Ian Fieggen has taken it upon himself to rename the simple double-slipped reef knot as the Ian Knot. While it’s always nice to see someone take an interest in the ancient art of knot tying, what infuriates me is when someone creates new terms for something that they have no business claiming rights over.
I […]
For those who are too stupid to understand how right-of-way works with a green light and a left turn, the US Department of Transportation has issued an interim approval of a new “Flashing Yellow Arrow”, or FYA to indicate when your left turn is permitted, but without the right-of-way.
Just another example of having to provide […]
Jeff Han, in the NYU Department of Computer Science has a wonderfully enticing video of a multiple-touch sensor built using the bidirectional capabilities of an array of LEDs. The video is enchanting and worth repeated viewing. The mind boggles at the possibilities. Tragically the minimalist presentation leaves us wondering as to many […]
Driving a flat panel display at 1920 x 1200 is far more difficult than you can imagine. Sure, it’s easy if you only have one, but what if you have three? Well, unless you’re building a brand-new custom system with dual PCIe 16x slots and dual, dual DVI outputs, life can get a […]
If you’re a fan of complex systems, especially ones designed to ensure secure control of vital or dangerous systems, then you’ll enjoy this story about the Pinnacle/Nucflash keyword combo used to route messages of the highest priority, namely notification of a non-accidental nuclear explosion and threat of imminent nuclear war. Finding ways of constructing […]
Some very talented flash artist has produced a sketch of a person from the inside out. Very much worth a quick viewing. I watched it at x16 playback speed, the default was far too slow on my system.
If anyone knows who the artist is who did this, I’d like to know, the site […]
I’m considering building one of these Wonder Boxes. The box is basically a long contraption with a drawer pull on the end. When the drawer is opened, you find, a drawer. However, if you roll the box 90 degrees and open the drawer, you get another drawer. Roll it again […]
Over at Help Net Security’s web site they have a fancy 3 page PDF available for download that details how you can go about blocking Skype traffic from your lan. The document by ‘rootn0de’ ultimately says you can deny Skype’s SSL tunneling behavior by have Squid block all CONNECT attempts that are specified by […]
Recently BoingBoing posted about Britney Gallivan’s successful folding of a piece of paper in half 12 times. The way the BoingBoing post and the updated Pomona Valley Historical website reads, this would appear to have been a recent event. In fact, the event was way back in January 2002. The news is […]
It took me quite a while to figure out how to make eclipse work with sshexec targets on ant build files. Turns out it was quite easy and even uses the cached identity used for cvs operations. Quite handy. The way I made it work was to tell the ant builder to […]
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