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Use a Raspberry Pi as a Tor/VPN Router for Anonymous Browsing

Use a Raspberry Pi as a Tor/VPN Router for Anonymous Browsing
We’ve shown you how to use a Raspberry Pi as both a Tor proxy and a personal VPN, but Make shows off how to do both in one unit for truly anonymous browsing everywhere.
The build here uses two Wi-Fi adapters to get the job done. Once it’s complete, you’ll have a passive VPN connection that you’ll hardly even notice is there. You’ll also have Tor installed, so you can flip over to that connection with just a couple of clicks. It’s a pretty simple setup all things considered, and it’ll act as a nice bridge between your standard router for those times when you want to browse anonymously or get around any location-specific blocks.
Browse Anonymously with a DIY Raspberry Pi VPN/Tor Router | Make

Kobayakawa Looks Interesting

Kobayakawa is a minimalist betting tactical game. The Pico of Poker (as it was described to me). The game antes one coin, and then deals each player a card, plus flips a card face up.
Going (once) around the table you can either:

  • Draw a card, then keep one card (hidden) and reveal the other (discarding it).
  • Replace the face up card in the center (you flip up the top one and replace, no choice).

After this, there’s one round of betting. You can bet or fold. After everyone bets, you reveal. The lowest revealed card gets to add the center card to theirs. Highest value wins. (Under the gun winning ties). That’s it.

from The Tao of Gaming
I can see myself mocking up a copy of this soon to give it a try.  I like games with a level of bluff and combining that with simple rules and a bit of press-your-luck, this seems like a winner.

Quote

From the Princeton Tiger, 1949

This is not very interesting
But if
You have read this far already
You will
Probably
Read as far as this:
And still
Not really accomplishing
Anything at all
You might
Even read on
Which brings you to
The line you are reading now
And after all that you are still
Probably dumb enough to keep
Right on making
A dope of yourself
By reading
As far down
The page as this.

– Anonymous

Scientists Use Calvin Klein Perfume to Attract Jaguars

While camera traps have been used in ecological research for decades, luring animals towards these traps requires constant innovation. And you’ll never believe what they’re now using to attract wild jaguars – Calvin Klein Obsession for Men! According to Miguel Ordeñana, a biologist with the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles and an expert on […]
from Oddity Central – Collecting Oddities

The first career-spanning book of Mark Mothersbaugh’s art was worth the wait

We all know the multimedia artistic brilliance of pioneering New Wave band Devo. And many of us know that Devo co-founder Mark Mothersbaugh is an artist who works in other media. But even other moderately devoted fans such as myself may be surprised to realize just how multiple Mothersbaugh’s artistic talents are, how persistent, or how significant when surveyed as a whole. This is all remedied in an impressive new volume, Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia, assembled by Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Denver Director Adam Lerner. Read the rest

from Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/2014/12/17/the-first-career-spanning-book.html
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