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Laser cutter, start slicing stuff for under 50 dollars – Instructables – DIY, How To, tech, art, diy (tags: tools laser cutter diy) Exploiting Linkages for Good Paul was robbed of his laptop at gunpoint … a few days later, a girl called him to ask for his password: “We’re from Microsoft; we’ve recovered your…

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IMG_0509 Originally uploaded by alecmuffett By night, with strobes…

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I should be in bed with a headache, but this rankles too much… Calacanis is barking mad crazy, and Hugh Macleod is inexplicably potty if he really (as opposed to sarcastically) agrees with Jason: 1. In feed advertising Imagine if every 10th, 20th, or 100th tweet was an advertisement. Would that be so horrible? No,…

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P1050538.JPG Originally uploaded by Adriana Lukas 🙂

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Something to bear in mind lest you carry multiple laptop or camcorder batteries in flight; I presume someone told them that Lithium reacts explosively with this “water” stuff that they’ve already banned people from carrying aboard… Yet another $100+ item that can be impounded by the ignorant. TechThoughts The FAA has published new rules for…

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Microsoft’s attempt to improve its image via absurdist cognitive dissonance continues; can someone please explain to me how this set of statements can be both correct and self-consistent: “We are pleased that the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation has chosen to take a (license) … which will provide Samba with access to our specifications for the…

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Another from Steve’s blog… Another company is getting into the trackable ads game: Adobe. They’ve announced a new product: PDF files with ads. Publishers can upload PDF files to Adobe’s web site; the files will be modified to display ads via Yahoo!’s advertising network. When the PDF file is viewed, “contextual ads are dynamically matched…

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Chris forwarded this to me: Steve Bellovin, nice guy, drinking buddy, all-round good egg, baritone Tom Lehrer singer, and inventor of so many pieces of TCP/IP and crypto technology that I feel it incumbent to point out that he wrote Anews just for karmic balance – well Steve’s got himself a blog and writes thusly:…

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From Marc Canter’s blog: Adriana Cronin-Lukas – is a blogging consultant. This time – I won’t use the term ‘insultant’ cause she’s much nicer and coy with her customers. I’ve met Adrianna a number of occasions and her wit, insights and diplomacy just reeks of “I’m gonna do whatever it takes to help these folks…

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The comprehensive writeup of this trip is at Laureen’s blog; more pictures in Geoff’s gallery…

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Mars Impact Probability Increases to 4 Percent The impact probability for a collision of asteroid 2007 WD5 with Mars on January 30 has increased from 1.3% to 3.9%. … (tags: astronomy science mars)

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