load01 10/31/2010

• The Cryoburn Index Page

  Cryoburn, the latest installment in Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan series, is out in hardcover. Hard copies of the book also contain a CD with the text of the book... and most of the rest of the books in the series, along with a number of speeches, interviews, and essays. In keeping with Baen Books' approach to DRM and publishing (previously), the entire thing is available for free online. posted by asterix at 4:34 PM - 25 comments

  tags: science fiction technology

• Books: The Opaque Market, by Eric Flint | Columns | Jim Baen's Universe

  Don't bother robbing me, twit. I will cheerfully put up the stuff for free myself.July 29, 2007 8:24 AM    Subscribe
  Books: The Opaque Market. Eric Flint (the author who set up the Baen Free Library) argues against using DRM in publishing and in favor of pirating yourself. (via Jay Lake)posted by joannemerriam (32 comments total) 7 users marked this as a favorite

  tags: culture

• For the First Time, the TSA Meets Resistance - Jeffrey Goldberg - National - The Atlantic

  For the First Time, the TSA Meets Resistance posted by bwg at 4:55 PM - 106 comments

  tags: humor

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load01 10/30/2010

• Judging the cyber war terrorist threat : The New Yorker

  tags: technology

• The Next Two Years - NYTimes.com

  tags: politics-USA

• Kethinov - How I would have saved Caprica from the dinosaur cable TV model

  tags: technology

• Microsoft: Our strategy with Silverlight has shifted | ZDNet

  tags: technology

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load01 10/29/2010

• A Hacker's Story: Let me tell you just how easily I can steal your personal data - Techvibes.com

  tags: technology security

• Firesheep, a day later - codebutler

  tags: technology security

• James T. Kloppenberg Discusses His ‘Reading Obama’ - NYTimes.com

  tags: politics-USA

• End the War on Pot - NYTimes.com

  tags: culture

• Divided We Fail - NYTimes.com

  tags: politics-USA

• The Age of Alzheimer’s - NYTimes.com

  tags: wellness

• What do people find difficult about C pointers? - Stack Overflow

  tags: programming

• How to protect against Firesheep attacks - Computerworld

  tags: technology

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load01 10/28/2010

• CHM files: The page cannot be displayed error

  (helpful)

  tags: technology

• Can’t Keep a Bad Idea Down - NYTimes.com

  tags: culture

• When a Pirate Is the Voice of Chivalry - NYTimes.com

  “I’ve been saved by chicks more times than by guys,” he writes. “Sometimes just that little hug and kiss and nothing else happens. Just keep me warm for the night, just hold on to each other when times are hard, times are rough.”

  tags: culture

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load01 10/27/2010

• The Awl

  tags: misc

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load01 10/26/2010

• Open Letter to Interim Dean Brown | EagleiOnline

  tags: culture economics

• With Java's increasing complexity, JCP's slow responsiveness, Oracle's lawsuit against Google, Apple's decision to unbundle it from OS X, Swing's non-native look, etc... is Java a good choice to develop new applications? Or is it dead-walking as a languag

  tags: programming

• GarlicSim blog - Thinking of your software as a butler is difficult but important

  tags: programming

• How To Protect Your Login Information From Firesheep

  tags: technology

• makin' it work: musings of the math gladiator: 30 lessons learned in computing over the last ten years

  tags: programming

• A Manager’s Biggest Burden, and 5 Ways to Deal with It — MakingITclear®

  tags: misc

• SVG-edit

  SVG-edit: Vector drawing in your browser (svg-edit.googlecode.com)submitted 1 day ago by rexxar122 commentssharesavehidereport

  tags: technology

• Bees' tiny brains beat computers, study finds | Environment | The Guardian

  tags: technology

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load01 10/25/2010

• Chatbot Suzette, Bruce Wilcox | Virtual Assistant Suzette | Virtual agent Suzette | Chat bot Suzette | Conversational agent Suzette | (4514)

  skwilcox writes "From Wikipedia: '[0]The Loebner Prize is an annualcompetition in artificial intelligence that awards prizes to thechatterbot considered by the judges to be the most human-like. The formatof the competition is that of a standard Turing test. A human judge posestext questions to a computer program and a human being via computer.Based upon the answers, the judge must decide which is which.' Mychatbot, [1]Suzette, won this year's Loebner and even confused a judgeinto voting for her over a human (or should I say he confused himself).Here is the blow-by-blow of this weird event." Read on below for therest; this sounds like it would have been a fun competition to watch.
  This story continues at:       https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/10/24/1754216/Chatbot-Suzette-Wins-20th-Annual-Loebner-Prize-Fools-One-Judge?from=newsletter
  Discuss this story at:   http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/24/1754216&from=newsletter
  Links:   0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loebner_Prize   1. http://www.chatbots.org/chatbot/suzette/

  tags: technology

• What Happened to Change We Can Believe In? - NYTimes.com

  tags: economics politics-USA

• In Rancorous Times, Can Wikipedia Show Us How to All Get Along? - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic

  tags: technology culture

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load01 10/24/2010

• Smoke and Horrors - NYTimes.com

  tags: culture politics-USA

• Wealthfront Engineering: jQuery the Right Way

  tags: jquery

• Global Institute | Miller School of Medicine | University of Miami - Annotated

  tags: culture

  • monetary donations are our greatest needed at this time to get our volunteers and medical supplies to Haiti.

• WikiLeaks Founder on the Run, Chased by Turmoil - NYTimes.com

  tags: technology

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load01 10/23/2010

• Oppugn.us: Where The Rants Go

  Announcing The Oxymoron CSS Framework (oppugn.us)submitted 1 day ago by pavel_lishin127 commentssharesavehidereport

  tags: programming

• Researchers break speed barrier in solving important class of linear systems

  tags: technology

• Taco Bell Programming

  xargs

  tags: programming

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load01 10/22/2010

• John Roberts' America - NYTimes.com

  tags: politics-USA

• The Fury Failure - NYTimes.com

  Rage is not working out.

  tags: politics-USA

• Dr. Greg and Afghanistan - NYTimes.com

  tags: culture politics-USA

• Appeal13/en - Wikimedia Foundation - Annotated

  tags: culture

  • An appeal from Wikipedia founder,
    Jimmy Wales

• AWS Free Usage Tier

  tags: technology

• the creative internet (106 things)

  tags: technology

• Yield Thought, 10 Embarrassing Flaws That Made My 'Weekend' App Possible

  tags: programming

• How many Microsoft employees does it take to change a lightbulb? - Fabulous Adventures In Coding - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

  tags: technology

• Poor, poor child. You have no idea. | Bryan Woods

  tags: programming

• Canada Says Google Wi-Fi Sniffing Collected Personal Data | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

  tags: technology

• http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/102010-red-hat-ceo-software-vendor.html

  tags: technology

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load01 10/21/2010

• Machine Made of Lego Builds Anything You Want — Out of Lego | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

  tags: technology

• Blizzard Bans Single Player Cheaters - Cheat Happens Article

  tags: worse than failure

• Amid Tension, China Blocks Vital Exports to Japan - NYTimes.com

  tags: economics

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load01 10/20/2010

• Health care law fact check: Medicaid, health spending, and abortion myths and missteps

  tags: wellness economics

• commodore.ca | History | Chuck Peddle Inventor of the Personal Computer

  tags: technology

• ‘It Gets Better’ Offers Hope and Help to Gay Youth - NYTimes.com

  tags: culture

• Op-Ed Columnist - Rare and Foolish - NYTimes.com - Annotated

  • And there was nowhere else to turn: China accounts for 97 percent of the world’s supply of rare earths,

• Scholars Return to ‘Culture of Poverty’ Ideas - NYTimes.com

  tags: culture economics

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load01 10/19/2010

• CIA used 'illegal, inaccurate code to target kill drones' • The Register

  tags: worse than failure

• Where the World's Brains Are - Richard Florida - Business - The Atlantic

  tags: culture

• J.A. Konrath: eBooks And The Ease Of Self-Publishing

  tags: technology

• Scrabb.ly - a massively multiplayer online crossword puzzle

  *massively addictive*

  tags: games

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load01 10/18/2010

• Qink | Free Books

  tags: programming

• jQuery: » jQuery 1.4.3 Released

  tags: jquery

• Facebook in Online Privacy Breach; Applications Transmitting Identifying Information - WSJ.com

  tags: technology

• Op-Ed Columnist - The Rage Won’t End on Election Day - NYTimes.com

  tags: economics

• Death of a Fulton Fish Market Fixture - NYTimes.com

  tags: culture

• Japan Goes From Dynamic to Disheartened - NYTimes.com

  tags: economics

• jQuery Fundamentals: Free Excellent Book for Javascript Developers | AEXT.NET MAGAZINE

  tags: programming jquery

• Oracle goes postal and the rest just carry on | Javalobby

  (?)

  tags: technology

• all rooms | chat.stackoverflow.com

  tags: programming

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load01 10/17/2010

• Op-Ed Columnist - Playing All the Angles - NYTimes.com

  tags: humor

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load01 10/16/2010

• The Android IM app that brought T-Mobile's network to its knees - FierceWireless

  tags: technology

• The 10 Most Valuable Blogs in America - Douglas A. McIntyre, Michael B. Sauter, and Ashley C. Allen - Business - The Atlantic

  tags: technology

• The Best- and Worst-Performing State Economies in America - Douglas A. McIntyre, Michael B. Sauter, and Ashley C. Allen - Politics - The Atlantic

  tags: economics

• A Death on Facebook - Magazine - The Atlantic

  tags: culture

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load01 10/15/2010

• America’s Deepening Moral Crisis - Project Syndicate

  America's Deepening Moral Crisis - Income inequality is at historic highs, but the rich claim that they have no responsibility to the rest of society. They refuse to come to the aid of the destitute, and defend tax cuts at every opportunity. Almost everybody complains, almost everybody aggressively defends their own narrow and short-term interests, and almost everybody abandons any pretense of looking ahead or addressing the needs of others. [more inside]posted by kliuless at 4:11 AM - 28 comments

  tags: culture

• Java Trap, 2010 Edition | Paul's Journal

  tags: programming

• Down for everyone or just me?

  tags: technology

• You Might Be A Computing Old Timer If … - Reed's Ruminations: A Blog by Dan Reed

  tags: technology

• Shedding Bikes: Programming Culture And Philosophy

  The Long Beard's Revenge (sheddingbikes.com)submitted 15 hours ago by gthank25 commentssharesavehidereport

  tags: technology

• Jake Poznanski - Soviet Railroad

  tags: technology

• Corner Office - Companies Need 4 Leadership Types, Says VMware’s Chief - Question - NYTimes.com

  tags: technology

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load01 10/14/2010

• The humble Linux cheat sheet

  tags: linux

• http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/cmd/cmd.csp?path=s/screen

  tags: linux

• Linux.com :: Using screen for remote interaction

  screen pgm

  tags: linux

• books.jpg (500×442)

  "If you go home with somebody and they dont have books, don't fuck them" -- John Waters (sadanduseless.com)submitted 6 hours ago by cleansanchez176 commentssharesavehidereport

  tags: culture

• Recession Still Stinging as Recovery Gains - NYTimes.com

  tags: economics

• The Education of President Obama - NYTimes.com - Annotated

  tags: politics-USA culture

  • As he told a group of visitors during the week last spring that Congress passed health care and his administration reached agreement on an arms-control treaty with Russia, “I start slow, but I finish strong.”

• Op-Ed Columnist - The Unfair Game - NYTimes.com

  tags: politics-USA

• Op-Ed Columnist - The Paralysis of the State - NYTimes.com

  tags: economics

• Memory Decline Accompanies Earlier Retirement, Study Finds - NYTimes.com

  tags: wellness

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load01 10/13/2010

• Page 2 - Future-Proof Your Skill Set: Top-Demanded IT Skills - Careers news from Channel Insider

  tags: programming

• Future-Proof Your Skill Set: Top-Demanded IT Skills - Careers news from Channel Insider - Annotated

  tags: programming

  • More than half of all IT pros, 55 percent, expect mobile application development for devices including the iPhone, Android-based smartphones and tablet PCs such as iPad and RIM’s PlayBook will outpace app dev on more traditional computing platforms by 2015.

• End this war Mr. Obama!!! | MetaFilter

  tags: comics america

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load01 10/12/2010

• Turning PC into Apple Macintosh: Hackintosh | Building Hackintosh,PC Hardware,Apple Mac Pro,Apple Macintosh,Computer,Snow Leopard,Turning PC Hardware into an Apple Macintosh Computer: Building the Hackintosh

  but esoteric and geeky

  tags: technology

• The Rise and Fall of New York Student Achievement - NYTimes.com

  ...What is the value of a standardized test?...

  tags: culture

• #nyhacker - freenode Web IRC

  tags: web tool

• BBC News - Nobel Peace Prize awarded to China dissident Liu Xiaobo

  tags: culture

• 3 Share Economics Prize for Labor Market Analysis - NYTimes.com

  tags: economics

• Fair Game - Citigroup Finds Out That It’s Not Nice to Mess With J.R. - NYTimes.com

  tags: economics law

• Trader Went Undercover to Expose a Minneapolis Ponzi Scheme - NYTimes.com

  tags: economics law

• Web Upgrade HTML 5 May Weaken Privacy - NYTimes.com

  tags: technology

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load01 10/11/2010

• News Analysis - Currency Rift With China Exposes Lost Clout of U.S. - NYTimes.com

  tags: culture economics

• Pamela Geller — Blogger, Provocateur, Lightning Rod - NYTimes.com

  tags: worse than failure

• In New York Governor Race, Two Italian Identities - NYTimes.com

  tags: politics-USA

• Wife of Chinese Nobel laureate under house arrest after weekend visit - The Globe and Mail

  tags: culture

• YouTube - Police Overreact with a Taser Gun

  Police brutality at its finest. (youtube.com)submitted 11 hours ago by paddyb82 to WTF1254 commentssharesavehidereport

  tags: worse than failure

• The Roberts Court - New Breed of Lawyers Races to Argue Before the Supreme Court - NYTimes.com

  tags: culture

• Op-Ed Columnist - An X-Ray of Dysfunction - NYTimes.com

  tags: culture

• Op-Ed Columnist - Facebook Politicians Are Not Your Friends - NYTimes.com

  tags: technology

• Wikileaks publishes documents on plan to curb free software in the European Union

  tags: technology

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load01 10/10/2010

• Cultural Studies - Mean-Girl Bullying Trickles Down to Grade School - NYTimes.com

  tags: worse than failure

• Revelations from Kent State audio tape prompt congressional inquiry | cleveland.com

  tags: worse than failure

• YouTube - The two ronnies - Fork handles

  My lecturer in Artificial Intelligence showed us this video to demonstrate the problem with machine interpretation of natural languages. (youtube.com)submitted 23 hours ago by easytiger13 commentssharesavehidereport

  tags: technology

• Software Evolution Storylines

  tags: technology

• http://xkcd.com/657/large/

  story trees

  tags: humor

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load01 10/09/2010

• Caught Spying on Student, FBI Demands GPS Tracker Back | Threat Level | Wired.com

  tags: technology

• 9 Accused of Torturing 3 in Bronx for Being Gay - NYTimes.com

  Teens kidnapped and tortured in NY for being gay. This is just frightening. What is wrong with people? (nytimes.com)submitted 3 hours ago by judzillah20 commentssharesavehidereport

  tags: culture

• Sen. Susan Collins: A moderate's survival guide for Congress

  tags: culture

• Movie Review - 'Inside Job' - Charles Ferguson Dissects the Wall Street Meltdown - NYTimes.com

  tags: economics film

• Obama's First Military Tribunal Tries Child Soldier Tortured at Bagram and Gitmo | Mother Jones

  tags: america

• How Widespread Mortgage Fraud Toppled the U.S. Housing Market - Real Estate Channel Global News Center

  New allegations of Widespread foreclosure fraud on the part of major US banks: As the housing crisis has unfolded, some of the biggest banks lenders have reportedly been so eager to reposses homes that, in some cases, they've changed the locks on occupied homes that hadn't even been foreclosed yet. Meanwhile, congress quietly passed little noticed bipartisan legislation that would have made it harder for home owners to contest foreclosure proceedings in some cases--legislation which President Obama vetoed despite it's legislative support among both parties. On a related topic: It's finally becoming clearer that widespread mortgage fraud, not ordinary homeowners living beyond their means, caused the housing collapse. posted by saulgoodman at 8:09 AM - 39 comments

  tags: worse than failure

• Nehrim - Start

  Nehrim is atotal conversion of the Oblivion engine by the German amateur team at SureAI. Four years in the making and one of the largest mod projects ever completed, it features a massive new hand-crafted world, an elaborate and compelling main quest, dozens of side-quests, over 50 professional voice actors, a reworked leveling and crafting system, new spells, new items, new enemies and an original score of over 50 songs. Those who persevere through the prologue into this open world will be rewarded with a truly brilliant classical RPG. [more inside]posted by sophist at 11:48 PM - 10 comments

  tags: games

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load01 10/08/2010

• Facebook's new groups feature worries some

  tags: technology

• Caught Spying on Student, FBI Demands GPS Tracker Back | Threat Level | Wired.com

  tags: worse than failure

• Microsoft mulls possible acquisition of Adobe Systems: Report - The Economic Times

  This has to be the strangest marriage in history. ;-)

  tags: technology

• Johnny Depp's surprise visit to London primary school as Captain Jack Sparrow | Mail Online

  this is how men act

  tags: culture

• Erqqvg - Vizeddit

  gaphical reddit

  tags: technology

• HTC G2 Detects When Rooted, Reinstalls Stock OS - Linux Magazine Online

  tags: technology

• Rampant Fraud Threat to China’s Brisk Ascent - NYTimes.com

  tags: culture

• Vargas Llosa Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature - NYTimes.com

  tags: culture

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load01 10/07/2010

• JavaScript Guide - MDC

  The best JavaScript tutorial ever. (developer.mozilla.org)submitted 16 hours ago by 3ds109 commentssharesavehidereport

  tags: programming

• Op-Ed Columnist - Onward Christian Moguls - NYTimes.com

  tags: worse than failure

• At Sam Zell’s Tribune, Tales of a Bankrupt Culture - NYTimes.com

  tags: economics

• Delicious, soapy ham hocks » beltzner

  tags: technology

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load01 10/06/2010

• Linguists discover new language in India - USATODAY.com - Annotated

  tags: culture

  • Every time a language is lost, a complex and ancient constellation of stories, poems, myths and legends also dies, especially in smaller languages that are often unwritten, Garrett says. "It's as if we suddenly lost Greek and all the literature associated with it."

• Crime: Concerned citizen helps free kidnapped Fresno girl - latimes.com

  tags: culture

• Documentation Done Right - The Daily WTF

  tags: technology

• Why would you use a commercial database anyway?

  tags: technology

• Op-Ed Columnist - Third Party Rising - NYTimes.com

  tags: culture

• Op-Ed Columnist - Change or Perish - NYTimes.com

  tags: culture

• Asynchronous Programming in C# using Iterators | Blog | TomasP.Net

  (?)

  tags: programming

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load01 10/05/2010

• GoogleSharing :: A Special Kind Of Proxy

  Keep Google from tracking you...

  tags: technology Google

• samy's geolocation proof of concept

  tags: technology worse than failure

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Manual add

+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Bittorrent To Replace Standard Downloads? |
| from the sharing-the-load dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday October 03, @22:32 (The Internet) |
| https://ask.slashdot.org/story/10/10/04/0035231/Bittorrent-To-Replace-Standard-Downloads |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

[0]Max Sayre writes "Have you ever tried to download an operating system
update only to have it fail and have to start all over? What about
patches for your favorite games? World of Warcraft already uses
Bittorrent technology as a way to distribute large amounts of content at
a lower cost to the company and faster speeds to all of their clients. So
why haven't they replaced the standard downloading options built into any
major OS? Companies like Opera are including the downloading of torrents
in their products already and extensions have been written for Firefox to
download torrents in-browser. Every day Bittorrent traffic is growing.
Sites like OpenBittorrent already exist and DHT doesn't even require a
tracker. So why isn't everyone doing it? Is it finally time to see all
downloads replaced with Bittorrent?"

Discuss this story at:
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/10/04/0035231

Links:
0. mailto:maxsayreatgmaildotcom

load01 10/04/2010

• LinkedIn, the Social Network That Gets Down to Business - NYTimes.com

  tags: technology

• YouTube - Homeless Man Under Pressure.mov

  Homeless Man and two Kermits sing under Pressure... gotta be seen. (youtube.com)submitted 22 minutes ago by reverendcat1 commentsharesavehidereport

  tags: misc

• The death of Digg is not exaggerated | News | TechRadar UK

  tags: technology

• Turn an iPod into an iPhone - NYTimes.com

  tags: technology

• Op-Ed Contributor - Found in Translation - NYTimes.com

  on writing

  tags: culture

• Las Vegas Faces Its Deepest Slide Since the 1940s - NYTimes.com

  tags: economics

• Moore Forth -- Chuck Moore's Comments on Forth

  It shouldn't take that goddamn long...

  tags: technology programming

• fíam » Your content is distracting your users from the ads

  tags: culture technology

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load01 10/03/2010

• Las Vegas Faces Its Deepest Slide Since the 1940s - NYTimes.com

  tags: culture

• AFP: Foreclosures bungle could hit US banks - Annotated

  tags: economics

  • "This is a case of someone being understaffed cutting corners and trying to get the work down. I didn't see this story as a malicious attempt against borrowers," said Michael Moskowitz, CEO of Equity Now, a Manhattan-based mortgage lender.
  • 
    • Who cares about M. Moskowitz's opinion? He's a *lender*, for God's sake

• ffffl*ckr

  ffffl*ckr — Use it to find the Flickr photos you like using the simple idea that people whose work you like, probably like stuff you'll like. You start with a set of pictures. If you authenticate, it'll use 20 of your last 100 favorites, otherwise it'll start with somebody else's favorites. Click any picture to load more. Don't like what that person likes? Scroll back and click a different picture you like. [more inside]posted by netbros at 4:18 PM - 0 comments

  tags: technology

• 9/11 conspiracy theories rife in Muslim world - Yahoo! News

  tags: culture

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