February 2012
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December 2010
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November 2010
3 posts
Tower Of Bile: HELP FIND GAVIN →
neurosceptic:
Tonight, i learned that a friend and a former work colleague of mine called Gavin Fern has been missing since Saturday and there has been no contact from him since that afternoon. This is completely uncharacteristic of Gav being that i worked closely with him on nightshift at a job i used to…
WONDER-TONIC: TSA Announces Facebook Integration... →
wondertonic:
John Pistole, the head of the Transportation Security Administration, announced yesterday that full body scanners at airports across the nation will be seamlessly integrated with Facebook next month, allowing travelers to save, tag, and share their near-naked security photos with friends,…
Anonymous asked: Why the name?
October 2010
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September 2010
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August 2010
8 posts
The advantages of having a degree in electronic...
Me: I fixed your phone.
Anon: How?
Me: I took the battery out and put it back in again.
Anon: Wow. How did you know how to do that?
Me: I have a degree in electronic engineering.
Anon: Oh.
With hindsight, tumblr is a bit crap at those photosets.
July 2010
6 posts
Facebook data
I downloaded the torrent that all this fuss is about. His intent is really quite benign. It turns out that all he is really interested in is frequencies of common names.
File listing is below in the README. So he’s confused the journalists from step 1 by using bzip2 :-)
The URL file contains lines of the form
http://en-us.facebook.com/people/-Billy-Smith/<unique-fb-id>
You can...
June 2010
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May 2010
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April 2010
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“Why aren’t we ranking higher on Google? Our name starts with A, and this other...”
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