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via del.icio.us|popular by LynchBomb on January 15, 2008
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Clustarack's impressive Rube Goldberg contraption
via Waxy.org Links by (author unknown) on April 29, 2008
behind the scenes, 180 hours to build the contraption, 98 takes, 30 minutes to restore to initial state [via]
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IBM 1001 DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM (Dec, 1961)
via Modern Mechanix by Charlie on April 30, 2008
... unit and telephone at each remote location plus a telephone and card punch at your data processing center put you in business. The operator at the remote unit dials the data processing center, inserts a punched card into the transmission unit, adds additional information with the simple keyboard, and presses a button.The rest is automatic. The equipment reads the card, transmits the inform...
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NSA Releases Historical Documents on TEMPEST
via Slashdot by ScuttleMonkey on May 01, 2008
sgunhouse writes to mention Wired's Threat Level has a piece on a recently-declassified document detailing the history of TEMPEST. "It was 1943, and an engineer with Bell Telephone was working on one of the U.S. government's most sensitive and important pieces of wartime machinery, a Bell Telephone model 131-B2. It was a top secret encrypted teletype terminal used by the Army and Navy to...
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Espresso made from red tea
via Springwise: Promising new business ideas for entrepreneurial minds by Springwise on April 29, 2008
Lattes and cappuccinos may have achieved near-cult status around much of the world, but health benefits are not typically among their virtues. A new contender fresh out of South Africa is now proposing a healthier alternative: espresso made from red tea.Back in 2005, South African Cape farmer and espresso junkie Carl Pretorius walked into his kitchen for a quick fix. Worrying about the caffeine,...
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Behind Live Mesh: How we run cloud services
via MSDN Blogs by Live Mesh Team on April 30, 2008
A quick self-introduction: I’m Alex Mallet, one of the development leads on the Live Mesh project. I’ve been at Microsoft since ’97, except for an abortive [but instructive] side trip to graduate school in an attempt to get a PhD in computational biology. Just about all of my time has been spent working on distributed systems, of gradually increasing scale – I started out working on IIS,...
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Trading Stocks: How Do I Find Good Stocks?
via Get Rich Slowly by J.D. on April 30, 2008
This is a guest post from John Forman from The Essentials of Trading. Forman is the author of a book by the same name. He has been a trader of the stock and other markets for over 20 years, and is a professional stock market analyst for Thomson Reuters.The wealth building potential of the stock market is enormous. I think we all realize that. The long-running debate, though, is whether one is...
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Show VMware Tools version with BGInfo (Yellow Bricks)
via Planet V12n by (author unknown) on April 29, 2008
Arne blogged about a cool feature of BGInfo yesterday, but his post is in dutch so it’s not on the Planet V12 RSS feed which is a shame cause it’s definitely usefull info.In short: BGInfo is a handy little SysInternals tool which sets a desktop wallpaper with pre-defined info like total memory, disk info, ip info etc. With BGInfo it’s also possible to define a specific field with for...
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Timelapse video of the cherry trees blossoming at the Brooklyn...
via kottke.org by jason@kottke.org on April 29, 2008
Timelapse video of the cherry trees blossoming at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden over a period of 9 days. If you haven't been over to the BBG yet this year, now would be a good time; most of their cherry trees are at "peak bloom" right now. (link)
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If Microsoft goes fully hostile on Yahoo
via blog.pmarca.com by Marc Andreessen on April 28, 2008
We have seen extensive press coverage of Microsoft's pursuit of Yahoo over the last few months, including notably excellent coverage from Silicon Alley Insider and the Wall Street Journal. However, I have not seen a detailed analysis of how a full hostile takeover might play out -- the kind of analysis that you would be receiving if you were a Microsoft or Yahoo board member. So I asked a...
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