Saturday, December 24, 2011

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  • Ten people who mattered this year.

    tags: news

  • As you stand in endless lines this holiday season, here’s a comforting thought: all those security measures accomplish nothing, at enormous cost. That’s the conclusion of Charles C. Mann, who put the T.S.A. to the test with the help of one of America’s top security experts.

    tags: culture

  • dotEPUB is software in the cloud that allows you to convert any webpage into an e-book.

    For content consumers (readers), we have developed a bookmarklet (or  favlet) for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari or Opera. And, if you are a Google Chrome user, you can install the dotEPUB extension in your browser.

    tags: technology

  • tags: news

  • My son's first puppy. (imgur.com)submitted 4 hours ago by vandalklown to aww115 commentssharesavehidereport

    tags: humor

  • I spent two weeks reading and reverse engineering further the source code of Another World ("Out Of This World" in North America). I based my work on Gregory Montoir's "binary to C++" initial reverse engineering from the DOS executable.

    I was amazed to discover an elegant system based on a virtual machine interpreting bytecode in realtime and generating fullscreen vectorial cinematic in order to produce one of the best game of all time.

    All this shipping on a 1.44MB floppy disk and running within 600KB of RAM: Not bad for 1991 ! As usual I cleaned up my notes, it may save a few hours to someone.

    tags: game

  • What atheists are really cоncerned about (science-sc.com)submitted 4 hours ago by GinZonian to atheism235 commentssharesavehidereport

    tags: humor

  • Over the past eight months, Google has steadily released one revolutionary new feature after another. On March 17, the company announced a new version of Google Analytics. Up until this point, users could decide whether they preferred to stick with the old interface or switch to the new one. However, Google recently announced that the old version of GA will be turned off in January 2012.

    tags: technology

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