challenged confessions: Archive

“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you...”

– Stephen Roberts

Apr 1st

Quite possibly the geekiest thing I’ve seen in Silicon Valley in the last two years: a motorcycle with the license plate “CPU HOG”

Mar 31st

East Bay Tumblr Meetup

letsmeetinsf: It’s been too long since we’ve had a Bay Area meetup so I’m here to rectify that. I have it on good authority from Cory that the Missouri Lounge in Berkeley is a perfect meet-up spot so the plan is to meet there on April 25th. If you’re in the Bay Area, please reblog this to spread the word and so we can get a feel for how much interest we’ve got. Nothing is set in stone yet so if...

Mar 31st

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Mar 30th

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copycats: Under Pressure by Joss Stone originally...

Mar 29th

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Books

As my collection is growing, I figured I may want to catalog all my books so I’ve been looking at different book cataloging sites. The three candidates I’ve found are GoodReads, LibraryThing, and Shelfari. It seems GoodReads has the biggest community as I know several people with accounts there so I’ve been trying it out. Every time I play with it though, I always get annoyed...

Mar 29th

Mar 28th

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Mar 27th

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How To Be The Perfect Girlfriend

Mar 27th

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Mar 27th

BBC NEWS - 'DNA bungle' haunts German police →

Dubbed the “phantom of Heilbronn”, the woman was described by police as the country’s most dangerous woman. Investigators had connected her to six murders and an unsolved death, finding identical traces of female DNA at 40 crime scenes over the last 16 years. Police are now acknowledging that swabs used to collect DNA samples may have been contaminated by an innocent woman -...

Mar 27th

Mar 25th

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Mar 25th

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Italy convicts crash pilot who paused to pray →

A Tunisian pilot who paused to pray instead of taking emergency measures before crash-landing his plane, killing 16 people, has been sentenced to 10 years in jail by an Italian court along with his co-pilot. A fuel-gauge malfunction was partly to blame but prosecutors also said the pilot succumbed to panic, praying out loud instead of following emergency procedures and then opting to crash-land...

Mar 24th

What do you get when kids who grew up with video...

Detailed discussions on how the MDA’s Missile Defense clone is completely inaccurate based on interceptor blast size and MKV function, what the trajectory of the incoming missiles tells you and how that relates to our actual stock and production, segueing to Wargames, games based on Wargames, and finally, wanting to sneak the “Nuclear Launch Detected” sound clip from Starcraft...

Mar 24th

Pictures Forthcoming

Me: so what did you think of my outfit saturday?
Her: insanely obnoxious
Her: aka: perfect
Me: success!

Mar 24th

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Anamanaguchi - Dawn Metrolpolis Chiptune makes me happy.

Mar 24th

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The Website Is Down - Episode 2 - Excel Hell

Mar 23rd

Mar 20th

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Mar 20th

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Nikon D3 Shutter Release in Super Slow Motion →

Even beyond the impressive photos themselves is how they were generated without the use of a high-speed camera.

Mar 20th

Mar 19th

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My friend Joe was on BBC News as a so-called ‘expert.’ Nice.

Mar 19th

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This is not going to be for everyone, but this video shows a french craftsman hand-making a vacuum tube entirely from scratch. It is 15 minutes long, but it’s worth it. I have no idea what’s going on in the last couple minutes though after he’s done.

Mar 19th

nedhepburn: Fall Out Boy “Coffee’s For Closers” ...

Mar 18th

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Mar 18th

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One of these days I'm going to count how many...

At work I will type my password up to several dozen times a day depending on what I happen to be working on. Besides unlocking my computer all the time (we’re required by company policy to lock our computers if we leave our desk) there are so many different systems you end up using at a company this large. And because of the security required, login sessions don’t last long requiring...

Mar 18th

Pope claims condoms could make African Aids crisis... →

riotrepublic: Just… wow. Religion FTW.

Mar 17th

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playerspulse: secondside: I think its time I introduced tumblr to 4playerpodcast. I think I’ll post a vid or two a day and then get to the details after. This is one of the all time great clips from 4pp. Just a vid of the guys playing Condemmed 2 and meeting.. the bear. Might want to watch the volume at some point, since they do tend to scream/yell. Oh god, I forgot completely about the bear...

Mar 17th