Real Life Frogger

26 03 2007

Oh man… I hope this is an video was just to make a point - and not a “how to” vidoe to cross a street in India…
YouTube - Chicken crossing the road



Wireless LAN security myths that won’t die

26 03 2007

Good article on wireless security. A must read for anyone who think that not broadcasting your SSID is a good thing. Or that MAC filtering is the way to go.

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Microsoft Finds New Way for People to Drink the Kool-Aid

26 03 2007

MS Talking WaterMy manager came back from a week at the “2007 Lotus Notes .NET Integration Workshop” They found a new way for the attendees to “Drink the Kool-Aid“. Talking Rain in a MS branded can. Trying to convince him to sell it on e-Bay.



Now scientists create a sheep that’s 15% human

26 03 2007

Scientists have created the world’s first human-sheep chimera - which has the body of a sheep and half-human organs.
The sheep have 15 per cent human cells and 85 per cent animal cells - and their evolution brings the prospect of animal organs being transplanted into humans one step closer.

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Tolkien Jr completes Lord of Rings

25 03 2007

This first LOTR book in 30 years..

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Burger Trick

25 03 2007

Love the effect this Japanese magician does with an outdoor menu of a burger joint. Good slight of hand and I’m sure a gimmick too.
Burger Paper Magic Trick Video



Breathe new life into OS X Front Row

24 03 2007

This is a good write up on how in 5 mins you can make Front Row very useful. I use these same tricks to on my MPB and my NAS to store and watch TV shows and netflix movies.

Breathe new life into OS X Front Row



All I can say is …

23 03 2007

All I can say is .. (wait for it) … is .. “Oh Deer!”

Not sure what is more disturbing, this, or the fact he was on parole for trying the same thing on a horse… ewwwwwww.

SUPERIOR, Wis. — A 20-year-old man received probation after he was convicted of having sexual contact with a dead deer. The sentence also requires Bryan James Hathaway to be evaluated as a sex offender and treated at the Institute for Psychological and Sexual Health in Duluth, Minn.

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Tacoma Narrows bridge component stuck on I-90, ruled too heavy

23 03 2007

SPOKANE, Wash. — An oversized expansion joint for a Tacoma bridge project made it more than 1,300 miles before being stopped at a weigh station on the Washington border because the Washington State Patrol said it’s too heavy for its trailer.

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Mathematicians Team Up with Supercomputer to Crack 248-Dimensional Object

23 03 2007

E8 projected onto two deminsionsThe team’s calculation, which took four years to prepare and three days of number-crunching on a supercomputer to finish, has produced one of the densest mathematical results in history: a table of numbers that fills 60 gigabytes of disk space. If typed out on paper, the researchers note, the results would cover the island of Manhattan.

Read the article in in Scientific American on-line