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Nick Cotter  //  Wired, tired, and tedious to know.

Apr 9 / 7:38am

Earthquake Lifts Layer of Dust Off a Mountain Range

Filed under  //  awe   earthquake   photos  

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Apr 9 / 5:57am

GeoMaker - Convert web sites and texts into Maps and Geo Microformats

GeoMaker creates microformats and maps from geographical information embedded in texts. You can either provide a URL to load and hit the "load content" button or start typing your own text and hit the "get locations" button to continue.

Filed under  //  google   maps   visualisation  

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Apr 9 / 3:10am

Steampunk hotrod: Ratrod! - Boing Boing

I think I've worked out how to teach Morgan to drive.

Filed under  //  steampunk   vehicles  

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Apr 9 / 3:06am

Best. Desktop. Ever.

So much inspiration here...

Filed under  //  steampunk  

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Apr 7 / 2:55am

nothing is simple

Just spent an hour or two, spread about a couple of days admittedly, trying to get twitter to update my facebook status.

I used to the the Twitter app. This was working fine until a few days ago at least, when I realised that none of my tweets were showing up. I tried removing and re-adding it, but now it tells me that my twitter credentials are invalid...

So, let's try another app, this time Tweetpo.st. This appeared to work briefly, only it posted statuses to my wall, not my status. Couldn't figure out why at the time.

So I tried again, with Selective Twitter. This worked - sometimes. Often the status would only appear on the wall though.

After some digging, it turns out that Facebook has issues with links in statuses. If you disable the profile link option in Selective Twitter settings, it starts posting to your status every time. Unfortunately, making the same change to Tweetpo.st didn't make it work (or they are way over capacity, either way the time between updates is tending to infinity...)

Selective Twitter is good. It has the advantage that it actually works. However, it doesn't solve my actual problem, which is that I want to update my facebook status without any special settings. One has to include a #fb hashtag to make it update facebook. This is more than simply allowing one to control one's tweet distribution, it's requiring that level of attention. I just want to tweet from one place, without any extra tags, ignoring any retweets or replies, and have it end up as a facebook status.

Finally, I did find something that worked: Smart Twitter. It does what I need. We'll have to see how long it lasts though, there's definitely a lot of instability around facebook/twitter integration at the moment. This business with links is annoying - is it some clumsy security feature?
Filed under  //  facebook   fail   twitter  

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Apr 1 / 3:11am

A DIY Guide to Going Nuclear

Building a nuclear weapon has never been easier. NATO's Michael Rühle provides step-by-step instructions for going nuclear, from discretely collecting material to minimizing the fallout when caught. These simple steps have worked for the likes of Israel, Pakistan or North Korea, and your country could be next.

Also tattoo "Poor Impulse Control" on your forehead.

Filed under  //  fear   nuclear   weapons  

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Apr 1 / 3:09am

Time for an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack Recognition Day | The Heritage Foundation

  1. Close all cafeterias. After an EMP attack, transportation networks would grind to a halt and no food would be delivered.
  2. Walk to work. Traffic lights would no longer function, so all roads would be gridlocked. The computer systems operating mass transit would be inoperative.
  3. Turn off Members’ Blackberries. Satellites in low-earth and many of the communication support systems would be disabled. Devices such as Blackberries and GPS would not work.
  4. Shut off the lights. Critical computers that direct the national electrical grid would be inoperative.

Filed under  //  fear   physics   weapons  

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Apr 1 / 3:01am

Teabonics

To anyone claiming this is a cheap shot at the uneducated: many of these posters complain about the language of others, often with racist overtones.

Filed under  //  doomed   photos   politics  

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