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“It was like ‘CSI,’ but it was real.”
Queens resident Rebecca Fox, 27, said she saw people running down the street and initially thought it was a celebrity sighting, but then saw a woman shot in the foot and a man dead on the ground. “I was scared and shocked and literally shaking,” she said. She said police seemed to appear in seconds.…
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Re: Pixar, and my first 3D movie experience
Via the comments on this post: Mark What did you think of the 3D? Alec All told, good. I need to adjust my contacts prescription so there were a couple of times I felt that things were slightly wrong, but nothing major. A lot of Brave is sweeping landscapes, and details were picked out in…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-08-25
.@metoffice What happened? Did anyone who turned their phone upside down cause a hurricane or something? # @lauraanngill @shortblue Sennheiser HD600/650. #win # .@JonnyHeavey Updated #Facebook app on #JellyBean #Android will now not pop up a keyboard. Can't type anything; Have FB redone all apps? # Tried loading #SwiftKey onto the Nexus. Deleted it before…
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Geek Love: An Anthology of Full Frontal Nerdity by Shanna Germain — Kickstarter # Currently $3,700 of $8,000
Geek Love: An Anthology of Full Frontal Nerdity by Shanna Germain — Kickstarter.
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Comparing Pixar’s “Brave” to Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Joss Whedon said something about Buffy along the lines of: The point of Buffy is that it takes questions of teenager-hood and writes them large: Why is High School like Hell? Why is my boyfriend acting so strangely after I’ve slept with him? … …in which case the resonant subplot of Brave is “my mother…
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Excitement! Have booked to go see my first 3D Movie!
Not done one before – mostly out of grief to do with spectacles, but now have contacts as an alternative and will go see “Brave”. Cross fingers it works.
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Nexus home button and spacebar on keyboard. – Android Forums at AndroidCentral.com
So it’s not just me. Does anyone else have this problem where you are in the middle of typing and fat finger syndrome has you press the home button instead of the space bar? Obviously causing you to drop to the home menu and possibly lose any work you were doing ( like writing an…
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“The real scandal would be if you went all the way to Las Vegas and you didn’t misbehave in some trivial way” #GuessWho #MyOpinion
BBC News – Reaction: Sun publishes Prince Harry naked photos. Boris Johnson, Mayor of London “I think it’d be disgraceful if a chap wasn’t allowed to have a bit of fun in Las Vegas. The real scandal would be if you went all the way to Las Vegas and you didn’t misbehave in some trivial…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-08-24
@williamheath I think I have proposed a novel argument in the last section of http://t.co/EzHBDybU # Lest we forget: Prince Charles was roasted for underage drinking / a Cherry Brandy: http://t.co/ognBDuMq – #PrinceHarry is normal for today # Rule #1 of buying a coffee at #GoogleCampus Gently push the TV cameras out of the way…
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And the crypto talk of the year award goes to… #mustread #reddit
http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/yo7zi/and_the_crypto_talk_of_the_year_award_goes_to/ Click the link to the PDF at the top…
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Final: Evidence submitted to Committee re: the Draft Communications Data Bill #CCDP
Thanks to Mike R for kicking me about the formatting. Date 23 August 2012 Qualifications In response to the call for written evidence on the Communications Data Bill, I submit the following: My name is Alec Muffett. I have worked in Information Technology since 1988, and I specialise in system and network security. Notably for…