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Pretty cool stuff, go internet!

Pretty cool stuff, go internet! 

Dying grandmother’s mystery code cracked by the internet after 20 years
Ask MetaFilter member JannaK presented the community with a puzzle that had been troubling her family for nearly 20 years. Her grandmother died in 1996 from cancer and in her last days she scribbled down a seemingly non-sensical string of characters on index cards. Nobody knew what it all meant. Then the Metafilter community solved the puzzle in 14 minutes.
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Bill Cosby Reteaming With NBC for New Family Comedy

Bill Cosby Reteaming With NBC for New Family Comedy
More than 20 years after The Cosby Show ended its run on NBC, Bill Cosby is returning to the network to star in a new family comedy.
Cosby is teaming with former Cosby Show producer Marcy Carsey’s Tom Werner for a new family comedy in which he’d star, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
The new comedy will be centered around Cosby, who will play the patriarch of a multi-generational family, like NBC’s Cosby Show and CBS’ Cosby, will include h…
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I don’t think I’ll be buying a Seagate HD again anytime soon.

I don't think I'll be buying a Seagate HD again anytime soon. 

The Most (and Least) Reliable Hard Drive Brands
Backblaze uses 25,000 hard drives for its online backup service. This has provided some interesting information, such as how long hard drives are likely to last and the difference in reliability between enterprise and consumer drives. Today, Backblaze has spilled the beans on which drive manufacturers are the most reliable.
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Match Heads Igniting at 4,000 FPS Look Like Dying Alien Worlds

Match Heads Igniting at 4,000 FPS Look Like Dying Alien Worlds
It’s usually over in an instant, but when you capture macro footage of a match head igniting at 4,000 frames per second, suddenly that almost instantaneous event becomes a fascinating look into the science of fire and ignition. And believe it or not, YouTuber UltraSlo had to throw an additional 2,000 watts of light on this match head to capture this mesmerizing footage–that’s a lot of birthday candles.
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