Train nearly runs over idiots (video) (29)
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Video of a train engineer's nightmarish scare. Video contains colorful language. (via Arbroath)
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David said:
Almost-FAIL
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Eebs said:
OMG I almost crapped myself.
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Bill said:
Darwin had this kid in his sights. Holy shit...
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Gary M said:
Sometimes the human race is better off if the genes get removed via a train ...
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drsoos said:
Dumbasses
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Rui said:
HOLY CARP!
Stack-It Brackets (11)
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My wife has been asking me to build a firewood rack for years. I was planning to construct something from square steel tubing, which would require a lot of cutting and welding. A friend recommended Stack-It Brackets, which allow you to quickly assemble and locate 2x4s in three directions without using any additional hardware. I'm sorry I didn't find these years ago, as we've been stacking wood badly for quite some time. They're inexpensive, work ...
Anti-Perl Social Engineering (4)
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Dave Cross has a piece on why corporations hate Perl. He's being a little hyperbolic (as he admits)--not everyone hates Perl, but he's right in noting that there is a backlash against it. He says: I was talking to people from one such company last night. The Powers That Be at this company have announced that Perl is no longer their language of choice for web systems and that over time (probably a lot of ...
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Bill said:
I hate to admit it but I've got this viewpoint on Perl too. I even helped host the Atlanta Perl Mongers meetings at one point! Maybe it's because Perl 6 has been coming "any day now" or is it because Perl is too commonplace- in the same vein as shell scripts?
Great Moments in Programming: "For some reaoson it was bug." (7)
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My friend Sven, a programmer by trade who never stops complaining about the cretinous sub-literates that are subordinate to him, messages me: sven: Wow. I so need a break. sven: A colleague checked in some code that broke EVERYTHING, and then went home. sven: His checkin comment? "For some reaoson it was bug." sven: WHAT DID GO WRONG sven: FOR SOME REAOSON IT WAS BUG John: HOW IS BABBY FORMED? HOW GIRL GET PRAGNENT? sven: ...
Suitcase full of bacon triggers airport bomb detectors (13)
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According to this article on German news site Nachrichten, as un-ablauted by Google Translate and turned into a slurry of humorous pidgin gobbledygook, a quantity of bacon is enough to set off hand luggage bomb detectors. Apparently, the traveler — on his way to America through Linz — was stopped going through after a machine detected that a piece of bacon his wife had packed "had a similar molecular density to certain types of explosives." ...
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Bill said:
I think the baggage handlers got caught red handed trying to pilfer the bacon goodness from his luggage...
DataCase Turns Your iPhone Into a Wireless Storage Device (4)
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A new app called DataCase, retailing for $6.99 at the iTunes App Store, turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a wireless storage medium accessible by any other devices on a local wireless network. You can use the app to set up a drop box on the iPhone/iPod touch, or you can move files in either direction back to/from a computer. There is no additional software or server requirement for this application. If you are ...
Federating with Identi.ca (7)
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Twitter's performance problems over the past few months have made people skittish about basing businesses, even ideas, on it. The problem isn't just performance problems, however. When one company controls what many come to consider a key piece of infrastructure (who'd have thought they'd read that about Twitter 18 months ago), it creates a brittle situation. What if they can't perform or go out of business? Enter Identi.ca, a Twitter-like site that's based on open ...
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Bill said:
I didn't realize Laconi.ca had federation support. That could make it even easier to bring into the enterprise.
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afroginthevalley said:
Key feature of laconi.ca, often overlooked.
Gmail Outage or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love GTD Contexts (56)
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Like thousands of people yesterday, I was annoyed and inconvenienced by Gmail’s unexpected 2-hour dirtnap. But, wow. Apparently, it just irrevocably hijacked the whole day for some folks. And even sent a few into a Dark Afternoon of the Soul that most 19th-century Romantic poets would have found a bit histrionic. Now, as a user, polemicist, and nemesis of Apple’s MobileMe problems, I’m not here to criticize the frustration about a broken cloud service; I ...
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Christopher Gillespie said:
Merlin Mann gives a great synopsis of the Getting Things Done scheme. It's been a great time saver for me.
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Jack Baty said:
Ahh sanity
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Nick said:
Amen! Seriously, it's a FREE service, can people really bitch if it's down for a couple hours. I think they should schedule 2 hours down every day to get people focused on more important things.
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ravi said:
Merlin has pearls of wisdom on GTD. Must read
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Craig Maloney said:
For those of you who survived the GMail outage of 8/11/08.
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Dave Arter said:
Pretty inspiring... I really should learn how to Get Things Done.
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ThinkHammer said:
I was in my @Errands context and thus largely oblivious to the outage. This is a great recommendation to be ready to flip contexts in your GTD life.
Gmail Outage or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love GTD Contexts (27)
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Like thousands of people yesterday, I was annoyed and inconvenienced by Gmail’s unexpected 2-hour dirtnap. But, wow. Apparently, it just irrevocably hijacked the whole day for some folks. And even sent a few into a Dark Afternoon of the Soul that most 19th-century Romantic poets would have found a bit histrionic. Now, as a user, polemicist, and nemesis of Apple’s MobileMe problems, I’m not here to criticize the frustration about a broken cloud service; I ...
The Last HOPE: Audio downloads (3)
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If you happened to miss The Last HOPE in NYC this year, fear not. They have released all the talks in either 16kbps or 18kbps MP3s on their website. There were a lot of great talks, and I highly suggest listening to all of them! Get your audio files from The Last HOPE [Slashdot] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Events | Digg this!
The Dream Customer (44)
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"It's the strangest thing — I can't connect to the wireless anymore. I can still use the Microsoft but not the email." The Microsoft was a key phrase that let Jay L. know that the woman on the line wasn't exactly what you'd call a power user. "I'll be happy to help. First, can you tell me what router you're connecting to? "..." "Miss?" "I'm not having a problem with anything other than the wireless." ...
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Ingo said:
LOL
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AJ said:
If you've ever lived in a crowded apartment building you've seen your share of default SSIDs: linksys, wireless, wlan, 2wire... Or, if you've ever lived near Alex, "alexsprivatenetworkbiotch."
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CJ said:
Ahh, more tech support flashbacks.
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Michael Jervis said:
This one is an absolute classic!
Fry Guy Doesn't Wash Bathroom Hands, Gets Public Shaming [Wendys] (5)
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When the sign says, "employees must wash hands after using bathroom," Brent takes it very seriously. He says he was using the toilet at a Wendy's, and spotted a worker use the bathroom and head right... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Bill said:
Two of my former co-workers shared a running list between us of who in our company weren't hand washers. I would have loved to "call them out" in the middle of a meeting like this!
Hack a security camera with a helium balloon (22)
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This balloon-based anti surveillance camera project by Brooklyn-based artist William Lamson is an easy way to fool even the most sophisticated forms of surveillance technology. Helium filled rubber balloon set to the correct height and covered with enough static electricity to stick to any surface, such as a public camera. Now if only they made robotic pins for security officers to pop them. via Kjefta, William Lamson Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read ...
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Bill said:
Been there, done that... at work even :)
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HacKnight said:
I love this picture.
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