Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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Social engineering
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…
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Visual Cryptography
How to create perfect secret messages that can be decoded using just your eyes.
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Dressing up
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!”…
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I'm worried about whatseventhepoint on /r/self
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/
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Why You Should Never Use MongoDB
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. Ive deployed most of the data stores youve heard about, and a few that you probably havent. I’ve picked the wrong…
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"We. Are. Carnivore. Period." (TIL that eating plants, language, and science are destroying the world)
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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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Owl in flight [x-post from /r/pics]
AltOwl in flight
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Kitten vs. wipers [x-post from just about everywhere, but we know it belongs here]
AltKitten chasing windscreen wipers
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Something like HTTPS Everywhere for new Opera?
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?
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Playerbase growth is exponential! Surely this can't continue?
AltWorld population curve
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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.
[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]
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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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TIL that "Lawnchair" Larry Walters, who flew to 16,000 feet using weather balloons tied to a lawn chair in 1982, shot himself eleven years later.
LARRY WALTERS FOUND FAME AT 16.000 feet. On July 2,1982, the 33-year-old truck driver rigged 42 helium-filled weather balloons to a Sears lawn chair in San Pedro, Calif., and, as friends looked on in wondrous support, lifted off. The sight of Walters floating in the sky shocked pilots, who radioed perplexed local air-traffic controllers. Walters …
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Proxima Centauri is 4.3 light years way: too far to travel. Why don't we just use Mercury (which has an 88 day year) as a staging ground, and launch from there?
Mercury's year is only 88 days, so if we launch a rocket from there, we only have to travel for just over 1 light year, saving time and fuel.