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I just watched TURBO. It’s an awesome short about futuristic videogamers. It made me feel warm and fuzzy inside.
It seems they want to make a feature film of it and need support. So, go and buy it or something. Now.

I recently watched a youtube video where Derren Brown debunks psychics and such by explaining “cold reading”.
He expresses disgust at these techniques, calling psychics and mediums charlatans.
However, I believe his explanations for his own tricks are also nonsense. He is forgoing mysticism, which is more or less unbelievable, and instead creating a much more believable [...]

What with all the news of web and media restrictions currently in Iran I have temporarily unblocked my Web Proxies in solidarity. (Usually I block Iranian IP addresses as they eat up resources and there is no ad revenue to be had). It’s always possible my proxies are now blocked by their government, but we’ll [...]

Ahhh. I just did
rm -R /
It was strangely liberating.
I’ve just transferred Vocaroo from the VPS it was on to a dedicated server, the same one I run some web proxies on. So I no longer need the VPS.
But the command is hanging… surely it shouldn’t take this long. But the free disk space amount in [...]

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