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Second Window Office

2008 Aug 3, 12:51

sequelguy posted a photo:

Second Window Office

My new window office, before I took out the old furniture and moved in all of my crap. A lovely view of parking lot and freeway.

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Bomb Or Not? Training For Government Agents!

2008 Jul 30, 1:59Training website to determine what's a bomb. E.g. Catwoman movie poster: "While the movie was bad, and therefore in a way "a bomb", the poster does not pose a threat to anything, not even air travel."PermalinkCommentshumor security bomb government satire travel airport

OpenRemote-Home

2008 Jul 29, 2:40"The Home of the Internet-enabled Home. We are an Open Community in the Home Automation and Domotics space. We believe an Open Source approach can revolutionize the way people create, install, and maintain software in the industry."PermalinkCommentshardware java opensource remote software home automation

BBC NEWS | UK | Payout for false Facebook profile

2008 Jul 24, 7:26Fake Facebook page considered libel and gets target big pounds: "Mathew Firsht was awarded 22,000 pounds in damages against an old school friend". Careful what you post...PermalinkCommentsfacebook identity law legal privacy libel

Secure Beneath The Watchful Eyes on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

2008 Jul 24, 12:59I love this poster but I can't believe it was really displayed by the London Metro. Amazing. Reads: "Secure Beneath the Watchful Eyes, CCTV & Metropolitan Police on buses are just two ways we're making your journey more secure."PermalinkCommentsposter propaganda london england cctv art bus photo flickr privacy security

DinPattern

2008 Jul 22, 11:02Gallery of nice website backgroundsPermalinkCommentsbackground web webdesign free gallery graphic via:swannman

Kirkland Uncorked Weekend

2008 Jul 21, 10:36

Kirkland Uncorked posterSaturday we went to Kirkland Uncorked, a wine tasting festival near our home. We took the bus and after finding the correct one (they really should have different numbers for buses that are on the same route but traveling in different directions) made it to the festival. Unfortunately I don't remember any of the names of the wines just which ones I enjoyed by order. Recalling that I enjoyed the first one I had and the second to last one, doesn't really help me find them again. There were local artists who had setup booths and Sarah got a lovely necklace. After that we ate at Cactus which, because it was such a lovely day, had all its windows and doors open.

Sunday was quieter. A few household chores and plenty of GTA4. I almost got the One Man Army achievement but I found that after four minutes with six stars I eventually dropped back down to three stars without realizing it.

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Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories - How to make a Sawed-off USB Key

2008 Jul 17, 5:39DIY instructions on making a flash drive that looks like a cut up USB cable: "Holy crap-- somebody just went and TORE MY FREAKING USB CABLE IN HALF while it was still attached to my laptop!!! No-- wait-- sorry. That's just my USB drive. My bad. Never mindPermalinkCommentsdiy humor flash usb tutorial

Finished First Three Zelda Games

2008 Jul 17, 4:45
Screen shot from Legend of ZeldaScreen shot from Zelda II: The Adventures of LinkScreen shot from Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

I want to once again profess my love for the Wii's Virtual Console. Sarah and I recently finished playing through the first three Zelda games. Although I'd played a bit of the first two I never had a Nintendo as a kid and so unlike Sarah this was my first time completely playing through Zelda I & II. What people say about Zelda II is true... its all so true. And on the flip side I have fond memories of beating the third Zelda game which Sarah hadn't played.

In hilarious Zelda related news, a friend from work's husband posted the following blog post concerning their son named Link.

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Gametrailers.com - Xbox 360 - E3 2008: Exclusive Dashboard Walkthrough HD

2008 Jul 16, 8:05"Not just an update, but an entire overhaul is planned for the Xbox 360 Dashboard, and we get an in-depth look at the new features."PermalinkCommentsgame video xbox xbox-360 videogame

Dr. Horrible

2008 Jul 15, 3:50This is 'Dr. Horrible' (Neil Patrick Harris) a man in love, and also a super villain fighting Nathan Fillion. This is all Joss Whedon's Internet only awesome thing. Its free if you watch now but eventually it will go away unless you pay for it.PermalinkCommentshumor geek super-hero internet media video tv joss-whedon neil-patrick-harris nathan-fillion via:ericlaw

FORA.tv - Neal Stephenson: Science Fiction as a Literary Gen

2008 Jul 14, 4:37"Neal Stephenson delivered a talk entitled The Fork: Science Fiction versus Mundane Culture at Gresham College." Talk is sort of pop analysis of geeky entertainment. Lots of annecdotal evidence but interesting ideas anyway.PermalinkCommentsgeek history neal-stephenson scifi fiction literature culture video

Unbreakable Fighting Umbrella Splits Watermelons, Defends Presidents | Gadget Lab from Wired.com

2008 Jul 14, 2:15"The entourage of the Philippine president, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, has an unusual secret weapon. Her security team defends the head of the government with umbrellas. Not ordinary umbrellas, but unbreakable fighting umbrellas."PermalinkCommentshumor video weapon security umbrella

YouTube - Resonantie

2008 Jul 12, 12:33Rice on a speaker makes interesting patterns based on the tone played. Like the cornstarch subwoofer video earlier.PermalinkCommentsrice video youtube sound science via:swannman

TESLAKITE free MP3s

2008 Jul 11, 1:39Some tracks from Paranoia Agent released by the composer Susumu Hirasawa. That series freaked the hell out of me.PermalinkCommentsanime music mp3 paranoia-agent susumu-hirasawa

Pirate Bay wants total network encryption, but does anyone else?

2008 Jul 10, 4:44More on IPETEE w/ some of the politics and commentary. "The Pirate Bay has ambitious plans to bring end-to-end encryption to all network activity..."PermalinkCommentsarticle encryption privacy security ip cryptography

Technical Proposal (IPETEE) - TFR Wiki

2008 Jul 10, 4:43"The goal is to implement IP-transport encryption in a way that is transparent both to the IP-layer (including nodes in the network path) and to the applications that benefit from the encryption." Seems like a good idea to me.PermalinkCommentscryptography encryption internet privacy security ip wiki

Divination - A New Perspective - JSTOR: American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 59, No. 1 (Feb., 1957 ), pp. 69-74

2008 Jul 9, 5:37Moore proposes magical divination fills function of generating random outcomes. E.g. shaman reading cracks in caribou bones determines where to hunt avoiding over hunting particular areas or the game picking up hunters patterns. Wish this wasn't pay site.PermalinkCommentsrandom game-theory anthropology divination magic

Earplug Alarm Clock

2008 Jul 9, 1:37

Dirt PileIn my previous home, just after I moved in, my neighbor which was the city of Redmond's various city government buildings, decided to build a parking structure. This was maybe 30 feet from my window, lasted for at least a year and would regularly wake me up at seven or eight in the morning. Determined to not be so punctual for work, I got earplugs which meant in addition to not hearing the construction outside, I couldn't hear my alarm. I had an idea for a combination ear plug, headphone, alarm clock that I never did anything with, except to write down the phrase "earplug / headphone / alarm clock" on a list that I just now found. In retrospect, I think this problem might be too specific to result in my earplug alarm clock selling well.

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YouTube - Stars & Stripes FOREVER! (Muppets Variation)

2008 Jul 9, 10:11"I, Sam the Eagle, present a musical salute to America." Seems appropriate for Colbert Report.PermalinkCommentsvia:kris.kowal humor muppets video youtube parody
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