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“This Is The Funniest Graph I’ve Ever Seen About Why The Euro Is Totally Doomed” – Business Insider
This Is The Funniest Graph I’ve Ever Seen About Why The Euro Is Totally Doomed – Business Insider. If you spun a globe and stopped your finger 12 times on 12 random countries, they just might make more sense for a monetary union than the euro zone. That’s the conclusion from this awesomely clever chart
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So Judge Alsup – the Oracle/Google Java/Android Judge – is a coder?
Judge: We heard the testimony of Mr. Bloch. I couldn’t have told you the first thing about Java before this problem. I have done, and still do, a significant amount of programming in other languages. I’ve written blocks of code like rangeCheck a hundred times before. I could do it, you could do it. The
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Twitter Updates for 2012-05-16
: The day that my Father gatecrashed the Pope: 5 June 1944 http://t.co/nDXIjoJI #
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The day that my Father gatecrashed the Pope: 5 June 1944
My childhood was filled with stories and the excellent thing about that was that they were all utterly bonkers and quite true: My father’s losing his lower lip to a swinging tank-barrel and having it reconstructed with a graft from his bottom, so he was always talking out of his arse. The man-eating lioness which
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Twitter Updates for 2012-05-15
: Welcome to Life « Tom Scott # HT: @tomscott – 165 seconds of excellent copyright dystopia scifi http://t.co/r291fixg # @xa329 @rossjanderson Yes, Agreed. Side effect of the WordPress blog tool I use. I try to manually patch them up, but sometime ICBA. # ORGLondon Pub Meetup: May 21st 7pm: "CCDP, Interception and Evidence" –
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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