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  • OpenSSL Heartbeat (Heartbleed) Vulnerability (CVE-2014-0160) and its High-Level Mechanics

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  • When YouTube Goes Down…

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    This is what happens when you work at a company that works with YouTube. When YouTube goes down and everyone in the company goes to check, YouTube thinks you’re bots. If you’re ever curious about the downtimes of popular sites, check DownRightNow.

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  • It’s Official: Google Bought Waze

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    It’s Official: Google Bought Waze, my favorite navigation app. And I’ll have you know, I am a waze knight.

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  • Anatomy of a Logo: Star Wars

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    …Though the poster contained no painted imagery, it did introduce a new logo to the campaign, one that had been designed originally for the cover of a Fox brochure sent to theater owners….Suzy Rice, who had just been hired as an art director, remembers the job well. She recalls that the design directive given by…

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  • PSA: Don’t Be A Glasshole

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  • Google Easter Egg: The Shire to Mordor

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    If you go to Google Maps, click “Get Directions,” select walking, and search for directions from The Shire to Mordor, you get a Lord of the Rings warning in the form of an easter egg that “One does not simply walk into Mordor.” Google must be putting these out to celebrate Google I/O eve 2013.

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  • Google Easter Egg: Atari Breakout

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    Well look at what we’ve got here. Another Google Easter Egg! Enter Atari Breakout in the Google Image Search field. You’ll get results alright, but they’ll turn right into the old school game that I spent a lot of my childhood playing. Or just get the link.

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  • WordPress Users on Dreamhost: Upgrade PHP

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    For the past few days, I’ve noticed that my sites were running EXTREMELY slow. I hadn’t made any changes so I checked the server’s side. I noticed that all my domains were still running on PHP 5.2.x, which was not recommended. Not sure if this was the reason why my sites were slowed to a…

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  • Forget Google Reader, it’s Star Wars Reader!

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    Since Google announced it’s killing off Google Reader in July, I’ve been using feedly. But forget that for now… Check out StarRSS. It’s a Star Wars themed/based RSS feed reader.  It just looks like the opening credits of every Star Wars movie. The posts fly past you in space, complete with the theme music by John Williams. Click on the…

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  • Live Stream North Korean TV

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    Open VLC > Media File Menu > Open Network Stream > Paste http://112.170.78.145:50000/chosun > Press Play > Wait > Watch North Korean TV

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  • Things to Release at a Wedding Ceremony

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  • House of Flying Laptops

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  • Star Wars Day 2012

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    You know how my tagline on this website is “more geeky than girly?” Yes, I’m a Star Wars geek. I’ve loved it since I was little. So in honor of Star Wars Day, I changed my Facebook cover photo. You can get your very own Timeline Cover image at the Official Star Wars Facebook Page.

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  • Downloading the Internet

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    Need more floppy disks to download the WWW from w3schools.com.

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  • How Back to the Future Should Have Ended

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    Best alternate ending EVER!

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  • How Watson Could Have Been Beaten on Jeopardy

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    I couldn’t help it. Jeopardy’s my favorite show. via Borepatch.

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  • IBM computer on Jeopardy

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    Don’t forget the IBM computer is on Jeopardy tonight, tomorrow, and the 16th!

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  • A is for Alienware

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    This almost looks like it’s a photoshopped or computer-generated image to me. But it’s not. It’s a picture of my laptop. Geeky, I know. The light is coming from my desk lamp–maybe a little too bright? I couldn’t get the white balance to work with the blue in the letters. They’re all wacky, even compared…

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  • Quick, Grab Your Arabic Domain Name

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    Icann has switched on a system that allows full web addresses that contain no Latin characters. Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are the first countries to have so-called “country codes” written in Arabic scripts. The move is the first step to allow web addresses in many scripts including Chinese, Thai and Tamil.

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  • Chatroulette + Improv Piano Player = Love!!

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    For those who don’t know, Chatroulette is a website that pairs random strangers for web cam-based conversations. Kinda creepy, IMHO, but the following video is HILARIOUS! Beware the swears.

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