This is hilariously effective. It scrapes a few online lyrics databases and does some analysis to determine the quality of a rhyme. Be sure to check the bottom of the whitepaper for some sample output. Direct PDF link.

 

Technical details of the upcoming Flash Player for Mac, wherein the Adobe team is switching to using Core Animation to do faster rendering of non-video Flash files. It's worth noting that the performance will only initially be seen in Safari on Mac OS X 10.6, as the plugin is fully Cocoa-ized now.

Also interesting to note is that Flash is still using the ancient QuickDraw APIs which have been deprecated for years.

 

Open donations, so if you're a Redditor, give them a hand. Their goal is to make it to $314,159.26 in donations (100,000 * pi).

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Credit to NASA/JPL/University of Arizona.

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The Iranian anti-government protests are still occurring, months after the original protests occurred.

Credit to AFP/Getty Images, and Boston.com.

 

This is uncanny to watch if you've ever seen Glenn Beck's TV show.

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Quite breathtaking, even if you've already seen the video.

 

EVE, the MMO with a heavy focus on market economics, gets hit with another player heist, albeit not a very creative one. Someone took a huge amount of in-game currency (ISK) from a player-run bank they were administering. This has happened before, and is perfectly legal via the rules of the game.

For those interested, this represents approx. $10,300 USD.

 

Phenomenal work. (via @hexodus)

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Amit Singh, creator of MacFUSE, has just released an experimental version of XBinary, which allows the Mac OS X kernel to execute binary types other than Mach-O. Examples of using this include executing ELF binaries, PDP-11, Java jar files, and Windows executables.

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