For some time I’ve been noticing a peculiar bug in my server logs, a curious variable added to every url, on both blogdex and overstated:
abc=123
At first this struck me as a programmatic glitch or tag for some spider. But it dawned on me a few days ago that this could be a sort of cryptic [...]
Carl Baldwin is the photoshopper who fashioned the image of handbag-toting Argentinean soccer players that spread around the world, and crossed over into mainstream publication. The blokes at B3TA caught up with him and asked him a few questions about being a memestar.
While the discussion thankfully degrades into regular B3TAisms (i.e. “what animals would you [...]
It’s time to bring this tid bit to the world audience…
Taking the top half of a $5 bill (Lincoln) and the bottom of a $20 (Jackson) gives us a picture of what famous actor?
I’ve only had one person guess it before, but most concur it’s a puzzle that makes ya go aha!
I caught the opening sequence to Dune a few nights back, and came to quite a strange realization:
President Shaddam, controller of Arrakis, has domain over the valuable resource spice.
With a little linguistic legwork and metaphor we have:
President Saddam, controller of Iraq, has domain over the valuable resource oil.
Coincidence?!? I think not. The movie was released [...]
Two music videos by totally unconnected artists I listen to with a common thread of bright and uplifting wintery places:
Legowelt – Disco Rout (quicktime)
All (a.k.a. Wolfgang Voigt, Mike Ink) – Alltag 1 (real)
Gibson has just released the first ethernet guitar, complete with cat5 jack alongside the time-honored quarter-inch plug.
It’s quite a computational beast, with onboard Sharc DSP, FPGA and 100 megabit ethernet. Of course this sort of digital advocacy begs the question: aren’t some things cheaper/better/simpler in analog form?
Think of the complexity involved in making feedback with [...]
A small, chubby bunny who enjoys aggressive behavior, late-night snacks, swanky jazz and bathroom humor. Oolong? No way, he’s dead.. It’s Mashimaro! He’s adorable and grody just like your five year old cousin.
Sometimes I’m blown away by the stuff that’s been out there for 3 years that I still haven’t seen. What else is waiting [...]
Today commences the battle of the pirates, and I’m sure that one of the pirates will totally kick ass. But we must remember in times like this that the only thing badder assed than pirates are ninjas. It would be totally sweet if a ninja flew in at half time and started chopping pirates heads [...]
As part of every Ph.D. there comes a time when your superiors decide to test your knowledge in order to ensure that you’re academic material. In my case, these are tests called general examinations, consisting of 3 written and one oral examination. Today I’m taking the first written one, a 24 hour essay marathon on [...]
After 8 years in withdrawl, Kevin Mitnick was finally allowed to browse the web again this Tuesday. What was his first stop on the infobahn? His girlfriend’s weblog, where she had been documenting their relationship for some time. How sweet! And it was on public television. Said Mitnick:
“The Internet is like the phone, to be [...]