| exif () { curl -s "$1" | exiftool - ; } | |
| ### | |
| # | |
| # 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: | |
| # |
| #!/usr/bin/env ruby | |
| # A quick script to convert the XML from Android app "SMS Backup & Restore" into CSV. | |
| # | |
| # Usage: $ ./sms-backup-to-csv.rb < PATH/TO/BACKUP/FILE.xml | |
| require "nokogiri" | |
| require "csv" | |
| # Specify the backup file's attributes and data types. |
from: Webscript Support support@webscript.io
date: Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 12:54 PM
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.
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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
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
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:
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.
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.
All this week, I've been trying to chip away at Allen R. Morgan's "Twice Removed" puzzle on page 50 of the August 5, 2012 New York Times Magazine. The rules:
For each word below, add the same pair of letters *twice*
to complete a longer word. For example, if you were given
MOTE, you would add ON twice to make MONOTONE.
After a few days, I'd found just four of the 24 words. Pathetic. After moping for a bit, I tried brute-forcing the answers. The strategy was simple, but radically different from how you or I would try solving the puzzle by hand. The steps:
Tabletop.js is a fantastic, open-source JavaScript library that lets developers easily integrate data from Google Spreadsheets into their online projects. I've used it, even contributed a minor feature, and love it for prototyping. Non-programmers love being able to update a project via Google Spreadsheets' hyper-intuitive interface.
That said, I'm extraordinarily wary of using Tabletop in production. Instead, at the Wall Street Journal, we use a bit of middleware to "prune" our Google Spreadsheets-based data and then cache it on our own servers. A few brief reasons:
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
Status: Very drafty.
Recently, I've become hooked on the idea of applying version-control software (and the concepts it enables) to writing. Git and GitHub have completely transformed, for the better, the way I write and think about software. I have a hunch they can something similar for writing.
Some form of versioning already exists, raggedly, in most prose-writing workflows. It's typically linear. For instance, we all have a folder somewhere that looks like this: