“Got allergies? Tiny discovery nothing to sneeze at”
This is the kind of science-fiction-like technology that I love hearing about! I don’t suffer from allergies much, but GoddessJ does, several times a year. This should make her very happy.
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Amusing Spam
The latest roundup of accidentally-humorous spam messages. There’s one here with the subject line of “Aniston Likes the Sound of Singing Inmates”. If “Aniston” is the name of the spammer, he (?) had better like it a lot, because this stuff is good for a long stay behind bars. Maybe he can start a chorus… …
Two Getaway Plans That Didn’t
I love it… two would-be carjackers who tried to steal a manual-transmission car, but had no idea even how to start one, and a pair of would-be bank robbers who planned to float away down a river in innertubes — one of which had a hole in it.
Encrypted File Systems, Part 5
As described earlier, I’ve been trying to come up with a way to make the automatically-mounted TrueCrypt-encrypted home directory, on my Ubuntu Linux machine, also automatically unmount when I log off. I’ve finally done so, and I’ve learned some fascinating things about Linux in the process.
“Titanic Lamp”
This is rather sick. Very amusing, but sick nonetheless.
The Battle of Endor — as a Hallowe’en costume
I’ve always enjoyed creating my own elaborate Hallowe’en costumes, the more high-tech-looking the better. But this guy has me beat by a mile.
Biometric Door Locks
We’ve had an older (and non-biometric) version of this for several years now — one with a numeric keypad instead of a fingerprint scanner. I saw it in action at an acquaintance’s house, and geek that I am, installed one on our own door soon thereafter. It’s quite useful, and if the batteries ever do …
Confirmed: APC tracks e-mails
It should come as no surprise, but APC, the manufacturers of the uninterruptable power supplies that I use, has just confirmed that they track their e-mailed newsletters. The message at the top of the one I got today was: Hi HEADGEEK, we noticed that you haven’t opened our PowerNews e-mail newsletter in 6 months. PowerNews …
Armour Plated Sturgeon Could Send You to the Surgeon
I think I’m going to start a new organization, People for the Ethical Treatment of Humans (PETH). It’s obviously needed.
The WebOS
Anyone who studies Microsoft quickly figures out that it’s collective corporate personality is paranoid. Anything that even might be competition someday is either bought up or crushed mercilessly. It didn’t make sense to me at the time, but that’s how it viewed the Internet at first, and why it moved to kill off Netscape. It …