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Thursday, January 07, 2010
The Moon’s Only About The Size Of A Quarter
vegas
vegas showgirl kitteh
shh… dont tell wut i didz in vegas.
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Ukraine Begins Employing Giant Combat Robots for Security [Robots]
"TIS is proud to inform that we are the first in our Kominternovsky region to employ Giant Humanlike Combat Robots within the Security Department. Model TIS-1CB." That's the caption for this photo. What are they up to in Ukraine? Updated.
Seriously, if anyone has a detailed explanation for this thing, please shoot me an email. [Pravda]
Update: Thanks to all those who sent in the explanation for this strange metal fellow. Sergey G's details, in particular, were very helpful:
TIS (Transinvestservice) is logistics company near Odessa. They had problems people finding their warehouse (you know - knowing to turn left after 15 km and stuff like that), so TIS set up an giant robot made from old cars as a signpost.
As a side-note: "Giant Human Like Battle Robots" is a popular meme in Russia and Ukraine. "When [are we] going to employ Giant Humanlike Battle Robots to protect our borders?" was a winning question for Putin on his nationwide interview with Internet folk. Yuschenko (Ukrainian president) was asked this as well since then.
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Cats are natrualy talented
Cats are natrualy talented when it comes to evil plans.
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Prezident cat
Prezident cat iz safe
ill take a bullet 4 u anyday. (via IHAH)
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Model Rocket Fail
Its a model rocket X wing... Guess R2 couldn't lock down that stabilizer!
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Freddy used to hunt birds the same way as any other cat.
Freddy used to hunt birds the same way as any other cat. Until he found a military bolt-action rifle in the basement…
dont needz a gun. just needz a wet kitteh.
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Monday, December 21, 2009
You Can Have Furries At Your Wedding, Too!
Submitted by: www.furaffinity.net/user/da-fox via Submit Page
For the low-low price of $299.99, a Furry will drop by your wedding for extended photo opps, lifestyle tutorials and children’s entertainment. End-of-the-decade special!
It’s not just a fursuit … it’s a state of mind.
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The lesser known reindeer,
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Hare Force pilot
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There Is Also A Sign Here.
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Train Stop
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lorenichc Cautionary Fail bad idea, emergency stop, train, utility pole
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Monday, December 14, 2009
Monday, September 07, 2009
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5 major outages in one day.... What the hell is going on at my work.
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#atwork got an office to myself at the moment. Door says "techninal infrastructure coordinator" haha
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Disaster planning
#atwork Disaster Planning fun. Currently at backup site ready to failover if needed.
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Idea Space
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Idea Space
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Alpha Version of DIY Google Lattitude
I'm not going to link to the content yet... But ive just finished developing the core of a DIY Google Latitude workalike.
Friday, February 06, 2009
Improved tagging in Google Reader
Heavy Google Reader users may have noticed a few subtle changes lately...
Over the last week Ive noticed changes to the tagging behavior and they appear to have settled down, with the current changes having stayed in effect for nearly 48hrs so far. [Before this the changes were not fixed and had usually changed again in about 24hrs]
I cant confirm if this is widespread or just being bucket tested, but Google appear to have begun to use a more intelligent tagging function.
Where as the old version was a rigid match, and many of the people using the auto-completion in the tagging system have probably had that moment where we realized that we just created a brand new tag with 1 single letter different that now doubles the time it takes us to tag because we have to tap out a few more letters before we know for certain that's the only tag its going to use.
The new tagging function appears to be using a fuzzy matching system that guesses at which of your existing tags you want to label the article.
While this may slow down people creating new tags, it does seem to be a better match to my normal usage. I tag with existing tags more often than I want to make a new tag.
This is the look of the old behavior.
If you make a mistake, say I continue typing the word Interesting, but I type 'a' instead of the 'e' that comes next, the tagging system will assume this is a new tag, and when i hit enter to select the suggested tag, it will save the text as a new tag and then ill have an unwanted new tag 'Inta'
These unwanted tags get in the way when trying to continue reading & tagging articles. Now this may seem pedantic but when your reading over 250 articles/entries/posts a day, the annoyance can add up to a significant level.
Getting rid of them basically requires you to open up the settings, switch around the tabs in settings & delete the tag, before refreshing the whole of Google Reader, to make sure nothing is cached.
After the new changes however things a lot better. The improved fuzzy matching means that it will only show your existing tags, placing the one that fits best at the top of the list of suggestions.
The new matching looks like this.
As you can see from these 2 examples. The new matching will avoid creating new tags by accident.
Having deliberately typed something that doesn't match my tags, it suggests a near match from my existing tags rather than creating a new tag.
This is the kind of polishing that's been a bit missing from most of the software I've seen lately. Its good to see people paying attention to the finer details again.
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