Check out both of the links here. Fascinating and disquieting at the same time. I always knew that locks were only a nuisance to professional lockpickers, but I didn’t realize just how easy it was to learn to pick them… or how quickly even the best locks can be beaten.
Archive of entries posted on July 2009
“Chaps: Give up, you’ll never understand women”
GoddessJ claims at times that she can’t understand me. I’ve always said that I’m very easy to understand. This article suggests that I’ve got the upper hand in that argument.
“Oceans charge up new theory of magnetism”
Interesting idea… I haven’t seen the math (and probably wouldn’t understand it if I did), but there’s some merit to the concept. (It was originally misreported as the oceans causing the Earth’s magnetic field, but this paper only suggests that they affect it.) (Via BoingBoing)
“iPhone app lets you squash Wall Streeters”
I’m betting that this game will do very well. At 99 cents, I’m considering buying a copy myself.
“When I’m dead, how will my loved ones break my password?”
It’s definitely something to consider. I have a lot of digital information that GoddessJ will need access to if I get run over by a beer truck, if only to let my friends and associates know about my demise, but I don’t want to put her in an uncomfortable potential legal position by giving my [...]
A CD Savior
Several years ago, before GoddessJ got the MP3 religion, she always carried huge “books” of CDs around with her when we went on long car trips — until on one trip she lost a case containing a dozen or so of her all-time favorite CDs, and realized that she’d never given those CDs to me [...]
“13 year old kid reviews a 30 year old Sony Walkman”
Kids these days…
Online Journalism: Now Vs. Then
An amusing graphic comparing styles of online journalism today against those of a few years ago.
“Microsoft bribes Oz to ditch Firefox”
Getting kind of desperate, Microsoft?
“Who moved my ‘Delete’ key? Lenovo did. Here’s why.”
Interesting… I’d heard the story of the QWERTY keyboard arrangement before, but I didn’t realize that it was developed in the 1800s. I fully support experimenting with the keyboard layout. I’d gladly adopt a different keyboard — but only if I could be sure that it would be available on all the systems I need [...]