Terrorists, huh?
Yesterday in Toronto we evidently had a wee bit of a black-out downtown, but I missed it because it was pissing rain out and I decided to spent the day sleeping and creating a ton of new Obj-C classes instead. Come to think of it, maybe I just mistook it for thunder.
However it seems it […]
ColourTinter2 class for REALbasic
I’d forgotten how much fun it is to play around in REALbasic until I re-discovered a little class I made along time ago while messing about with colour tinting images. A bit of work this evening and it’s now about three times faster than it was before.
Update, 3:24am: Ever lay down, start to fall asleep, […]
Dreamworks get bitch-slapped by the Swedes
The Pirate Bay, a website operated in Sweden, received a cease-and-desist letter from the lawyers of Dreamworks, the company that put out Shrek 2. Said lawyers cited the DMCA as the source of power from which they act. Evidently they’ve forgotten that the DMCA is an American law and not one passed by the World […]
One fell swoop
I like the phrase “one fell swoop” but never before wondered as to its origin. That is, until today:
The phrase is one of those fixed expressions that we hardly think about most of the time. It means all at once, suddenly. It’s been around in the language for at least 400 years. Shakespeare is first […]
Programming languages for linguaphiles
Bruce the Goose has an awesome list of programming languages you’ve never heard of: Bruce the Goose.
If this excites you, you’re such a geek.
Schneier on the SHA break
Bruce Schneier expounds upon the signifigance of last week’s announcement that collisions had been found for a variant of MD5 last week in Opinion: Cryptanalysis of MD5 and SHA: Time for a new standard:
The magnitude of these results depends on who you are. If you’re a cryptographer, this is a huge deal. While not revolutionary, […]
Ah likes it in the raw
I can’t put it any better than Matt did:
Bush eats a corn on the cob - raw - on the campaign trail. I love it that
the man is clearly insane but everyone basically just pretends there’s
nothing wrong.
Bush & Corn
And yet he runs the country
I mean that title facetiously. Dance puppet-boy, dance! Watch out for your own feet. Sovereignty.mov [Quicktime, 500 Kb.]
Ten years of WWW and they still don’t get it
When will corporations/organizations learn that trying to institute linking policies on the web is not just futile, it’s completely inane? My guess as to the continued rearing of their ugly, clueless heads: lawyers with too much time on a golf course and not enough time in front of the keyboard.
Case in point: any links to […]
SHA-1 weakness found
The crypto world is all atitter today about the possibility that collisions can be easily computed for the SHA-1 hash algorithm, as Freedom to Tinker notes in “SHA-1 break rumoured”.
Its interesting stuff, despite the fact that the authors of the original work seem to have broken a not-SHA-1 algorithm but rather something approxomating it. Seems […]