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Monthly Archives: October 2006
Flickr Halloween Costume Rundown
It’s Halloween so I figured I might as well check out Flickr and see what do people do costume wise this year. All of the photos here were publicly available, uploaded this year and tagged with “Halloween”. I assigned each … Continue reading
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Diebold Machines Malfunctioning in Florida
It seems that voters casting early ballots using the Diebold machines in Florida already have reported persistent bugs and glitches preventing them from casting their votes correctly. Apparently most of the faulty machines would assign the votes cast for Democratic … Continue reading
Quote of the Year
These two short sentences summarize the great potential as well as massive legal confusion surrounding online media: The big media companies shouldn’t worry that people will post their copyrighted material on YouTube. They should worry that people will post their … Continue reading
Zombie Movie British Style
Comedy Central aired Shaun of the Dead the other day. Since I didn’t see it when it first came out, I decided to check it out. There should be no spoilers in the review below – I will try to … Continue reading
Flash Player 9 on Linux
I can’t believe I totally missed this. It appears that last week Adobe finally released a Flash Player 9 for linux! You can get it from Adobe Labs download page. You won’t believe how many times I was locked out … Continue reading
Scariest thing you can read this Halloween
This is possibly the scariest thing that you will read this Halloween: Bush just signed a provision which will remove any limits over military involvement in domestic law enforcement effectively allowing him to declare martial law at any time and … Continue reading
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Lego Drednaught
This is a most awesome Lego creation I have seen in my life! found on the internets; author unknown I wonder if it is up to scale. I would figure that it would be a little bigger than a standard … Continue reading
How to Defeat Apple DRM
User Friendly comic shows us how to defeat Apple’s DRM scheme using a high-tech toolkit: img © User Friendly; click to see the original It’s funny because it’s true. The thing about DRM is that it can never be effective. … Continue reading
We will never have good security…
Here is a story for you: In 2003 a security researcher Bruce Sheiner pointed out that the anyone can print a fake boarding pass at home In February of 2005 the Slate magazine published an article describing the same security … Continue reading
YouTube Removes Comedy Central Shows?
It appears that YouTube is getting worse, and worse. Apparently they have started bulk deleting clips of Comedy Central shows such as The Daily Show, Colbert Report and South Park. Heh… Maybe they got scared when Colbert said they owe … Continue reading
Tracker Admin in Jail
You might be interested to know that instead of tracking real criminals like murderers, rapists, serial killers, child molesters, drug dealers and terrorists most of FBI agents are way to busy chasing after Bitorrent tracker admins. Nothing makes me more … Continue reading
Substrings in Windows Batch Files
A relatively unknown feature of the windows shell (cmd.exe) is that it has a built in substring function. You can use the :~ operator in conjunction with any variable to obtain a substring of that variable. For example: set foo=foobar … Continue reading
Two types of Lusers
There are two types of lusers in this world: slow and ignorant. Slow lusers really can’t help their condition. Their brains are simply not wired correctly to handle mutli-level abstractions and fast context switching required to understand and operate electronic … Continue reading
Second Island?
Here we go: Lost: Every Man for Himself There is a second island? WTF? There are several things which affected my score here. I feel like some of the Season 3 flashbacks do not really tell us much about the … Continue reading
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Word is Mind Numbingly Infuriating
Microsoft Word is a mind numbingly infuriating torture device from hell! Why would anyone want to subject themselves to this soul devouring, rage inducing piece of shit is beyond me… Can someone please explain to me why is the {PAGE} … Continue reading
Yet another Firefox 2.0 Review
Everyone is doing it, so I guess I can’t escape this. Here is a FF2 review. Firefox 2.0 product Same browser we all know and love… But better. I upgraded to Firefox 2 recently, and I noticed that not much … Continue reading
Thompson in Contempt
This is the funniest thing I have heard all week: Attorneys for Philadelphia law firm Blank-Rome, long a target of Thompson’s ire, filed what is known as a “Petition for Order to Show Cause.” The motion requests that Judge Friedman … Continue reading
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Political Apathy
Given the two following political scandals, please tell me which one is more significant, and disturbing: George W. Bush killing hebeus corpus and gaining despotic powers Mark Foley sending dirty emails to congressional pages If you will look back on … Continue reading
The Matrix (Multiplication)
How come Java does not have a matrix datatype? It has everything under the sun, and a bag of chips but no matrix datatype or object in the API? Sure, I can easily simulate it using a 2D array, but … Continue reading
Military Commissions Act
Go watch Keith Olberman ripping Bush a new one on the Military Commissions Act: “With the distance of history, the questions will be narrowed and few: Did this generation of Americans take the threat seriously, and did we do what … Continue reading
Tagged rant
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