Discoveries..

..while i'm procrastinating ;)

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When You Write Your Essays in Programming Languages

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How to leave the proper Facebook comment: a flowchart — The Good Men Project Magazine

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Caught the image in a different article

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Geek And Poke: NoSQL

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Acronym :)

(via @prasannagautam)

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MT = a + b log2(2A/W)

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The Website Is Down - Sales Guy vs. Web Dude

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Space required to transport 60 people (car/bus/bicycle)

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..that un-hackableness apparently comes primarily from the drive's combination of AES256 technology and fingerprint security, which is paired with (get this) a self-destruct mechanism that irrevocably burns the CPU and memory chip if there's any attempt to force the drive open.

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Photoshop's CAF (content-aware fill) - unbelievable? Not quite.

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o3:

John Nack posted a “sneak peek” of an upcoming Photoshop feature called Content-Aware Fill. There’s an impressive video as well.

Users are predictably drooling; some can’t even believe such a wonder is possible.

They can rest assured - it is possible and it has been around for years, e.g. in the GIMP plugin by Paul Harrison called Resynthesizer.

Here are some examples of what GIMP-resynthesize can do, on the same pictures used in the content-aware fill video:

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Use any font you like in HTML pages.. 

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Nicer jQuery image slider.

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Top 20 5-Second Films

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Do not Trust Profile Pictures! Samsung DCC

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... the apparently eager Beyoncé would've made one badass Nazgul.

xkcd: Single Ladies

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A battery for an electronic device is contained within a first frame that is coupled to a second frame by one or more piezoelectric elements. The second frame is coupled to a device chassis by one or more additional piezoelectric elements. In response to translation and/or rotation of the electronic device, portions of forces induced by the battery mass are transferred to the piezoelectric elements. Electrical energy output by these piezoelectric elements is received in a power controller and can be applied to the battery. Additional device components can also be contained within the first frame so as to increase the total mass that induces forces applied to the piezoelectric elements.

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Despite pollution, over-population, power-cuts and all the mess, Kathmandu still illuminates. Kathmandu rocks!!!