Handy Junk Email Filter

A few weeks ago I got tired of receiving spam with images attached, pumping some junk stock for pennies or what-not. This Mail.app filter takes care of all of it quite nicely:

Sources for Creationism and Intelligent Design

Jeff, in the comments on SciAm Smacks Down Creationism, makes a good point: for all my bashing of creationism and intelligent design I haven’t actually cited any references to the other side (the non-scientific side), an error on my part I admit and I hope to rectify that here.
These are, as I understand it, [...]

A Plea to Google: Differentiate RSS

Am I the only one tired of doing a search on Google, seeing a promising hit, clicking the link and having my bloody RSS reader launch and try to load someone’s entire RSS feed all because Google displays URLs ending in .xml the same way it does URLs ending in browser-displayable extensions?
A plea to Google: [...]

SciAm Smacks Down Creationism

It’s no surprise to anyone who read this blog or knows me that I don’t hold much respect for the “ideas” that are intelligent design and creationism. In an nutshell (get it?) both can flippantly be summed up as: “I cannot understand how such things came to be, therefor no one can understand how such [...]

PayPal-targetted Phishing Spam Email Morphs

Without question the most popular post on my blog has been PayPal Phishing Scams Getting Better and Better in which I describe how a Paypal-targetted phishing email, seemingly sent by Wayne Bakewell, scams unwary recipients into revealing their Paypal login info.
It’s unfortunate that’s the most popular post because most people who read it seem [...]

The Smears

Part of moving to a new city is finding reasons to like it. I’ve been making a real effort to experience as many interesting things in Vancouver as possible. I gotta admit, this city has made it easy pretty easy so far, what with great fireworks the week after we arrived, hikes up to glaciers [...]

DropBocks 0.5.1 Released

I’ve released a maintenance update to DropBocks. Read more about it over at Binary Code.

OpenCola Rises From the Ashes… On Digg

Imagine my surprise to find a story about OpenCola on the homepage of Digg this morning positioned as though it were a new, breaking event.
Apparently a blog called Everything Else picked up on OpenCola’s open-source cola recipe, didn’t fact check their post and wrote:

f you’ve been to a computer show in recent months you [...]

D-Wave and Quantum Computing

Lately a Burnaby company by the name of D-Wave Systems has been receiving a lot of press and publicity over their announcement that they’ve created the world’s first commercially-viable quantum computer.
I’m not even remotely qualified to evaluate that statement but I was on-hand at their Vancouver press conference and if even half of what they’re [...]

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