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The image above (much larger version here) doesn’t look like much, but the item has been somewhere you haven’t — the moon. And there’s a very good chance that it shouldn’t have gone to the moon in the first place, and the fact that it did may have cost a couple of astronauts their jobs.


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After meeting Paul King of the Groovy Team at Apache Con US 08 in New Orleans, I set out to take a stab at SLING-315 again to add Groovy support to Sling. It turned out, that the current Groovy 1.6 branch already contains the required setup to build the groovy-all.


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The image above is a screenshot from the iconic 1991 arcade game Street Fighter II. In the game, players control a character in a tournament of street fights (imagine that) to crown the world’s best. Two of the available characters are pictured above.


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For many people, finding a balance between their digital life and their physical life is similar to the difference of a busy, nonstop city street and a quiet country road through the mountains.


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TodoTxtMac is a minimalist, keyboard-driven to-do manager for Mac OS X… that conforms to the todo.txt format spec.


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Who This Article is for There are no complex or difficult concepts in this article, all required is a basic knowledge of the command line, the C language, Makefile and a general understanding about file systems.


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Editor’s note: The following commencement address was given last week to the graduates of the University of Texas by Naval Admiral William H. McRaven. McRaven is the commander of U.S. Special Operations and oversaw the mission that killed Osama bin Laden.


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Making use of the best motorcycle helmet reviews will quickly and easily allow you to choose the best motorcycle helmet for the money.


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Forget all those broken boards and crumbled concrete slabs. No feat of martial arts is more impressive than Bruce Lee’s famous strike, the one-inch punch. From a single inch away, Lee was able to muster an explosive blow that could knock opponents clean off the ground.


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Last friday I lost a commit using git reset --HARD (shit happens), so I decided it was time to study git again. This post is not intended to be about basic git stuff, but stuff you probably didn't know about or used just once or twice.


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You may have notice that hotels have the same oil painting in each room.  Or that you can get a replica Starry Night or Mona Lisa (like the one above) for roughly the price of a high-end Kindle.


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A marathon is 26.2 miles long, the approximate distance from Marathon, Greece, to Athens.


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Hello Kitty, above, was created by the Japanese company Sanrio in 1974. She’s become an international sensation since; according to a New York Times article from May of 2010, the Hello Kitty brand is worth $5 billion a year.


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Package manager for the C programming language. Clib is a suite of small C libraries that you can manually copy/paste into your project, or you can use the clib C package manager to install and search for existing packages that exist in the registry — just a plain old GitHub wiki page.


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It’s no secret that Newegg is adamantly against patent trolls and everything they stand for. Not only are we not shy in proclaiming this to the world, we even sell t-shirts that show our disgust for these “companies” that think it’s OK to extort legitimate businesses.


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Let’s talk about drama and distraction. Some examples would be in order. Example One!


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February 14th marks Valentine’s Day, an informal holiday where beaux and sweethearts share gifts with each other symbolizing their endearment for one another. (Okay, typically it involves one person buying flowers for another, and maybe dinner.


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FOR most of the last century, our understanding of the cause of obesity has been based on immutable physical law. Specifically, it’s the first law of thermodynamics, which dictates that energy can neither be created nor destroyed.


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The town of Folsom, New Mexico isn’t named after the prison made famous by the Johnny Cash song. It isn’t much of a town at all — its population, per the 2000 census, was only 75 people, and by 2010, that number had fallen below 60.


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The myth: carrots can meaningfully improve your vision. Like most myths, there’s a bit of science behind this mostly-untrue thing your grandmother probably once told you. In this case, the culprit is vitamin A.


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On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 and its crew landed on the moon.  Famously, commander Neil Armstrong planted an American flag on the moon’s surface, as pictured above.  The crew left the flag there.  But it wasn’t the only thing they left.


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The demand for mobile devices in all aspects of everyday life is growing exponentially.


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In 1967, Bill Martin, Jr.


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In an increasingly digital and mobile world, we’ve come more and more reliant on batteries to power our lives.   Battery life has become so important to our device use that Amazon, on its Kindle page, touts a quote from Wired: “Battery life is long enough for space shuttle missions.


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In Field of Dreams, a disembodied voice speaks to Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner): “If you build it, they will come.”  ”It,” in Kinsella’s case, refers to a ballfield, constructed in his backyard, an Iowa cornfield.  ”They” refers, in the end, to everybody.


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Major sporting events don’t want objects flying around the stands or onto the field. That sounds like a pretty good rule, as you don’t want fans or players to get hurt — that’d be bad for everyone involved.


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Some time around the year 1800, a man named Martin Fugate made his way to eastern Kentucky, smack in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains. He married a woman named Mary. They had children, as couples often do.  So did a nearby couple — Robert Smith and his wife, Alicia Combs.


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Lake Titicaca, located in the Andes between Peru and Bolivia, is South America’s largest freshwater lake and a punchline for English-speaking grammar school students around the world.


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Dear all digiKam fans and users! Showfoto thumbbar is now ported to Qt model/view in order to switch later full digiKam code to Qt5. This project is relevant to another GoSC-2013 project from Mohamed Anwer.


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Email a photo of any whiteboard to Unwhiteboard to make it much more legible: http://lifehac.kr/1G17Cvt pic.twitter.


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Based on the bestseller Confessions of a Public Speaker, author Scott Berkun will cover both the most common and the most challenging presentation situations, coaching you to both avoid and recover from just about anything that can possibly go wrong during a presentation of any kind.


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storm storm is a command line tool to manage your ssh connections. features: adding, editing, deleting, listing, searching across your SSHConfig. command alias support for your CLI preferences. support for custom SSH directives. scriptable as a python library. user interfaces besides cli.


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As I learned from working in the areas ravaged by Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Gustav, and several others, cell phones and land-line telephones are basically useless.


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On April 15, 1856, a steamboat arrived at a small, four-and-a-half square mile island off the coast of Panama. A vendor at the ferry terminal there had some watermelon available for a five cents per slice. One of the passengers, likely drunk, got into a dispute with a vendor.


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CIO — CIO Michael Keithley has held the top tech post at Hollywood talent company Creative Artists Agency for nearly a quarter of a century, so you'd think he knows just about everything going on technically at the firm. He thought so, too.


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In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at some of the default keybindings provided in the command line environment (and also where to look if you forget one). There are many keybindings available by default when working in the Linux command line to make navigation and editing much easier.


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North Korea is, in many ways, living in the Dark Ages. Things that westerners take for granted, such as on-demand electricity, are notably lacking.


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Sometimes, while driving, one comes to an intersection with lots of signs, many lanes, and a maybe a few traffic lights as well. Trying to discern whether you have the right of way is a difficult feat in the handful of seconds in which one has to make that decision.


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Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Responsive web design techniques help designers and developers cope with an incredibly fragmented computing landscape. But tools are just one part of the story.


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Tropicana Pure Premium Orange Juice has one ingredient listed on its label: “100% Pure Natural Oranges.” While that’s accurate, it may also be misleading.


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Todour is an application for handling todo.txt files… on the Mac and Windows. See this page to download images for both platforms.


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The image above is, from left to right, Angela Higney, Michele de Gennaro, Colette Marx-Neilsen, Lynn Veronneau, from 1992.


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As he was passing through London’s St Pancras International last year, pianist Henri Herbert took a few minutes to play a worn out old piano sitting in the middle of the concourse for anyone to use. Their indifferent looks are actually saying they like it very much.


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Everyone in television gets the same news — literally, in fact. The top picture above is from an episode of Desperate Housewives, and the one below it is from Married With Children.  Notice the newspaper?  How about the young woman pictured in both editions?


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Open up a container of mixed nuts and you may notice something: chances are, they are no longer mixed. The larger nuts — Brazil nuts and walnuts, typically, have somehow risen to the top, defying gravity.


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jsonwatch requests data from the designated source repeatedly at a set interval and displays the differences when the data changes. It is similar but not isomorphic in its behavior to how watch(1) with the -d switch works for plain-text data.


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The gallery from Dropbox for all your photos and videos. View and share images and videos stored in your Dropbox.


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After Joe and I got engaged we began reading books on marriage. We had a long engagement ahead of us and we wanted to be as prepared as possible for a life lived together for the glory of God.


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By and large, modern societies (especially Western ones) protect historical landmarks from the whims of individuals.


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Note: for brevity this article refers to Git and git-flow, but SourceTree supports exactly the same concepts in Mercurial via Hg Flow too.


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In this post I present the development model that I’ve introduced for all of my projects (both at work and private) about a year ago, and which has turned out to be very successful.


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There are, annually, ten public Federal holidays in the United States, in which federal employees are given the day off. One of these is December 25th, or Christmas Day, which was designated as a federal holiday in 1870 by Ulysses S. Grant.


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Last week, I wrote two articles pointing out issues with unofficial porting efforts of LibreSSL. In these articles, I highlighted some issues that I currently see going on with some of these projects.


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We're going to rewire your brain. Are you ready? I want to show you something simple your mind can do, which illustrates a fascinating emerging theory about how the brain works. First, look at this logo of the World Cup this year.


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Take a bottle of Diet Coke.  Open.  Add Mentos.  Duck. Big fountains — they make them larger in the video by re-capping the bottles and allowing the foam to shoot out of a pin-sized hole in the lid.  But why do the Diet Coke and Mentos “react” in the first place?


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This is a special guest post. Interested in having your work featured here? Email me at mdexter07@gmail.com 1. Mix up your retrospectives First of all make sure that you are regularly doing the retrospectives, you are missing perhaps the most important part of agile.


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CIO — In the world of tech and non-tech managerial roles, if you want a seat at the big table or you have aspirations of greatness, then certain leadership skills are necessary to take you to the next level.


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You and I are walking together. We may be headed in different directions, toward different destinations. Your way may seem gentle, with plenty of opportunities to stop and rest, while I am struggling through obstacles.


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In 1992, with an incredible amount of fanfare, Pepsi announced Crystal Pepsi, a clear cola beverage aimed at revolutionizing the soft drink world. The drink did well initially and even spurred Coca-Cola to come out with its own clear cola product, called Tab Clear.


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Shortly after the turn of the century, humanity created flying machines which were capable of hovering over land or sea. It didn’t take long for those with the technology to use it for military advantage, changing the face of warfare.


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The requirements for obtaining a marriage license in the state of New York are rather boring. Each person has to be at least 18 years old or have parental consent (and in no case will the state issue a marriage license to someone under the age of 14).


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Men want them to be longer, thicker, more virile — it’s better than “köse.” And in some cases, those afflicted with köse are even considering implants. Köse, though, isn’t something you’ll find on a website you’d best not be looking at from your office.


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Peter Welch is a writer and programmer. He is the author of the book And Then I Thought I Was a Fish and the blog "Still Drinking".


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