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One of the better obits, although I would argue that it's the industries he revolutionized that matter more than the products that sparked the revolution.

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Thank You, Steve Jobs

Another old post from someone I follow.

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Thank you, Steve Jobs | digiphile
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HBO Has Only Itself To Blame For Record 'Game Of Thrones' Piracy - Forbes

Makes sense.

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Andrew Sullivan on Barack Obama’s Gay Marriage Evolution - The Daily Beast

Interesting comparison to Obama's coming of age to coming out.

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Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers - YouTube

Heh.

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15 days ago

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How To Survive A Robot Uprising (aka Robopocalypse) - YouTube

Robots, at least in their current human-built incarnations, are pretty easy to defeat.

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15 days ago

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Calm you shall keep.

Yes, hmmmm.

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MONACO: The Stealth Heist Action Game With Style! PAX East 2012! - YouTube

Keep an eye out around 2:56.

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15 days ago

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The PA Report - Artemis allows six people take the bridge of a starship, and tell their own story

This is a pretty cool idea for computer-assisted RPGs.

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15 days ago

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Huge asteroid Vesta is actually a protoplanet - Technology & science - Space - Space.com - msnbc.com

Pretty cool imaging into the history of the solar system.

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#AltDevBlogADay » Kevin Bacon in Video Gaming

Pretty cool procedural quest generation.

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16 days ago

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Mitt Romney’s prep school classmates recall pranks, but also troubling incidents - The Washington Post

Even if he's matured, it's still a telling story. Someone must have been sitting on this, the timing couldn't be worse for him.

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This Week Obama Helped Traditional Marriage and North Carolina Hurt It - Politics - The Atlantic

Yup.

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McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Neil deGrasse Tyson Gets Sidetracked While Singing Children’s Songs.

This.

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18 days ago

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Scenes From A Multiverse - A Message From Our Sponsors

Heh. Product placement past.

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18 days ago

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Why the Campaign to Stop America's Obesity Crisis Keeps Failing - The Daily Beast

Mostly what I've heard before.

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Goddard Multimedia Item 10958 - Pursuit of Light

Some highlighted visualizations from NASA's various science missions. Pretty.

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Dara O Briain Live at the Apollo - i love videogames ( 09/12/2010 ) - YouTube

Pretty much.

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Benga - I Will Never Change on Vimeo

Vinyl waveforms!

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Three Point Landing - YouTube

If I had to guess this was cultural diffusion from anime into western action movies, especially since most of the samples are from the last 15 years... but that could be a side effect of the special effects needed to pull it off nicely in non-animated contexts.

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19 days ago

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Scifri Videos: Cracking The Egg Sprinkler Mystery

I figured it was a surface tension effect.

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19 days ago

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Buzzblog: EXCLUSIVE: Watch Steve Jobs play FDR in Apple's long-lost takeoff on famous '1984' Macintosh TV commercial

This is pretty painful, although I did like the Apple model number jokes.

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22 days ago

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The Higgs Boson Explained on Vimeo

Cool explanation of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC, searching for the Higgs.

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The Invisible Borders That Define American Culture - Arts & Lifestyle - The Atlantic Cities

Interesting to see states that are bisected due to city associations.

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22 days ago

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Fiction: The Secret Number, by Igor Teper

One, Two, Three, Bleem...

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Scenes From A Multiverse - Two Scoops Of Truth

Heh.

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Young Barack Obama in Love: A Girlfriend's Secret Diary | Politics | Vanity Fair

Fascinating details from the journals of ex-girlfriends, including a Swattie, about his time in NYC.

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23 days ago

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Spam-erican Apparel « DIS Magazine

Bizarre. As rapid on-demand manufacturing becomes more common, this is only going to get more ridiculous.

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23 days ago

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EVE Online | EVE Insider | Dev Blog

Pretty impressive that their servers can handle this, and give them data on an emergent player event.

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23 days ago

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iPad productivity apps - Matt Gemmell

After trying to use emacs remotely via iSSH to edit Python, I should probably pick up Textastic.

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23 days ago

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Google Ngram Viewer

Very telling how AI peaks as more specific approaches catch on.

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24 days ago

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The Virtual Academic

So Swattie.

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DoubleOh DoubleOh - YouTube

This shouldn't be as funny as it is.

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Go right - YouTube

Amazing how artful editing can give emotional weight to very short clips of low-resolution sprites.

It also makes me wonder what would have happened had video games developed in a culture with R-to-L writing.

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ABSOLUT GREYHOUND - OFFICIAL Music Video - YouTube

Someone broke into Lady Gaga's closet to outfit these characters. I like the weird retro elements, and the idea of DJing as robot control.

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Convert a mysql database dump into something sqlite3 understands. — Gist

Good trick.

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Mali from democracy poster child to broken state - thenews.com.pk

Good overview.

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By the numbers: in portable gaming, Nintendo's loss is Apple's gain | The Verge

Gaming is on the same device as everything else, now.

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Slow Jam The News with Barack Obama: Late Night with Jimmy Fallon - YouTube

It's total youth pandering, but who else can pull off a slow jammed stump speech on student loan rates?

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Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson: Launch Keynote: 28th National Space Symposium - YouTube

Amazing talk to space professionals on why our space program needs a future beyond low-earth orbit.

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Mental Help Hotline - YouTube

Heard quotes from this as part of a mix on the ETN.fm trance station. (Possibly NTS - Stronghold 020, but I think that's just the show?)

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TapLogger: Inferring User Inputs On Smar t phone Touchscreens Using On-board Motion Sensors

This is a pretty awesome security attack. The accelerometer is sensitive enough to determine where you were on the onscreen keyboard with each tap, and thus capture your passwords.

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House of The Rising Sun - Musical Tesla Coils - YouTube

Great song. Since the coils can only do one note at a time, the backing music makes sense. The formerly vocal track is screaming.

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audi e-sound for e-tron electric vehicles on Vimeo

As the future becomes reality, engineers turn to sci-fi for their inspiration. Crazy. (Smart solution to the problem of electric cars being near-silent, though.)

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The PA Report - Baldur’s Gate: EE took one year, six companies, and one monstrous resolution to come to life

An example of how hard it is to port old games, because the various licenses are held by different companies and their parent conglomerates.

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Africans shocked by uncivilized antics of European savages - Hayibo | Hayibo

Someone's been learning to write Onion-style.

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The Analytical Couch Potato: thatgamecompany and Anti-Games

Interesting thoughts on games that aren't games.