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CIA’s ‘Facebook’ Program Dramatically Cut Agency’s Costs | Onion News Network
CIA’s ‘Facebook’ Program Dramatically Cut Agency’s Costs | Onion News Network. In other news, New Labour announce plan to nationalise MySpace under guise of platform refresh… HT: BradB
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Twitter Updates for 2012-10-02
@brainchill In which case if you're the speaker then you're probably saying something dumb. # @OrwellUpgraded I'd have to be an idiot to critique a DJB project without doing several days of homework. I'll leave it to the other idiots. # .@OrwellUpgraded What I'll say is that SSL is better than nothing because SSL at
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Lawyer::QC says that Police, Others are monitoring Social Media to track Activists #Independent #Cryptoparty
Activists warned to watch what they say as social media monitoring becomes ‘next big thing in law enforcement’ – Crime – UK – The Independent. Quote: Political activists must watch what they say on the likes of Facebook and Twitter, sites which will become the “next big thing in law enforcement”, a leading human rights
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If you ever need to keep a cat away from your laptop for 3+ hours, get one of these
SnuggleSafe Microwave Wireless Heatpad with Fleece Cover There’s an entire theory of physics that can be extrapolated from one of these – a few minutes in the microwave and they have a near gravitational attraction for cats, moreso that the Apple-branded buttwarmers more typically found in geek homes. And in the winter you can lose
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“Why does iTunes 10.7 try to contact the domain bogusapple.com?” /ht @glynwintle
Why does iTunes 10.7 try to contact the domain bogusapple.com?. My guess would be an Apple intranet-internal hostname that escaped into production. Glyn wrote: Some Apple systems have started odd connection attempts to bogusapple?com: bit.ly/QEX3Bd The domain was free so @VxJasonxV bought it …which is amusing.
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Introducing Comet ISON # Can I call dibs on end-of-the-world disaster-scenario tabloid headlines now?
This: In early 2013 October it will pass very near Mars and possibly be visible to rovers and orbiting spacecraft. Comet ISON appears on course to achieve sungrazer status as it passes within a solar diameter of Sun’s surface in late 2013 November. Whatever survives will then pass nearest the Earth in late 2013 December.
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Twitter Updates for 2012-10-01
@cylindric that's the problem in a nutshell. Some interesting views on that last night, some more realistic than others # @Asher_Wolf @cryptopartylond It's to be expected. All issues are addressable so long as momentum & desire for more can be maintained. # @kencf0618 Should be interesting, I got more of a BarCamp vibe but MakerFaire
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Tip for better G&Ts: Making Huge, Clear, Slow-Melting Ice Cubes
picture by peter macrobert from a recent bbq; can you spot the ice-cube? barely? good! Use good ice. The best way to get good ice for a G&T at home is: 1) buy a brita filter and use it to fill a rinsed-out kettle 2) boil the water before bed and let it cool overnight
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Sweet Potato, Lemongrass and Bacon Soup
I’ve had two requests for this now, so I might as well blog it: R: oooh, got the recipe for that soup? A: leftovers from the party, but yeah, if you like R: sounds good ? A: 6 to 8 modest sweet potatoes (or fewer of the huge ones) A: boil until mostly soft. drain.
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On Hate Speech
I’m going to rip a few paragraphs far away from the blog post where I originally read them and just share them because I found them insightful: Hate speech is verbal communication that induces anger due to the listener’s inability to offer an intelligent response. Because this inability to offer an intelligent response is due
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Observations of @cryptopartylond / #cryptoparty
Synopsis: Google Campus: convenient venue but dead area on a saturday night. Tell people to “Bring a bottle + 1”. If you are running a CryptoParty then you are allowed to tell people to do things. Really. A bit. It’s allowed. It’s not against the principles of anarchism at all. If you’re going to advertise