The GNUpg announce list just sent me a microsoft email worm. It claimed to be From: the author of GnuPG, and so slipped right through. If even the GnuPG people think it’s a good idea to use From: for authentication purposes, we are truly fucked. Update: A message to the GnuPG Announce list about the…
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Lassy Mogs
Google knows nothing about lassy mogs. Hopefully this entry will fix that. In an earlier era in Atlantic Canada, the “lassy mog” was a classic home-baked treat. Its charming name is derived from the local dialect for the region’s widely used sweetener, molasses (“lassy”) and a small, low-rising cake (“mog”). So there you go. I’m…
Build your own fucking balancing scooter Also, by now, everyone’s heard of the segway recall. But a similar flaw lurks in a far more popular vehicle. Update, October 28: How to render the Segway Human Transporter obsolete
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More from Juergen: […] The first race was won by Mr. Meryl Hogg of Kenna. Mr. Hogg developed a bicycle of great height. He reasoned that this would give him an advantage in going over the mountain since he would already be at a greater elevation any other participant. While his reasoning was faulty, his…
Cranking up Mount Rainer
On June 6th, 1998, Pete Rieke set out to become the first parapalegic to climb Washington’s Mt. Rainier. Here’s his personal account. More here. I woke with a start to the sound of voices and the clank of mountaineering gear. It was the crew coming up from the low camp. “Wreatha, get up.” I said,…
Tycho Brahe on the RIAA
From the latest Penny Arcade news page, re: the RIAA prosecuting individual file sharers: […] It was their activities under Hilary Rosen that truly unleashed Peer to Peer file sharing to begin with, with a barrage of legal attacks that amounted to the most fabulous PR campaign ever. I said at the time that if…
rgb came across Limeric math (sic) yesterday. Some of the other stuff on the guy’s ‘fun’ page looks interesting too. A dozen, a gross, and a score, plus three times the square of root four, divided by seven, plus five times eleven, equals nine squared and no more!
WTF?!?
Juergen found this today: Big Wheels in Canadian Cycling posed for this 1898 photo before pedaling themselves and their gargantuan trike to the next town. It literally took six men and a boy to propel the contraption, whose rear wheels measured 14 feet in diameter. In wet weather, it was reported, the trike was a…
w00t, I haxx0red 10.2.2.2!
If you haven’t seen the new matrix movie, don’t bother with theatres. Grab the DivX ;-) and skip all the boring philosophical crap, etc. Human Powered Matrix So when saving the keymaker, wouldn’t they have been better off driving a Greenspeed trike instead of that odd looking station wagon? Trinity and Morpheus are at least…