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giantrobotlasers: How to Make Coke Bomb Explosion Video – 5min.com
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ListenAn 8 year old in Dublin calls a demolition...
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The Assumption Song →
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I see these things and I wonder, “Why can’t that be me?” I am answered by silence.
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November 2008
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A reminder to keep your mind open →
From http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200811/print_this_file_your_printer_will_jam.html: Another story from printer-land of 20 years ago: this time about a seemingly impossible bug. While working on the LPS-20 PostScript software, a bug was filed that said roughly, Print the attached file. The LPS-20 will jam. You’ll have to open the printer to remove the scrunched up paper. … A...
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Best Adapted Screenplay
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WoWoW comes true →
Referencing http://www.theonion.com/content/video/warcraft_sequel_lets_gamers_play However, this game does look like it could be intriguing. I mean, my expectations aren’t all that high, but it could have potential. They should have a constant stream of new user generated content (hopefully their tools are good), and the article mentions they’ll have “support for any and every...
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Innovative new idea from PETA!
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Thomas Wilson (Biff) from Back to the Future
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Google News Strikes Again
“The Wall Street Journal reports that Google News crawled an obscure reprint of an article from 2002 when United Airlines was on the brink of bankruptcy. United Airlines has since recovered but due to a missing dateline, Google News ran the story as today’s news. The story was then picked up by other news aggregators and eventually headlined as a news flash on Bloomberg. This triggered...
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August 2008
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WTF Google... Epic fail
So I was setting up a RSS reader on my iGoogle homepage, and as soon as I added the reader, I noticed my homepage changed drastically. All my gadgets had changed, there’s a new bar on the left of my homepage that lists all my gadgets (which I can see on the page anyway), and worst of all, all my normal feeds now list snippets of their content. Previously, I could click a + box and read the...
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Freaky cat: watch the eyes. Nature can be pretty cool. In humans, they say when you talk to someone you’re attracted to your pupils dilate. I wonder what life would be like if it was this pronounced for us too… probably a good thing it isn’t.
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A cool logic puzzle →
http://xkcd.com/blue_eyes.html Regarding how you can add information to a situation without actually adding any new information (everyone on the island already knows there’s someone out there with blue eyes, yet information was still added)
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Just in case anyone hasn’t seen this yet! … okay, really it’s so I have a quick, accessible link to watch it again …
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Hey, my name’s Kevin Mook. I’m a recent graduate from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign with a bachelors in CS. I work at http://www.doink.com (DoInk) which is as fun a place to work as the domain suggests. To quickly sum up what we do, we let people make their own animated comics using their own art, but also props made and shared by the community. It’s really much...
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