Food that eats itself (15)
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Flickr user agmilmoe posted a delightful photoset of "Anthropomorphic Cannibalism," or food so delicious that it eats itself. Seen above, "Two Fisted Cannibal." Anthropomorphic Cannibalism (Flickr, thanks John Alderman!) UPDATE: Previously on BB: • Suicide foods: eager-to-be-eaten food mascots
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Barry said:
It's a simple question, even a child could answer it. Would you eat yourself?
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Jeremy Jarratt said:
This is one of my favorite creepy things about being born-to-consume in America.
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dan said:
seriously, this has bothered me for years!
Monitoring P2P Networks (6)
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Interesting paper: "Challenges and Directions for Monitoring P2P File Sharing Networks or Why My Printer Received a DMCA Takedown Notice": Abstract -- We reverse engineer copyright enforcement in the popular BitTorrent file sharing network and find that a common approach for identifying infringing users is not conclusive. We describe simple techniques for implicating arbitrary network endpoints in illegal content sharing...
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Jackson said:
Interesting paper ... especially if you've ever received a notice from a copyright holder.
Jonathan Carter: Not blogging enough? (2)
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I’ve had 3 people from the Real Life (which is a very weird and disturbing place) telling me that I’m not updating my blog often enough in the last week. I’m not sure how much is supposed to be enough. I usually blog when I have some time and have something I’d really like to say. I’m completely fine with about 2 blog entries a month and perhaps more now and again when things get ...
10 Great Webcomics You Should NOT Share With Your Kids (35)
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I am a huge fan of comic strips. The comics section is the first place I go when reading the daily newspaper. (Newspapers, how quaint!) My kids love the comics, too. They wait in (almost) silent anticipation for me to move along to the Sports Section, so that they can get their sticky little hands on the page. We here at GeekDad are dedicated to providing examples of geeky things that geeky parents can do ...
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sammy said:
why is xkcd in this list? it's so not great anymore :(
Pick your friends! (125)
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Today we're excited to announce several improvements in the way sharing works in Reader. You've given us lots of feedback on the way our experimental sharing features work and we heard you loud and clear: you want more control over your sharing. We've been working hard to create a more flexible way to let you choose who to share with; you can now manage a Friends list within Reader, separate from your Gmail chat contacts. ...
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alice said:
Hehe, half of the example.com people were my office mates in New York. Yay!
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Dominik said:
Cool.
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Ishai said:
Let me understand - you share your notes with everyone and than complain? ...
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jfiorato said:
Dare and Scoble should be happy about this one.
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Tyler said:
How dare Google make changes to a product that is no longer in beta! But I like these changes. :D
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Greg said:
This just took way too long to implement. Should have been there out of the box.
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Arvind said:
some more features for the Reader
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patarakin said:
Обмен с друзьями
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antecanis said:
About time.
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Carter said:
Don't worry, Alex, I'm keeping you in my fave-5.
BBtv: HOWTO guerrilla t-shirt silkscreening with "5t311a" (9)
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BBtv guest teen haxxor correspondent 5t311a teaches us how to do guerilla t-shirt silkscreening, as described in Cory Doctorow's novel Little Brother, and as detailed in a series of Instructables posts. Link to Boing Boing tv blog post with discussion thread, downloadable video, and podcast subscription instructions. (Thanks, Charis Tobias!)
How to buy a new car and not get screwed (40)
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In this six-minute video from Ignite Seattle, Rob Gruhl offers advice on getting a good deal when shopping for a new car. (via Lifehacker)
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Piotr O said:
Very useful. He forget to mention "bring Peter's dad", which is what I'd wanna do. Honestly, seeing my dad buy a car is brilliant.
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meta said:
I couldn't believe how crazy the process was when I bought my first car.
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seanness said:
Nice...I did most of these things last year.
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Matt said:
Worth watching... I'm terrible at this sort of thing.
Ubuntu - DVD from MPEG (1)
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I've been creating DVD's recently from my DV camcorder, it turns out it's quite easy, but on my laptop [due to it not having much processing power] takes ages. So here are the steps. 1, i'm port your video into kino, export it to MPEG [8 DVD] 2, make sure you have dvdauthor and mkisofs installed on your pc, a simple apt-get install will do it for you 3, run the following commands from the ...
Kees Cook: dbus session access from remote (1)
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In order to turn off the music playing on my desktop (in audacious) from my laptop in another room, I must figure out the DBUS session, and set it up before using the audacious session management control (like “--play-pause“). $ ssh MACHINE "set -x export DISPLAY=:0.0 PID=\$(pidof audacious) if [ -z \"\$PID\" ]; then rhythmbox-client –pause else export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=\\ \$(cat /proc/\$PID/environ | xargs -0 -n1 \\ | grep ^DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS= | cut -d= -f2-) audacious –play-pause ...
Replace the System Beep with a Compiz Effect (5)
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Annoyed by the system beep from the speaker inside your computer’s case? You’ve probably noticed it when pressing backspace on the terminal prompt, or when Firefox’s find function can’t locate your query. Using Compiz, it’s possible to turn off the beep and replace it with a cool visual effect. I’ve posted before on disabling the system beep by blacklisting the pcspkr module. For most people this post is a better solution because you’ll still have ...
Conduit and Accessibility (1)
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This blog post is a friendly note to application maintainers out there to think carefully about how accessible your software is, especially when using non-standard widgets or canvases. Accessibility is important and it can also be hard. So think about it early and think about it often. Below are some notes from in the trenches, and if you think about a11y from the beginning things won’t end up this way for you. One issue to ...
Stuart Langridge: Setting an environment variable for all your apps (4)
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In the New World Order, Linux apps should all store their user-specific data according to the FreeDesktop Base Directory specification, which in practice means that config details for myapp end up in $HOME/.config/myapp. All well and good. However, I don’t like having configuration stored in dotfiles; I like to be able to get at it more easily, so I want it in $HOME/Settings. The XDG spec provides for this: you set an environment variable XDG_CONFIG_HOME ...
Currently in the Tabs (1)
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I think I'm still fighting jetlag. I've stumbled through two days of work without getting much done. But I have collected an interesting list of open tabs in one of my browser windows: 5 Steps to change a habit 5 Steps to change any habit Study: no gender differences in math performance 12 Bridges Gin Unacceptable behaviour Comments on Comments A brief guide to world domination Imagine twice as many developers It's an interesting mix. ...
Why You Should Never Talk to the Police (61)
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This is an engaging and fascinating video presentation by Professor James Duane of the Regent University School of Law, explaining why -- in a criminal matter -- you should never, ever, ever talk to the police or any other government agent. It doesn't matter if you're guilty or innocent, if you have an alibi or not -- it isn't possible for anything you to say to help you, and it's very possible that innocuous things ...
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Ben said:
In case you need a few more reasons never to talk to cops.
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André said:
Para quem vai aos US.
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Michael said:
Yes officer, I confess. Errr, wait a minute... ahhh nevermind.
Conduit UI Experiments (1)
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The discussions regarding my proposal for inclusion of Conduit into GNOME 2.24 seem to be going OK. The inevitable issue of Conduit’s user interface has been raised, and it is good to see some constructive comments being posted. It is a bit of a simplification, but I see basically three schools of thought with regard to the user interface for synchronizing things. What follows is a brief discussion of the pros and cons of each ...
21 Things for Kids to do Before the Summer Ends (7)
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With swim lessons over, summer camps a distant memory and the specter of school still several weeks distant, cries of "There's nothing to do!" are becoming more and more frequent. We, at Geekdad, sympathize -- that's why we've come up with a list of 21 low/no-cost activities that'll engage your kids quicker than they can say "I'm bored!" Feel free to add to our list via the comments! 1. Pick a series of books and ...
Jeff Waugh: Flickr Photo Album (1)
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I forgot to mention one WordPress plugin I enjoy using in my previous post, because I wasn’t sure if it was still being maintained. Turns out the maintainer, Joe Tan, just did a release today, bringing it up to speed with WordPress 2.6… Flickr Photo Album makes it easy to use Flickr images in your blog, and the latest version integrates really nicely with the new “add media” user experience in WordPress 2.6 — it ...
LugRadio Live UK 2009 Confirmed (1)
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For those of you who were not at LugRadio Live UK 2008, I am pleased to announce that after a last-minute change of heart, there will be a LugRadio Live in the UK in 2009. Now, some of you may be claiming this was all a big PR stunt, but I am afraid you credit us with too much intelligence. Basically Aq and I had a conversation on the Friday before LRL about whether we ...
