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Car key fob technology hacked - Boing Boing

2011 Jan 19, 7:45I always wondered how easy it would be to hack the key fobs. Now we know...PermalinkCommentssecurity hack car technical

Snow road

2010 Dec 29, 5:12

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Ratatat Rocks

2010 Dec 28, 10:42
I just found out that I like the group Ratatat. I'd first heard them way back when the Zune was first released as the backing for Los Corazones on the zune-arts.net website.




But I didn't know who they were until today when I watched this Filmography 2010 video (via Kottke)



Until about 1:16 in, the music is Ratatat's Nostrand. On the first viewing it drove me crazy because I could only vaguely recall hearing something like that music before. I tracked it down via the zune-arts thing above and eventually found my way to the Nostrand video. Funny, all the recent comments on that one are from people who also just watched the Filmography video.
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Favimon (beta version)

2010 Dec 16, 3:33Fight favicons pokemon style.PermalinkCommentshumor game web favicon pokemon technical via:waxy

CommonJS, I Promise by Kris Kowal - JSConf.eu ☠ 2010

2010 Dec 14, 3:06"Join Kris for a pointed presentation on the state of CommonJS: what's done, what's being debated, and what needs to be done."PermalinkCommentsjavascript video commonjs technical kris-kowal

RFC 3797 - Publicly Verifiable Nominations Committee (NomCom) Random Selection

2010 Dec 13, 11:12Used to generate publicly verifiable random numbers. For instance to pick 'xn--' for the IDN prefix from a set of prefixes, they decided on a hash, a set of stocks and a time in the future to generate the hash from the stock values. The resulting value is random and anyone can check the work to verify that it was chosen randomly.


Although, now looking back from the future I can't verify that they didn't generate this data after the stock quotes came out. And they're using MD5...PermalinkCommentsrfc algorithm random election ietf technical

Multi-Stream Tuner Cards by Ceton

2010 Dec 8, 5:43This that lets your PC read four digital encrypted cable signals at once with a cable card from you cable company. This is cool although expensive. What frustrates me is the lack of choices in this area.PermalinkCommentscable cablecard hardware pc technical mediacenter

Bruce Lawson’s personal site  : In praise of Internet Explorer 6

2010 Dec 7, 2:24"...suggested that I document this fact before history records that we all hated it from the second it was released: we didn’t hate it at all. We loved it."PermalinkCommentscss history ie6 ie web browser technical

Berners Street Hoax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2010 Dec 6, 12:17Ye olde DoS: "The Berners Street Hoax was perpetrated by Theodore Hook in the City of Westminster, London, in 1809. Hook had made a bet with his friend, Samuel Beazley, that he could transform any house in London into the most talked-about address in a week, which he achieved by sending out thousands of letters in the name of Mrs Tottenham, who lived at 54 Berners Street, requesting deliveries, visitors, and assistance."PermalinkCommentshumor history prank

Everyone Hates Ticketmaster — But No One Can Take It Down | Magazine

2010 Nov 8, 3:32We were just talking about hating Ticketmaster. A brief history and business of Ticketmaster.PermalinkCommentsticketmaster software wired concert music business

Geek Optimism

2010 Nov 3, 7:07
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Barack Obama on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart

2010 Oct 28, 9:43PermalinkCommentshumor video barack-obama jon-stewart daily-show

The Kingfish Cafe — Southern cuisine in Seattle, WA

2010 Oct 28, 9:36Seattle restaurant serving delicious Southern food visited just today for lunch.PermalinkCommentsrestaurant seattle food capitolhill southern

Meme-ify Your Home With These 10 Internet Wall Hangings Currently for Sale on Etsy

2010 Oct 22, 1:30PermalinkCommentscrafting DIY Etsy haters gonna hate home decor keyboard cat lolcats memes needlepoint pedobear Xzibit technical

YouTube - Rowan Atkinson is Doctor Who - Classic Comic Relief

2010 Oct 14, 10:26"Doctor Who Special starring Rowan Atkinson, Richard E Grant, Hugh Grant (as Doctor Who), Jonathan Pryce and Joanna Lumley."PermalinkCommentshumor video doctor-who rowan-atkinson hugh-grant parody youtube

The Waldo Ultimatum

2010 Sep 27, 1:40PermalinkCommentshumor video waldo borne borne-ultimatum movie mashup

C-SPAN Video Player - House Judiciary Subcmte. Hearing on Immigration and Farm Labor

2010 Sep 24, 8:38"Comedian Stephen Colbert joined the panel of witnesses at a House hearing on immigrant farm workers. Mr. Colbert has partnered with United Farm Workers and their campaign calling on unemployed Americans to take jobs in the agriculture sector. The organization's president, Arturo Rodriguez, also testified at the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security hearing chaired by Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA).
Washington, DC : 2 hr. 10 min."PermalinkCommentshumor video stephen-colbert politics immigration farm labor house

Conserve Water, or the Fish Will Die - Design - GOOD

2010 Sep 15, 10:51That's an idea... Makes me feel really bad for the fish... I guess that's the point.
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Area Man Suddenly Realizes He's The One Who's Been Killing Off World's Bee Population | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

2010 Sep 8, 2:16'Following a news update on the depopulation of honeybees across North America and much of the world, it suddenly dawned on local bank teller Keith Orlander Tuesday that he, personally, was responsible for the dramatic and theretofore unexplained disappearance of the insects. "Boy, come to think of it, I guess I have been killing millions of bees lately,"'PermalinkCommentsbee bees humor onion

Learning to Be Me by Greg Egan from Gedanken Fictions: Stories on Themes in Science, Technology, and Society By Thomas A. Easton

2010 Sep 6, 10:16Via Waxy, a short story on the topic of consciousness.PermalinkCommentsvia:waxy scifi fiction read short-story brain
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