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Upcoming Kickstarter for Geek Porn Anthology
Geek Love: An Anthology of Full Frontal Nerdity
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TIL: UK censored/blocked websites include ShelfAppeal: blog featuring items that can be placed on a shelf
Shelfappeal.com was reported blocked on 15th February 2012 on Orange. This is a blog that features items that can be placed on a shelf. via Mobile Internet censorship: what’s happening and what to do | Open Rights Group.
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Unsolicited plug: Toresano, St John’s Wood, London – Great #tapas, best #churros in London.
Welcome To Toresano – Spanish Tapas Bar. Lovely people, too…
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London #Olympic / IOC Committee was tracked via #GPS & #CCTV to smooth them through traffic lights # Keeping London Moving
Vanity Fair; long article, worth reading Near the end of the application process, an I.O.C. evaluation committee was permitted to visit London. Bid-committee officials knew that London’s transportation system was a weak spot on the city’s application. “Our nightmare was it would take forever to get to the venues,” Mills recalled. A bid-committee team planned…
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HPCwire: Open Source Compiler Adds Support for Nvidia GPUs #LLVM
HPCwire: Open Source Compiler Adds Support for Nvidia GPUs. Maybe I should finally get one of these vector-processors GPU things? Is it like a bit-blitter? 😛
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Welcome to Life « Tom Scott # HT: @tomscott – 165 seconds of excellent copyright dystopia scifi
A science fiction story about what you see when you die. Or: the Singularity, ruined by lawyers. Welcome to Life « Tom Scott.
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Twitter Updates for 2012-05-14
: A few years ago the Dell 2407WFP was a must-have geek monitor; what's its modern equivalent? http://t.co/gZ9KWUeM # : Has someone yet doxed the #part3 "completely considered you when i saw this" Twitter worm/bug/hole? http://t.co/y1HEPGLM # : Light Blue Touchpaper » Blog Archive » I’m from the Government and I’m here to help #security…
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Light Blue Touchpaper » Blog Archive » I’m from the Government and I’m here to help #security #openstandards
Ross Anderson writes: (caution: links exist in original) Two years ago, Hyoungshick Kim, Jun Ho Huh and I wrote a paper On the Security of Internet banking in South Korea in which we discussed an IT security policy that had gone horribly wrong. The Government of Korea had tried in 1998 to secure electronic commerce…
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A few years ago the Dell 2407WFP was a must-have geek monitor; what’s its modern equivalent?
I have one of the aforementioned, but now I want to pair it – in portrait mode – with a new landscape monitor for a dual-head system. Desired resolution 2560×1600. Suggestions?
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Twitter Updates for 2012-05-13
: Each morning is now spent imagining – reconstructing – Roomba's Big Adventure #roomba http://t.co/DHpSruIK # @DrJennyWoods Found a posh cheese shop in Bath yesterday; also a French bistro # : The Oatmeal on The C-word http://t.co/ZqQUZeGs # : TIL that Sweden banned "Skippy the Bush Kangaroo" for being unrealistic http://t.co/D40JP3WR #
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TIL that Sweden banned “Skippy the Bush Kangaroo” for being unrealistic
The series was dubbed into Spanish in Mexico, where it is known as Skippy el canguro, and has been distributed to most Spanish-speaking countries, including Cuba and Spain, where it became very popular. The series crossed the Iron Curtain and was aired in Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and 1980s, and is still being broadcast in…