June 7, 2011
Hard Drive
Bill Hammack is a geek hero. The mind-blowing engineering behind a very common device:
June 5, 2011
June 4, 2011
Wouldv’e Been Funnier with Scones
“Proving that it is possible to fight terrorism and still have a sense of humor, the British intelligence agency MI6 reportedly hacked the on-line magazine Inspire, published by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, and replaced its nasty contents with something tastier:
When followers tried to download the 67-page colour magazine, instead of instructions about how to “Make a bomb” … they were greeted with garbled computer code.
The code, which had been inserted into the original magazine by the British intelligence hackers, was actually a web page of recipes for “The Best Cupcakes in America” published by the Ellen DeGeneres chat show.”
Wonder What His Sidekick Looks Like
Seriously?!? Only in San Francisco. Geeze…
I’m not going to mention the hypocrisy of a city that wants to ban this but insists upon certain… other… medical procedures being sacrosanct. As long as the children are significantly younger. All in the name of progress.
June 3, 2011
June 2, 2011
Quoth
“The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder in your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewer of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then—to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it.”
Merlyn, The Book of Merlyn (prelude to The Once and Future King). T.H. White
If this is true then my friend Stephanie is the happiest person I know.
June 1, 2011
Googolmess
“I have this vision of hoards of shadowy numbers lurking out there in the dark, beyond the small sphere of light cast by the candle of reason. They are whispering to each other; plotting who knows what. Perhaps they don’t like us very much for capturing their smaller brethren with our minds. Or perhaps they just live uniquely numberish lifestyles, out there beyond our ken.”
These are the biggest numbers in the universe
Go read it and have your mind blown.
Handcuffed by Stupidity
“An apparently suicidal man waded into San Francisco Bay on Monday, stood up to his neck, and waited. As the man drowned, police, fire crews, and others watched idly from the shore.”
When the policy is this asinine responsible human beings ignore the policy.