Leftover Takeout: Archive

Dec 31st

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Dec 31st

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Dec 31st

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Delouie Avant Jr. - “Deborah’s...

Dec 31st

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Dec 30th

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Pete Moore - “Shady Blues”. The...

Dec 30th

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Some data about Facebook at Cornell from 2005 →

caterpillarcowboy: Back in 2005, two friends of mine and I got our hands on Cornell’s Facebook social graph directly from Facebook. Someone over there sent us the graph data, with the IDs “obscured”. Being clever students, we realized they had applied a simple linear transformation to the connectivity matrix, so we applied the inverse and were able to directly connect who was friends with whom. ...

Dec 30th

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“I fear you speak upon the rack, Where men enforced do speak anything.”

– William Shakespeare, “Merchant of Venice”

Dec 29th

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Dec 28th

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One Decade Ago Today & Future Predictions

One decade ago today, I was on a crack team of technologists at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette working on Y2K preparedness - impact analyses, disaster recovery, business continuity, turn-of-year analytics, etc. Redundancy, fault tolerance and security, all in an effort to hold up your pants with a belt, suspenders and a rope for good measure. During our entire 6 month, $40 million process, I...

Dec 28th

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Dec 28th

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Jay Electronica - “Exhibit C”. Via...

Dec 28th

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Dec 28th

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Jay Collins and the Kings County Band -...

Dec 28th

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Dec 26th

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Adam Rafferty - “Angels We Have Heard On...

Dec 25th

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Dec 24th

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Dec 24th

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Pomplamoose ft. Wade Johnston - “O Come...

Dec 23rd

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Dec 22nd

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Dec 22nd

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Dec 22nd

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Dec 22nd

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Adam Rafferty - “We Wish You A Merry...

Dec 22nd

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Dec 22nd

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Dec 21st

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Text Laundering

cdixon: Text laundering: The act of transforming text in order to confuse duplicate text detectors, for example those used by search engines like Google. Here’s a recent Boing Boint post I picked at random: If you’ve already made your Christmas gifts to Creative Commons and have a couple of bucks left over? How about buying a gift for the public domain!! Public.Resource.Org just ordered...

Dec 21st

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Dec 21st

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Dec 20th

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Tuck Andress - “Winter Wonderland”....

Dec 20th

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Dec 20th

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Dec 20th

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Dec 19th

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Snow Day With @BillRob

@gbattle: This snowstorm is oversold and underdelivered.
@BillRob: The snow was supposed to be this afternoon.  Although, I agree that so far the snow that has fallen is more like micro-sleet pellets.  
@gbattle: Overhyped right? This town is snow crazy. If it were Dallas, sure, I get it, but these meteorologists are having wet dreams, and I don't mean precipitation.
@BillRob: I don't want to be covered in frozen semen.  I only read 6 inch estimates.
@gbattle: Uhhhh.  I'm going to just leave that one alone.

Dec 19th

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Dec 19th

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Donny Hathaway - “This Christmas”....

Dec 19th

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Dec 19th

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Wham - “Last Christmas” (Pudding...

Dec 19th

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Watch

“Glengarry, Glen-Christmas” - SNL skit, with Alec Baldwin playing the Elf from the main office. Brilliant.

Dec 18th

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Dec 18th

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Greg Howe - “Side Note” - Sound...

Dec 18th

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bit.ly Pro, bit.ly Labs, and bitly.tv

innonate: bitly: Bit.ly Pro is off to a good start. We launched on Monday night and over 1,000 publishers and bloggers had contacted us by Tuesday asking to sign up. Our new Pro point person, Greg Battle — you can reach him at bit.ly/bitlypro — is frenetically provisioning partners. Recent additions include defenders.org, gdgt, icanhascheezburger, Mashable, MTV Networks, Ning, Chris Sacca,...

Dec 17th

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