May 25, 1945: Sci-Fi Author Predicts Future by Inventing It | This Day In Tech | Wired.com
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  • Why the "Civilized Internet" is Uncivilized | Endless Innovation | Big Think
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    By creating ideas, humans achieve immortality.
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  • Abed In Cougar Town
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  • I, Cringely Ā» Blog Archive Ā» Netflix too big to fail? - Cringely on technology
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  • Caution: Nerdist Tees
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  • Playing with pointers, and fire
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  • Seth's Blog: The future of the library
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    What is a public library for? First, how we got here: Before Gutenberg, a book cost about as much as a small house. As a result, only kings and bishops could afford to own a book of their own. This…
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  • ALA: Department of Education withdraws federal support for school libraries | American Libraries Magazine
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    Seriously. My most-used phrase for 2011 is WHAT THE F**K?!
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  • The Danger of Playing in Apple’s Walled Garden: Tech News and Analysis Ā«
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  • Introducing Tapir: Simple search for static sites - Jeff Kreeftmeijer
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    Wouldn't it be nice to have a service that indexes your RSS feed and allows you to search it using a JSON API?
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  • US and China to have manufacturing costs parity by 2015? | Blog | Futurismic
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  • 3 Reasons Curation is Here to Stay
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    Perhaps you won't believe me since it's my job to spread the gospel of curation as the Chief Evangelist of Pearltrees, but I think curation is here to stay. These are the reasons why I believe this is the case. This year there has been a tremendous amount of buzz in Silicon Valley about curation. Magnify.net CEO Steven Rosenbaum recently…
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  • Sci-kea
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  • Bruce Sterling and Vernor Vinge on Augmented Reality in the Workplace
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    Miami University's Augmented Reality Research Group developed an Android app that helps librarians find mis-shelved books and determine where they should go. It's a simple idea, and one that could save librarians hours of drudgery (or cost many temps their jobs, but that's another story). Sounds a lot more useful than virtual mirrors for trying…
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  • Wikileaks: Police Arrested Movie Pirate As ā€œA Personal Favorā€ To Movie Official | TorrentFreak
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    Geremi Adam, the movie cammer for the Scene release group ā€˜maVen’, will go down in history as a grand master of his art. Despite difficulties in pinning a crime on him, eventually Adam was arrested. According to a cable released by Wikileaks, that arrest was carried out as "a personal favor" to a movie industry official, setting off a tragic chain of events which would ultimately lead to Adams' death.
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  • Tangled Webs 7.6 - The Black Team
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  • 8 Movie Special Effects You Won't Believe Aren't CGI | Cracked.com
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    Let's stop and appreciate these mind-blowing scenes that were done the old-fashioned way -- with stunts, models and borderline insanity.
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  • Chubby Emo Chris Hardwick of 2003 Says, ā€œYou Can Do It!ā€
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  • Eve Online: Audience With The King Of Space | Rock, Paper, Shotgun
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    Eve Online player The Mittani is the CEO of Goon Fleet, the single largest corporation in Eve Online, both loved and re…
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  • DRM run amok: how Bioware and EA are screwing users right now
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    This is part of what makes me think the past 10-15 years' worth of games will not be playable in another 10-15 years. Total lost generation of games. Players of Bioware's popular Dragon Age game are well into day four of a …
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  • What Gameshow Rocked the Arcade Scene in the 80’s? STARCADE | The Retroist
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  • My Mom Sent Me a Folk Rendition of The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air Theme Song
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  • localStorage is not cookies - andyhume.net
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  • Here’s A Precision Surgical Robot Folding A Paper Airplane, Because It Can
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  • Amazon cuts off Lendle, other book lending services
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    And this is, in part, why I don't yet own a Kindle and never buy ebooks that are infected with DRM Amazon allows customers to lend certain Kindle books for 14 days at a time, …
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  • The Worst Thing That Has Ever Happened To Friday
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    FRAIIIDAY FRAIIIDAY FRAIIIDAY
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  • Nerdist Podcast #68: BULGING DISC
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  • The Appalachian Trail In Under Five Minutes
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  • TIGSource Ā» TIGArchive Ā» DoomRL 0.9.9.2
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