JetBlue narcs on it’s passengers
JetBlue is, hands down, my favourite airline in terms of passenger service, cost, and comfort. Unfortunately they’re also first in selling out their customers to the Orwellian surveillance machine that is being built in the US:
A presentation prepared by contractor, Torch Concepts of Huntsville, Ala., describes how it merged the JetBlue database with U.S. Social [...]
The Internet is over
Well, it’s true. So sayeth Joey’s Python script in So what do I mean by “The internet is over”?:
Back when I worked at OpenCola, my friend and co-worker Chris Cummer worked some pretty late hours trying to get an application ready in time for the DefCon 8 hacker conference. During the very end of one [...]
SQLite Plugin for REALbasic
Will Leshner has released a plugin for REALbasic that wraps the SQLite database engine. Why it seems like only last month that I was asking for this very thing - thanks Will!
Someone should have told the shark
Who knew that yoga won’t protect you from a shark attack? Evidently this guy:
Tv cameras have captured the agonising moment when a 350lb bull shark attacked a man convinced yoga would protect him from one of nature’s most dangerous predators. The shark’s razor-sharp teeth tore a chunk out of [...]
Why astronomy rocks
Astronomers from Sydney University have come forth with a solution to a mysterious new object recently discovered in our Milky Way.
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Physics suggest that this phenomenon is an expanding giant star swallowing nearby planets, an event which may one day befall our own planet.
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The Sydney team suggests that the outburst of V838 Monocerotis took place as [...]
The War on Weather
The AOML (Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory), a division of the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) has issued a hurricane FAQ on why we don’t nuke hurricanes:
During each hurricane season, there always appear suggestions that one should simply use nuclear weapons to try and destroy the storms. Apart from the fact [...]
Google Code Jam
Do you have exceptional programming skills? Can you make computers perform like silicon puppets with just a few well-expressed commands? Are you at ease when faced with a hard stop and a group of peers evaluating every line of your code? Here’s your opportunity to display the grace of the true professional in a [...]
Crashing through Windows
John Dvorak:
[Bill] Gates said that 5 percent of Windows machines crash, on average, twice daily. Put another way, this means that 10 percent of Windows machines crash every day, or any given machine will crash about three times a month.
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With 10 percent of them crashing daily, we have 70 million crashes every 24 hours.
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I think [...]
Arguing ad infinitum
On the news this evening the topic of gay marriage has been the lead story (it’s being voted on in the House today). I’ve noticed something in the coverage about the debate, both in Canada and in the United States: it’s being argued, both sides, almost exclusively by old white guys. And every single one [...]
One-line movie review: Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Once upon a time a man made two excellent movies but then he spent too much time hanging around with Quentin Tarantino picking up bad ideas about plot flow and character presentation and when he finally got a big whack of cash from Hollywood to make another movie that let him enlist the help of [...]
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