January 2012
7 posts
6 tags
Freelance hacker helps drug rings avoid the wire →
[…] each crewmember gets a cell phone that operates using a prepaid SIM card; they also get a two-week plastic pill organizer filled with 14 SIM cards where the pills should be. […] Every morning, each crewmember swaps out his phone’s card for the card in next day’s compartment in the pill organizers. After all 14 cards are used, they start over at the first one.
If the...
3 tags
7 tags
5 tags
4 tags
4 tags
December 2011
1 post
7 tags
November 2011
6 posts
1 tag
5 tags
5 tags
3 tags
5 tags
8 tags
October 2011
5 posts
4 tags
7 tags
8 tags
5 tags
4 tags
September 2011
8 posts
4 tags
4 tags
Parks and Who →
frezned:
vondell-swain:
bradofarrell:
vondell-swain:
i just tried to imagine a crossover between doctor who and parks and recreation
it didn’t work at all
like, attempting to imagine it caused some sort of catastrophic failure in my imagination glands
i just can’t…
6 tags
thedailywhat:
Well This Is Sufficiently Creepy of the Day: OpenFrameworks developer Arturo Castro shows off his real-time face-swapping technology, created using Kyle McDonald’s ofxFacetracker, Jason Saragih’s facetracker library, and “parts of Kevin Atkinson’s image clone code.”
I have no idea what any of that means, but the result is pretty freakin’ creepy.
In the comments, Castro tells...
6 tags
1 tag
4 tags
8 tags
August 2011
10 posts
1 tag
11 tags
Philosophy -> Reason -> Natural science -> Science... →
Folklore says if you take any article on wikipedia, and click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, you will eventually end up at Philosophy. Mat Kelcey analyzed every article on wikipedia, and it is mostly true. About 3% of articles don’t make it to philosophy. But the interesting thing to emerge from this data, is that it’s actually a small loop of...
8 tags
4 tags
When the University of California at Irvine campus was first built, they just...
– John Siracusa paraphrasing Larry Wall (source)
5 tags
1 tag
1 tag
6 tags
2 tags
4 tags
July 2011
6 posts
7 tags
1 tag
6 tags
the loneliest mix →
For $8 you can get a cassette recording of the song of the only known hybrid humpback / blue whale.
6 tags
Marriage, gay marriage, gender, sex. →
XKCD’s Randall Monroe wrote a short piece on why google+ requiring you to share your gender is harmful, and in it he linked to this interesting article about gender, and the many exceptions to the genetic definition of gender. An interesting read!
4 tags
June 2011
4 posts
3 tags
4 tags
Richard Dreyfuss reads the iTunes EULA →
He reads, so you don’t have to.
6 tags
7 tags
Kid Gives Speech After Learning To Ride A... →
THUMBS UP EVERYBODY!
4 tags
3 tags
May 2011
5 posts
8 tags
If you have an hour to spare, I suggest you watch this excellent video of Douglas Adams speaking at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in 1996. Funny, mind-expanding.