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With the arrival of Japan’s rainy season, a glow-in-the-dark mushroom begins to sprout in Wakayama prefecture. The Mycena lux-coeli mushrooms sprout from fallen chinquapin trees and as they grow, a chemical reaction involving a light-emitting pigment occurs, causing them to glow a ghostly green. The caps can grow to as large as 2 cm (about 1 inch) in diameter, but because the mushrooms are prone to dehydration, they only have a few days to live once the rain stops.

Glowing Mushrooms

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http://www.starchamber.com/paracelsus/elvish/elvish-in-ten-minutes.html Write Your Name in Elvish in Ten Minutes Here's the alphabet. That's it. (If you want details about where this all comes from, look at the bottom of this page.)

Write Your Name in Elvish in Ten Minutes

The Usability of Passwords (by @baekdal) #tips

Security companies and IT people constantly tells us that we should use complex and difficult passwords. This is bad advice, because you can actually make usable, easy to remember and highly secure passwords. In fact, usable passwords are often far better than complex ones. http://www.baekdal.com/tips/password-security-usability