Russ Key is the most useful Firefox extension ever. If your Cyrillic typing skills are lacking, your keyboard is only labeled in Latin, and your friends are making fun of you for attempting to type Russian (incomprehensibly) in the Latin alphabet, this is the extension for you. Right click on an input field, select Russ […]
If Hannibal is right, US leaders want to destroy the Supreme Court’s power of judicial review; the short-term effect being political and/or financial gain for the fuckers currently in office, and probable long-term effect being the demolition of the system of checks and balances, and of the edifice of US democracy that is built on […]
HOLY COW I’M TOTALLY GOING SO FAST OH F***
Damn these fools, they are making the rest of us gentoo users look even less sane than we really are…
How to make fake fingerprints and how to compress fingerprint images efficiently. (via comments on boinboing)
Brief guide to creating horizontal menus using CSS, along with links to more detailed explanations — quite useful.
A point-by-point comparison of various version control systems (both open-source and commercial ones). Predictably, VSS is by far the worst.
Is this the real […]
It is a well-known fact that the adverse health effects of radioactivity were not well-known until the 1930’s, which led to the deaths of a number of scientists who pioneered radiation research. However, I did not realize that in the 1920’s radiation was actually considered good for your health. It seems incredible, from the modern […]
Due to my impending loss of broadband, moved the site from my own machine to a unixshell# virtual server. Kids, I have one thing to say: unixshell# is good. If you want a server with root access, you won’t find better prices. Plus, it’s fast — faster than the 667 MHz machine I was using […]
These are tentacles.
This totally sucks. The ol’ nvidia card is stable as a rock for a year, and then suddenly — well, read the thread for yourself.
These are damn good prices (that’s root access you are looking at).
These are very good developments — arch + git = dooom of bitkeeper.
Verity Stob could have been writing about some of the machines in my life… Although I disagree with her in one thing: even after years of use, Linux installs tend to be more-or-less cruft-free.
The internets make us stupid. Looks like /. is not without a sense of irony…
Sen. Santorum is clearly aiming to have an […]
In Ichi the Killer, there is a disturbing scene (one of the many, many disturbing scenes in the movie) where a yakuza is tortured by his rivals by being suspended with fishing hooks passed through the skin on his back. It looked fairly painful; so I was surprised to learn that there are people who […]
Found a fascinating account (via a /. comment) of doctored police video evidence used in the trials of those arrested during the Republican National Convention in New York. Basically, an innocent man gets caught up in the demonstration. He asks a cop for a way out of the riot zone — and the cop arrests […]
The MPAA anti-piracy goons are thoroughly incompetent (and lying bastards, and not above abusing an academic network for non-academic packet sniffing) — but we knew that already, right? Perhaps the **AA’s deserve to have a slime-mold beetle or two named in their honor: Cornell researchers have already named a few species after the crew of […]
Read an interesting take on a possible mechanism for how low-intensity microwave radiation (e.g. cell phones) could lead to DNA damage. The /. discussion is here. Basic summary:
absorbing microwaves could make a large organic molecule change to a different spatial structure or stereoisomer;
absorbing microwaves affects rates of reactions catalyzed by enzymes and metal atoms, […]
Undoubtedly due to the ever-increasing fraction of otaku and other japanophiles in the general US population, in popular culture katanas have now acquired the status of the ultimate cold-steel weapon. (See Kill Bill for concrete examples.) Claims of the katana’s superiority naturally draw the righteous anger of fans of other swords. For example, consider this […]
‘Schwartzian Transform’ — for efficiently and functionally sorting lists in Perl.
Linode — uses UML to offer cheap shared Linux hosting with root access. If I had $20 extra per month, I would take it.
GPL — the general porn license?
Interesting explanation for why a hobbit archer would make an excellent hunter but lousy soldier (aka why […]
Suppose you need a credit card to purchase services from a sketchy company in a sketchy country; you are afraid that the charges will exceed the stated rates by a couple orders of magnitude. Some banks allow you to create “virtual credit cards” with a hard credit ceiling. Mine doesn’t. Solution? Use something like XROST […]
Linux hardware incompatibility list. Looks rather poorly populated.
Tips and code for getting laptops (e.g. Thinkpads, HP’s etc) to recognize non-approved wireless miniPCI cards (apparently laptop manufacturers restrict the models you can use so as to meet FCC requirements for the combined internal antenna / miniPCI card / laptop assembly).
Most insightful /. post ever.
Hunter S. Thompson, great journalist, world-class consumer of recreational chemicals, and a man who was almost elected a county sherriff in 1970, shot himself today. Maybe the drugs had something to do with it. He will be survived by his books, by his columns, and by surreal accounts of his escapades. For instance, here […]
Apparently, in the 70’s and 80’s, a children’s show called Rainbow ran on British TV. A helpful individual put up the script (and a reasonably crappy flash video/audio) of one of the episodes. It is quite possibly the most suggestive piece of children’s programming I have ever heard. Choice dialogue:
Rod: “We could hear you all […]
Today I discovered Pure Pwnage — a collection of comedy videos about a pro gamer and his disfunctional relationship with reality. The acting is flawless. The dialogue is hilarious:
Y’know it might be cool when I’m like real old and stuff.. like 30 or something.. maybe I’ll like think about having little nooblets of […]
On February 4, 2005, a serial burglar called Ben Parks broke into a Cambridge (UK) apartment. Unfortunately for Ben Parks, the apartment belonged to Duncan Grisby — a programmer who had set up a webcam with a motion detector (I am pleased to say he was using Linux and the open-source project Motion), and had […]