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Ali Rahimi, self-proclaimed “Coolest Stud at MIT” claimed his title thanks to a retro-sheik headset design manufactured for his cell phone. English dork Nick Roope, associated with the B3ta crew claimed rights to this title (or another analogous stud title in England), revealing his prior design, implementation, and publication of old-skool headset. Embittered with rageContinue reading “When geeks strike back!”

One never knows how to react when a good friend starts a weblog. I mean, sure, everyone’s doing it and I support each and every little one of them! Go blogs! But when a friend picks up the torch, there are only two ways things can progress: You pick up some new facts about themContinue reading “You go girl!”

Some may remember that I chose my current apartment based on the wifi capital of the neighborhood. The area is richer than I would ever have expected, moving from 2 networks last May to a whopping 15 at current despite the sparseness of residences (mostly Victorians). Of these 15 networks, 10 are strong enough toContinue reading “Some notes on WiFi theft”

The last posted date on my weblog often becomes a daunting reminder of how thin I can spread myself. More importantly, it’s a testament to how connected a person needs to be to keep up to date with the connected lives of webloggers. As it turns out, Mexico was a dichotomous experience with respect toContinue reading “Silly Americans, the Internet is for other countries”

I’m currently shuffling to clean up my results for the Sunbelt conference in Cancun next week. No time for procrastination now, so the weblog will go fallow for a few days. Not to mention that posting will probably be slow while I’m sitting on the beach sipping sweet cocktails. Ahh the life of a graduateContinue reading “Imminent departure”

What happens when you play Counterstrike too much? You end up with a potty mouth. And some enemies: So, the story goes that co-worker A got sick of co-worker B’s constant profanity whilst playing Counter Strike. Co-worker A then hid a microphone next to co-worker B’s desk, and captured this stream of rantings. Then, asContinue reading “The Terrible Mr. G”

Paul Pfeiffer, the respected video artist famous for his video-art-gone-screensaver John 3:16 is doing an installation at the List Visual arts center here at MIT (which is housed in the same building as the Media Lab). As promotion for the event, they’ve taped a giant photo from his new video piece Morning After the DelugeContinue reading “Morning after the Media Lab”

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 sortContinue reading “abc=123”

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 wouldContinue reading “The agony of a memestardom”

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!