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Archive of posts filed under the Amusing/Interesting/Appalling category.
“Think Twice About What ‘Everybody Knows’”
I found some of this stuff to be shocking. It’s worth a read.
“WPA Cracker cracks WiFi passwords in the cloud”
I can’t believe that someone had the gall to do this. My systems are safe enough, because I use long random strings that I’ve been able to memorize, but most of the WiFi networks of my friends and associates — the ones I’ve been given the passwords for — would fall to it quickly. I [...]
“Google, boffins crack Rubik’s Cube mystery”
The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything may be 42, but it seems that the ultimate answer to how many moves (at most) it would take for an omniscient being to solve the Rubik’s Cube is much lower. (No omniscient beings were harmed in the calculation of that answer.)
“The Kobold Wizard’s Dildo of Enlightenment +2″
This book sounds hilarious. I’ve always been a sucker for fiction mixing the physical world with a fantasy world. Things like Joel Rosenberg’s Guardians of the Flame series, in which a group of D&D players are transported to what they thought was their fantasy world by their professor-slash-Dungeon-Master, who turns out to be a wizard [...]
“Lurid brain-buckets protect your noggin in style”
I don’t ride a motorcycle, but if I did, I’d want one of these helmets. I can’t even pick a favorite, they’re all amusing.
“10 Funny Programming Cartoons”
Well, it’s not quite like this… but there’s an uncomfortably high amount of truth there too.
“Gauntlet of Death”
When Scott Adams is on his game, he’s really on his game. This one is comic gold.
“UK ICT classes killing kids’ interest in tech”
Here’s the first paragraph: The Royal Society is to investigate why British schools are failing to interest children in information technology – and why numbers taking classes are falling so fast. Well, duh! There are two main reasons for this. The second one is that the dot-com era turned into a dot-bomb — you can [...]
“Female Adult Home Entertainment Units Turned into Dueling Weaponry”
(Warning: slightly NSFW.) Ah, so that’s what they’re for! I’ve wondered since I first heard about them, as they’re too big for the normally understood use of such things, unless you were planning to use them on a horse. And if you know otherwise, I do not want to know about it. I have to [...]