Either I’m out of it, or others are too into it. I’ve heard of WoW, but not of the Corrupted Blood Plague. The plague began innocently enough. Blizzard introduced a new dungeon area in the world, intended to give high-level players a bit of a challenge. But when players reached the boss at the end …
Life immitating art. The Japanese have built the Chikyu, a deep sea drilling vessel, and plan to dig the world’s deepest hole into the Earth’s crust and mantle.
Encrypted file systems Linux only folks. In my long tradition of posting about stuff that’s already been posted (by others), here’s another one. This is a quick rundown on how to encrypt files, containers, and drives under Linux. The use of loopback encrypted filesystems and openssl is explained and examples are given. This paper should …
Lamb Chop Originally uploaded by sarvinc. I suspect it’s the sort of thing people regret later-on in life. Someone from the “we only hate him cause he’s rich,” crowd has a collection of all the bad Bill Gates moments in one place. It’s ok, I hate him ’cause he’s powerful
Ji Lee printed 50,000 of these speech bubble stickers and stuck them on “movie posters, ads and signs all over New York City,” and then went back and took photos of what people wrote. Please enjoy
. I have to admit that I’m liking this thing alot. I’ve got a sub-notebook that I carry most of the time. Lately I’ve been eying either an 12″ Apple Powerbook or a small Tablet PC, but this would do and it’s much cheeper. If I’m going away for the weekend and I just want …
Bug that eats a fish’s tongue and replaces it with its own body This some weird shit… The 3.5cm creature had grabbed onto the fish’s tongue and slowly ate away at it until only a stub was left. It then latched onto the stub and became the fish’s “replacement tongue”. See the picture here
Editor’s Note: This unclassified article draws extensively on Directorate of Operations files, which, of necessity, remain classified. Because Tolkachev’s story serves as an important case study of Cold War intelligence operations, it is being made available to scholars and to the public in as much detail as possible, despite minimal source citations. Read story here
Caveat emptor seems to be the underlying theme today. When it comes to online classes and text books, as usual, the plainer the better. In the late 1990s flashy, gaudy, graphics and color heavy sites were the norm. Not because the site needed to be, but because they could be. Today, austere, plain and uncluttered …
Maybe you like, maybe you don’t like. If nothing else, this project looks interesting based on what’s to come: Accessibility – SMS, Instant Messenger, PDA, offline and pure HTML versions Import and Export: iCal, whatever Outlook uses Buzzwords Compliance: AJAX, Web 2.0, Tagging, RSS Nice of them to include “buzzwords compliance.”