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(Subbed) Nuclear Boy うんち・おならで例える原発解説

By on March 21, 2011 in Current Affairs

This explains the Nuclear power plant situation in such an awesome way. Subtitled for extra awesome.

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Making Twitter more secure: HTTPS

By on March 15, 2011 in Random Rants, Web/Tech

This really should be the default. If you use Twitter, you want this.

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Going Flash-Free on Mac OS X, and How to Cheat When You Need It

By on March 15, 2011 in Mac / OSX, Operating Systems, Random Rants, Web/Tech

I have now done this on my Air and I’m more than happy with it. Safari is a dream. DF is updated with a few recent update for things like Chrome linking etc.

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Web Chat in 12 lines of code – NowJS

By on March 15, 2011 in Programming, Web/Tech

Thanks to @rcomian for the tip. Awesome use of Node.js.

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Reply to Comments from Email on Github

By on March 15, 2011 in Programming

This new feature from the Github team is just awesome. It’s about time it was added and it is a dream to use. I’ve been using it a lot! Thanks guys.

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Japan quake effects length of day and GPS coordinates

By on March 14, 2011 in Current Affairs, Random Rants
Incredibly, the earthquake in Japan was so powerful it sped up the rotation of the Earth resulting in the shrinking of a 24-hour day by 1.8 milliseconds.
Brian Osborne

To the people of Japan the effects are very real. For the rest of the world, the effects are scientifically interesting.

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Behind the Splash Screen (Photoshop)

By on March 14, 2011 in Mac / OSX, Random Rants

This is good, just because… they had plenty of notice to move to Cocoa. “Pulled the rug from underneath us” – riiiigggghhhtttt

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Why I am not worried about Japan’s nuclear reactors

By on March 14, 2011 in Current Affairs

WE’RE NOT ALL GONNA DIE

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The 960 Grid System Made Easy

By on March 14, 2011 in Programming, Web/Tech

Read this on the way in this morning (thanks @Paul_Kinlan) it is a really good overview of 960.gs.

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Japan Earthquake: before and after

By on March 13, 2011 in Random Rants

Wow… if you haven’t donated already the Red Cross has launched an appeal.

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