Mirrored here for posterity, and just because it’s damned neat.

HANDY ONE-LINERS FOR RUBY November 16, 2005
compiled by David P Thomas version 1.0

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In the year 2014 the New York Times has gone offline;
The Fourth Estate’s fortunes have waned…
What happened to the news?
And what is Epic?

I’ve had an aversion to podcasting and they hype that surrounds it in the past (in no shart part due to the *pod connotations, I’m sure). That being said, I’ve always been excited about the self-publishing potential that the medium holds for independent content producers - Couple that with my recent introduction to the syncing […]

This morning, I received this message in my Flickr inbox:
Hi holotone,
I am writing to let you know that one of your photos with a creative commons license has been short-listed for inclusion in our Schmap Boise Guide, to be published at the end of this month.
www.schmap.com/shortlist/p=***OBSFUCATED***
Clicking this link will take you to a page where […]

Spoke POV is an easy-to-make electronic kit toy that turns your bicycle wheel into a customized display! The project includes a free schematic design, open source software for uploading and editing stored bitmap images, and a high-quality kit with all the parts necessary to build your own.
Specs:

Can be used with road, mountain or BMX wheels!

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A Lockheed Martin engineer working on a multi-billion dollar contract job for the US Government has turned to YouTube to bring serious security flaws to light after his complaints to managers, congressmen, and government investigators were ignored.
Posted three weeks ago, the video describes what De Kort says are blind spots in the ship’s security cameras, […]

Wikipedia Showdown!, a Grupthink poll that I am particularly proud of curating, just hit Digg’s front page - Digg ‘em if ya got ‘em!

The complete guide to running DVDShrink & DVDDecrypter In Ubuntu via Wine.
Nice! Now, back to exercising my right to fair use…

Looks like those crazy kids at Cult Of The Dead Cow are at it again…

ScatterChat is a HACKTIVIST WEAPON designed to allow non-technical human rights activists and political dissidents to communicate securely and anonymously while operating in hostile territory. It is also useful in corporate settings, or in other situations where privacy is desired. […]

Warning!
Thanks to the inescapable logic of the DeCSS, the following prime number is illegal:
4 85650 78965 73978 29309 84189 46942 86137 70744 20873 51357 92401 96520 73668 69851 34010 47237 44696 87974 39926 11751 09737 77701 02744 75280 49058 83138 40375 49709 98790 96539 55227 01171 21570 25974 66699 32402 26834 59661 96060 34851 74249 […]