Gas Prices in Perspective
Today I received a delightfully naive email suggesting that the best way to combat rising gas prices in Canada was to boycott Petro Canada and buy from the private-sector companies instead:
Starting June 1 of 2007 DON’T purchase ANY gasoline from the biggest Company in Canada. Petro Canada ! If they are not selling any gas, […]
Bullet-proof Climbing Gear?
We rock climbers have been enjoying the light-weight, high tensile-strength of Dyneema slings for years now but it turns out Dyneema also makes pretty decent bullet-proof vests:
A new material developed by Dutch scientists has made its way into soft body armor. Dyneema SB61 is a fiber made from an extremely high grade of the […]
Anti-heliocentrism: Gob-smacked and dumbfounded
When it comes to religion the age-old battle is faith vs. science. So be it, maybe that battle will never be settled. But I had taken it to be a truism that we could all at least accept some science to be true, such basic concepts as gravity pulls towards the centre of mass, white […]
Don’t Look at These Colours
Could it be possible that the following palette is also illegal under the DMCA?
See, any series of hex values can be used to represent colours in HTML. The colours above are a visual representation of the HD-DVD key below. For the visually-impaired these hex values can also represent sounds, distributable as an mp3. Illegal music?
And […]
Don’t Run This Code
If you execute this line of code within the United States you may be in violation of the law:
PLAIN TEXT
RUBY:
puts %w{ 011 371 021 002
235 164 343 133
330 101 126 305
143 126 210 300 }.map { |x| sprintf( "%02X", x.oct [...]
Don’t Copy This Number
In the United States writing down or distributing, in any way, the following set of letters and numbers is illegal.
C0 88 56 63 C5 56 41 D8 5B E3 74 9D 02 11 F9 09
Wait, sorry, I typed that backwards. It should start with 09 and end with C0. Mea culpa, that's a totally different [...]