The PocketMod is a new way to keep yourself organized. Lets face it, PDAs are too expensive and cumbersome, and organizers are bulky and hard to carry around. Nothing beats a folded up piece of paper. That is until now. With the PocketMod, you can carry around the days notes, keep them organized in any way you wish.
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Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Sunday, May 28, 2006
"Fantastic Four" - video from "youtube'
"Fantastic Four" music video. Ben aka "The Thing" is having a bad day. Set to Tait's "All You Got"
The Prisoners' Dilemma and Trust
The Prisoners' Dilemma was extensively studied as a model of first strike nuclear ballistic missile strategy. In it, two prisoners are held separately, and both are offered the following deal, `If neither of you confess, you shall both go free. If both of you confess, you will both receive long sentences. If only one of you confesses, that one will receive a short sentence, but the other will receive a doubley long one.'
The thing is, unless I can be certain that you won't confess, the best thing I can do is to confess, and settle for a short or long sentence, but avoiding the doubley long one. You feel the same way. So unless we are both certain (remember the old packer `certainty'), which we cannot be, we both end up with long sentences where we could have got off with none at all.
This result was depressing during the Cold War, when considerable strategic advantage could be gained from a first strike. While the game theorists insisted that a double launch was inevitable, the human race, faced with utter destruction, was able to behave rationally and avoid any kind of nuclear exchange at all, let alone the Spasm predicted by game theory.
P.S - This was taken from www.reciprocality.org/
For any person wishing to carry a mapper's strengths into the workplace, the life and work of the physicist Richard Feynman is worth studying. He told stories. The Spencers' Warbler was a bird identified for him by his father. The name was made up. His father then made up names for the bird in many other languages, and pointed out that young Feynman knew no more than when he started. Rote-learning names of things means nothing. Only looking at what the bird itself is doing tells one anything about it.
He was utterly honest and saw through artificial complexity by always insisting on simplicity and facts. See his personal version of The Challenger Report, contained in his book What Do You Care What Other People Think?.
He used simple, humorous, curious language, filled with little pictures and enthusiasm. His techniques for puncturing pomposity were unrestrained.
His Lectures on Computation have recently been published, and are worth reading, as is everything he ever published, from Six Easy Pieces, to the Red Book Lectures. James Gleik's Genius and the Gribben's Richard Feynman are rewarding biographies.
Get hold of his stuff and read it.
p.s- this article was taken from www.reciprocality.org
Hide In Picture
Hide In Picture (HIP) is a steganography program. It is a program that allows you to "hide" any kind of file inside standard bitmap pictures. The pictures look like normal images, so people will not suspect they contain hidden data.
You can use a password to hide your files, and only those who know the password use are able to retrieve them - without it, people cannot even be sure there is something hidden in the image.
You could use a normal cryptography program to protect secret data from other people. But then, even if they are not able to read it, they will be able to see you are hiding something. With HIP, you can hide your secret data inside an innocent family photograph (which you can then send to other people who know the password) or even your desktop wallpaper, which nobody will ever suspect of.
Saturday, May 27, 2006
15,000 layer Photoshop file.
Bert Monroy released his latest Photoshop painting this week after 11 months of work with an estimated 2,000 hours. The attention to detail is amazing in this 10 foot wide poster.
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Things You Didn't Know About Your Body
Some interesting facts about the human body. Some you may know, others probably not, but there's plenty of really good tips here. For example: "Starting 48 hours before your next long flight, take a baby aspirin each day. It'll thin your blood just enough to prevent clots from forming in your legs" A good read...
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Friday, May 26, 2006
A Camera You Can Download
The Linatree Pinhole is a downloadable PDF camera that you cut out and assemble yourself. Use it with photo paper, film or any other light-sensitive surface. Pinholes are pretty fickle, but they can produce amazing images when used correctly — and with patience. There are several online communities where you can share your pinhole creations, such as Pinholeday and Pinhole.org. There is also, of course, a pinhole Flickr cluster.
Thursday, May 25, 2006
If I'm not doing anything wrong, then you have no cause to watch me.
Watch someone long enough, and you'll find something to arrest -- or just blackmail -- with.
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Flickr group: Soviet Union Propaganda
an extensive collection (25 pages) of Soviet Union propaganda and advertisement posters from 1917 to 1991. Flickr, once again, turns out to be an interesting resource.
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Repairing Windows XP in Eight Commands
Article describing how to repair Windows XP when your PC is inaccessible from the standard boot procedures, and you have to use the recovery console as your last resort!
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Protecting yourself against the BitTorrent bandits!
Anti-P2P organizations are actively polluting P2P networks with fake peers, sending out fake or corrupt data in order to waste bandwidth and slow down file transfers. At its worst, when downloading copyrighted torrents as much as a fourth of the peers can be attributed to various Anti-P2P agencies. There is also a much more serious side to this...
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Voyager 2 Detects Odd Shape of Solar System's Edge
Voyager 2 could pass beyond the outermost layer of our solar system, called the "termination shock," sometime within the next year, NASA scientists announced at a media teleconference.
The milestone, which comes about a year after Voyager 1's crossing, comes earlier than expected and suggests to scientists that the edge of the shock is about one billion miles closer to the Sun in the southern region of the solar system than in the north.
This implies that the heliosphere, a spherical bubble of charged low-energy particles created by our Sun's solar wind, is irregularly shaped, bulging in the northern hemisphere and pressed inward in the south.
Scientists determined that Voyager 1 was approaching the termination shock when it began detecting charged particles that were being pushed back toward the Sun by charged particles coming from outside our solar system. This occurred when Voyager 1 was about 85 AU from the Sun.
One AU is the distance between the Earth and the Sun, or 93 million miles.
In contrast, Voyager 2 began detecting returning particles while only 76 AU from the Sun.
"This tells us that the shock down where Voyager 2 is must be closer the sun than where Voyager 1 is," said Ed Stone, Voyager project scientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
The researchers think that the heliosphere's asymmetry might be due to a weak interstellar magnetic field pressing inward on the southern hemisphere.
"The [magnetic] field is only 1/100,000 of the field on the Earth's surface, but it's over such a large area and pushing on such a faint gas that it can actually push the shock about a billion miles in," Stone explained.
Both Voyager spacecrafts were launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida: Voyager 2 headed out on Aug. 20, 1977, Voyager 1 on Sept. 5, 1977.
Currently, Voyager 1 is about 9.1 billion miles from the Sun and traveling at a speed of 3.6 A U per year while Voyager 2 is about 7.3 billion miles away and moving at about 3.3 AU per year.
Teenager repellent
This has not been applied to annoying cell phone ringtones yet, but there may be something here.
Mosquito is a teenager repellent - an ultrasonic device that emits a sound only audible to teenagers. It's targeted to business seeking a solution to anti social youths hanging in front of their stores fronts and driving their customers away.
The box is installed in front of a store and emits an unbearable sound, only discernable to those under 20! driving them away.
Apparently, the company has sold thousands of models in the UK, to the complete delight of it's inventor, Howard Stapleton.
In their own words:
It seems that there is a very real medical phenomenon known as presbycusis or age related hearing loss which, according to The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, "begins after the age of 20 but is usually significant only in persons over 65". It first affects the highest frequencies (18 to 20 kHz) notably in those who have turned 20 years of age". It is possible to generate a high frequency sound that is audible only to teenagers.
101 of the Top Free Software Utilities to use
Here is a list of the 101 top free utilities to use sorted by category-u can also sort them alphabetically
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14 year old kid becomes millionaire through online scamming
Akin is, like many things in cyberspace, an alias. In real life he's 14. He wears Adidas sneakers, a Rolex Submariner watch, and a kilo of gold around his neck.
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The Curious Incident of Sun in the Night-Time
Richard Stallman blasts the recent Sun PR move which makes Java available for inclusion on \"open source platforms,\" claiming that it is a deceptive and self-serving move which makes Java neither free software nor open source.
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Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Today's proverb
"Quis custodiet custodes ipsos? "
it means : - Who watches the watchers?
think about it.
it means : - Who watches the watchers?
think about it.
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