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Living Room / Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window

« Last post by Arizona Hot on August 26, 2012, 07:09 PM »

Cumulated clouds.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Arizona Hot on August 26, 2012, 06:49 PM »

Renegade, where did you get the Seuss picture? I was wondering how they got the fonts to match.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Arizona Hot on August 26, 2012, 06:43 PM »

Does anyone know of a fruit punch with real punch, the kind that leaves you bruised and bleeding(the revenge of the fruit that got pureed to make it)? I can imagine a picture of a battered guy with a caption related to that.

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Living Room / Amazon.com toastabag

« Last post by Arizona Hot on August 23, 2012, 12:41 AM »

Is this something you use or would like to? The pictures show just plain toast, but the manufacturer's video shows making toasted sandwiches with it.

   

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Living Room / The Googler Who Looked At The Worst Of The Internet

« Last post by Arizona Hot on August 23, 2012, 12:33 AM »

Sitting in the sun at a tech company cafeteria, this former Google worker described a year spent immersed in some of the darkest content available on the Internet. His role at the tech company mainly consisted of reviewing things like bestiality, necrophilia, body mutilations (gore, shock, beheadings, suicides), explicit fetishes (like diaper porn) and child pornography found across all Google products — an experience that he found “scarring.” The company refused to make him a full-time worker, keeping him on contract status without much of a support system.

What is your opinion of his experience?

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Living Room / Re: Raspberry Pi's $35 Linux PC

« Last post by Arizona Hot on August 23, 2012, 12:26 AM »

Would any of you run MIT Scratch on a Raspberry Pi?  Would you do it if you had a lot of mosquito bites?

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Living Room / Re: 1,000,000,000,000 Frames/Second Photography

« Last post by Arizona Hot on August 22, 2012, 11:27 PM »

They also did this: A camera that can see around corners. The video for that is here and here.

     

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Arizona Hot on August 21, 2012, 02:22 PM »

You can always tell when the self-employed people aren't very busy as they seem to post a lot more at DC then...

-Renegade (August 18, 2012, 07:56 AM)

For those people I have these:
World's Geekiest License Plates (2012 Version)   http://www.cio.com/s...de1?source=ctwartcio

Tech Survivors Geek Technologies That Still Thrive 25 to 50 Years Later  
http://www.cio.com/s...5-to-50-Years-Later-

The Evolution of the Desktop GUI  
http://www.cio.com/a...n_of_the_Desktop_GUI

For the desperately procrastinating, I have these(Let me know if they should be in a different topic):  

How to theoretically turn a sphere inside out    
http://www.youtube.c...&feature=related

A camera that can see around corners    
http://www.cnn.com/2...a-corners/index.html

Visualizing Light at Trillion FPS, Camera Culture, MIT Media Lab    
http://web.media.mit...raskar//trillionfps/

Let me know if you want your mind blown. I have some links to Mind Blow videos.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Arizona Hot on August 19, 2012, 02:28 AM »

For those who didn't understand the "his name is Mudd" reference, here is an article explaning the history and meaning of the phrase.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Arizona Hot on August 18, 2012, 02:05 PM »

More stuff that you just can't make up...

http://www.huffingto...rida_n_1792366.html?

Jackmeoff Mudd Arrested In Fort Lauderdale

A South Florida man with an unfortunate name -- or a strong commitment to pranking police -- was arrested last Friday on a litany of charges in Fort Lauderdale.

Jackmeoff Mudd, 54, was arrested on charges of assault, disorderly conduct, resisting an officer, possession of alcohol in an open container, and violation of probation.

There are more crazy names there, e.g. "Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop".

Seriously? Yep.

-Renegade (August 18, 2012, 08:02 AM)

I guess Jackmeoff expects the worst since "his name is Mudd".

City names can be funny also: 11 wackiest signs for actual cities

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Living Room / Re: How to Make Your Lost Phone Findable

« Last post by Arizona Hot on August 14, 2012, 11:14 AM »

knowingly sold a phone flagged as lost or stolen could be found guilty of Possession of Stolen Property.  It really is very easy to check the status, so ignorance is a pretty weak excuse.

-Edvard (August 14, 2012, 09:53 AM)

Let us know how to check this out. I'm sure someone out there is in this situation.

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Living Room / How to Make Your Lost Phone Findable

« Last post by Arizona Hot on August 14, 2012, 01:02 AM »

This is an article about phone apps you can install to find your phone when you lose it: Find My iPhone,(and for Android phones) Where’s My Droid and Plan B. The author isn't theoretical, he had his phone stolen and recovered with one of these programs. You can't use them if your phone is part of the Robot Rebellion.

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Living Room / Re: Win XP emoji font needed

« Last post by Arizona Hot on August 14, 2012, 12:13 AM »

I searched the Chrome Web Store for emoji extensions and tried 3 of them. The 'Emoji' extension(see below) showed a whole block of older images, but only those. The "Show Me Emoji!!" extension showed all the images I tested in the document, but you had to highlight them and they showed in a separate window(useful, but not what I was looking for).

       

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Living Room / Win XP emoji font needed

« Last post by Arizona Hot on August 10, 2012, 02:57 PM »

I have IE 8 with the Quivira 3.8 and Symbola 6.05 Unicode fonts among many others and I still get boxes for most of the characters in the tables at the end of the Wikipedia Emoji article. Is there anyone with a way for me to have less boxes there? The problem is even worse when I use the Chrome browser.

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Living Room / Re: Raspberry Pi's $35 Linux PC

« Last post by Arizona Hot on August 09, 2012, 01:15 PM »

Here are 2 links to Raspberry Pi OS updates. Enjoy them, but be careful so you don't get your clothes stained.

Raspberry Pi Gets Even Sweeter With This Optimized Raspbian OS Update

Adafruit Wants to Help You Hack Your Raspberry Pi With This Linux Distro

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Arizona Hot on August 05, 2012, 03:45 PM »

They say the Invisible Man is very handsome, but lazy. You have to keep an eye on him to make sure he gets his work done.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Arizona Hot on July 29, 2012, 09:41 AM »

IainB: What I thought was funny about it was the psychological conflict he would have had. Here's a person who can't deny that something he doesn't believe in has happened. He's been bitten by God, so to speak. Your jokes are better than the ones I've seen online on the subject, though. I'll keep them.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Arizona Hot on July 28, 2012, 04:05 PM »

(see attachment in previous post)

-Renegade (July 26, 2012, 07:57 PM)

Have you heard the joke: "What did the dyslexic atheist do after being bitten by a dog?"
If so, where was it and what was the punchline?

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Arizona Hot on July 25, 2012, 11:19 AM »

How about these words: The 10 Coolest Foreign Words The English Language Need.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Meet Squirrel, the Image That's Also a Webpage

« Last post by Arizona Hot on July 24, 2012, 12:44 PM »

Those of you who can see the squirrel(does that make you squirrely?) may want to get Kick Ass - Destroy the web. Just don't use it here and byte the hand that fed you.

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Living Room / Re: Raspberry Pi's $35 Linux PC

« Last post by Arizona Hot on July 23, 2012, 07:49 PM »

Raspberry Pi in space: Putting the Linux PC into orbit is an article that I think belongs in this discussion.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Arizona Hot on July 23, 2012, 07:42 PM »

Joke for Nerds humor here and here. Let me know what you think of them.

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General Software Discussion / Meet Squirrel, the Image That's Also a Webpage

« Last post by Arizona Hot on July 23, 2012, 07:33 PM »

If you try to view the image using IE8 under WinXP(which you have to - IE9 is only for later Win OSes), you won't see it. The only other browser I have is Chrome and it works using that. See screenshot below.

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General Software Discussion / HFS ~ HTTP File Server

« Last post by Arizona Hot on July 23, 2012, 12:11 AM »

If you have some files you would like a group of people to download and you don't want to go to a lot of trouble or expense in setting up a web site; there is a program you can use that is easy to set up, open source, doesn't need to be installed and can be run on your own personal computer: HFS ~ HTTP File Server with online Documentation (English) and a secure connection add-on (HFS Secure your server). The screenshots below are (#1 The introduction page of their site, (#2 the menu you would see in the test site I set up, (#3 the site I set up after I tested it.  Other people access the files by going to the address listed at the top of  the site page(the highlighted address after "Open in browser"). Let me know if you already know about this program or have experience with it.

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Living Room / Re: First photo on the Web

« Last post by Arizona Hot on July 18, 2012, 06:26 PM »

Deo was being silly.  He says this in IRC for every image we post

-Stephen66515 (July 14, 2012, 08:17 AM)

I presume Tuxman was being silly also. If you watch their videos, they are not horrible.