On April 27, the US Department of Justice indighted the founders of e-gold for
one count of conspiracy to launder monetary instruments, one count of conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business, one count of operating an unlicensed money transmitting business under federal law and one count of money transmission without a license under […]
According to ABC, the CIA and Dick Cheney have been secretly supporting Jundullah (”Soldiers of God”), a Al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist organization that claims to have killed hundreds of people in Eastern Iran over the past few years. For example, they blew up an army bus on February 14. According to ABC, America has been providing […]
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So, a certain Sergei Lunin decided to demonstrate his Illustrator skills. So he drew some apples. By hand. With pure vector graphics. Proof here.
I am awed, astounded, speechless. The dude is a vector god.
When I had found out about Lisp and started reading Paul Graham’s book, I had a series of bizarre dreams, including a nightmare where my mind was a buggy Lisp program that needed to modify its own syntax tree in order for me to wake up. At the time I thought I was going crazy. […]
Cartoon Network places LED boards with ATHF characters in various cities around the country, as part of a marketing campaign. Some crazy paranoid Bostonian thinks the blinking ad might be a ter’rist threat and calls the cops. So the bomb squad comes in and defuses the blinking lights, while the internets laugh. At this point, […]
A bit of background: 2channel is a massive, extremely popular Japanese text-only forum which (like the karehas and imageboards it inspired) encourages anonymous contributors. Naturally, many of those contributors are total fuckwads. Thus, Nishimura Hiroyuki, owner and operator of 2channel, has been targeted by a number of lawsuits. For example, hiroyuki was sued by Debito […]
First, an interesting article from the Telegraph, dating from back in May, which I’ve only read recently. Apparently, the United States had ordered some $400 million of weapons and ammunition from Russia (!) to equip Hamid Karzai’s army:
Pentagon chiefs have asked arms suppliers for a quote on a vast amount of ordnance, including more than […]
Therefore, stop whatever you are doing right now and watch this beautifully abstract zombie invasion video. It will do your mind good.
(found via Federico Mena-Quintero)
This weekend I’ve been looking at cars, trying to find something to replace my stolen Acura without breaking the bank. Frankly, it’s not encouraging. The cars that I like are a bit too expensive; and the cars that I find affordable are, well… hard to like. Consider a 1998 Saturn for $1900 which I looked […]
The BBC just did a survey on global attitudes to the use of torture.
country
No torture:
Some torture is OK:
USA
58%
36%
Britain
72%
24%
Russia
43%
37%
I thought that we had all concluded that torture was a fundamental evil back in the 18th century, right around the time we invented human rights and modern science. Yet here in the 2006, in the […]
One of my professors is from Greece. Unfortunately, it seems that over the thousands of years since the Greek alphabet was invented, the version of the Greek glyphs used by Greek-speaking Greeks has diverged quite a bit from the version inherited by LaTeX-speaking mathematicians. Thus, when a Greek-speaker writes on the board about a mathematical […]
Tonight, I drove over to my friend’s house for a party, and parked on a nice (well, as nice as it gets around the University) residential street right under a streetlight. Six hours later, I come out find that the car is gone. So I call the local non-emergency police line. They inform me that […]
Jeremiah Grossman has posted a fascinating demonstration for how a website could find out which other websites a particular visitor has viewed. (If you don’t see it: look at “I know where you’ve been” section on the sidebar. Recognize any pages you’ve visited recently?)
The way it works is brilliantly simple. Suppose you want to check […]
The police and the media are claiming that twenty-odd people in the UK were involved in a plot to smuggle household chemicals onto airplanes, mix them in the lavatory to produce triacetone triperoxide (TATP), and blow up the planes over the Atlantic. Well, an article in The Register blows (ha!) that theory out of the […]
The British police arrested 21 people for a plot to blow up ten UK->US flights with liquid explosives. (Naturally, paranoid airport security have now banned nearly all carry-on luggage. Next time a terror plot is discovered, I imagine they will start requiring all passengers to stip naked and get a full cavity search.)
In any case, […]
These events transpired two months ago, but I only heard of them today.
On May 13, 2006, Josh Kelly and Llara Brook — a young white couple from Virginia — went to see the Orioles play in Baltimore. On the way back, they got lost (I don’t blame them, the city has a rather insane street […]
It’s funny because it’s true.
There are a number of reasons for my eschewal of the reading or writing of blogs.
The first reason is the content, or absence thereof. There is a tendency among blog writers to write when it amuses them to write, not when they have anything to say.
–from Taylor Campbell’s blog
The Supreme Court has ruled that the Guantanamo Bay military tribunals are unconstitutional. Interestingly, the court decided that even though the military commissions violated the Geneva Conventions and the US Code of Military Justice, they were not illegal per se; what was illegal was the fact that Bush set them up by executive order, without […]