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Some people have been comparing Charlie Hebdo and Der Sturmer (Nazi propaganda paper run by a Nazi party official). For example Norman Finkelstein wrote something along the lines of:

The ideas behind both publications are exactly the same, making fun of a group of people...

I've seen way too many comments about people using VPNs and/or Tor as a shield to any kind of possible breach of privacy and/or security in general. I'm going to attempt to explain very simply what they do, because these are good tools, but using them the wrong way can void their purpose.

While playing around with the menus (some minor CSS3 effects) I realised it would be possible to make some sort of Etch A Sketch. Maybe not quite as good, nor as magic. But it's still fun and takes just a few lines of CSS to be added to some basic HTML divs.

Same data as the previous one, but I got the Pie Chart-ish feeling I was looking for.

I don't usually post much stuff about what I buy and that sort of crap. One reason might be that I tend to keep the stuff buying to the minimum. I also like to keep stuff as long as I can, like my previous laptop, I used it everyday for over 6 years. It helps to not buy the cheapest thing you can...

About a year and a half ago my bike was stolen. If you know me, you know I loved that bike and still do. It was an old Schwinn, completely custom. Basically stripped down, repainted and rebuilt with parts from a BMX shop (except for the wheels of course). It had a 4 speed Nexus with a coaster bra...

One of the nicest human beings I have ever met. I still can't even believe this just happened, I just found out that Dapo Osewa has left us.

update: I found a few other links that I'll gather here.

Last year Louis CK bypassed a lot of crap to deliver his show directly to his fans for a 5$ a download, without DRM, istore or any of those useless obstacles. It was a success and now

It's been a few years now that some of us have been watching closely as a few distributed social networking tools have been developing. I am one of those, I don't like to have personal accounts on corporate servers and I do think that if it's not distributed it's not an Internet communica...

Since last night I noticed that The Pirate Bay's website appeared down. I checked in this morning, checked via multiple locations (from different countries) and same result. I asked a few friends to help figure this one out because this is not a DNS issue and it seemed to be more t...

Friendica is a truly decentralised social network, it has been around for a few years now already. Back in the day it was called Mistpark and already then it was more than just a proof of concept.

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The other day a good friend of mine suggested I implement Gravatar on my website. So I started checking how it works and found it was incredibly easy. All I'd have to do use put an img element with a link to an md5 hash of the commenter's email. Like this: <img src="http://www.gravata...

Yuri Gagarin is the first human to orbit our planet, he made it around the world in 108 minutes on April 12 1961. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the event The Attic Room has ...

It appears that some just want to help out the Libyan people so much that they are willing to help them by surprise.. . It's almost comical how MI6 and SAS officers got caught by some farmers and were then han...

Pidgin users with MSN accounts may have been experiencing problems connecting. It seems they have changed their certificate. The solution seems to be to manually delete the certificate, either by going to "Menu -> Tools -> Certificates" or by doing something like:

Lately I've been finding it quite difficult to actually get good results from most search engines, hence after a while I'd often end up back on "do some evil" Google search engine page. After experimenting with other search engines like Ixquick (very good on priv...

Some images from the OpenNight event last night..

More about King James Hyperfuck.

Every so often OpenLab organises an OpenNight where people can try out there work in front of an audience. The works should be produced using open source technologies. There is much creativity to be seen and heard.

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I just setup this website for a friend of mine, Roger Woloshyn AKA starman. I met him at the

You might have already heard about distributed research, projects like Seti@home and Folding@home, you install some software and your computer works for science. It's a way of passively helping out.

This website is now using HTML5, normally this shouldn't change much, well all except for one thing important to me is the video tag that allows me to publish video content in such a simpler manner.

I re-encoded all my