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TV station forced to go old school after fire at Seattle’s Fisher Plaza - TechFlash: Seattle’s Technology News Source

A commenter on Seattlest.com said, “As a workaround this morning, KOMO had KATU, the ABC station in Portland, send their signal up here via microwave; they are transmitting that signal, and they have the news truck at Kerry Park, and they are transmitting the local news via satellite down to Portland where they are mixing it into the KATU stream and sending it back to Seattle. That’s why KOMO was showing Portland commercials and the station ID said KATU 2 this morning.”

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Who names their kid “Keegan?” How’s that going to look on top of a resume in 20 years? “We’d like to have you in for an interview, let us know when your naptime and playdate schedule clears up.”

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Richard Jackson: SAM wall painting

Part of this exhibit is this huge wall painting, with the reversed canvases attached. He is working on the actual gallery wall in SAM, not in a studio.

I liked how much they let the art fuck up the gallery for this exhibit. One piece wallpapers an entire room. Another seems to have paint overspray all over the wood flooring (maybe it was dust though). In another piece, the viewer is invited to hammer nails into a canvas.

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» Target Practice: Painting Under Attack

Saw this exhibit today, it’s impressive. SAM has those audio sticks which helped me understand the individual works in context. It’s split into sections which progress chronologically and show how the concepts developed. Really cool, I will definitely be going back for another viewing.

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Lunar Orbiter Tapes Found in an abandonned McDonalds

Thanks Mike Whybark. This photo of a grainy lunar surface image on modern Mac screens is totally awesome. Seems like an epic effort to resurrect and rebuild ancient, forgotten tech. Book on desk: “PCI Bus Demystified.”

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“ Stupidity is the devil. Look in the eyes of a chicken and you’ll know. It’s the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creature in this world.

— Werner Herzog

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Electronic Drumkit T-Shirt Exclusively from ThinkGeek (via thinkgeek)

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» Tales from the encrypt: the secrets of data protection | Technology | guardian.co.uk

Meanwhile, I’m left with this conclusion: if you’re not encrypting your data, you should be. And if you are encrypting your data, you need to figure this stuff out, before you get hit by a bus and doom your digital life to crypto oblivion.

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Bubbles is alive?!?! In 2002 I read a rumor in The Stranger that Bubbles died of neglect, and I’ve told dozens of people! This is fantastic!!

tofuttibreak:

FREE BUBBLES!

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