2008 Apr 1, 1:16Change HP printer status LED to read 'Insert Coin': "This little perl program allows you to set the "Ready Message" on HP printers to whatever you'd like."
humor prank printer hack hardware howto 2008 Mar 9, 1:17"It is, quite frankly, one of the best critiques of current K-12 mathematics education I have ever seen. Written by a first-class research mathematician who elected to devote his teaching career to
K-12 education."
via:ethan_t_hein math education paper 2007 Dec 26, 5:45Miscellaneous thoughts I had that would have been relevant many months ago:
- A History Channel program had a reenactment of a 1920's archaeologist discovering a stone tablet, sending the tablet to a warehouse, etc. all behind the voice over giving the dry facts. The
reenactor hammed it up a bit and I would have rather had clips from Indiana Jones in the background. If they're already not showing me the archaeologist who discovered the tablet, they may as well
show me one who will be entertaining.
- There are many parodies of the Get a Mac ads and so when I saw a UK Get a Mac ad I payed attention to see what the joke was. I was
disappointed by the 'parody' because it was a conventional Get a Mac ad with different actors. Apple localized their Get a Mac ad campaign in this fashion in the UK and in Japan. I've got a
playlist of the US, UK, and Japan's version of the Piechart ad. Ranking the lovable bumblingness of the PC I give the order
UK, Japan, then US and ranking the sumgness of the Mac I give the order UK, US, then Japan. But don't take my word for it, view
the ads for yourself.
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Yahoo Pipes lets users generate an RSS feed altering service that runs on Yahoo's server using a GUI. This is very different from Microsoft's Popfly which allows users to component-ize and share javascript utilities that run client side on a webbrowser. Both have the awesome power of buzzword associations
like 'Web 2.0' and 'Mashup' but in my mind Yahoo Pipes is for server side RSS feed modification and Popfly is about client side javascript webpages. And neither will allow me to run an arbitrary
XSLT =).
popfly apple personal history-channel indiana-jones pipes mac technical microsoft mashup yahoo nontechnical 2007 Dec 23, 8:46Banksy replaces Paris Hilton CDs with his own satirical music and cover art in stores.
art article culture graffiti hack humor music parody prank streetart paris-hilton bbc 2007 Dec 23, 8:44Banksy adds his own pieces to NY's museums.
art article culture graffiti hack humor museum nyc painting prank streetart banksy 2007 Jul 11, 9:00The last segment is sort of like Bart Simpsons prank calls to Moe's Tavern applied to airport boarding calls.
airport security youtube video humor the-chaser 2007 Jun 21, 2:38Unspun is a social list creation website from Amazon. For instance, you could create a list named '
Most Desired Features for Next Version of Internet Explorer' and users of Unspun fill in and
rank the answers. There's a mix of serious answers that are excellent suggestions, fan-boy answers that are lame, uninformed answers that are already implemented, and hilarious answers that are
awesome. The following is the very short unsorted list of the awesome suggestions.
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Innovative Anti-Phreaking Technology
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Given the work done in IE7 on anti-phishing, subsequent work on anti-phreaking just makes sense.
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AXELROD 2.8 Acceleration with XML Bindings
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I'm not sure what AXELROD 2.8 is but accelerating it sounds good. Also I enjoy binding things to XML so...
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Larger Buttons for My Mighty Fingers
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For maximum humor this should be read by Richard Horvitz as Zim of Invader Zim. This
one makes me laugh every time I read it.
amazon personal ie humor nontechnical 2007 Jun 11, 4:20
My manager has come back this week from a 10 week vacation and paternity leave. In response and similar to
other office hacks some dedicated coworkers and I decided to do something to my manager's office.
While gone we knew my manager, Venkat, was getting into meditation. My coworker Vishu had the excellent idea of easing Venkat back into work by making his office
better suited for meditation. To start with, we updated his nameplate with an
Om.
Next we emptied his office of anything that could distract him from meditation and replaced it with a yoga mat. Of course I left a copy of the specification
for the remodel in his office.
microsoft personal office humor nontechnical 2007 Mar 13, 7:57I had a few thoughts after reading about
OpenID. However, after doing only a very small amount of digging I can see these aren't new thoughts.
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Anonymous OpenID
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Have an OpenID that anyone can use because it performs no authorization. You'd specify a URI like http://deletethis.net/anonymousopenid/yournamehere and you'd immediately get an anonymous OpenID
associated with that URI. This has already been implemented by Jayant Gandhi.
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Group OpenID
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Have an OpenID that consists of a group of member OpenIDs. To login as the Group OpenID you need to login with any of the member OpenIDs. This is discussed more by Dmitry Shechtman on his blog.
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OpenID Normalization
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I find that I already have a couple of OpenIDs without even trying due to AOL giving out OpenIDs. I'd like for all of my
OpenIDs to point to one canonical OpenID. It looks like this may already be possible by the OpenID
specification.
I guess I'm a little late to the scene.
technical stolen-thoughts openid 2007 Feb 20, 1:07Abstract: "We present a formal model and a new search algorithm for folksonomies, called FolkRank, that exploits the structure of the folksonomy. The proposed algorithm is also applied to find
communities within the folksonomy and is used to structure se
folksonomy folkrank algorithm article rank sort social tag tagging 2007 Feb 20, 10:33AOL and AIM usernames can now be used as OpenIDs allowing participating OpenID sites and services to authenticate you using your AOL or AIM OpenID.
openid aol aim identity article 2006 Nov 29, 5:34List of Lists. Vote things up and down and create arbitrary lists. Neat!
amazon reference unspun social lists web2.0 2006 Nov 27, 12:46Exec Summary: ... Since some high-ranking government officials and pundits are now referring to the war on terror as the “Long War” or “World War III,” because its duration is not clear, now is an
appropriate time to take a few steps back and
doublespeak orwell orwellian government politics propaganda 2006 Nov 8, 12:57Abstract Media objects, such as images or soundtracks, may be ranked according to a new class of metrics known as "interestingness." These rankings may be based at least in part on the quantity of
user-entered metadata concerning the media object, the nu
flickr interestingness patent patents law legal attention humor 2006 Jul 31, 1:07Guy messes with wireless theiving neighbors using fun proxying.
http humor internet prank ip wireless wifi proxy 2006 Jun 20, 10:53Humorous Video Blog
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