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Jesus has been known to appear in some pretty unorthodox (religion joke!) places, like in the bark of a tree, a frying pan or delicious Cheeto, and even in a damn blessed grilled cheese sandwich. J-C has been spotted once again… in this dog’s B-U-T-T. Homeboy is wearing his signature robe and everything!

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http://www.incrediblethin...potted-in-a-dogs-bum-bum/

I think it's cute. How the heck do people find such parallels? (Or is it photoshopped?)

Remember, one of the fun things about Da InterWebz is that you get to tap a world's worth of rare talents. So some people have a talent for pattern recognition. So I certainly imagine someone saw that news photo and their brain peeled off the matching cartoon graphic. 

It's related to the concept and talent for puns. I have a modest talent for those on "fast" days.

Or some time back when Louis Gray posted a photo of himself with his son, on Friendfeed, and his facial expression reminded me of Pee Wee Herman...so I posted it side by side.

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When Micah stated that he wanted to see Louis with a wide-handlebar bike...enter the photochop:

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So with this text based one you can point out what I am supposed to be seeing and then I can see it.

But for the normal ones, I have tried all the suggestions over the years that involved defocusing, looking at it cross-eyed, looking at it from certain angles, or from a certain distance, with my glasses off, etc. And even when you tell me what it is that I am supposed to be seeing, even when you take your finger and point it out to me, all I see is the noise.

It's a Magic Eye^w (aka Autostereogram^w):
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I have never been able to see whatever it is that I am supposed to be able to see in that type of image. And that has always frustrated me.

I've found it but I must have done something wrong, as when I type "tw This is an update!" and hit enter, it doesn't show up on Twitter at all! This used to work! Any help is greatly appreciated!

Twitter recently shut down their old v1 API, which this plugin used. That's why it wont work.

You can only be offended if you choose to be. Choose wisely. 

[September 6, 1984: Ron Paul Warns of Surveillance State - Don't Ever Say We Weren't Warned]

Ron Paul apparently warned about this sort of thing in, erm, 1984...
September 6, 1984: Ron Paul Warns of Surveillance State - Don't Ever Say We Weren't Warned.

Honestly, though, I’m being unfair in singling out Michael Arrington here. Really the only remarkable thing about his involvement with CIA-friendly big data companies is his hypocrisy in attacking those Valley luminaries who won’t admit to exactly the kind of spying his portfolio companies help facilitate. (In the hypocrisy stakes, though, Arrington comes a distant second to Ron Paul who this week told Fox Business, “I’m worried about, somebody in our government might kill [Edward Snowden] with a cruise missile or a drone missile,” after Snowden exposed the mass government surveillance facilitated by companies like Palantir. Last year Ron Paul received over $2.5 million in donations from his biggest single donor… Palantir’s Peter Thiel)

I'll post the link from above here, so you won't have to scroll up to click it: http://pandodaily.com/201...n-theyre-used-for-spying/

if you talk about the data collection of the private sector, you're not in immediate danger of becoming a non-person

Does your definition of "private sector" also include those companies that are contracted by or heavily invested in by the government, that either develop the technologies used or do the actual collecting, storing, sorting, or analysis of the data??

Data mining, for fun, surveillance, and profit...

Silicon Valley builds amazing spy tools, is horrified when they’re used for spying

“What I would like to see right now is for people at these internet companies to stand up and say the truth, all of it, about their dealings with the NSA.” – Michael Arrington

Arrington, along with the rest of Libertarian-leaning Silicon Valley, is right to be wary of the way the government is able to use technology to track our every move. He’s also right to criticize the double-speak of any Valley company that prevaricates on its true level of involvement in programs like PRISM.

The only odd thing is why Arrington doesn’t go even further in connecting the dots fully between Silicon Valley and government snooping.

a bit of history...

As the Financial Times’ April Dembosky reminds us, the relationship between the Valley and Homeland Security is nothing new. The Internet started out as a government project, designed to keep communication lines open in the event of a nuclear attack. In 1999 the CIA established In-Q-Tel, a venture capital fund to invest in technology companies that might be useful to the folks in Langley or Fort Meade.

And then it gets rather interesting...and quite revealing...

According to CrunchBase – the technology investor database founded by Arrington himself – Cloudera, iMove, 3vr, and Mocana – all share one additional investor in common: SV Angel, one of the Valley’s most prolific “micro VC” firms. And whose name do we find on the firm’s list of limited partners? One Michael Arrington. (In a neat piece of symmetry, SV Angel’s co-founder, Ron Conway, is an investor in Arrington’s CrunchFund.)

Once you start digging into the data, the connections get really entertaining: Arrington is also an LP in Benchmark, which invested alongside In-Q-Tel in data-storage company Decru. And in Andreessen Horowitz, which co-invested with In-Q-Tel in Silver Tail Systems and Platfora. CrunchFund also invested in Facebook, which boasts Palantir’s Peter Thiel as a board member, and from where former data team leader Jeff Hammerbacher left to head up technology at Cloudera.

Data mining is fun!

The only people who love big data more, and who care about our privacy less, than the NSA are the outraged Libertarians of Silicon Valley.

Next, The Dream Police, and I'm not talking about Cheap Trick either.....

George Orr, save us.

Thanks for creating this app!

I would like to be able to reset the "Total Work To Date" stat. I've searched the registry for "instantboss", but didn't find any entries. Is there a registry entry where I can reset this data, or maybe a data file somewhere?

Thanks.

It's in the registry under this key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Apps Apps\Instant Boss\1.0

Just edit TotalWork and change it to 0 to reset it.

Well, let's hope we don't hear reports about him being seen attempting to run across the N. Korean border.

[old Bush era news story]

For those suffering some form of "outrage amnesia", I'll just leave this old Bush era news story right here, so in about 7-8 years from now, when all this hits the headlines for a 3rd time (as breaking news), maybe someone with deja vu will point out the fact that it's old news and that this database of information was set up shortly after the 9-11 attacks and news of it was made public in 2006.

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http://usatoday.com/news/...gton/2006-05-10-nsa_x.htm

And the wikipedia page about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_call_database

I think this makes it even more disturbing, the idea that so many could freak out about this back in 2006 and then promptly forget that it ever happened, acting all surprised all over again when they hear about it again, years later, freaking out all over again, as if they never knew and news of this was brand spanking new.

I think the old saying about those that don't remember history being doomed to repeat it needs to be revised a bit, to include something about those that don't remember history being doomed to treating it as recent news when they hear about it again.

What language is the script written in?

Autohotkey

So are pistachios, but I find them to require more work than I'm willing to perform just for a nut  .

Natural portion control. 

I am reading the Connie Francis autobiography "Who's Sorry Now?" which I am not sure why I even own it, but I can't get rid of it to make room on my bookshelf for something else until I have read it, so I am. So far, I'd rate it as a great cure for insomnia, with more fluff than my pillow.

单核CPU到双核CPU到三核CPU。现在的四核CPU。依然怀念这款软件。

Google's translation: Single-core CPU to a dual-core CPU into three core CPU. Now quad-core CPU. Still miss this software.

^ Bad, bad, woman. 

Also found out, after I made that post, that it's also National Fruit and Vegetable Month. 

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Perhaps one of those duplicate file finders, but one that can rename the duplicates, rather than delete them?

Thanks for that, I tried from a couple of other IP Addresses and they were blocked as well.

It's a really weird site, with a lot of really weird rules,

(support in german but you're allowed to post in english too)

Just don't use Google Translator to translate the page from German to English. 

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I'd like to suggest Microsoft do something similar for their current Windows 8 owners.

If only the bird was a dove surrounded by pastel colored roses. They could have charged full price by just adding an E.

I cannot access your second link or the direct download link, http://www.waldbauer.com/tmp/dl.php?download=beepx, they are both blocked.
I am offered the option to enter an unblock code which is provided, but when I do it just takes me back to the same page?

Just in case anyone else has troubles downloading the file, I attached it to this post.

If I am not mistaken the source code for BEEPx is available. As different people often approach the same problems from different perspectives has anybody got the time to have a look at it and see if it gives them any ideas?

Yes, it comes with the source, and that is in the attached file.

Just a little FYI: National Candy Month begins today, in the US. 

Well, here is an explanation of the problem and why it exist: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/l...-driver-in-windows-7.aspx

And here is a possible solution...try BEEPx, found on this page: http://www.waldbauer.com/tmp/reference.php

I agree and disagree with Wordpress' simplicity to setup and maintain.

I agree that it's easy to install, especially on hosts that have Fantastico (or an equivalent) that offers 1 click installing.

I disagree in that properly securing it is a completely other story...quite complex, with having to deal with things like editing .htaccess files, knowing if you can relocate your config file, knowing what the error messages mean if you get any while configuring and running automatic offsite backups, knowing what to do if your hosting provider has blocked access to your login page "for security reasons" and being able to actually do it without messing your site up. Checking and fixing file & folder permissions, and knowing what each should be to protect your blog without breaking things. Knowing that you should create 2 accounts on your blog and never use the admin account for posting, knowing that you should delete the first account created so no account has a user ID of 1.

And for the infrequent blogger, keeping it up to date when you don't login very often to see the "you need to update X" messages, and not knowing how to set things up so your blog emails you when something needs your attention.

It's a 3-5 hour job to do everything and not for the faint of heart, non-techie, or wordpress newbie. But once done, it's quite secure and easy to keep everything up to date.

And yes, I did all of this that I could, and more, for the site I set up for tomos and I am managing it for him, so all he has to worry about is posting his images....I take care of the rest. I even made a bunch of sample posts for him to learn from.

And I was offering to do the exact same thing for cranioscopical, if he wants it, so all he will have to do is install WLW on his wife's computer and show her how to use it, which is easier than using AOL email.

But a simple out of the box install is very easy, if that's all you want or care about.