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Nostradamus – Entertaining demonstration of creating MD5 collisions among meaningful documents. (tags: md5 cryptography cool hash )
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5 Things Hollywood Thinks Computers Can Do | Cracked.com – Nice list of movie computer-related offenses (tags: computers fun humor movies )
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macosxhints.com – 10.5: Repair Time Machine after logic board changes – Great tip on how to reassociate a Time Machine backup with a new machine, so that it continues backing up on the same time line, without creating a new backup set. TM backups are keyed by the machine's Ethernet MAC address, so it needs to be changed for i (tags: backup hack howto leopard macosx timemachine tips )
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Password Assistant | codepoetry – For some time I've thought it would be nice to be able to invoke the Password Assistant from the OSX Accounts preference pane on its own, since it is very nice to generate pronounceable passwords. Alas, it seems I was not the only one, someone did it alre (tags: cocoa cool hack macosx password security tools )
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XML Alternatives – Interesting list of data formats that can be used instead of XML (tags: markup programming tools xml )
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Penny Arcade! – Lego-shaped snacks? – As a parent, I agree that this product is a baaad idea. I love the commentary: "I can only assume that their next product is fruit flavored thumbtacks" (tags: baby funny lego )
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How to add emacs-like keybindings to MS Word – This really makes Word less painful to use. (tags: emacs howto keyboard macosx tips word )
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Dave Veloz's Mac Mini Mod, Monitor, & Keyboard | The Steampunk Workshop – Incredible modification of a Mac mini, including keyboard and monitor (tags: apple cool design mac mod )
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Classics in Lego – a set on Flickr – Classic photos done with Lego figures (tags: art flickr lego photography )
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