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Personality Characteristics. The most obvious common `personality' characteristics of hackers are high intelligence, consuming curiosity, and facility with intellectual abstractions. Also, most hackers are `neophiles', stimulated by and appreciative of novelty (especially intellectual novelty). Most are also relatively individualistic and anti-conformist. Although high general intelligence is common among hackers, it is not the sine qua non one might expect. Another trait is probably even more important: the ability to mentally absorb, retain, and reference large amounts of `meaningless' detail, trusting to later experience to give it context and meaning. Contrary to stereotype, hackers are not usually intellectually narrow; they tend to be interested in any subject that can provide mental stimulation, and can often discourse knowledgeably and even interestingly on any number of obscure subjects -- if you can get them to talk at all, as opposed to, say, going back to their hacking.

Keep Calm And Get Traught: generated on KeepCalmStudio.com make your own Keep Calm and ... poster now. Trainer Card Maker 3.0. Barcode Yourself by Scott Blake. Barcode Yourself is a complete, interactive experience in the series of barcode art, created using the personalized data of participants.

Enter an individual's gender, weight, height, age and location, and the barcode is formed using real-world data. The individualized barcode can then be printed, mapped, scanned, even depicted on a t-shirt or coffee mug. Uber-geeks can even test out their barcodes on their next grocery run. It is in scanning a barcode that the project reveals its humor, like a banner that reads: Disclaimer! Human beings are not merely worth somewhere between one cent and 10 dollars. It is here, within the confines of an American obsession with "worth," in which the fun begins. Instead of shoes, we can try on another person's barcode. The data entered into Barcode Yourself takes a topsy-turvy twist to its personalized end numbers, with the exception of the hard-data that correlates with "location," which tallies up in the Gross Domestic Product of each country.

Make an Oil Lamp with an Orange - Portugal Smallholding. Simple Pop-Ups You Can Make! Browse All Printables. The men are born girls | Oddities, pictures, picdumps, videos, games, celebs, viral content. Home :: Dark Legacy :: Multi User Fantasy Text Game. Pain pack. Barbie are real!!!!! - MetaTube. S LadyData | The Female Perspective | Do you think most men are... Abandoned mental asylum. Geocaching - The Official Global GPS Cache Hunt Site. Baby Name Guesser - analysis of first names, first names statistics, popular boy and girl names, male names, female names.

About Baby Name Guesser finds out how first names are commonly used on the Internet. It uses Google to look for common patterns involving each name, and then analyzes the results. It can make baby name suggestions from its database of over 100,000 first names. Baby Name Suggestions Our baby name website suggests names that meet your criteria. Whether you're looking for common names, or distinctive names, male or female, we've got it covered.

View our lists of most popular male names, most popular female names, most masculine names, or most feminine names. Who should use the Baby Name Guesser? Read what people are saying about Baby Name Guesser. How to negotiate better than 99% of people. In college, I had the opportunity to teach a “Student-Initiated Course,” or basically a course on whatever I wanted. So I got together with two of my friends and we put together a course on religious studies. Now, Stanford gave us incredible flexibility to teach essentially whatever we wanted…but the student instructors never got letter grades — it was always Pass/No Pass (everybody always passed), issued by the sponsoring professor. Until we came along. You see, I was never the smartest person in any school I attended. But I got pretty street smart over the years. And so I petitioned the sponsoring professor to let us teach the class for a letter grade.

We would basically write our own ticket! One of my co-instructors was amazed that I convinced the sponsoring professor to agree. But my other co-instructor hesitated. “Dude,” I said, “what’s your problem? “No, Ramit,” he said, “I don’t know about this. “What the hell?” “Well….if I don’t get an A+, it will bring my GPA down.” An “A” is a 4.0. Ikea Science Fiction. By Susana Polo | 11:53 am, May 9th, 2011 I could make some joke here about how Ikea directions always make me feel like I’m expected to build something that’s bigger on the inside, but I actually have never had that much trouble following Ikea directions THERE I SAID IT. Seriously, if you’ve ever put together some Lego sets, you already have all the experience you need. No, the problem I always seem to have is with the furniture where you have to pick up extra parts that aren’t expressly mentioned all over the boxes of the parts you already have, and I find that I’ve left a vital element of a bed, like the bits that hold up the mattress, at the warehouse.

And then I sleep on the couch. (via College Humor.) Real Life Disney Princesses. It’s the childhood dream of many girls to become a Disney princess… and now photographer Ryan Astamendi is giving a few grown women the chance. His series of surprisingly accurate photographs puts models into pitch perfect costume, makeup and hair to create what looks like the movie screen come to life. As you will see in the photographs below, the models vary in their real-life likeness to the characters, proving that Astamendi is skillful at creating the look he desires. See Also CHINA’S FAKE DISNEYLAND: THE PARK THAT NEVER WAS Astamendi says of the sleeping beauty photo shoot, “I put between 30 and 40 hours of work into this, which seems to be the norm for these Disney character projects.”

What really surprised him about the project? The models name was actually… Princess! What’s next in the series? Yep, not every girl wants to be a princess… so here’s Astamendi’s imaginative rendition of seductive Jessica Rabbit from Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Up next for Astamendi? Via: unrealitymag.com. Extreme Sheep LED Art. The Monster Collection of Moleskine Tips, Tricks and Hacks. 12DaysOfChristmasInfographic.jpg from seldo.com. REVOLVER PEN HOLDER | Gun, Barrel, Pens, Aluminum.

40 Things That Will Make You Feel Old: Pics, Videos, Links, News. 40 Things That Were Popular At The Beginning Of The Decade That Aren't Popular Anymore: Pics, Videos, Links, News. Dalek Mug. BBC- Doctor Who - Radiophonatron. Fish scales back chocolate habit - UK, Local & National. 01 August 2011 Staff at the Sea Life London Aquarium were baffled by the 8.8lb (4kg) fish's refusal to feed, until they learned the gourami, named Gary, 15.7in (40cm) long, had been brought up on chocolate. So the team stuffed crushed Kit Kat pieces inside grapes to get Gary to "take a break" from his daily fix. "I have never heard of a fish being fed chocolate, let alone being brought up entirely on the stuff," said Gary's handler, Rebecca Carter. "Gouramis usually eat a diet of fruit but Gary doesn't appear to have suffered any ill effects from his chocolate addiction.

However, we would not recommend feeding fish confectionery of any kind. " Gary is not the only unusual creature to come to the attraction from private owners. Ed will only accept his food by hand and likes to be stroked on the head at the same time. Gary and Ed's interest in food highlights a more serious issue, aquarists said. "Terrapins are another - they can live for 40 years and are actually quite costly to care for.