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From McSweeney’s: AN OPEN LETTER TO A GUY I WORK WITH WHO ALWAYS COMES INTO MY OFFICE TO TELL ME HE SENT ME AN E-MAIL RIGHT AFTER HE SENDS ME AN E-MAIL

Dear Louis,
You’re a very nice man and I do enjoy working with you. The fact that you own a donkey and a rooster makes […]

Hard to call

Is she sexy ugly or barfight pretty?

“Take him out”

Religious fundamentalists are in the news again these days, once more advocating the killing of foreign citizens as a means of subjugating the rest of the world to their will.
That’s right, I’m talking about Pat Robertson who called for the “taking out” of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez the other day.
‘Course Robertson, being the man of […]

Google Talk

The rumours are true, there’s YA-IM service out there: Google Talk. Allow me to weight in with: great. Whoo hoo. Huzzah. Wow. And: fantastic.
Next up: the Google iTunes controller, the Google Notepad replacement, the Google HTML editor, and the Google mail client (oh wait a minute….).
I’m firmly aperch on the edge of my chair, […]

SHA-1 and the importance of formatting

I read the InfoSec News because I do enjoy a good daily dose of the Info and the Sec. Today, over breakfast, I read the following which nearly made me spit my Corn Pops(tm) across the coffee table:

Crypto researchers have discovered a new, much faster, attack against the widely-used SHA-1 hashing algorithm. Xiaoyun Wang, one […]

coconutBattery

I ran coconutBattery against my laptop’s battery and it reported:

I have no idea if that’s good or bad for a battery this old….

What I want in a fridge

I like my fridge, it does a pretty decent job of keeping the cold stuff cold and the frozen stuff frozen but really, besides dump a lot of waste heat out it’s backside and into the kitchen, that’s pretty much all it does. I want it to do more, and I don’t mean make fancy […]

Gibby Haynes and His Problem

This is why I love the iTunes Music Store:
I had no idea Gibby Haynes was still even making music anymore, it’s been awhile since the last Butthole Surfers release. Today I’m browsing through the iTunes store to see if there’s anything else in there by The Kaiser Chiefs and I come across Gibby Haynes and […]

Synergy for iTunes

Everyone who’s ever tried to write software for OS X has at some point written an iTunes controller. They litter the shareware landscape like so many discarded empty beer bottles, labels bleaching into obscurity by the harsh desert sun of developer neglect.
Nice eh?
I say this because I too once wrote an iTunes controller though it […]

A geek, the Cisco, the FBI and a lawyer, in 3+n parts

If you read /. or you’re paying any attention at all to the hacking/hacktivism scene you know that ex-Internet Security Systems employee Mike Lynn discovered a flaw in Cisco’s routers that opens them up to being full-on 0wn3d by anyone with some l337 mad skillz. This has made Cisco and ISS and now the FBI […]

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