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Decade 1 - Secret Squirrel
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My real life, without my real name). I just watched the Y2K episode of Sports Night. In which Jeremy claims that the complete system failure during his Y2K test is a metaphor for the new millenium. So it's been ten years (! I can think of a few obvious, colossally bad things about the 21st century so far. What are some good things? What things are better now than they were ten years ago? I ask this to spark discussion, not because I think there aren't any. Posted on Dec. 28th, 2009 at 09:36 am. But I'm s...
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Unicode's "Pile of Poo" character / Boing Boing
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Feb 3, 2012. Unicode's "Pile of Poo" character. From the Boing Boing Shop. For many years, most of the Internet ran on ASCII, a character set that had a limited number of accents and diacriticals, and which didn't support non-Roman script at all. Unicode, a massive, sprawling replacement, has room for all sorts of characters and alphabets, and can be extended with "private use areas" that include support for Klingon. Name: PILE OF POO. Block: Miscellaneous Symbols And Pictographs. HTML Entity: 💩. Franci...
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A Simple Way To Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work
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A Simple Way To Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work. Thats awful high, Jason. Thats awful high. Mar 8th, 2006. I was eatin Thai food tonight and thinkin, you know what would be awesome? Seriously, think of it: all the fightin' characters from the novels tend to be very colorful, favor unique weapons and fighting styles, and if they don't really have catchphrases then you can darn well think of some approrpiate ones for each of them. It would rock. Don't you want to see Ilyn Payne vs. Jaime? Filmed gr...
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Mystery Hunt thoughts - Once upon a mushroom
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Once upon a mushroom. Jan 20th, 2009 at 4:20 PM. Thoughts on this year's Mystery Hunt. From a member of Codex Magliabechiano. That's clearly the most important thing to say. I had a fabulous time. Even though I was hunting remotely! Last year was bad: it was my first year solving remotely, and internet went down in my building, so I was solving with very flaky pirated wireless, and the whole thing was just intensely frustrating. Thoughts #2 - n:. It's the only vowel missing from SUPERMANS ADVERSARIAL IMP.
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Party + sleep dep = ? - Something like cheddar. Or maybe gorgonzola.
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Something like cheddar. Or maybe gorgonzola. Party sleep dep =? Apr 3rd, 2011 at 10:31 AM. I've been good recently about trying to get out and do something social once a week or so. I am rewarded by being reminded on a regular basis that I know a lot of really neat people, and. Know a lot of really neat people, so it stands to reason that I will find good company if I just get my ass out of the house and go to a party once in a while. I whispered back, but it had already fallen silent. What do you want?
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Whee Released in Japan - Ramblings of a sugered brain
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Whee Released in Japan - Ramblings of a sugered brain. May 18th, 2007. 11:06 am - Whee Released in Japan. For those who can read Japanese:. Http:/ www.netjapan.co.jp/nj/press/news. For those who can read machine translated Japanese. (sometimes even harder). Http:/ translate.google.com/transla. U=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.netjapan.co.jp%2Fn. That is what i have been busting my hump over for the last half year. Yay! May 18th, 2007 04:11 pm (UTC). May 18th, 2007 04:23 pm (UTC). May 19th, 2007 01:16 am (UTC).
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Outcomes in Risk - O Sweet Mr. Math
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Outcomes in Risk - O Sweet Mr. Math. Website (Matt Rolls a Hoover). April 16th, 2011. It is possible that no one but me cares, but I have been wondering about this for a long time, so I finally worked out the answer:. In a game of Risk, if the attacker is rolling 3 dice and the defender is rolling 2 dice, the average number of wins for the attacker is 1.079. So on average, the defender will lose very slightly more armies than the attacker. Edited to correct numbers.). Comments: Leave a comment. I the ans...
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Gifts for People You Hate 2014: The Almost-Generic Edition - Will Tell Stories For Food
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Gifts for People You Hate 2014: The Almost-Generic Edition. December 7th, 2014 (04:02 pm). Hey, someone on MetaFilter. Found my gift-giving advice posts and linked them! This is both exciting.and made me realize I needed to get a move on for this year's helpful gift shopping post. Thanksgiving was really late and I was sort of surprised today to realize how little time left there is. Freezable wine chilling tubes! Gloves, Scarves, Hats. Here is a very inexpensive "cashmere feel" acrylic scarf. That can b...
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Read twice, send once - Secret Squirrel
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My real life, without my real name). Read twice, send once. From a vendor's sales rep, after a very polite email from me requesting more information about a product:. I have had a lot of issues and communiqué today so ole Sam will have to be a little more patience. I will get to him later today. This was followed by automated "Recall! Brought to you by the Council for Responsible Use of Reply-All (and Knowing the Difference Between Adjectives and Nouns). Posted on Feb. 25th, 2010 at 09:11 am. Oh, that ha...
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