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Two surprisingly interesting and SFW statistical analysis of the lives of pornstars and adverts for escorts
Dirty Words: A Probing Analysis of 5000 Call Girl Reviews (October 2011) There is an online subculture of men who review their encounters with escorts using a frank, exhaustive style you’d associate more with reviews of hotels than sex. I analyzed five thousand of these ‘field reports’ to see what I could find out about
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It’s Okay To Be Smart • My last post about the ocean-dwelling virus that… # electron microscopy
It's Okay To Be Smart • My last post about the ocean-dwelling virus that….
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HELP: Where can I get about 20 cardboard boxes, suitable for filing/archive, approx A4 x 30cm or a bit bigger ?
Am doing some tidying up and want to bung some stuff in the loft. Stackable would be good.
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Everything to be labelled with terrifying images of death # how very #cyber
“[…] getting shampoo in your eyes could easily leave you temporarily blinded, causing you to stumble out of the shower, down the stairs, out of the door and into the path of traffic. “From now on all shampoo will have a label showing a corpse that’s been run over by a bus and exploded like
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“Wat Behaviour” in Programming Languages – Security Impact /ht @jimfinnis #EPIC #MUSTWATCH #SHORT #WAT
Via Jim I discovered this four minutes of delight: …and the mid-section about Javascript behaviour is relevant to WAF bypass (previously, previously) – regarding which there are many presentations and blog posts on the web, but I still delight in this sort of thing so here are a couple of extracts: From http://www.slideshare.net/nethemba/bypassing-web-application-firewalls From http://security.bleurgh.net/javascript-without-letters-or-numbers
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BBC – dot.Rory: Cyberwar or cybermirage? # some sanity from @BBCRoryCJ #cyber
One to add to the Decyber page – extract from: BBC – dot.Rory: Cyberwar or cybermirage? My emphasis: But hold on a minute – are we now in danger of overhyping all of this? Recently I spent a day at a conference listening to some very clever people discuss these issues in grave terms. I can’t name them because
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#THIS: @JeffJarvis angrily *eviscerates* the BBC *on-air* for whipping up “Crap, BS” hacking story #MUSTWATCH
Firstly, disclosure: from April I will have an interest in Facebook’s wellbeing* but I don’t think that skews my perspective on this matter; I have a long and documented history of laying into politicians and journalists who are swept up in the mythology of cyberspace and the fearmongering around it. But never before have I
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Imperial Model B Typewriter, circa 1915..1919
Inherited from my maternal grandfather, eventually… Mac keyboard for comparison.
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“If your education is to be used to shut up, placate, downplay, sweet talk, then you are better off being a carpenter”
http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/8842941/i-may-be-killed-if-i-write-this/ ‘I may be killed if I write this’ Lars Hedegaard, founder of Denmark’s Free Press Society, speaks from a secret location after an attempt on his life […] But what of those who say, ‘Well, he ought to have known. This is what happens if you upset or provoke people’? ‘I don’t want to brag
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Police Raided a Guy’s House Because He Posted a Picture of a Toy Mortar on Facebook
It’s prettymuch a miracle he wasn’t shot. The British police officers that raided Ian Driscoll’s Tewkesbury home found the mortar they were looking for. They just didn’t expect it to be plastic. Or a model. “The Action Man looked a bit like me, so I decided to put it as my Facebook picture,” Driscoll, who