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• Every Presentation Ever: Communication FAIL [Video] 01/19/2012
  Every Presentation Ever: Communication FAIL [Video]Making a presentation interesting is an art form, and unfortunately, very few people can do it right. [Via Laughing Squid] Related posts: The Importance of DNS [Video] Santa Academy Bootcamp [Video] Unreal Tournament 3 Nyan Cat Mod [Video] […]
• A history of IP violence: how SOPA's and PIPA's sponsors have waged war on the Internet 01/18/2012
  A history of IP violence: how SOPA's and PIPA's sponsors have waged war on the InternetThree members of Congress have played an outsized role in the advancement of copyright protection legislation over the past few years: Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), and Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-MI). And while the tech industry has certain […]
• Multicellular Life Evolves in Laboratory 01/18/2012
  Multicellular Life Evolves in LaboratoryAn evolutionary transition that took several billion years to occur in nature has happened in a laboratory, and it needed just 60 days. […]
• Nao 1337 is so getting this! 01/18/2012
  Nao 1337 is so getting this!Forget Siri – make Wolfram Alpha your personal assistantSo you can spend a bundle on a new phone and it comes with a voice-activated digital assistant. But let’s be honest, it’s much more satisfying if you coded up this feature yourself. Here’s a guide on doing just that by combining an Asterisk server with the Wolfram Alpha API.A […]
• want! 01/18/2012
  want!Transparent AluminumThose of you, um, enthusiastic enough to remember Star Trek IV may recall the scene embedded above.If not, let me set up the clip: The crew of the Enterprise has gone into the past to retrieve some whales, OK? And take them “back to the future,” to coin a phrase. But Scotty has a problem: He needs stuff to build a giant whale tank on […]

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