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    EVENTS

    Let’s Learn How to Write, NBC

    A basic mistake like this in a headline? Really?

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 19, 2016
    • Art, Click Bait, Propaganda, Trolls and Trolling

    Trapped in Flesh

    We’re all trapped in flesh. To me, it’s horror. But, it can always get worse.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 18, 2016
    • Art

    Shower Curtain

    Anyone need a shower curtain??  (trigger warning: fake blood)

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 17, 2016
    • Art

    SnapMixing

    I may have invented a new art-form. No, really.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 16, 2016
    • Art

    I Get Spam –

    Please let me know if you’re looking for a author for yoir blog.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 15, 2016
    • Art, Cyberwar

    Making a Soap Mold – 2

    Lovely lemon balm and lemongrass-scented: 9mm soapgun:

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 15, 2016
    • Art, Guns

    Did Someone Say “Soap”???!?!?!?

    After reading Caine’s post about the Standing Rock Camp, I felt kind of frantic: I want to do something but my instincts are not the right ones for this situation. Other than throw money in the money-bucket, which I’ve already done, I … ugh.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 8, 2016
    • Art, Burn it to the ground

    Making a Soap Mold

    Caine wrote about a tragic incident in which a cop shot a volunteer to death, because they used a real gun in a training exercise, and – it was loaded. That’s incredibly stupid, especially since you can get really nice poly rubber training guns on Amazon.com for $25.

    And then I remembered stories about prisoners carving guns out of soap to try to fool guards into freeing them.. ..

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 7, 2016
    • Art

    In Which I Discover the Banana Squid …

    I’m a fan of the fundamentally flawed category of games known as “space sandbox” – Elite Dangerous and No Man’s Sky are the current two leaders, with Star Citizen in a state of apparent endless alpha test. I hope someone eventually writes a book about the making of Star Citizen, though I fear it will be like “Hearts of Darkness” for gaming.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 5, 2016
    • Art, Gaming

    No Till/GMO – 5 “THE RUSSIANS STRIKE BACK”

    Today I took a close close look at the corn.

    Since I’m pretty allergic to corn pollen, it was definitely a bad idea.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 3, 2016
    • Art, Cyberwar
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