Various amusing or interesting topics, or things that shock and appall me. Kind of a miscellaneous bin.
Wow, this is a blast from the past — a worm that overwrites the Master Boot Record (MBR) of the hard drive. I haven’t seen one of those since the early nineties. But believe it or not, that’s not really destructive… just fdisk /mbr to rebuild the MBR, and unless the worm has done a …
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Or, to translate from the very British terminology: companies using Windows are planning to upgrade to Windows 7 before the first service pack. Of course, that’s hardly news to us in the hard-core tech-geek community, because we see Windows 7 as nothing more than a large (and very much needed) service pack for Windows Vista …
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I guess every cloud really does have a silver lining.
If you’ve ever read (or even just heard about) an Erich von Daniken book, this will sound awfully familiar. 😉
An interesting glimpse into the many and varied defenses of the plant kingdom.
Even if I didn’t hate the little bloodsuckers, I’d want one of these. C-square, you might suggest it to your wife too, as a guaranteed way to get your fireplace going… 😉
There’s nothing controversial about it at all. Sure, it’s tacky and probably insensitive… but it’s also probably true. 🙂 And I say this as a guy who is carrying a little more weight than he probably should be. This is one case that the market will solve: people who are offended by the sign won’t …
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As “antimatter-driven hypernovae.” Quite interesting, in a science-geek kind of way, but when I first clicked on that title, I was expecting to read something about Prince or Cher dying in a novel manner. 😉
At least a dog is likely to listen, or look like he’s listening. Cats, children, and non-scientist adults (unless you’re paying them) aren’t likely to even pretend interest.
Some of them are truly interesting, some of them less so. But it’s worth a quick look.