habeas corpus
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Inefficient Rulers
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Golomb Rulers and Costas Arrays.
Social engineering
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GoldieBlox have been in the news (by which I mean the blogs) a lot lately because of their Princess Machine video. In case you missed the memo, GoldieBlox do engineering toys for girls, by which they mean a) they’re pink, and b) they’ve got stories, because girls need everything to have a story. Think I’m…
Visual Cryptography
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How to create perfect secret messages that can be decoded using just your eyes.
Dressing up
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A few months ago now (OK, this post has sat in drafts for a while) when I came to pick my daughter up from nursery I found her wearing a pink ‘fairy skirt’ (something like a tutu). “Her trousers and her spare trousers both got wet and it was the only thing we could find!”…
I’m worried about whatseventhepoint on /r/self
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Posted 3 hours ago; sounds like they could do with some help:
I don’t know what to do anymore. I’ve exhausted any little hope I’d had, and now there’s nothing.
I just want it to be over. By any means necessary.
http://www.reddit.com/r/self/comments/1qw4tm/i_feel_like_everything_i_do_is_inherently_stupid/
Why You Should Never Use MongoDB
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Disclaimer: I do not build database engines. I build web applications. I run 4-6 different projects every year, so I build a lot of web applications. I see apps with different requirements and different data storage needs. I’ve deployed most of the data stores you’ve heard about, and a few that you probably haven’t. I’ve picked the wrong…
The story of how the Diaspora social network adopted the hip new database technology without for a moment thinking about whether it was the right database technology.
“We. Are. Carnivore. Period.” (TIL that eating plants, language, and science are destroying the world)
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The original link was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG0zABIOo5s#t=4m
The most pointless use of YouTube ever? A 6-hour video of a Windows desktop while the computer microphone points out of the window.
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The original link was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSN7jol3J0A
Owl in flight [x-post from /r/pics]
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Kitten vs. wipers [x-post from just about everywhere, but we know it belongs here]
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Something like HTTPS Everywhere for new Opera?
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I’m looking for an extension that will automatically redirect-to-HTTPS for particular domains, e.g. to ensure that I’m using the secure version of Wikipedia, etc., whenever I go there. The HTTPS Everywhere plugin from the EFF does this for Firefox and Chrome; what can I do to make this work in Opera?
Playerbase growth is exponential! Surely this can’t continue?
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The original link was: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Population_curve.svg/550px-Population_curve.svg.png
TIL that in 1916, a conman called Sir Edmund Backhouse, claiming to be working for the Chinese government, sold the UK six (non-existent) battleships and an (imaginary) flotilla-load of rifles.
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[since originally being published on Reddit, the resource in question has been moved to http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-30513]
Roşia Montană: the richest village you’ve never heard of. Until 94% of the gold they’re sat on goes to Canada.
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The original link was: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/oana-romocea/romania-rosia-montana_b_3920165.html
