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An Open-Source Thank You

In late October, the WSJ published Waste Lands, an interactive database I helped build and report. Waste Lands draws upon thousands of public records and other sources to trace the history of hundreds of factories and laboratories the government recruited to help develop nuclear weapons during the build-up to the Cold War.

Building the database took considerable time and effort. But it would have been immeasurably more difficult and time-consuming — if not nearly impossible — without the fistfuls of open-source code we were able to rely upon:

• Flask
• Frozen Flask
• Django
• Django Grappelli

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var exemplify = function (fn, code_el) {
    fn.call(fn);
    var str = fn.toString();
    var lines = str.split("\n").slice(1, -1);
    var start_index = lines[0].match(/[^\s].*$/).index;
    var trimmed = lines.map(function (x) {
        return x.slice(start_index);
    }).join("\n");
    code_el.innerHTML = trimmed;
};

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(function () {
    var root = this;
    
    var sum = function (arr) { 
        return _.reduce(arr, function (m, x) {
            return m + x;
        }); 
    };
    
    // n: Size of the stack, i.e., how far to look back 

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exif () { curl -s "$1" | exiftool - ; }

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# 
# Add the line above to your ~/.bashrc file. 
#
# Requires Phil Harvey's ExifTool: http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
# 
# Usage example, for Aug. 20th's en.wikipedia.org featured picture:
#   

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from: Webscript Support support@webscript.io

date: Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 12:54 PM

Subject: Potential Webscript security breach

Planet Rational's Amazon Web Services credentials have been inadvertently exposed, potentially leaking Webscript user data. (Planet Rational is the company behind Webscript.) While we don't know that any data was accessed, we do know that it was possible.

What we recommend

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Scammers write the darndest JS. Been browsing the source code of various "raspberry ketone" scam sites, collecting fun examples here.

Sources (for documentation's sake; visitor beware):

• areyoureallysure.js --> http://www862.africanmango-ultra.com/order.php?s=

• offer-expires.html --> http://www.foxnews.com.happyhcgultracustomers.new.f4xw.com

• recent-comments.html --> http://raspberryketonesdietway.com/raspberryketones/index.html

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Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper — Dec. 15, 1860 — p. 53

(From the Home Journal)

FRANK LESLIE A LIFE-LENGTHENER.

By N.P. Willis

There are men who lengthen human life—those who shorten its industrial processes, or remove its hindrances or accelerate its compelled purposes and movements—enabling us to take ease and enjoy, where, before, we only lost life by toiling and suffering. It is for more time to live worthily, in fact, that we thank all great inventors—Morse for relieving us of suspense and dependence on mail-bags; Fulton for faster conveyance than by sails and stage-coaches; Whitney for a machine by which one man can do the work of three hundred; Hahnemann for enabling us to omit emetics and purges; Daguerre and Brady for superseding expensive portrait-sitting and difficult friend-remembering. And to this list of public benefactors we now think should be added Frank Leslie, who has rendered comparatively needless two of life's most laborious proceses, viz., the travelling and fancy-picturing

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More than two years after moving to New York, I just had my first five-borough weekend. I full-throatedly recommend it. Much of the joy owed to letting the weekend develop organically; over-describing or -prescribing risks turning something fun into a checklist. But, in case you're simply curious, here's a synopsis:

Manhattan

It began inconspiculously. After work on Friday, I ambled down Sixth Avenue, having made what at the time felt like depressingly few weekend plans. I played and lost two chess games in Bryant Park at $1 apiece before deciding where to eat dinner: Phayul, a Tibetan restaurant that a friend and I had considered but decided against the previous weekend.

Queens

Phayul's location, a couple short blocks from the Roosevelt Ave. station in Queens's Jackson Heights neighborhood, makes it surprisingly accessible from midtown; I think the entire trip took less than a half-hour.

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The list below aggregates ICANN's most-requested generic Top-Level Domains from their latest round of applications, 12 January 2012 and through 30 May 2012. The full list was released 13 June 2012, and includes applicant name, location, and email address. You can find it here: http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/application-results/strings-1200utc-13jun12-en