January 2012
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sagansense: Neil deGrasse Tyson’s response to Newt Gingrich’s plan to establish an American colony & base on the moon. Truth. I hate how MSNBC’s embedder completely fails on the dash, but this vid is great.
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animalsbeingdicks: Everything was set for Colonel Bushytail’s revenge. It was just a matter of time, now. 
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Jay Leno & NBC Sued For Libel Over Mitt Romney... →
spytap: NBC’s legal position is expected to be that the event in question is impossible, as Jay Leno hasn’t actually told a joke since 1996. Too bad they won’t be able to prove intent. Which is uh, pretty necessary for a libel suit.
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Rumor has it this is the bill that SOPA will be... →
spytap: Yep, from the very same Lamar Smith, with 5 CA co-sponsors. When all else fails, lump the objectors together with pedophiles and/or terrorists.
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MPAA Directly & Publicly Threatens Politicians Who... →
ericmortensen: “Those who count on quote ‘Hollywood’ for support need to understand that this industry is watching very carefully who’s going to stand up for them when their job is at stake. Don’t ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don’t pay any attention to me when my job is at stake,” — Chris Dodd
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Jonathan Coulton on the whole MegaUpload dealy. The real question in my mind these days, and what I was trying to get at with my little tweet, is: how much does piracy really hurt content creators (specifically, me)? Professional smart person Tim O’Reilly posted something that made me think about this question again in regards to SOPA/PIPA. He points out that any proponent of SOPA/PIPA starts...
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Dorkulate With Steve: An Altogether New Effect →
brycedotvc: In the wake of this week’s online surge to combat SOPA and PIPA, the New York Times found Chris Dodd, the current head of The Motion Picture Association of America, in a particularly reflective mood yesterday. Looking back on his decades as a beltway insider, he posited that…
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“The history of media and technology is an endless series of failed rearguard...”
– Seth Godin (via azspot)
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Stop SOAP! →
codeit: Dyslexic coders unite! Can’t believe how many people don’t get the actual joke… haha
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“One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a...”
– - Gabe Newell, co-founder of videogame company Valve, which publishes Portal and Half-Life via AllThingsD (via marksbirch) Someone who gets it. (via section9) 100% true. iTunes and Steam both prove it. DRM is a shitty product - always has been and always will be - because the actual entertainment...
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“You know that point in your life when you realize the house you grew up in isn’t...”
– Garden State (via summerwrists)
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Thoughts and Adventures: Antitrust+? →
parislemon: Given my post last night, this will probably sound like piling on. But I’m sorry, it’s the first thing that comes to mind. I don’t see how it can’t. How on Earth is Google going to avoid antitrust inquiries with their new Search+ features announced today? If Facebook,… Things only get grey once they start using their market clout to prevent competition. See: Bell preventing...
Jan 10th
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Neuron based data structure – An implementation »... →
justinherrick: (via Instapaper) Interesting, but no need for biological motivation - packages like Neo4j model directed graphs a little better than this, I think - and a little more flexible. And since it’s not spread over php and a typical RDMS like MySQL it’s probably quite a bit faster to calculate eigenvectors et al with. Especially since you can query it with Gremlin…
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wreckandsalvage: theatlanticvideo: On Space, Love, and Carl Sagan’s Cosmic Mix Tape The Voyagers, an experimental documentary by Penny Lane, tells the story of the NASA project to launch two spacecraft carrying golden records holding a wealth of human culture into space in 1977. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 pioneered research of the far reaches of our solar system and continue to hurtle further...
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