Archive for June, 2007

atv updates

So today, my day off, I end up doing nothing I wanted to do. The morning started with the freakshow of the new AppleTV updates to enable YouTube viewing and a couple other things. That's cool… let's check out what the web has to say before swallowing the pill. Well, the web [...]

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How lucky do you feel?

I've commented on this in the past about global warming and climate change and I've always fallen in the camp that when it comes to uncertainty about a negative fate of our race and our planet, that you have to err on the side of caution and take steps to avoid it, even it means [...]

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Hack the vote in 60 seconds

These voting machines are from the Netherlands and have been used throughout Europe with some speculation as to security concerns and potential fraud. Ireland being one of the chief purchasers of them and were used on a pilot basis in two elections in some areas in 2002, however they have yet to use them [...]

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One thumb to rule them all

Frankly, this blew my mind. This guy was born with spinal muscular atrophy in 1980 and all he can move is his thumb… barely. However, with that, some software and a clever input device, he can write papers, use the computer and play games, including WoW. The following video shows him doing [...]

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Quickies

Ok, gotta clear the tabs because I'm going to lose them by trying out Safari 3, so here's a bunch that I've been saving/debating posting.
Rush Snakes & Arrows Exclusive
Ok, this has been sitting here a while. Some radio station somewhere scored some interview time with Rush, video taped it and put it on the [...]

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antenna!

Ok, so I finished typing up that last entry and decided maybe I should bring in the antenna out my window so I can mount it up on the board that'll hold the air conditioner that I really need to get into the window any day now since it's already so humid, and what do [...]

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exif

Well, knock off another “I'll get around to it” project. On all the galleries there exists an exif tag for showing the real stats of the image as taken by the camera at the time of shooting. It's supposed to only show for those images that actually have real data, but apparently they [...]

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