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The Time Cube strikes again: From Bug 638477 – Strange sound on mp3 flash website : You glibc maintainers have been educated evil! You deny the simultaneous 4-cornered 64-bit Flash Cube! We must not let this flashlessness stand! Your ignorance of the Harmonic Flash is demonic! 64-bit Cubic Flash debunks 32-bit AS WITCHCRAFT!

From Hejibits - The Waiting Game : This is sort of the reason why I still don't have a Sony PS3. There are only three "awesome" games that I can get for the PS3 but not the 360, and three lousy games is not enough excuse for me to justify picking up a new console. Make that two, if I buy a PS3 and PJ sees it, he'll take it over so I would need to buy TWO of them.

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From  Stephen King's IT :

Image via Wikipedia HTTPS is more secure, so why isn't the Web using it? Easy: SSL certificates cost money. Free SSL certificates usually trigger a browser warning that 99% of the people won't understand. There are ways around this, of course, but there is no way for a brand new retail channel machine to accept one of these certificates with 100% reliability. Not all hosts support it. Not all hosts need it.  A little more detail: SSL certificates cost money The cheapest Verisign certificate I could find (at their site) in 30 seconds is $399. I found one at Thawte for $149, but I am 99.99% sure the two products are not equivalent. I don't sell certificates at http://gopedro.net anymore, but it looks like I was selling these Thawte certificates for $45 for the first year, and yes, that includes a hefty markup. Basically these certificates are a license to print money, they cost whatever the market will bear. Worse, if you take two of these certificates at the sam...

Image via CrunchBase Netflix Original Content Is Much More Than A Strategy Shift — It Could Shift An Industry This is very true. What Netflix is doing is moving around without the encumbrance of having to carry hundreds of channels of shit like every cable operator in this country does. I have even seen ads from satellite providers saying "nobody can give you the channels that you want, so we just (insert lame excuse here)." Either you can or you can't. With Netflix paying for NEW content, they prove it is possible to make money giving people JUST the content that they want, when they want it. Who the hell wants to pay $100 (like I do) for a few hundred channels worth of shit when I can pay $8 to Netfix, $8 to Hulu and $7 to Amazon for a better variety than what I get right now? My $100 tier with Comcast is shit, all I watch is the local FOX and CW affiliates, Ivette only watches Investigation Discovery , and PJ watches PBS Kids and WETA Kids. That's a lot of ...

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How Pee Helps Us Understand Social Media The biggest problem I am having with this whole social media freakout is companies freaking out about it. People, on the other hand, are doing exactly what was expected with these new technologies. The problem with the companies is that they are too willing to shell out money to snake oil peddlers calling themselves social media experts, who are then tasked with shaping their "social media strategy." 99% of the time this means adding a  Facebook  group, a Twitter account, buttons to follow twitter and friend on Facebook on the corporate site, and telling everyone in the company to sign up for a LinkedIn account. When you go to their website, there's a link that says that they are on Facebook. When you visit their Facebook page, it is empty except for links back to the site, and a bunch of useless drivel, wall posts, like messages, etc. When you go to their Twitter, all you see is a bunch of regurgitated content ...

This is being passed as an HDR photo of the moon, in reality it is a composite from 15 photos. The original article is at APOD: 2006 September 7 - Colorful Moon Mosaic Related articles Tonight's the Super Moon! (mkmercurio.wordpress.com)

This is NOT a joke, the full sources for his numbers are here . Click the chart for a full-size version.

Cosmonaut Crashed Into Earth 'Crying In Rage' Vladimir Komarov's remains in an open casket (photo by RIA Novosti Photo Researchers Inc.) This is one hell of a read, especially for those of us children of the Cold War. Related articles Cosmonaut Crashed Into Earth 'Crying In Rage' (npr.org) Gagarin an icon for modern-day ISS cosmonauts (rt.com)

This is work today:

HijiNKS ENSUE – A Geek Webcomic – 5 Days A Week - » From The Ashes, A Sheenix Rises

Yea, it's one of them weeks.

Reality bites back at White Whiners… - White Whine - A Collection of First-World Problems What about decaf (not that I give a shit), does it require its own dedicated grinder?

Riyad's Technical Blog: Don't Waste Your Time Commenting Source Code : "Sometimes you just need to leave a note..." How many of you wish you had run into a comments block like this one: // // Dear maintainer: // // Once you are done trying to 'optimize' this routine, // and have realized what a terrible mistake that was, // please increment the following counter as a warning // to the next guy: // // total_hours_wasted_here = 39 //

Image via CrunchBase I have been struggling for months with performance issues whenever I try to play NetFlix HD streams on my laptop. It doesn't matter which version of Silverlight, or browser, or even using Media Center, it will always choke the machine. Replacing the GPU is of course is out of the question, and the machine is just a year old, I need to get at least two more years of work out of it before I can justify picking up a new one. The sad part is that if you don't take into account the HD streaming issue, the machine is pretty damn good. Even better if you take into account the SSD and that most data that used to sit in USB2 drives is now in an external SATA drive.  Do I need the streaming at all? The way I work I need a constant source of background noise. Music doesn't work because it is predictable, which makes it distracting. What really works for me is things like daytime court shows, trash talk shows, or movies. I have a dual monitor setup (company pa...

This is what it feels to watch the morning news here: The Following Program :

From The Onion: Funnier because today I decided to start writing again.

How Netflix Bankrupted & Destroyed Blockbuster [Infographic]