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Store datasets directly in shared memory with #PHP: #programming Learn about shared memory and how to use it in web applications as a data storage option, benefiting from high speed, reliability, and data exchange with other applications. The examples provided will show its use to solve common problems in web application development.

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From #jQuery to #JavaScript: A Reference: Whether we like it or not, more and more developers are being introduced to the world of JavaScript through jQuery first. In many ways, these newcomers are the lucky ones. They have access to a plethora of new JavaScript APIs, which make the process of DOM traversal (something that many folks depend on jQuery for) considerably easier. Unfortunately, they

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Manual #Photography #Cheat #Sheet: Great guide to make manual dslr photography easier.

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A #bankrupt #Kodak signals a patent bubble burst #news Eastman Kodak fought hard to avoid bankruptcy. New products, layoffs, lawsuits: in the end, none of it was enough. On 19 January, the Rochester NY-based company announced it would voluntarily file for Chapter 11 reorganisation in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

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Create successful #Python #projects: #programming Creating a successful open source Python project involves more than just writing useful code. It's about community engagement, increasing cooperation opportunities, craftsmanship, and support. Explore best practices to help you create your own successful project.

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Student #Study Techniques : #college @highschool came across this great infographic from Learning Fundamentals and thought it very pertinent not only for students trying to focus their attention for learning, but for everyone who lives in a connected world.

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#Anonymous Tricks Bystanders Into Attacking Justice Department: A version of Anonymous’ voluntary botnet software, known as LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Canon), was modified to make it not so voluntary, drafting unwary bystanders, journalists and even anons who don’t support DDoS tactics into attacks on the U.S. Justice Department. Thursday’s trickery seems not to have been central to the successful

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30 Sandwiches We Loved This Year in NYC: Last year on this hallowed holiday—National Sandwich Day, of course—we introduced you to 26 of our recent favorite sandwiches. And it was the most popular Serious Eats NY post of all time. So this November 3rd, we're back with 30 more sandwiches we've loved in New York in the 365 days since. Some are New York classics, some newcomers to the city. But

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#Truck Cheats Death, #video #youtube #cool In soviet Russia truck doesn't die on you.

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Supercomputing, The Cloud, Big Data, and NoSQL If you count yourself among the informed members of the software and computing community, you're undoubtedly aware of NoSQL, "Big Data", cloud computing, and supercomputing. Sometimes technology that has become trendy is a branch on an evolutionary tree; other times it's a revolutionary departure from long-established status quo.

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Tripod stabilizer weight hook: This Instructable is as much of a technique as a DIY project. The idea is straightforward; if you add weight to your tripod it will be more stable. By installing a hook from the center column of your tripod, you can hang whatever weight you happen to have with you, be it your camera bag, backpack or maybe even a water bottle or two. You don't necessarily need a

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10 #lessons you won't find in #business books ...yet. The trouble with business books is that they don't update in real time. Today, the internet is disrupting industries from currency trading to car hire, pharma to farming, in ways that break all the established rules. So what are the new laws of business in the age of digital transfor­mation? Here are ten, culled from the strategies adopted by

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Filipino Traffic Cop Doing His Job Like #Michael #Jackson #MJ #MichaelJackson

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Cool Tools: Homemade Hot Pad: #winter When I need to make a hot compress I put dried beans (preferably lentils) in a pillowcase and heat in the microwave for a minute or two. It's cheap, easy, doesn't smell horrible, and retains heat for quite some time. Reusable, too. If you want a pretty one, there are some nice ones available from etsy, including scented ones.

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22 Secrets to Discovering Your Dream and Living It: One of the most important rules of happiness in life is to do what you love. But discovering that dream job and what you are meant to do in life isn't always so easy.

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How to Hold a Cue Stick: #pool #sharkpool #fun You’ve just finished watching The Hustler and all the high stakes action has got you pumped to hit your local pool hall to move the rock with the best of them. Problem being you haven’t touched the felt since your college rec room days and need to get some oil back in that stroke and make the cue an extension of your arm. Here are a few tips to get

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This Is Why You Don't Go to the Gym: #resolutions We can't keep our own fitness promises for the same reason that addicts are addicts and Congress can't pass deficit reduction

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Control a #PC with body motion: #new Don't trash your keyboard and mouse just yet. But three companies at the International Consumer Electronics Show demonstrated depth-sensing cameras that let you to control your computer by moving your hands or body.

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IBM researchers cram a bit of data into 12 atoms: #Nanotechnology engineers at IBM's research lab have demonstrated the ability to store a single bit of computer data -- a binary 0 or 1 -- in just 12 atoms.

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#US killer spy #drone controls switch to #Linux: #USMC #USACE The control of US military spy drones appears to have shifted from Windows to Linux following an embarrassing malware infection.

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#NATGEO #EPIC #BRUTAL It's one of the best nature videos after the battle at Kruger.

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Pirate Bay to abandon .#torrent files for #magnet links: #Filesharing titan the Pirate Bay has promised to remove all .torrent files from its site. But it's not to placate rights-holders -- it's going to replace them with "magnet links" instead.

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The Actors Inside Famous Costumes: #TV #children #costume #cosplay Have you ever wondered if the guy in the #Chewbacca suit is just as hairy as the character he plays? Or if there’s occasionally a person inside ALF? We certainly have, and usually we’re too lazy to pause and consult the Internet. But not today, folks!

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How to Win 5 State Fair Games: #countyfair #carnie #games #cheat #tips If you love playing these games at the state fair, but usually find yourself walking away from the booths empty-handed or with a dinky Chinese finger trap as a consolation prize, then this post is for you.

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How to create animated GIFs on #Android: Instead of sharing the entire movie while you're out, why not share a quick animated GIF instead? With GIFDroid for Android, you can take a new or existing video and turn it into an animated GIF that you can send off in seconds to a friend or family member.

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OpenVSP: Free Opensource 3D Plane Modelling: #NASA #FOSS OpenVSP is a parametric aircraft geometry tool. OpenVSP allows the user to create a 3D model of an aircraft defined by common engineering parameters. This model can be processed into formats suitable for engineering analysis.

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How to Fly on an Airplane with an Empty Seat Next to You for Free: Using a little bit of game theory, I explain how to score an empty seat next to you on your next flight...for free!

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Great Geek Debate: #Kinect vs. #Move vs. #Wii : Console gaming has changed. In fact, one could make an easy case for flat out evolution. With gaming, gamers have evolved as well. Where once the stereotypical gamer was a fat pimple-faced kid in his mom’s basement, hands covered in Cheetos dust and a two-liter of Mountain Dew with a straw nearby, the gamer is now de-evolving as gaming is evolving.

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10 Sites to Help You Learn #Python for FREE: Always wanted to build a web application but didn’t know where to start learning? I had the same problem too. I didn’t know what resource was good for newbies because I had no way to tell if I could understand the material or if the material gave me enough information to build an app.

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The myth of 'bulletproof' #Linux: Starry-eyed Linux desktop enthusiasts could become passive conduits for malware, security experts warn.

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The Rise and Fall of Programming Languages in 2011 Last year marked many changes in programming: Mobile devices emerged as a major programming platform and, at the other end of the spectrum, clouds became an established platforms for data and applications. In between, desktops and laptops gained substantially more RAM and somewhat more processor cores. Predictably, some of these changes trickled

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#OWS #occupycalgary The Rat Race will be over soon.

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How Record Labels Work: #music #indie As it became more and more difficult for bands to get signed by the huge record labels, independent record labels began to pop up. Independent record labels (also known as indies or garage labels) can be as large as some of the smaller corporate record companies or as small as one or two people. According to Music Biz Academy, the reason that so few

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Beginning #Mac #Hacking: It was the late 90s - the internet was new, every rock band had a token DJ, and I was taking up space in either the university bar or the pentium-1 filled computer labs where I was learning to be social and anti-social respectively. During the anti-social times I would read inspiring tutorials and essays regularly released by a hacker named Fravia.

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Evolution of shells in #Linux: Pointing and clicking is fine for most day-to-day computing tasks, but to really take advantage of the strengths of Linux over other environments, you eventually need to crack the shell and enter the command line. Lots of command shells are available, from Bash and Korn to C shell and various exotic and strange shells. Learn which shell is right for you.

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#Ten Tips for Building Stronger #Songs: #song #writing If you want your songs to stand the test of time, you have to build them solidly from the ground up. These are ten things you’ll need.

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Comic Sans Project: #typeface #design We are the Comic Sans defenders. We fear no fonts and we will make the whole world Comic Sans. Because Helvetica is sooo 2011

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#Disney Face Swap: #funny Because there just isn't enough ridiculous on the internet, I felt the need for a tumblr with even more silly face swapping fun.

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End plans for sequels to #Watchmen: Writer Alan Moore co-created Watchmen and signed a contract with DC Comics that under normal industry practices of the time would have seen control of the work revert to Moore and artist Dave Gibbons after the work had gone out of print for a period of time, as was the case with every DC graphic novel created under a similar contract up until Watchmen. Because

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Cancel a #Print #Job Without Waiting Years: #work #office #hack Ever tried canceling a print job in Windows but feel like it takes ages before anything actually happens? It's a common annoyance, and one that helpful Reddit user Shikyo explains and remedies.

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Prof aims to rebuild #Google with stuff In desk drawer: Dave Andersen looked into a desk drawer filled with tiny computers. Each was no bigger than a hardback novel, and their chips ran no faster than 600 MHz. Built by a little-known company called Soekris Engineering, they were meant to be wireless access points or network firewalls, and that's how Andersen -- a computer science professor at

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A Short, Strange History of Anonymous: #Anonymous has come a long way in a few short years, graduating from filling the web with Pedobears and Rickrolls to fighting oppressive regimes and trying to get revenge on the companies that cut off WikiLeaks.

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Using a PlayStation 2 controller to implement an #Arduino-based Simon game: #hack #hardware These days I've found an old Dance-Dance-Revolution-Similar-Pad and was looking for an idea to hack it into something more usefull or, at lease, fun. It wasn't hard to find that someone already did an Arduino library to read a PlayStation controller. You can find it here. Best regards to it's author, Bill

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Why a Broken Light Bulb Stays Lit If You Dip It In Liquid Nitrogen: #science #interesting Most of us think of liquid nitrogen as an extinguishing force, but it can, at times, rage against the dying of the light . . . bulb. Find out why a smashed light bulb stays lit if it's dipped in liquid nitrogen.

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Patton #Oswalt is not an asshole: I let what seemed to be a minor insult to my precious "comedy" escalate into a hateful, personal attack and, much worse, fester into a public motherfucking of someone who'd left the room and was no longer there to defend herself. It doesn't track, does it -- how did my initial, sincere, "Could you please not tape this?" warp-spasm into the vitriolic, "Time has

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A Wearable #LED Television: #HACK #HARDWARE David Forbes was on his way home to Tucson, Arizona, after a family trip last summer when a policeman stopped him in the Detroit airport. The officer said he had received 50 panicked phone calls since Forbes had entered the building, and now his entire family had been marked for extra screening. The delay was inconvenient, but it shouldn’t have come as

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Mortal Kombat VS New York City: FLASH DANCE ROUND 2 #MORTALKOMBAT!!!!

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#MichaelJackson on a Sesame Street Christmas Special.

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How not to fail in life by looking at the MIT: #success #fail People fail to graduate from MIT because they come in, encounter problems that are harder than anything they've had to do before, and not knowing how to look for help or how to go about wrestling those problems, burn out. The students that are successful look at that challenge, wrestle with feelings of inadequacy and stupidity, and

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The Mathematics of #Lego: The world of toys and games is not immune to mathematics. From the Rubik’s Cube to Monopoly, fun pastimes can be quantified. And the same is true of Legos. Lego blocks, the building toys that are truly amazing and that I have never quite grown out of, are amenable to math.

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Why #Women Aren't #Funny: What makes the female so much deadlier than the male? With assists from Fran Lebowitz, Nora Ephron, and a recent Stanford-medical-school study, the author investigates the reasons for the humor gap.

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7 Social Media Resolutions For 2012: I won’t even bother with the typical exercise goals – I’ll start with the goals that are easier for me to accomplish in 2012 in the social media realm. I’ll bet you may want to take a few of these for yourself too.

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99% #Music #Mix - Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish: #2012 Are you ready to close out 2011 on a high note? We put a little extra oomph into this latest "Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish" 99% music mix to accelerate you from inspiration to execution as fast as humanly possible. If you're not boogie-ing in your task chair by track 4... well, we're going to be a little concerned about you.

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Take #Responsibility for Your Energy : Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor and Oprah talk about how hospitals should be about conserving energy instead of taking it away. Also, Oprah reads one of her favorite quotes from Dr. Taylor's book, My Stroke of Insight.

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: Common HTML and CSS Accessibility Mistakes.

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Recruiting #programmers to your #startup: Here are some things I’ve learned over the years about recruiting programmers* to startups. This is a big topic: many of the points I make briefly here could warrant their own blog posts, and I’m sure I’ve omitted a lot.

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Steven #Spielberg's Advice:

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25 Best Sites for #Free #Educational #Videos: RefSeek's guide to the 25 best online resources for finding free educational videos. With the exception of BrainPOP and Cosmeo, all listed sites offer their extensive video libraries for free and without registration.

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Bolster Your #Creative Output by Activating Your "Red Zone" : #inspiration It's a wonderful feeling. You're deep in the groove of your work, and everything seems to be going even better than expected. There's a lot on your plate, but you're managing your priorities with elegance and grace, and you're doing some of your best work. In short, you're on fire. Then, just as suddenly, it ends…

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10 Things To #Stop #Caring About Today: #dontworry Every day is a new beginning. But in life, sometimes you have to stop before you can truly begin. So starting today…

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Dive Into #HTML5: Dive Into HTML5 seeks to elaborate on a hand-picked Selection of features from the HTML5 specification and other fine Standards. The final manuscript has been published on paper by O’Reilly, under the Google Press imprint. Buy the printed Work — artfully titled “HTML5: Up & Running” — and be the first in your Community to receive it. Your kind and sincere Feedback is always

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#Art Project, powered by #Google: Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces.

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Taking #imagination seriously.

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#Happynewyear #2012. May this year be the end of anything bad in your life and the beginning of lots of good things coming your way. Truly yours, Bonlebon

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Insanely #Funny #2012 New Year's #Ecards: The best way to wish a fruitful 2012.

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Thanks, Internet: Out-of-Print #BladeRunner Sketchbook Surfaces Online: It pretty much goes without saying — but we’ll say it anyway — that Blade Runner is one of the most visually stunning sci-fi films ever made. There’s a reason for that: Every detail, from Rick Deckard’s gun to the parking meters, was painstakingly planned and executed.

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The 25 Most Powerful #Songs of the #Past #25 #Years: #music They’re not the most beautiful songs, or the most musically important. In fact, a few could literally drive you nuts. But the following tunes—some as old as Mozart, others as current as Beyoncé—have fundamentally altered the world we live in at some point in the last quarter century. They’ve saved lives, brought glory to America, and

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Collaborative Film #99% Documents Occupy Protests: #OWS Most documentaries involve months of planning before the first frame of film is shot, but the creators of an in-the-works Occupy Wall Street documentary didn’t have that luxury. The protest movement was happening around them when they decided to make the film.

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#11 Who #Died in #2011 (And Were Not Named #Steve): This article is not about Steve Jobs. He died this year -- yes, we all know that -- but gone too is Dennis Ritchie, one of the creators of the Unix operating system that powers Apple's computers. Also departed are Jack Goldman, the man who came up with the idea to start Xerox PARC, where Jobs got his graphical user interface, Paul Baran, an

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10 #predictions for #2012: The other day, I retrieved my crystal ball from the Pink family self-storage unit. Here’s what I glimpsed through the haze about the coming year.

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Facial Motion Capture (#Mocap) in #blender #2.6 (modeling): I show you how to do Facial Mocap in blender 2.6 latest trunk version.

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#Animators toolbox for #2D and #audio: #design Most of you know about Gimp, Inkscape and of course Blender. However animation also touches the area of 2D and of course sound design. I compiled a list of applications here for you ranging from 2D to audio. This also includes the growing amount of online web applications, which recently reach a professional level such as Audiotool.

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#FREE #MP3 United State of Pop 2011: #World Go #Boom: 2011 gave us songs of regret and anger, pride and perseverance, and lots of fire.When someone’s taken everything from you, what do you do?

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#Best #photos of the year #2011 #NSFW: #journalism #photography #NSFW WARNING: SOME IMAGES CONTAIN GRAPHIC CONTENT OR NUDITY From the uprisings across the Arab world to the devastating earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan, there was no lack of news in 2011. Reuters photographers covered the breaking news events as well as captured more intimate, personal stories. In this showcase,

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Creating a platformed in the #Blender #Game #Engine: #programming #design I have just finished a video tutorial series that explain how to create a simple but complete platformed in the blender game engine. The series is aimed at complete beginner and and has the goal to explain in great detail how everything is working so that you can use it as you want later.

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So, You Got a #Space #Rocket But Nowhere To #Launch It?: #invention So, you want to build a space rocket or maybe you already have? Unless you represent a government agency, have access to Californian deserts or Siberia you might soon realize you have a problem. The problem faced by everyone building rockets.

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#merrychristmas #muppets #joy

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The next frigging thing in transportation: The #Hoverbike: #cool #invention #wow #bike An Australian chap named Chris Malloy has built a hoverbike from motorbike parts, which he claims can fly at 173mph at an altitude of 3,000 metres.

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The 45 Most Powerful #Images Of #2011: #photos #impact #photography What a year! Here's to 2012 being a more quiet and less destructive year.

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Q&A: How Does A #Pixar #Short #Film Get Made?: #movie #cgi #3d Over the years, we’ve learned a lot about how Pixar develops and produces their feature animated films, but we’ve learned very little about how the beloved short films get created. So I decided it was time we find out. I shot a message over to Enrico Casarosa, the director of Pixar’s next short film La Luna, who was happy to shed some

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And the best 2011 Youtube street musician video is...: An amazing one-man-band street performer in Rijeka, Croatia called Cigo Man Band.

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Incredibly Animated Target #Dreaming #Girl Commercial: #animation #stopmotion An ad for Target Australia.

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Most Popular #Photography #Tips, #Tricks, and #Hacks of #2011: This was a great year for all things photography, with posts to help you behind the camera, in front of it, when you're shooting, and when you're editing. Here's a look back at our most popular photography tips, tricks, and hacks of 2011.

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A #DIY UAV That #Hacks #Wi-Fi Networks, #Cracks #Passwords, and Poses as a #Cell Phone Tower: Last year at the Black Hat and Defcon security conferences in Las Vegas, a former Air Force cyber security contractor and a former Air Force engineering systems consultant displayed their 14-pound, six-foot-long unmanned aerial vehicle, WASP (Wireless Aerial Surveillance Platform). Last year it was a

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#Video depicts stunning #Titanic recreation in CryEngine 3: #cgi #engine #3d The latest video in a project-related series from "ORM Entertainment" depicts the famous Titanic ship interior, as rendered in CryEngine 3. Suffice it to say, the results are stunning.

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DANNY STAY ON YER BIKE!!!!! in the Slums #mountain #bike #Danny!!! watch out for #yer efing dooog!!!

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#DIY #spray #paint: #graffiti #art Making your own custom spray paint is easy and produces some interesting results. Maybe they don't sell the exact colour you're looking for, or you just want to a use for all those old almost-empty cans of paint you have hidden in your garage. Time to put them to good use and make your own spray paint!

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A map of every #extraterrestrial space mission: #NASA is all set to launch Curiosity, the most advanced (and expensive) Mars rover to date, on Saturday. Curiosity will land in Gale Crater, on the surface of Mars, to investigate a three-mile-high (5km) mountain with its impressive array of drills, lasers, scoops, and other scientific tools for signs of life.

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Teenage #Honduran builds open source eye-tracking #computer interface for the #disabled: #invention #innovation This unique and worthwhile project was put together by a 17-year-old electronics and programming whiz from Honduras, of all places. The Eyeboard system is a low-tech eyeball-tracking device that allows users with motor disabilities to enter text into a computer using eye gestures

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How to #disappear completely : #paranoia #bigbrother It seems you can't move in today's world without leaving a digital footprint. The good news is that escaping the panopticon doesn't have to mean living in a cave in Tora Bora. Frank Ahearn, a former skip-tracer and the author of How To Disappear, reveals how to pull off the ultimate vanishing act.

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Your Favorite Websites' Office #Art: #design #creativity Because you love looking around other companies' offices, especially at all the stunning and weird artwork.

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Looting gone social: Many different types of crowd disturbance have bubbled up during 2011, but perhaps the oddest category has been the “flash mob robbery,” or “flash rob.”

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The #Muppets are back, but where have they been?: #movies In honour of the release of The Muppets, and the conclusion of our Tournament of Muppets, Steve Murray takes a look at what Jim Henson’s crew of furry creatures have been up to since the release of the last Muppets film 12 years. They’ve been busy! Click through to enlarge the above image.

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A way to #watch #porn at the office ;): #DIY #cool #NSFW Finally you can do something with that old LCD monitor you have in the garage. You can turn it into a privacy monitor! It looks all white to everybody except you, because you are wearing "magic" glasses!

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Where are they now? The #Vancouver #riot Kissing Couple: #YVR #canada Today, Jones and Thomas share a flat in Melbourne, having relocated there during the summer. "We had always planned to move," he said. "The picture was taken about three days before we planned to leave Vancouver. We were going to holiday in California for three weeks and then leave for Australia."

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#Paranorman #Production Photos: #stopmotion #animation Little pictures from the set of the biggest stop motion movie ever made. If you have an Instagram account, follow us at @Paranorman. If you don’t, we’ll continue to update this album so you can view them here.

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Is It Ever Worthwhile to Line Up for Black Friday?: #blackfriday #smart #frugality This year's Black Friday deals look pretty decent, with Best Buy offering a 42-inch LCD TV for $200 and Office Depot selling a 15.6-inch laptop for $400. But are these deals worth waiting in line at absurd hours in the November cold? Let's do some calculations.

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Squeeze your laser printer toner to the max: #hack #diy #frugality I have a Samsung ML-1865W printer that I bought for about $40 on Buy.com with free shipping. For a tiny laser printer, it was a steal. It worked great until one day it refused to print. Neither the PC nor the printer itself gave any indication to me what was wrong. The driver reported the printer as idle and the printer just

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Police trick 19 criminals into coming forward with free beer: #RLY #OMG #DUH #TGIF Nineteen wanted criminals were arrested by police after being tricked into meeting officers by the lure of a free crate of beer.

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