May 2012
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May 28th
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May 28th
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May 21st
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In third grade: Learn cursive, you will use it for the rest of your life
Middle School: Write in cursive if you want, but make sure it's readable
High School: Please don't write in cursive
College: If you do not type it I will not grade your paper
Job Applications: Please print
May 21st
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May 21st
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Anonymous asked: HiI'm realy appreciate your clip "A little look around LHC". We like to subtitle the clip in italian and to spread it for a divulgative (AND NO-PROFIT) aim. There is a copyright on it, or could we use free?Best regards-- Romeo Bassoli - Communication officeIstituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare - Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics piazza Caprettari 70, 00168 Roma-Italy,
May 18th
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May 17th
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TCS Mesh Networking @ UC Davis: Darin's Computer... →
tcsmesh: The following is directly from Darin regarding the aforementioned Desktop/Laptop ad-hoc network: I’ve been working with two computers: The Desktop, and The Laptop. The mesh network needs two things: 1) An ad-hoc wireless network, which gets the computers’ wireless cards talking to…
May 17th
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BABEL Working!
One of the many projects I’m working on is a mesh network group study. We’re making some headway into a model network. tcsmesh: Darin got Babel to work with an ad-hoc network.  Apparently creating the network from his desktop worked better than originating the network with his laptop. We’re meeting Friday to try installing OpenWRT and Babel on a pair of WRT54G’s to see if we can...
May 17th
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When Obama endorsed marriage equality...
whenobamaendorsed: … I was like:
May 10th
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May 8th
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May 8th
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May 7th
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May 4th
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May 3rd
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May 2nd
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May 1st
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April 2012
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Apr 30th
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Apr 29th
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WatchWatch
graficzny: HTML5[!!!] video of the Pixel Mould Machine in action via Julian Bond’s Vimeo page. Design graduate Julian Bond of the Royal College of Art has created a moulding machine to produce vases, each with its own unique design. Called Pixel Mould, the machine produces vessels using a single mould made up of over 1300 individual plaster sticks. The sticks can be individually reconfigured...
Apr 29th
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Apr 25th
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Apr 20th
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feltonfuckfest: youhavethatrumble: YOU HAVE GOT TO BE FUCKING WITH ME. PERFECT ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN IS PERFECT.
Apr 17th
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Apr 16th
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Apr 16th
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Apr 11th
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Apr 9th
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Domain Registration
My tumblog is a subdomain of my personal “portal” webpage (This blog is http://tumble.kerbavaz.com, my portal is http://www.kerbavaz.com). If you’d like to have a custom tumblr URL, the instructions are here. If you want to buy a domain, I’d like to recommend Hover, which is a subsidiary of Tucows. Unlike GoDaddy, Hover is not owned by a chauvinist, it doesn’t have...
Apr 9th
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Apr 7th
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How We Will Read: Clay Shirky
fndgs: This post is part of “How We Will Read,” an interview series exploring the future of books from the perspectives of publishers, writers, and intellectuals. Read our kickoff post with Steven Johnson here. And check out our new homepage, a captivating new way to explore Findings. This week, we were extremely honored to speak to Internet intellectual Clay Shirky, writer, teacher, and...
Apr 6th
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Apr 2nd
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JE SAIS. J'AI. JE VOIS.: Stale airport air and... →
marissavoir: Stale airport air and overpriced airport burgers and we’re leaving paradise, I guess, which is not the worst thing that could happen. Every night here, my subconscious throws me disturbing loops - and I keep falling asleep with the lights on, waking up with a shudder in the wee hours of the… This woman can write.
Apr 1st
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March 2012
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TED Talk Rob Reid: The $8 billion iPod Yup makes sense to me.
Mar 29th
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Mar 28th
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Mar 27th
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Mar 26th
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Mar 25th
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“The world’s largest and most resilient BitTorrent site plans to redefine “cloud...”
– Via US News.
Mar 19th
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Mar 19th
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Mar 18th
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Mar 15th
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In which I question the University.
In reading Stacy Schiff’s New Yorker piece on Wikipedia, I was most intrigued by the falsification of Wikipedia contributor Essjay’s credentials.  Essjay, an upper level contributor and editor on the popular online encyclopedia assumed a false academic identity to seem more credible. In the world of Wikipedia however,  Essjay’s credibility was contingent on his community contributions, not his...
Mar 14th
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