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Dedicated to Timmy Tofu fan Maria Elena, who is celebrating her birthday today – happy birthday Maria Elena!!

Here are more of Timmy’s pickup lines.

Do you know anyone who stops to read “click-through” agreements on websites in the middle of performing a task? One company, PC Pitstop, deliberately buried a clause in its end-user license agreement in 2004, offering $1,000 to the first person who emailed the company at a certain address. It took five months and 3,000 sales until someone claimed the money. The situation hadn’t improved by 2010 when Gamestation played an April Fools’ Day joke by embedding a clause in their agreement saying that users were selling them their souls.

Here is another good bit:

Ponder the fact that a dermatologist must sign his name to forms almost 30,000 times a year, according to a 2008 article in the Southern Medical Journal.

The article is here and for the pointer I thank Olaf.

The rule is stop drop and roll, right?

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Hey guys! We have something we’ve been working on that we’re really excited to share with you!

We got tired of missing out on interesting events simply because we didn’t hear about them in time, so we built forekast.com.  In short, it’s a place where people can post and vote on the best things happening every day, resulting in a visual outline of the best and most interesting upcoming events.  Here’s the site’s about us page which explains it all a little more.

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Now that it’s ready, we need help!  This is the kind of thing that gets better as more people get involved and post events they know about based on their particular interests.  If you’ve heard about or know of a great upcoming event, please post it!  The national section is for events that people can experience from anywhere (or ones worth traveling to), like a meteor shower, something exciting on TV, SXSW, or even a live webcast of a SpaceX rocket launch. The local events section is for events happening closer to home, for example, a festival, farmers market, live music at a cafe, or a jet-pack-wearing bear convention. We’d also appreciate your help in spreading the word.  If you know people who’d enjoy this kind of thing please pass it along.

Unfortunately it’s only available in the US for now, but hopefully we’ll be able to add more countries in the near future.

We hope you like it!  You can keep in touch with us about the project through Twitter, Facebook or Google+.

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In case you missed it on Monday’s comic, we’ve launched a new project called Forekast to help you discover and share upcoming events. Check it out! You know, if you want…

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“Also, try not to be away from your desk for too long.  All these cubicles make it hard to find people if they’re not at their desks.”

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“And it wouldn’t kill you to eat a salad once in a while.”

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Full ahead and watch out for icebergs. This Teatanic Tea Infuser will make a nice cup of tea while looking like a maritime accident. Fans of the historic Titanic disaster movie, or even those fascinated by the real event will find this a whimsical way to make a cup of tea. Just put your tea [...]

Game of Thrones fans will feel just like Arya Stark with this Game of Thrones Iron Coin of the Faceless Man. Just don’t expect it to get you into Braavos. This is an exact replica of the coin Jaqen gives Arya and it is nicely detailed. It features a hooded, faceless figure on one side [...]

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Dedicated to Bill, who’s celebrating his birthday this weekend. Happy birthday Bill!

And here are more Easter cartoons.

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I've posted this before, but it's so good, here it is again: a super-simple explanation of why differential gears are necessary in cars and how they work.

(via @stevenstrogatz)

Tags: cars   science   video

The Rejuvenique Facial Horror Mask electrocutes your face in 26 spots simultaneously. It fit any face size… yessss. Yeeeeeeesssss. Joooiiiin uuuuus. (puts on mask) JOOOIN USSSSSS

 

 

Nessa tirinhas fiquei em dúvida entre dois finais. Bem, na dúvida….

 

 

No programa “Agora é tarde” do Danilo Gentili, o Pastor Marco Feliciano diz ser “perseguição evangélica” ao ser questionado pelo método do dizimo de sua igreja já que todas as religiões também pedem o mesmo. Bem, uma coisa é você doar dinheiro voluntariamente para uma instituição de seu agrado, outra, é essa instituição exercer uma pressão psicológica absurda para que seu frequentador doe grandes quantias e bens para a igreja, caso contrário o “seu Deus” não lhe dará a mínima. Ou seja,  agora você compra um milagre, podendo até parcelar o amor de Deus no cartão! Isso é um assalto psicológico! Estamos voltando a idade medieval em que a população pobre e ingênua era extorquida pela igreja com medo de não ter um cantinho no céu. Uma pena a Lei não se manifestar contra este fato pois no bom senso de todos é um crime vergonhoso! 

Mixed news everyone!

1. First and the most important: thank you everybody for your donations. We now have enough to secure our servers for the next two months or so. You can donate using Flattr or using bitcoins: 1JMYDeTaJHvfL6stbvwNdbY8zVqWfEnucU.

2. We’ve got an incredible amount of emails during last three weeks. There’ve been several days when all three of us were busy mostly dealing with user requests. If you believe that The Old Reader is missing something (and it surely is), please go to our Uservoice page, browse the issues (most likely, someone has already created your suggestion), and vote for the ones you like. Also you can see what’s already planned there. And please, check our Status page or subscribe to our Twitter account — we are updating these two on current issues.

We only have that much time during the day to spare on this project, and we would prefer to spend it making The Old Reader more reliable or implementing new features, not removing duplicate feature requests or explaining how to create a folder.

We are focused on making everything work for the vast number of users and feeds, for now this is our top priority.

(image by ProlificPen)

3. We could really use some help on the Ruby on Rails front. If you have experience engineering medium-size websites, and you’d like to become a part of our small team, please, drop us a line to hello@theoldreader.com. If you have any other suggestions about how you can help us, feel free to email us as well. Or just spread the word, that’d be much appreciated.

We can’t pay you a huge pile of money, but we still have something interesting to offer.

4. Cool graphs, no?

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for those not in the know, night witches were russian lady bombers who bombed the shit out of german lines in WW2. Thing is though, they had the oldest, noisiest, crappest planes in the entire world. The engines used to conk out halfway through their missions, so they had to climb out on the wings mid flight to restart the props. the planes were also so noisy that to stop germans from hearing them combing and starting up their anti aircraft guns, they’d climb up to a certain height, coast down to german positions, drop their bombs, restart their engines in midair, and get the fuck out of dodge.

their leader flew over 200 missions and was never captured.

how the fuck is this not taught in every single history class ever

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Why it is not taught?  Because women and their accomplishments have been systematically kept out of chronicles, pictures and other contemporary sources, and generations of historians have enjoyed not looking their way.

Did you get a nice shiny new Paperwhite Kindle to replace your old one? (I haven’t yet. I’m waiting until the inevitable moment when I drop my Kindle Touch and break the screen; I’m currently on my third.) If you did, you might be interested to learn that when you’re not using it to read books or jailbreaking it so you can change the wallpaper, you can use your Paperwhite as a wireless, ultra low-power display for your Raspberry Pi.

We featured the original Kindleberry Pi hack from Ponnuki back in September. That hack required cables, and only worked on the old Kindle 3 (the version with the keyboard), not any later versions – plus, it looked a bit odd because to keep the screen in landscape mode you had to turn the whole assembly on its side, so the keyboard was rotated by 90 degrees. The new Kindle 5 (the Paperwhite) has no keyboard, a faster refresh rate, and a backlight that can be turned on in dark conditions. So Max Ogden has polished Ponnuki’s original Kindleberry Pi idea, and produced a really tidy piece of kit: a Raspberry Pi with a Paperwhite display, a wireless keyboard and a tiny wireless router. He says:

The advantages of the Kindleberry are pretty desirable for me:

• Week-long battery life: the Pi and the Kindle both have low power ARM processors so you can use any USB charger to power them
• The Kindle screen is designed for use in direct sunlight
• The whole setup is small enough to carry around in a pouch inside my normal backpack along with my normal laptop. I work from coffee shops in Oakland and often move around by bicycle during the day — now I can work from almost anywhere and still be at least a little productive.

Here at the Foundation, we’re watching the development of e-ink products with great interest. At the moment it’s nigh-on impossible to buy an e-ink display as a consumer unless it comes bundled as part of an e-reader like a Kindle or a Nook; and that makes them very expensive. The technology has all kinds of potential for applications we want to see the Pi being used for: the low energy requirement makes an e-ink screen a perfect choice for places where you’re off the grid or reliant on solar power. We’re looking forward to seeing prices come down and displays becoming more easily available to consumers.

Obviously, you’re not going to be watching video on an e-ink display any time soon; the refresh rates just aren’t there yet, and if they ever do get there, it won’t be for many years. But for everything else, e-ink’s a great choice. Max says that the Paperwhite’s refresh rate added to the tiny lag that you get using a wireless keyboard means that he sees a ~200ms screen delay when using the Kindleberry Pi, but that this is barely noticeable when typing.

Max has made code and a list of required hardware available at his website.

 

I was building a website for a funeral home, and one of the sample screenshots was on an unclosed tab on my computer. 

My next client was a spiritualist, who happened to see the picture. She grabbed her materials and ran out the door. She said there was “bad energy” on my PC from the funeral home website.

My attitude toward plain text files:

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From the excellent and apparently inexhaustible Mark Thorson:

A poster telling customers they’ll be charged $5 for browsing if they don’t purchase anything has been put up at Celiac Supplies in the Brisbane suburb of Coorparoo, Reddit user BarrettFox reported.

Owner of the gluten free produce store, Georgina, says she resorted to putting up the sign after spending hours each week giving advice to people who leave empty-handed.

About 60 people a week would go into the store, ask questions and then buy the same or similar product at a supermarket chain or online.

“I’ve had a gut full of working and not getting paid,” Georgina, who didn’t want her surname published, told AAP.

The full article is here.  The store owner comments:

“I can tell straight away who are the rat bags who are going to come in here and pick my brain and disappear,” she said.