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tinyurl command line tool

Create an executable file called "tinyurl" in your executable path which contains something like:

#!/bin/sh
wget -q -O - \
-U "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8" \
--header="Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,video/x-mng,image/png,image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,*/*;q=0.1" \
--header="Accept-Language: en" \
--header="Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7" \ read more...

Using Amazon’s EC2/S3 for web hosting

useful comments here which boil down to:

possible, but only useful if you need at least one fully dedicated virtual server, and it’s also a hassle.

Trinity vs Millsaps

I laughed so hard that I cried.

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Ego Baiting

1. Post inflamatory comment about someone egotistical enough to have their own "blog", and include link to their "blog".
2. Since they are egotistical, they will be checking their preferred blog indexing and serching services for links to and mentions of themself.
3. They will link back to the post of yours that mentioned them with probability 0 < p < 1
4. ?
5. Profit!

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I’m waiting for the Transmetropolitan glasses

via psychic something something

Bonferroni’s Principle

The U.S. Terrorist Watch List appears to be growing in some kind of automated fashion. Given the current size, it seems to have run into Bonferroni's Principle.read more…