“The owls are really better off extinct, honest”

The BC logging industry recently won a court case giving them permission to log the homeland forests of the spotted owl, which just happens to be an endangered species.
That blows, but it happens. It’s not like owls an important ecologically or anything. However, not content to just kill off the species the logging industry is [...]

Economic Theory

A very nifty Flash piece expounding upon the role of economists: THE ECONOMISTS
(Thanks Kat!)

One-line movie review: Biker Boyz

It’s unfortunate that the throughly mundane, uninteresting plot gets in the way of the thoroughly enjoyable, mindless motorcycle action. Biker Boyz

Beautiful pic of the Earth

This image has become my new desktop. It’s gorgeous.

Fun with iChat and SMS

How to send SMS messages from iChatAV:
1. Create a new chat window (Shift-Command-N)
2. Enter the phone number of the SMS-compatible phone in the following format: +14165551234; the +1 is necessary where 1 is the country code. So far this appears to work in the US and Canada.
3. Enter your message and send
I didn’t get any [...]

Python Under OS X

Paul’s article got me intrigued: what would it take to get Python running under OS X? It turns out, not a whole lot. The latest MacPython beta is available from Jack Jansen’s MacPython page. Just download and install it. To add a GUI with native UI widgets, download wxPython.
Python documentation can be found at python.org [...]

Paul baranowski on Python

A while ago Paul Baranowski, lead developer on the Peekabooty project, wrote a brief paper on his experience with the whole project and why choosing your programming language wisely is so critical. After it got Boing Boing’d and Slashdot’d and he got deluged by email asking him “if C++ isn’t the right language and Java [...]

Ultramagnetic 0.1 beta released

Ultramagnetic, a fork of the Gaim project that incorporates GnuPG-based strong crypto and network routing via Hacktivismo’s 6/4 protocol is now available. (Gaim is a multiprotocol instant messaging client).

Wrap that rascal…

…in crypto. It seems that the message is getting lost, despite the considerable press notoriety that war-driving has been getting lately: wireless network is not as secure as wired networking. If you’re using wireless take the time to learn about what you can do to protect your data:

Security vendor AirDefense set up two of its [...]

Reverse engineering

Also from Slashdot today: Introduction to Reverse Engineering Software.

This book is an attempt to provide an introduction to reverse engineering software under both Linux and Windows. [...]

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