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"Note that foot no. 6 is the only one that was mechanically disarticulated. Clearly the first five feet were decoys, to make the mounties think this sort of thing happens all the time.
everichon: tetigisti, eh, what?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rottytooth
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"Dem squiggles say that Nelson testifies that there is no god but God, and that Mohammed is his prophet. (Doesn't seem quite correct, though -- some of those vowel marks look fishy. Also, you wouldn't usually say "I testify that X", but..." [
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2 months ago
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"Composition.
More abstractly, a good photograph captures what your mind saw, and allows someone else to relive your experience by looking at the picture. How do you apply that to your shooting? Simplify, so the image only contains things that you..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ekstasis23
3 months ago
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"zsazsa: Unfortunately Fuji's peel-apart instant film doesn't work the same way. I use Polaroid Type 59 to make image transfers: instead of waiting the full development time you peel early and slap the mess on watercolour paper. The dyes from the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by wander
4 months ago
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"It's an interesting paper, but this is a typical statement:
4.1 Fundamental randomness as a myth
... Of course, if the usual form of QM is really the ultimate truth, then it is true that nature is fundamentally random. But who says that the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by feloniousmonk
5 months ago
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""I'm sure there are lots of methods of interrogation that are 'not torture,' but which are also not contained in the Army Field Manual."
For instance?
For things like torture "enhanced interrogation techniques" the only sane..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by axon, MikeKD, marble
5 months ago
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"The infamous wartime broadcasts that P. G. Wodehouse made were about his life in a German prison camp.
http://www.wodehouse.org/pgw-broadcast1.html
http://www.wodehouse.org/pgw-broadcast2.html
http://www.wodehouse.org/pgw-broadcast3...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chihiro
5 months ago
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"A thought that just came to me: the "think of the children!!!" crowd loves to talk about motorcycles and tiered licensing. Why is it that no one talks about tiered licensing for high-powered cars? (If this kid had been a motorcycle nut he'd..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by liza, patr1ck
5 months ago
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"Anderson Valley, Mendocino county? A couple of months ago my partner and I rented a cabin in the hills above Boonville (directly above Andreson Valley Brewery although that was an unplanned bonus). The big plus of this place was that they allowed..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by special-k, ClaudiaCenter
8 months ago
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"Disclaimer: my opinions are only about cycling in the US and maybe Canada; I don't know traffic patterns elsewhere well enough to comment.
Physically separated bike lanes suck. There are two main reasons: the first is that they become..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Huw
8 months ago
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"One term to look for is lieder (German for songs). Schubert's lieder are probably a good starting point. For the pure mellow female sound, the term to use in searches etc. is lyric(al) soprano...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
11 months ago
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"I wish everyone would say "Who cares"? It would be nice if he'd decided to quit because he though he wasn't doing a good enough job.
I guess that's the divide in this country today: some of us don't care if politicians fuck consenting..." [
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Last year
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"Try to not specialise.
The biggest difference between a CS graduate and someone who did a 4 month Java class is that the CS person knows the fundamentals. Concentrate on the basics and on figuring out what you find interesting and fun. The..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by orthogonality
Last year
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"Multiply 142857 by 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 and it becomes an "anagram" of itself.
That's the interesting thing about fractions of 7. Note that all the values are a rotation of 142857.
1/7 = 0.142857 142857 142857 ...
2/7 = 0.285714 285714..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by painquale, Hadroed, metaly
Last year
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"To echo what GoodBrain and pfafflin said, the Mormons in SLC (and Utah and southern Idaho) are really nice people. Probably because they've got the power so they're not all stressed out about the moral decay and all that crapitude that the..." [
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