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Beckham knows how to make a fresh drip coffee!

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John McAfee often manipulates the media--at least that's what he says.
At various times in the past couple of years, McAfee, the software magnate turned fugutive, has said that he has experimented with the rectal application of MDPV, a synthetic drug also known as "bath salts." And McAfee, who took his fortune to Belize and has now landed in Portland after the mysterious murder of his neighbor, has recently claimed to have orchestrated a spying caper on the elite in the Central American country.

And now he tells WW he's looking to buy a home in Portland.

Is there truth to any of it? We're not quite sure what to believe, but in this third part of our interview with McAfee (here are Parts One and Two), he talks about the media, how he often tries to make himself look crazy to reporters, and why he has chosen three major news outlets (Vice magazine, The Sunday Times of London, and Dateline NBC) to give what he says is his true account of life in Belize and his flight from that country as a "person of interest" in the death of his neighbor, Gregory Faull.
In the Times piece, which came out today, McAfee says he is keeping a high profile in the media so it's more difficult for assassins to target him. 
“This is not fun,” he told the Times. “This is a necessary evil. I need your help so they don’t come and shoot me in the head.”
Here's what he told us:

 

Among great British traditions, there’s tea, knowing how to lose an empire, tea, Parliament, big ben, tea, incalculable wit, Parliament, big ben, tea, and BBC radio. While Britons in foreign lands may not be able receive BBC radio over the airwaves, there is the remarkable BBC iPlayer that allows online streaming of all those awesome BBC radio stations. Unfortunately, moving away from the Prime Meridian means the BBC radio schedule deviates from the schedule ordained by divine right. In Seattle, for example, a Friday evening comedy would be broadcast in the middle of the afternoon. Basically, it’s like listening to  Prairie Home Companion on Saturday morning. It just feels wrong.

[Adam] came up with a clever solution to this problem. Yes, it’s really just a Raspberry Pi-powered web radio, but there’s a twist to this build: everything from BBC radio is buffered and time shifted. A program that airs at noon in London will now play on [Adam]‘s radio at noon in Seattle.

The hardware portion of the build is an exceedingly British radio which [Adam] deftly modified to include an auxiliary input. The software portion of the build uses ffmpeg, mplayer, and a PHP script to stream the iPlayer audio to a file, wait 8 hours (or whatever the offset from GMT is), and start playing the audio.

In the end, the time shifted BBC radio works perfectly, and even caught the attention of a few people at BBC Radio 4. [Adam] was interviewed about his project, and was even able to listen to his interview several hours later.

Filed under: radio hacks, Raspberry Pi

septagonstudios:

Greg Guillemin

I like this idea a lot. I think it could be really cool as stockings (ones that would make you think).

roseaposey:

“Judgments”

I took this last year, but in retrospect, I think it’s my strongest piece from high school.

Working on this project really made me examine my own opinions, preconceptions and prejudices about “slutty” women and women who choose to cover all of their skin alike. I used to assume that all women who wore Hijabs were being oppressed, slut-shame, and look down on and judge any woman who didn’t express her sexuality in a way that I found appropriate.

I’d like to think I’m more open now.

Brasil e Portugal tecnicamente falam a mesma língua, mas sabemos que nem sempre é bem assim. E uma boa forma de compreender como estes dois países são diferentes é através das traduções que os livros ganham nos respectivos países. Algumas delas são até bem curiosas. Nesta lista, uma seleção com 10 diferentes traduções de livros no Brasil, e em Portugal:

An anonymous reader writes "After announcing a fix was coming just yesterday, Oracle on Sunday released Java 7 Update 11 to address the recently disclosed security vulnerability. If you use Java, you can download the latest update now from the Java Control Panel or directly from Oracle's website here: Java SE 7u11. In the release notes for this update, Oracle notes this version "contains fixes for security vulnerabilities." A closer look at Oracle Security Alert for CVE-2013-0422 details that Update 11 fixes two vulnerabilities."

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Over at Desura, Only Human Studios is releasing regular updates for Ensign-1, an in-progress space combat game for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Ensign-1 puts players in the role of a space fighter pilot who, upon returning from a colonization mission in another solar system, finds Earth occupied by a hostile alien force. Players have a variety of options when it comes to engaging alien threats, either in single-player or cooperative/competitive multiplayer modes.

"You can fight from the safety of your spacecraft, or land and exit to explore space stations and carriers on foot," Ensign-1's developers explain. "You can commandeer any spacecraft in the game, no matter how big or how small. Defend an asteroid base, or take the fight to the enemy with a huge mothership, friends manning turrets, it's your choice."

Ensign-1 is currently available for $4.99, but will raise in price as it nears completion.

minhanossa:

Me

jesus-everywhere:

Jesus At The Tailor Getting Measured For A Bespoke Suit

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gamingurumi:

Mario Castle Magnet Home Sweet Home by ~agorby00

I’m just gonna leave this here.

AURORA, IL—The contentious debate on gun control will continue unresolved after local woman Theresa Delacroix opted Friday not to post an anti-gun message on Facebook, an opinion experts agreed would have tipped the scales toward a sweeping overhaul...

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The online version of the UK "newspaper" The Mirror have published some rare behind-the-scenes photographs from the Patrick Troughton stories, The Abominable Snowmen and The Web of Fear. You can check out the full gallery of images HERE. Be warned, it is The Mirror.

Steam offers downloads of Thirty Flights of Loving for Windows and Mac for $2.49. That's a $3 drop and the best price we could find for this first-person adventure game. Deal ends January 13 at 1 pm ET.

Several species of animals gather to observe noted BBC natural history filmmaker Sir David Attenborough in his natural environment on the latest Bird and Moon comic by Rosemary Mosco.

An anonymous reader writes "Game designer Tadhg Kelly writes at TechCrunch about a trend many gamers have noticed over the past decade: designers increasingly relying on statistics — and only statistics — to inform their design decisions. You know the type; the ones who'll change the background color if they think it'll eke out a few more players, or the ones who'll scrap interesting game mechanics in favor of making the game more easily understandable to a broader market. Naturally, this leads to homogenization and boring games. Kelly says, 'Obsessed with measuring everything and therefore defining all of their problems in numerical terms, social game makers have come to believe that those numbers are all there is, and this is why they cannot permit themselves to invent. Like TV people, they are effectively in search of that one number that will explain fun to them. There must, they reason, be some combination of LTV and ARPU and DAU and so on that captures fun, like hunting for the Higgs boson. It must be out there somewhere. ... Unlike every other major game revolution (arcade, console, PC, casual, MMO, etc.), social game developers have proved consistently unable to understand that fun is dynamic in this way. ... They are hunting for the fun boson, but it does not exist.'"

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