September 2010
42 posts
How to Make an Internet Web Page | Webdesigner... →
A wonderfully concise guide to creating your own website.
Do you browse the internet often? Are you amazed at how many internet web pages there are in the world today? Don’t you wish you could get a piece of that action?
August 2010
24 posts
New federal antipiracy regulations await returning... →
Baylor University doesn’t want its students using peer-to-peer networks. A BlueCoat PacketShaper locks down bandwidth to students, and all inbound ports are blocked by the campus firewall to keep “computers from acting as servers or super nodes in peer to peer networks.” Illinois State uses a packet shaping device called the Packeteer; it singles out P2P traffic and clamps...
Cars hacked through wireless tire sensors →
The tire pressure monitors built into modern cars have been shown to be insecure by researchers from Rutgers University and the University of South Carolina. The wireless sensors, compulsory in new automobiles in the US since 2008, can be used to track vehicles or feed bad data to the electronic control units (ECU), causing them to malfunction.
I hope this gets more attention before someone...
Beautipedia by David Jones →
safariextensions:
Beautipedia is an extension to make Wikipedia a better environment for reading articles.
Reminiscent, in some ways, of Instapaper Greystyled translated to Wikipedia. It uses jGaramond which—while not as attractive as some other Garamonds out there—has broad Unicode character support. It doesn’t indicate which words and phrases are links until you hover the mouse over them,...
Cordless Dog: Stay →
Looks useful. Watch the video to get an idea of how it works.
Stay can store a set of windows for every combination of displays that you use with your computer. For example, if you have a laptop that is sometimes connected to an external monitor, you can store two sets of windows in Stay; one with the external monitor connected and one without. This done, you’ll be able to ensure that your...
Truths
mrgan:
“Country music is nothing but three chords and the truth.” —Harlan Howard
“Cinema is truth at twenty-four frames a second.” —Jean-Luc Godard
Bill Murray →
Last question. I have to know, because I love this story and want it to be true. There have been stories about you sneaking up behind people in New York City, covering their eyes with your hands, and saying: Guess who. And when they turn around, they see Bill Murray and hear the words “No one will ever believe you.”
[long pause] I know. I know, I know, I know. I’ve heard...
Google's Development Philosophy →
jingc:
If you’re a politician, admitting you’re wrong is a weakness, but if you’re an engineer, you essentially want to be wrong half the time. If you do experiments and you’re always right, then you aren’t getting enough information out of those experiments. You want your experiment to be like the flip of a coin: You have no idea if it is going to come up heads or tails. You want to not...
Daniel Ellsberg on the Limits of Knowledge →
Henry, there’s something I would like to tell you, for what it’s worth, something I wish I had been told years ago. You’ve been a consultant for a long time, and you’ve dealt a great deal with top secret information. But you’re about to receive a whole slew of special clearances, maybe fifteen or twenty of them, that are higher than top secret. “I’ve had...
The True Weight of Things →
jingc:
A fantastic, insightful story from Jack Cheng:
Omokaruishi: This means heavy light rocks. If you felt this rock is light you will get your wish.
I watched as people walked up to the rocks, made an offering, put their hands together and made their wishes. Then they would lift one of these magical rocks, and come away from the experience with a secret and a smile.
The rock is a test:...
A photo leveller →
bobulate:
50 pairs of women — maids and their employers — stepped away from their daily routines to be photographed about what unites them:
For the photos the employers and maids wore the same thing: a white shirt and no jewellery or decoration. With the images made under these “equalizing” conditions, the artists leave it up to the viewer to guess — using one’s own cultural codes — which woman...
