Various amusing or interesting topics, or things that shock and appall me. Kind of a miscellaneous bin.
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 …
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 …
I think I’m going to start a new organization, People for the Ethical Treatment of Humans (PETH). It’s obviously needed.
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 …
The jungle is getting ever more dangerous. If you’re not using Firefox with NoScript, I’d highly recommend that you start doing so NOW!
Those who think that cleanliness is next to Godliness — and don’t care how dangerous it is — might try this method for cleaning their computer keyboards.
…plaster walls aren’t the same thing as drywall.
“Konami to sell skin care software for Nintendo DS”??!
That has to be embarrassing.
This is an interesting article. As I understand it, the Theory of Relativity says nothing about which way time has to flow — the equations work in either direction. And I believe I recall that it was the legendary Dr. Richard Feynman who suggested that quantum entanglement might be due to temporal hanky-panky (though I …
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