That’s Microsoft, allright…
 by in Belegana, Conspiracies, Interesting Links, Internet & Technology, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings |
Sickening stuff: How to Get Your Platform Accepted as a Standard – Microsoft Style
Next time somebody believes your usage of the dollar sign when typing “MS” is childish, re-direct those people to that article….
‘Nuff said…
The Art Of Noise feat. RAKIM
| by in Arts & Poetry, Interesting Links, Music |
Wow, under what stone have I been living?
As a young kid I bought almost all the Art Of Noise’s music. Likewise, Rakim (of Eric B and Rakim fame) has been an inspiration as well…
And I only just now discovered they once did a collaboration together… Sweet!
NG-BASIC is moving!
| by in General, Interesting Links, Software |
Hi there people!
Interesting times ahead for my pet project NG-BASIC!
After long deliberation I have decided to transfer the ownership; transfer the ownership to a new owner that is going to breathe fresh life into the project.
It shall be actively developed on — something which I can’t do anymore as I seem to be [...]
So, it wasn’t the caffeine after all…
| by in Health, Interesting Links |
For most of my (working) life, I have been an avid coffee-drinker almost since the day I first forced that cup down my throat out of politeness and, after a few cups thought that, “Hey that actually tastes & feels good.“.
Until, a few of months ago, my stomach started acting up on me after drinking [...]
MC Frontalot — Secrets From The Future
| by in Arts & Poetry, Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Interesting Links, Internet & Technology, Media, Religion & Politics, Music, Security & Privacy |
Hey again! Long time no post, I know…. busy, life, et cetera, but this I just needed to share.
I was just reading Bruce Schneier’s CRYPTO-GRAM and he linked to this suprisingly good track (direct link to MP3) by MC Frontalot, called Secrets From The Future (direct link to the lyrics).
To quote the chorus:
You can’t [...]
Everlast: Love War and The Ghost of Whitey Ford
| by in Arts & Poetry, Interesting Links, Music |
It’s been quiet for a long while … probably because I didn’t have anything to say or anything to vent… But I do so, now.
See, my girlfriend found the new site set up by Everlast (to spread the word about his new album, Love War and The Ghost of Whitey Ford, I assume) [...]
I’m a freak: I got calculi in my salivary glands
| by in Health, Interesting Links |
I have got calculi in my salivary glands and it sometimes acts up.
You know, if you had biology in school, there are 2 tiny little holes on the floor of your mouth, about where your tongue attaches, where your saliva comes into your mouth.
Basically, what happens is that sometimes — and this is [...]
Nice kit…
With the current iPhone hype it’s cool to see an open device like the Neo1973. There’s even an edition that includes a special screwdriver so you can really take that to the literal level.
“Know that it’s okay to call shit like it is and quit being cowards worrying about who we’ll offend”
| by in Interesting Links |
I just finished reading an article on guerrillafunk.com by Paris entitled “Are you a Hip-Hop apologist?”.
The Inuit and Christianity
I was watching a TV recording last night, in it they showed an old news-reel of Inuit celebrating Easter. I was immediately like “WTF” — Christian beliefs, way over there? I couldn’t believe it. Because I wouldn’t think Christians would’ve their balls frozen off trying to convert those folks. And second, because I would’ve thought [...]
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
A colleague and friend of mine whose name I won’t mention to protect the innocent, told me some stories about Sea Shepherd, an organisation whose mission statement it is to protect and conserve marine wild-life — and does this very actively by basically stalking and irritating the hell out of whale-hunters, et cetera.
A couple [...]
LMAO! Minister must explain how a guy, with Joker-style make-up job, got a passport an ID-card
My girlfriend just called me about this hilarious bit about a guy that had gotten a passport with his picture made while he looked like The Joker from the Batman series.
Apparently, after stating that ‘this was his way of life’, the municipal office didn’t see no problem with it, and issued a passport an ID-card.
This [...]
Linux distro timeline
I just discovered the linux distribution timeline.
Cool graph…
Online treatment for alcoholism
I just caught this news (Dutch) about on-line treatment for alcohol-addiction by some Dutch clinic that specialises in that type of thing.
This ‘treatment’ consists of 7 online chat-sessions with a professional.
Now, I can’t get this image out of my head:
i have a drinking problem
Come, come, elucidate your thoughts.
i drink too much
I’m not sure I understand [...]
To sit upright or to not sit upright…
| by in Health, Interesting Links |
In my profession, I have always sat behind a computer — I have never done any work that didn’t involve one.
People always noted my sitting position: I was either hanging backwards in my chair (hey the monitor is at eye-height then, too), or I’m sitting behind a desk at a slight angle (i.e. my [...]
I guess the truth really, really is inconvenient…
I have just caught this article here and it sickens me how, the ‘free world that the terrorist envy‘, is all run by money. I just hope some of the parents are wise enough to teach their kids, though… I mean, yeah, they’re American, but that doesn’t mean that they’re all morons, even a retard [...]
On the anti-smoking lobby and so-called ‘experts’
| by in Health, Interesting Links, Random Rantings |
I’m an person avidly against the anti-smoking lobby. It’s unfair.
I’ve always defended the position of the smoker, and have always doubted research into this field because, hell, cancer could just as well come from another source, not specifically second-hand smoke (it could be farts, or fuck, this is one of my latest gems: cancer could [...]
White-supremacist butt-fuckers messing wit’ MLK…
I just love this initiative to Googlebomb a white-supremacist website (found it while connecting*the*dots).
The content of the site really is sickening and vile. Of course, such a site should be taken down, but denial of service attacks are childish. And, everybody has a right to express themselves, even a white supremacist.
But… this isn’t expression… [...]
Forget the PS3 ! I want a Nedap voting machine
| by in Humour, Interesting Links |
It can play games too! I was just reading this relatively old dissection of these voting machines that coincidentally we will vote on in the upcoming elections.
It started with what we thought was a very obvious statement. We claimed on our website that
the Nedap was just another computer, and that as such it could just [...]
The lie detector and Wonder Woman…
| by in History, Interesting Links |
I learned some interesting facts this morning. Through this post on Slashdot I ended up on this page, on the release of the guys’ FBI files.
I didn’t know the creator of the first ‘lie detector’ and Wonder Woman were one and the same guy. And that, in 1938, William Moulton Marston once did some tests [...]
Recording an end-user’s movements on a website — copyright infringement?
This post on Slashdot got me thinking of something that I’ve been thinking about a couple of years ago.
Who says that websites aren’t already recording your movements?
I mean — earlier in this century I was thinking that, when you are a big corporation, and you have some ‘comments, complaints & suggestions‘ section on [...]
Bettie Serveert 15 year anniversary
| by in Arts & Poetry, Interesting Links, Music |
I just received an email from Fabchannel that they’re webcasting the 15 year anniversary concert of Bettie Serveert (Dutch band). I’m a long fan of Bettie Serveert — `Brain-Tag‘ in fact being my and my gf’s ‘song‘ (that’s some excellent guitar-playing).
But damn, my browser does not support Flash (well not the latest version anyways) and [...]
MythTV + MythStreams + lastFMProxy = fun too :)
Yesterday, one of my new colleagues pointed my attention to last.FM, an internet radio station. Well, there are plenty internet radio stations, but what sets this one apart from the rest is the fact that you can specify what songs you like, so that some kind of profile is created. I had already heard of [...]
Studying Latin..
| by in General, History, Interesting Links |
“Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur”
Over the recent years I’m having this increasing interest in history and the evolution of human knowledge, so to speak. The ancient Greek philosophers of course and stuff like etymology for instance quite interest me. It’s funny to see how words have evolved in different languages, coming from the same [...]
Analysis: Murder in the skies…
The Register runs a nice article analysis on the ‘foiled’ plane-bomb plan:
We’re told that the suspects were planning to use TATP, or triacetone triperoxide, a high explosive that supposedly can be made from common household chemicals unlikely to be caught by airport screeners. A little hair dye, drain cleaner, and paint thinner – all easily [...]
Sentiment…
| by in History, Interesting Links, Music |
When I was young I had this remix tape with Electro music on it. Lately, I tried searching for a couple of the songs on that tape. That once pointed me to this remix with a lot of old-school electro songs in it. (Incidentally, you might find the N.W.A. track Panic Zone quite funny to [...]
Firefox crop circle
| by in Interesting Links |
I just discovered this gallery of a Linux User Group creating crop-circles of the Firefox logo:
Pretty neat trick.
Firefox, Linux, Crop Circles
OMFG this is amazing
| by in Animals & Nature, Bunnies, Interesting Links |
Yesterday I discovered these two posts on CuteOverload: a real life Bambi and Thumper.
Amazing…
Animals, Bambi, Thumper, Rabbits, Deer
Dutch population-growth is slow this year
The Central Bureau of Statistics (Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek, CBS) reports that the Dutch population has barely grown: the last 6 months there was a mere increase of only 2.000 people, as opposed to 7.000 people in the same period, in the previous year.
Interestingly, the second quarter of 2006 only seen a decrease of [...]
Chomsky on Israel, Lebanon and Palestine…
After just reading a piece on morality, I incidentally discovered this Chomsky-interview published in the Middle East Online, in which he is asked whether the current actions by Israel are legally and morally justified…
The invasion itself is a serious breach of international law, and major war crimes are being committed as it proceeds. There is [...]
Why policing the police will be impossible…
| by in Interesting Links |
The already ongoing threat of video-surveillance being used against the public, rather than to serve it, is a very serious one.
People have said that, especially with an increase of (listening) camera’s in suburban areas, there’s all the more reason to keep the same ‘tabs’ on the police and the state: Watch Big Brother.
And because [...]
Web2DNA: Convert your website to a ‘DNA-like’ image.
| by in Arts & Poetry, Humour, Interesting Links, Software |
Through Sean’s site, I discovered this neat thingy that converts your websites’ HTML to a DNA-like sequence:
WEB2DNA will take you website, analyze it, crunch it to little bits and spit it out as a graphic representation of a human DNA.
The brightness of the lines is determined by the importance of the tags in terms of [...]
The Mythical Convergence Box
So, a Slashdot-post links to this article on the mythical convergence TV / PC that seems just that: a myth.
Obviously, the guy has never learned about MythTV: I got a PC running that in my living room — and it works like a charm.
The technology is already there, and peope are ready for it [...]
The irony: Windows broken before shipped…
| by in Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Humour, Interesting Links, Music Industry & DRM, Random Rantings, Security & Privacy |
So, while a Microsoft spokesman was trying to relay its wet-dream to listeners (i.e. was intellectually masturbating) on the security in Window Vista, a Polish female researcher was demonstrating how the ’security’ can be bypassed, thus resulting in exactly the same unsafe situation as with earlier Windows variants.
Real funny, that.
Safe computing is impossible if the [...]
BlackHat conference demoes US citizen-only targetting smart-bomb, triggered by RFID chip on their passport
| by in Freedom & Repression, Interesting Links, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings, Security & Privacy |
Just read that, at the BlackHat conference in Las Vegas, some folks demoed a bomb that will explode if an American passport is in its vicinity — a scenario not that hard to imagine.
Basically, RFID passports do not guarantee the safety and security they were invented for in the first place.
Now, I am not [...]
WordPress 2.0.4 security release available
If you haven’t already — please upgrade WordPress to version 2.0.4. According to the developers, over 50 bugs have been fixed and the issue with the ‘Anyone can register‘-thing has now been addressed.
Spread the Word, Press..
WordPress, Blogs, Vulnerability, Security
Engineering students to investigate whether the US gov’t themselves blew up the WTC
According to this article (Dutch), eight students of the TU Delft (Technical University in Delft) are going to investigate whether the US government blew up the World Trade Center in the 9/11 attacks.
Simply because the official answers to all the questions don’t seem to hold water. It has to be noted that the research shall [...]
Sysadmin Appreciation Day!
From sysadminday.com:
If you can read this, thank your sysadmin.
A sysadmin unpacked the server for this website from its box, installed an operating system, patched it for security, made sure the power and air conditioning was working in the server room, monitored it for stability, set up the software, and kept backups in case anything went [...]
OMFG!
Holy sh.., err, war!
Disproportionate death tolls indeed…
War, Iraq, Deaths
What really happened…. ?
Whatreallyhappened.com reports that, apparently it has been reported that the two Israeli soldiers were caught on Lebanon territory, as opposed to the Israeli statement that they have been captured in Israel…
Truth, Propaganda, War, Middle East
Nukes and Peace
| by in Interesting Links, Sad Stuff |
I just discovered this image through Sean Coon’s site.
Brilliant..
Writing in water!
| by in Interesting Links, Space & Beyond |
Researchers have discovered a way to write characters in water using waves.
Pretty amazing stuff.
WordPress users: Disable ‘Anyone can register‘!
Through Darknet I discovered that apparently a vulnerability has been found in WordPress that could allow evil people to do nasty stuff. Details remain vague though, but according to Dr Dave, one should disable the Anyone can register thingy in the Options of their weblog to prevent the vulnerability being exploited.
The details are kept vague [...]
Judge says teen doesn’t have to undergo chemo treatment (for now…)
In an interesting case in the US, AP reports about a judge concluding that a certain 16 year old kid (wanting alternative treatment) should not be forced to undergo chemo-treatment.
It sure as hell would be pretty insane if one cannot decide what’s to happen to ones own body. Isn’t that a persons’ own choice, just [...]
Blow-up doll for insecure female drivers
So some company is marketing a blow-up doll for women who are insecure about driving at night, alone. Apparently, the presence of what appears to other people as a real person, gives them enough security to drive around town.
Now, I wonder — do women over-estimate the blow-up dolls’ size, too?
However sexist the whole concept [...]
Verichip RFID clonable (thus totally unsafe), despite the company’s promises
I just heard from somebody that on HOPE, a presentation was given how easily the Verichip RFID chip implant can be cloned (thus identities stolen, people posing as other people getting easier because nowadays, somehow, everything must be digital or something.
Basically, the work is done by this device, called the proxmark3, that;
[it] can do almost [...]
Revealing how marihuana affects the brain
| by in Health, Interesting Links, Random Rantings, Visions |
OK so I was just reading this article right here telling about how scientists have developed a way to image cannabinoid receptors in the brain.
All fine and dandy — I see no problem there.
Until 1959, cannabis was available in pharmacies as medicine, under the name Extractum Cannabis Indicae. After that, cheaper, synthetic drugs appeared [...]
I really wonder what’s in US marihuana…
| by in Humour, Interesting Links |
I just discovered this news through ShaolinTiger: apparently, some guy broke into a tomb to cut off a bodies head in order to use it as a bong. WTF?!
Now I really wonder what they put in United States marihuana because, hell, I want some of that too!
Marihuana, Drugs, US, Funny
Silent Weapons For Quiet Wars
Don’t know if you ever read the document of that same title. If you haven’t, by all means do. Real or not, the document does give some interesting insight.
Any similarities with international money-tracking, under the guise of ’searching of terrorism’, must be purely coincidental.
War, Money, Society, Control
Programming the Cell Broadband Processor
A colleague just pointed me to this post linking to some articles on programming the Cell Broadband Processor (the technology that powers the Playstation 3). If you’re into that stuff you might want to check it out.
I also noted that, although Sony’s marketing machine is slowly being put into motion, there’s quite a bunch [...]
Wired: UFO-hacker tells what he found
I discovered through Darknet that Wired is running an article with an interview with Gary McKinnon, the guy that hacked NASA to find proof for the existance of UFO’s.
WN: Some say that you have given the UFO motivation for your hacking as a distraction from more nefarious activities.
McKinnon: I was looking before and after 9/11. [...]
‘Rabbit week’ at CuteOverload.com
| by in Animals & Nature, Bunnies, Interesting Links |
Don’t know if you noticed — let alone care — but the last week some Japanese rabbit store’s website is being featured on Cuteoverload because of its dangerously high content of cute. Well, the images of the rabbits anyways.
Today’s image is really cute (check the ears).
You might want to check the others out if [...]
An Open Letter To Hip-Hop About Some Real Important Shit
Just discovered Davey D’s Open Letter To Hip-Hop About Some Real Important Shit through Guerrillafunk.com, regarding net neutrality and how these possible changes will change your life and the lack of focus on this issue.
Anyway your next steps should you choose is to call your Senator’s office and tell them to stand up and protect [...]
The Iranian Badge Hoax
When this was still fresh, I knew this was all bullshit. Few message boards I frequent were discussing it and debunked it quite rapidly. Somebody at kuro5hin recently wrote an interesting piece about it, and here’s a link to the article:
The world reacted with shock and dismay last month to the news that Iranian Jews [...]
The security implications of this exceed those of Google Earth!
| by in Humour, Interesting Links |
So, I received this link from a colleague, explaining how one can build their own Airbus A380 airplane. (Well, a paper model of it, anyway.)
Me, with my nasty ways, couldn’t resist saying `So, where’s the foldable model of the Twin Towers to go with it?‘.
After further Googling I realised that, hell, the security implications [...]
Native Google Earth for Linux — beta, of course ;)
A colleague send me a link to this post telling there’s a (beta) Google Earth for Linux now!
Finally, no more tinkering with Wine, which doesn’t really enhance stability and stuff….
You can download it here.
Google Earth, Linux
The Bilderberg Group
| by in Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Interesting Links, Media, Religion & Politics, The Netherlands |
So I read on Prison Planet the stuff about the Bilderberg group meeting in Canada and perused the list of attendees.
Of course there are enough names on that list that raise questions and concerns.
In my opinion some noteworthy names as well. If you are paranoid, the following name explains a lot, mainly the fact that [...]
Windows Server more reliable than Linux?
LOL this (Dutch) is what you get if journalists simply repeat other peoples words and don’t do their own research. The article compares UNIX and Windows servers, and somewhere it says that ‘the reason for the longer downtime on Linux servers is caused by the lack of proper documentation.
Lack of proper documentation?
Ever compared Windows API [...]
Amnesty International: Irrepressible.info
You might already have heard about it — because of increasing Internet censorship, Amnesty International started the irrepressible.info site. I read about this site a few days ago, but today, after signing the pledge, I also found some time to include censored fragments in the header of this page. (Banners in my header are displayed [...]
The broken laptop Amir sold…
A colleague pointed me to this site about a guy that bought a laptop over the internet through eBay, finally received a broken laptop.
The fun thing is, although broken, the laptop contains a gem of personal information. Information that this new owner now has happily posted on the internet as a form of pay-back.
The seems [...]
La Coka Nostra
| by in Arts & Poetry, Interesting Links, Music |
I did wonder what the fuck happened to Everlast for some time, but last week, I discovered La Coka Nostra — the new group formed by Everlast, Danny Boy, DJ Lethal and some new talent.
Really can’t wait until their first CD is out — the tracks available in the MySpace player sound pretty promising.
Music, Rap, [...]
Nike ‘iPod’ sneakers?
The Register reports on Apple and Nike teaming up to create a new iPod accessory: a pair of sneakers that talk to your iPod.
I have serious doubts about the story though (the wireless dongle, the text-to-speech), will that work on a default, non-upgraded iPod?
Anyways, it’s interesting to note that now, not only people will pull [...]
The obvious flaw in Biometrics…
I just discovered this advisory on the Full-Disclosure mailing-list which warns for one of the many obvious flaws in those biometric authentication schemes that everybody wants to roll out, everywhere.
Yeah it’s funny.
And yeah — it’s oh-so true…
Biometrics, Vulnerability, Security
It’s official: The World suffers from War On Truth Terror
Amnesty International’s 2006 World Report is released today, RadioFreeEurope reports:
The war on terror has diverted the world’s interest and material resources from human rights emergencies, and caused “enormous damage” to the lives and livelihoods of the ordinary people, concludes the “Amnesty International Report 2006″ on “The State Of The World’s Human Rights,” released today in [...]
Let’s Bomb Iran (an anti-war song)
| by in Humour, Interesting Links |
I just discovered their funny animation on Google Video and hit the anti-war song site Let’s Bomb Iran and just wanted to share that.
Anti-War, Middle-East, Iran, Humour
The Berlin Wall & the Mexican Border Fence
Yeah the parallel is stunning.
You wonder — is it to keep people out… or in?
Immigrants, Fences, Walls, Prisons
Media attack on Charlie Sheen
| by in Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Interesting Links, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings |
Hmm interestingly the web attempted to close in on Charlie Sheen, but luckily it failed:
WTC survivor and truth activist William Rodriguez was contacted by the Anderson Cooper show and asked if he would go on record as saying the new Pentagon footage dispelled all 9/11 questions. They also requested that he attack Charlie Sheen’s public [...]
Interesting point regarding Flight 77…
I just finished reading this Alex Jones’ article and read this possible scenario, which could possibly be true:
The fact that they have again chosen to release grainy and foggy images which only lead to more speculation tell us two things.
1) The government truly is frightened to death of releasing any images which accurately depict what [...]
Old Commodore 64 game ‘De Sekte’
While reminiscing on some old Commodore 64 games (excellent reference site by the way), I noticed this 1985 game called De Sekte (tr. The Sect).
Of course, I couldn’t resist reading more information about the game and I noticed this screenshot:
You don’t have do understand Dutch to see who’s referred to in that screen-shot and [...]
Aha so that was in that letter! No wonder that it was surpressed in western media
I wondered earlier and now I found out… Kinda:
“September eleven was not a simple operation.”
“Could it be planned and executed without coordination with intelligence and security services – or their extensive infiltration? Of course this is just an educated guess.”
“Why have the various aspects of the attacks been kept secret? Why are we not told [...]
The world according to Chávez
I just discovered this article on the Guardian about Hugo Chávez. I saw some news on TV this morning about the US and some embargo because of Chávez’s ‘liberal’ stance towards Iran.
Sure why not? Why does everything has to be about conflict and war and shit? Honestly, the more I hear him talk, the [...]
It’s official: Ayaan Hirsi (Magan/Hoegin/Ali/WhatEverTheFuckHerNameIs) sucks the US presidents’ dick!
| by in Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Interesting Links, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings, The Netherlands |
Just reading right here that the two-timing, lying, double-crossing bitch we call Ayaan Hirsi Ali (but is actually called Ayaan Hirsi Magan) will work for the American Enterprise Institute.
Of course, I am not surprised; she’s been sucking up to the US world-wide globalisation policies for ages now; that has always been pretty damn clear to [...]
Noam Chomsky visits Hezbollah HQ
A post on the Enemyboard pointed me to this article about Noam Chomsky visiting the Hezbollah’s HQ (emphasis mine):
Noam Chomsky the famous US intellectual anti Israel and US foreign policies visits Hezbollah’s Headquarters and meets Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in the South suburb of Beirut which was once called by the former US Secretary George Shultz [...]
Who owns your PC and why ‘off’ should be ‘off’.
Just received Bruce Schneier’s latest Crypto-Gram which makes some interesting points.
One refers to this column by Bruce posted on Wired:
You own your computer, of course. You bought it. You paid for it. But how much control do you really have over what happens on your machine? Technically you might have bought the hardware and software, [...]
Diebold systems definitely flawed and vulnerable to fraud
I already read it last week, but still it’s interesting to note that BlackboxVoting has revealed how easy it is to exploit the Diebold voting machines to manipulate results:
[..] BlackBoxVoting.org – described a critical vulnerability in Diebold Election Systems’ touchscreen voting systems that could allow any person with access to a voting terminal the ability [...]
Paris & CSI: NY
Just read this article on the Guerrilla Funk site, which seems to send out a pretty positive signal:
In late 2004 Guerrilla Funk was approached by the creator of the CSI franchise, Anthony Zuiker. It turned out he is a huge supporter and Hard Truth Soldier to the fullest. One thing led to another, and the [...]
Paris interview
A post on Public Enemy’s Enemyboard pointed me to this interview with Paris that you might want to read if you’re interested…
Interesting quote:
Describe how your very pronounced political perspectives have affected you from a business standpoint.
There were more issues with putting out Sonic Jihad than Sleeping with the Enemy. Sleeping with the Enemy was my [...]
PS3: Pretty impressive stuff
I was just reading this transcript of the Sony E3 press conference where the new PS3 is presented.
It must have been great for people to actually have been there, when I read that:
he’s controlling a plane on-screen by wiggling the pad with his hands, using the buttons to fire and nothing else. It looks like [...]
New (search) kid on the block: ‘Clusty’
Forgive my ignorance if you have already heard about this, but while reading the most recent 2600 issue — a reader mentioned the Clusty search-engine which I had never heard about until then.
Although this search-engine also makes money from advertisements, this one isn’t as intrusive as Google’s services (from a privacy point-of-view that is).
I have [...]
Interesting Rutger Hauer related material on eBay
| by in Arts & Poetry, Interesting Links |
I recently found out that Rutger Hauer (the Dutch actor) auctions rare, autographed stuff in order to make money for its Starfish Association.
This autographed card depicting a scene from the film Blade Runner might even be worth the hassle (no bids at all at the time of this writing either!):
There’s other potentially interesting Rutger Hauer-stuff [...]
MythTV is fun!
For the last couple of days (you might’ve noticed the lack of new posts here), I have been playing around with MythTV, the open source PVR. It is a very decent implementation too, allowing plugins for various additional functionality, such as an image gallery or the possibility to play your downloaded pr0n, err I mean, [...]
Kill Bills Browser
| by in Humour, Interesting Links, Random Rantings, Software |
A colleague pointed out this site and this one, in order to convince more and more people to switch from the bug-ridden and vendor-lock-in-causing Internet Explorer browser.
If you know me in real life, you must have heard me say that I have always thought ‘Mozilla‘ to be the ‘Explora Killa‘.
Any self-respecting technician, which ought not [...]
‘Green’ black holes
| by in Interesting Links, Space & Beyond |
Reuters reports on Black holes turning out to be ‘green’ (as in environmentally-friendly):
Just how efficient? If a car could use this kind of engine, it could theoretically go about a billion miles (1.6 billion km) on a gallon of gas, said Steve Allen of Stanford University in California.
Pretty impressive. Also,
These supermassive black holes are “green” [...]
ISC banking site survey
The Internet Storm Center asked readers to send in links to their banking sites, in order to find out whether they use SSL and other characteristics.
The results of this survey can be found on page here. It’s quite interesting to note that there seem only a few banks confirmed to require SSL and Two Factor [...]
Bush’s approval rate down to 33%
I’m reading here and there that, according to this FOX article, Bush’s ‘approval rate’ is down to 33%.
Now we can all sit around smiling and jerk off at this news but, last time I checked, he’s still in office…
Bush, Rant
The curious origin of Mah Na Mah Na…
| by in Arts & Poetry, History, Humour, Interesting Links, Music |
You might already know this, but I only just found out today that the Muppets famous Mah Na Mah Na-song is actually a cover — a cover of a same-named 1969 song by Piero Umiliani. (Check here for more information about the composer.)
Now, of course, that alone isn’t all that interesting, but did you know [...]
Deniable filesystems
Bruce Schneier, on his blog, mentions the project Rubberhose that implements a ‘Deniable Filesystem‘.
The whole idea about these ‘deniable’ filesystems is, that, and I quote Bruce here:
The basic idea was the fact that the existence of ciphertext can in itself be incriminating, regardless of whether or not anyone can decrypt it. I wanted to create [...]
Free Gary McKinnon
After reading this article on Darknet I decided to throw a “Free Gary” banner in the sidebar here to make more and more people aware of this weird case. The US is obviously scared of this guy (or guys alike) and rather sees them removed from society… They are of course trying to give him [...]
That’s no ordinary rabbit!
| by in Animals & Nature, Bunnies, Interesting Links |
The Scotsman reports on the sighting of an over-sized rabbit in Felton, Northumberland:
Jeff Smith, 63, spotted the black and brown animal two months ago. He said: “This is no ordinary rabbit. We are dealing with a monster. The first time I saw it I thought to myself: ‘What the hell is that?’ I have seen [...]
Suspicious Walmart scanning system
Tony Herrera, last Tuesday, blogged about Walmart having this weird scanning system, a story which I just need to share:
This story involving Glenn Harcsar an English Teacher and his eight-months pregnant wife while they were shopping at a Sam’s Club in Monroeville, PA.
“You’ve been identified by our scanning system. You’re not going to be allowed [...]
Enigma sold for €55.050
I caught this one on eBay earlier this week, when the last bid was about 12K, but it is now sold for roughly €55K. That’s a lot of money for an old piece of machinery like this.
Then again, it is probably worth it, too. If you totally ignore what it was used for, the thing [...]
Another day, another trojan — yet not so usual
The Register reports on Deutsche Bank and the (Dutch) Postbank being targeted by a new piece of spyware.
This one, dubbed Trojan-Spy.Win32.Bancos.pw reportedly intercepts HTTPS traffic and captures so-called TAN tokens. These tokens are pieces of information that should identify a banks real customer to finalise a banking transaction.
If infected by this piece of malware, and [...]
What Uncle Sam Really Wants
Today, after recently reading this fascinating review on Noam Chomsky’s book, “What Uncle Sam Really Wants“, I picked it up.
I just finished reading it and, like after reading any Chomsky piece, it leaves me with more of my suspicions confirmed and amazed… Amazed at what the US has done, the media’s willingness to look the [...]
Ice-caps melting faster than forecast
| by in Animals & Nature, Belegana, Health, Interesting Links |
According to an article in The Star, two studies yesterday warned, that
Global warming of only a couple of degrees Celsius projected by the end of this century is enough to trigger widespread melting of the massive Greenland ice cap and the partial collapse of Antarctica’s ice sheets.
[..]
The findings are a stunning about-face from previous expert [...]
Another fine non-working solution to a non-issue
| by in Animals & Nature, Freedom & Repression, Humour, Interesting Links, Media, Religion & Politics, The Netherlands |
The Dutch local government in Limburg has decided, some time ago, that all the people that illegally grow marijuana will be publicly ‘burned at the stake’ by posting their name and address on an internet website.
The name of the website is ‘www.hetgroenegoud.info’ (tr: www.thegreengold.info). Yeh, as if that is really going to work. Can these [...]
Hilarious: Mississippi outlaws sex toys
According to MSNBC, the state of Mississippi outlaws sex toys. This has pretty interesting consequences if you ask me.
First, what can be labelled a ‘sex-toy‘? If one shoves a pencil up his arse, can the person who sold him the pen be prosecuted?
Oh well, I guess dildos and vibrators will probably be sold as [...]
Firefox 2.0alpha1 available for preview!
I just discovered through Digg.com that Firefox 2.0alpha1 has been released:
I’ve been test-driving the Mozilla suite for years now, so I’m already downloading it. You too can check out what’s new here and download it from this FTP site.
NOTE: Do not install this version if you don’t like to test-drive bleeding-edge stuff. This version will [...]
Nice way to start the spring..
| by in Animals & Nature, Belegana, Health, Interesting Links, Sad Stuff |
If there’s one thing us humans can do, collectively, it must be fucking up this planet. The Register also reported it yesterday, and in case you missed it, the UN released a report on how recent human activity has messed-up the planet we live and depend on. To quote The Register:
As much as 80 per [...]
“You are a donkey, Mr. Bush!”
Heh quite funny news from Reuters today:
“You are a donkey, Mr. Bush,” said Chavez, speaking in English on his weekly Sunday broadcast.
“You’re an alcoholic Mr. Danger, or rather, you’re a drunkard,” Chavez said, referring to Bush by a nickname he frequently uses to describe the U.S. president.
A White House report released last week on pre-emptive [...]
WinXP on a Mac contest won, probably
According to The Register, The WinXP on a Mac competition has been won. I’d advise to wait until detailed instructions have been posted though, before buying a Mac. The video does look rather promising though!
Now, if it’d run Linux, I’d buy one. Although that shouldn’t be too big of a deal now, I can imagine.
Computers, [...]
HamsterTracker™
Via CuteOverload I discovered this guy’s home-brew electronics project:
Have you ever wondered:
What your hamster is doing while you sleep?
What distance has your hamster ran in her treadmill today?
How fast a hamster can run?
This is why I have developed the HamsterTrackerâ„¢ system.
Check it out, it’s definitely worth a read.
Animals, Pets, Hamsters, Treadmill, Electronics, Projects
RFID tags can be infected by virii
The Register reports that RFID tags can be infected by virii:
Dutch researchers have warned that RFID tags – small microchips, which can be used to tag products or animals – can be infected with computer viruses.
A group under the guidance of Andrew Tanenbaum at the Amsterdam Free University made the world’s RFID “malware” publicly available. [...]
Darknet: Lift / elevator hacking
Yes, you read it correctly, Lift & Elevator Hacking. This post on Darknet is excellent.
Come to think of it, it is to be expected that also the BIOSes of lifts have ‘hidden’, or otherwise nifty features.
The next time I’m on one, I’m a definitely try this shit out.
Darknet, Elevators, Lifts, Hacks
Schneier: Data Mining For Terrorists
I just received Schneier’s latest CRYPTOGRAM which has quite an interesting articled entitled Data Mining for Terrorists.
To quote the intro (emphasis mine):
In the post 9/11 world, there’s much focus on connecting the dots. Many believe that data mining is the crystal ball that will enable us to uncover future terrorist plots. But even in the [...]
Ten best security live cd distro’s
Yesterday, an article on 10 Best Security Live CD Distros (Pen-Test, Forensics & Recovery) was posted on Darknet.
Live CD’s are the type of operating systems that fit on a CD, can boot almost any hardware, and allow you to use the machine to quite a large extent. The distro’s mentioned in the article are not [...]
Isaac Hayes wants to quit South Park
According to an article on Billboard.com, Isaac Hayes wants to quit South Park. Obviously, because they have ridiculed (and quite right to do so), the Scientology ‘belief’.
Interestingly, this is what one of the creators of South Park, Mark Stone had to say about this:
In an interview with the Associated Press, “South Park” co-creator Matt Stone [...]
1001inventions.com
| by in History, Interesting Links |
Slashdot reports of a website detailing 1001 Islamic inventions.
The OP finds the list quite surprising whereas I don’t: I already was aware of the fact that a lot of our current civilisation and intellect come from the Middle-East.
Then again, I bet a lot of people didn’t know this, so in that respect, it’s a [...]
Post-Mortem Data Destruction
I just posted my first article on Darknet about `Post-Mortem Data Destruction‘. This article roughly details a system for detecting the event of your death and destroying all your private information when this happens.
Post Mortem Data Destruction, Darknet, Navaho Gunleg
Florida Voting Machine Logs Reveal Anomalies
| by in Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Interesting Links, Media, Religion & Politics, On The Road..., Security & Privacy |
I knew it, the rest of the world knew it, and now it seems the 95 percent naive American fucks that decide the US’s future are slowly waking up to the truth as well.
According to this posting on Slashdot,
“Having ’successfully sued former Palm Beach County (FL) Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore to get the [...]
Hip Hop Appreciation Week 2006
| by in Interesting Links |
I just read this on KRS-One’s Temple Of HipHop:
MARK YOUR CALENDARS! May 15th-22nd 2006 marks the 9th Annual Hip Hop Appreciation Week (H.H.A.W.). Since 1998 the third week in May has become a time to reflect upon our roles as citizens of the international Hip Hop community and to recommit ourselves to Hip Hop’s core [...]
“Miserly politicians that keep praising the legacy of MLK while sticking knives into it”
I just read this article in the Guerrilla Funk Thought Box that I couldn’t resist to share here. It’s on Martin Luther King, what he stood for, and current politicians using it for their own good:
Today, a slick rhetorical formula enables current generations of such miserly politicians to keep praising the legacy of Martin Luther [...]
Low-fat diet doesn’t decrease chances of cancer or heart-diseases
| by in Health, Interesting Links, Random Rantings |
It is official — low fat diets do not decrease the chances of one getting cancer or any heart-related diseases.
In other news: Smoking itself doesn’t cause cancer, only the constant nagging about it does.
Smoking, Cancer, Fat, Diet
Darknet relaunch
Darknet is being relaunched:
Darknet is currently undergoing a relaunch, it has been rebuilt from scratch in a new style using a powerful and extensible open source CMS called Wordpress.
We are looking for people to write articles about anything to do with Hacking, Cracking or Information Security.
Topics such as tutorials, discussions, news, exploits, tool releases, coding [...]
Why wasn’t it the other way around… And….. fatal?
| by in Conspiracies, Humour, Interesting Links |
Hehehe — I was waiting for an opportunity to do this (peruse the latest 2600’s letters section to find out why): a certain maniac accidentally shoots fellow hunter, CNN reports:
“The vice president didn’t see him,” she continued. “The covey flushed and the vice president picked out a bird and was following it and shot. And [...]
Israel to build a ‘Museum of Tolerance’
Sean Coon has an spot-on view on Israel building a ‘Museum of Tolerance’ on a Muslim burial ground.
They’re about to pull, as Sean so nicely puts it — some serious poltergeist shit:
Skeletons are being removed from the site of an ancient Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem to make way for a $150m (£86m) “museum of [...]
New research indicates near-lightspeed-travel seems possible
| by in Interesting Links, Space & Beyond |
PhysOrg.COM reports that, this February 14th, Dr. Franklin Felber will present a new exact solution of Einstein’s Gravitational Field Equation. In plain English, this means that physical objects might travel at a speed near the speed of light after all. This was always deemed impossible by many:
Felber’s antigravity discovery solves the two greatest engineering challenges [...]
Firefox users surf safer
According to Yahoo! News, two University of Washington professors went out to investigate looking for spyware on the Internet during 2005:
“We can’t say whether Firefox is a safer browser or not,” said Henry Levy, one of the two University of Washington professors who, along with a pair of graduate students, created Web crawlers to scour [...]
Nice video on Google Video…
| by in Interesting Links, Music |
Just caught this on Google video… Don’t know the bands’ name, but the song’s quite nice.
New World Order, Music
2600 Secrets
| by in Humour, Interesting Links |
Speaking of 2600 — I just discovered 2600 Secrets that highlights the ‘hidden messages’ in the 2600 magazines.
I hit that page because I wondered what happened to page 33:
Winter 2004/Page 33: The phrase “enough already“
I missed that — that explains all…
2600, Hidden Messages
Google Desktop privacy concerns
Hot from the EFF’s site:
“Coming on the heels of serious consumer concern about government snooping into Google’s search logs, it’s shocking that Google expects its users to now trust it with the contents of their personal computers,” said EFF Staff Attorney Kevin Bankston. “Unless you configure Google Desktop very carefully, and few people will, Google [...]
So AIDS is man made after all…
| by in Conspiracies, Health, History, Interesting Links |
Reading around in the Guerrillafunk Though Box archive I was rather amazed by the article entitled “AIDS man made origins”. (There’s a lot of other juicy stuff there but for now we’ll focus on this.)
I heard this theory before that the US might have been behind it, but any substantial references were always lacking. (And [...]
Still write checks? Beware of check-washing!
A post on Schneiers’ weblog pointed me to this article about Check Washing:
Using a process known as check washing, mail snatchers erase the ink on a check with chemicals found in common household cleaning products or on the shelves of your local Walmart and then rewrite the checks to themselves, increasing the amount payable by [...]
Why you shouldn’t shove your penis through the slit of a letterbox
| by in Humour, Interesting Links, The Netherlands |
In Ede, The Netherlands, some guy inserted his penis through the slit in a letterbox. The woman living in that house, reacted quickly, and used some piece of iron to hit on it.
When she opened the door, she saw a 30-year old man running away.
Now that’s hilarious, and possibly a good reason never to ever [...]
Rare animals (re-)discovered in New Guinea, and then some
The Los Angeles Times reports on a trove of unearthly species that have been uncovered in New Guinea’s ‘Eden’:
The naturalists also obtained the first photographs of the golden-fronted bowerbird, a species previously known only from a few skins collected by local hunters.
The bird is so rare that at least a dozen expeditions in [...]
Dshield is famous!
I visited Dshield.org today and noticed this diary entry:
Super-secret spy agency sensor grid – $Billions
Security for a visit from the President of the United States – $Millions
Showing the President that your prime source of information is a bunch of volunteers – PRICELESS!
Where would this world be without volunteers?
Volunteers, NSA, DShield, SANS
Nice Greenpeace commercial (2003)
| by in Animals & Nature, Humour, Interesting Links |
Last weekend I was watching John Culshaw’s Commercial Breakdown on BBC television where I saw this commercial by Greenpeace and I couldn’t resist to go and look for it on the web.
Although being an oldie (about 3 years old now), its topic is still current so it’s fun to watch. Really.
You can download it right [...]
Harvey the Herder
| by in Animals & Nature, Bunnies, History, Humour, Interesting Links |
I today discovered this story about a rabbit called Harvey the Herder. Check out the link to find out why.
Rabbits, Animals
Buckyballs? No — buckytubes!
When I was a kid, popular science magazines were already having wet-dreams about nano-technology and all the possible good it will bring.
It took an awful long while before the technology is now finally used!
IT week reports Nantero will soon be shipping DIMMs built with a new technology. It will contain so called carbon nanotubes, [...]
Xena: A 10th planet after all…
| by in Interesting Links, Space & Beyond |
When first discovered, a lot of scientist were still sceptical as to if this planet really could be considered a planet because of its relatively small size, et cetera.
According to Scientific American, this 10th planet, dubbed Xena, proves to be bigger than Pluto:
When astronomers announced the discovery of UB313, the so-called tenth planet, a little [...]
Webalizer getting political?
| by in Interesting Links, Software |
I don’t know exactly when this was put in place, but the Webalizer Homepage now shows a nice Impeach Bush banner on the bottom of the page.
Not that I can do anything about it living in The Netherlands, but I can sure as hell help advocate it:
Nice. Although being quite stale as a project [...]
Check Your Testicles!
| by in Health, Interesting Links |
If you still need reasons to play with yourself, all over Dutch media passed couple of days the following advice:
Men, after their puberty, should regularly check their testicles for weird lumps, et cetera, as that might be an indication of cancer.
So there…
Cancer, Testicles, Men
Remains of the ‘first African slaves’ discovered
According to an article at LiveScience, researchers have discovered the remains of, probably, the first African slaves in the ‘New World’:
The remains, in a colonial era graveyard in one of the oldest European cities in Mexico, date between the late-16th century and the mid-17th century, not long after Columbus first set foot in the Americas. [...]
WinAmp exploit in the wild — better upgrade…
For you Windows-users out there, ISC reports that, apart WinAmp 5.12 being vulnerable to some exploit that allows for remote code execution, that also an exploit has been discovered in the wild.
Also, WinAmp 5.13 is already available, so you better upgrade as soon as possible.
Threats, Security
Maybe Disney’s take-over of Pixar ain’t at all that bad…
According to an article on the Independent Online, Pixar chief asserts his authority over Disney by axing ‘Toy Story 3′:
On Wednesday, less than 24 hours after Mr Jobs and Disney’s new chief executive, Bob Iger, unveiled the merger, Mr Lasseter went to Burbank with Pixar’s president, Ed Catmull. He announced that Toy Story 3 would [...]
Myths about the 1986 Challenger disaster
Interesting article on MSNBC explaining the myths about the Challenger shuttle disaster:
[...] here’s the way the mission may be remembered:
1. Few people actually saw the Challenger tragedy unfold live on television.
2. The shuttle did not explode in the common definition of that word.
3. The flight, and the astronauts’ lives, did not end at that point, [...]
DNA ‘evidence’ not what it’s cranked up to be.
A colleague of mine told me about this chimera syndrome. Basically 1 person ends up with 2 DNA profiles because of something that happened in the embryonic phase.
Fun thing about his is, that basically, everybody can have this affliction. Thing is — they will only know that the moment they discover you have it.
Ain’t [...]
For your daily dose of ‘cute’
| by in Animals & Nature, Humour, Interesting Links |
In these hard times something soft can brighten up your day.
C|Net reports on the site Cute Overload being…
[...] nominated for four Bloggie awards, including Best American Weblog, Best Topical Weblog, Best New Weblog and Weblog of the Year.
I just love bunnies.
Animals, Pets, Bunnies, Cute
Sue that Mofo Picture Association of America!
Hahaha, that’s some bad publicity. The Register reports on the MPAA making an ass of itself. I quote:
But on Monday the MPAA admitted it had made a copy of the film but claimed, because their staff were the subject of the film, they were not breaking copyright law. An MPAA spokeswoman said: “We made [...]
BBC Hardtalk Extra: Chuck D – still fighting the power
In the latest edition of BBC Hardtalk Extra an interview with Chuck D:
In a HardTalk Extra interview screened on 20th January, Gavin Esler speaks to Chuck D of ground-breaking rap group Public Enemy.
The quality of the online video sucks, so I’m a wait for the re-run on BBC World. Public Enemy, Chuck D
Enron the 9/11 smoking ‘cannon’?
An interesting article by Devvy Kidd on Enron being the possible smokin’ cannon of 9/11, with an interesting view on events, implicating former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling of prior knowledge of 9/11.
Quite worth a read…
911, Enron
Halliburton Watch
I just discovered Halliburton Watch, a site dedicated to the practises by Halliburton, the company that actually makes money of wars and `rebuilding‘ countries.
Interesting fact:
The arrival of Dick Cheney as CEO in 1995 was, by far, the best decision Halliburton ever made. Under Cheney’s tenure as CEO, Halliburton’s revenue from federal government contracts nearly doubled. [...]
Liberty is Security
An interesting article linked-to on Perilocity, claiming that Liberty Is Security.
In this age where every terrorist action seems to be met by politicians and the public rushing to clamp down on the liberty of people who had nothing to do with it, my mantra is Benjamin Franklin’s comment:
They that can give up essential liberty to [...]
Countering “Trusting Trust”
| by in Interesting Links, Software |
I just read a post on Schneiers’ weblog entitled `Countering “Trusting Trust”‘. You probably already have heard of the Reflections on Trusting Trust-article I, and many others, may have referenced to in the past.
To quote Schneier;
Way back in 1974, Paul Karger and Roger Schell discovered a devastating attack against computer systems. Ken Thompson described it [...]
Prolonging battery life by `undervolting’
An interesting article on Nordic Hardware about `undervolting’ a laptop, which basically is running your laptop at a lower voltage than spec’d, resulting in less heat being generated and, more importantly, prolonged battery life:
The expression undervolting is not really correct because it’s the tension were lowering and it’s measured in volts, but we will use [...]
Pets offer health benefits, even robotic ones
| by in Animals & Nature, Cats, Health, Interesting Links |
As also noted on Slashdot today, the Star-Telegram reports that Robotic pets offer health benefits, too:
In a recent study at the University of Missouri, for example, levels of the stress hormone cortisol dropped among adults who, for several minutes, petted AIBO, Sony’s dog-shaped robot that responds when stroked, chases a ball and perks up when [...]
Digital clock: PONG style
Nice retro clock. A bit expensive though.
PS2 EyeToy Linux support
Incidentally discovered both audio and video are currently supported on Linux.
Tom Cruise kills South Park episode
| by in Humour, Interesting Links, Random Rantings |
As reported on The Register, Tom Cruise threatens to sue anyone that re-airs the South Park episode that makes fun of Tom Cruise and John Travolta’s silly sect called Scientology (link to Xenu.net, an excellent resource that exposes those Scientology-freaks for what they really are).
The series disclaimer is clear about stuff. Not anyone should watch [...]
Human Rights Watch World Report 2006
If you’re into it, the Human Rights Watch World Report 2006 is out.
To quote the site:
New evidence demonstrated in 2005 that torture and mistreatment have been a deliberate part of the Bush administration’s counterterrorism strategy, undermining the global defense of human rights.
Many countries used the “war on terrorism†to attack their political opponents, branding them [...]
Concrete kills!
| by in Health, Interesting Links |
In local news, it is reported that a guy died after a big piece of concrete fell on top of him.
Well, it could’ve been worse — they could’ve left the body there and continue the work.
Pretty sick stuff…
Concrete Kills
StatTraq plug-in installed
| by in General, Interesting Links |
In order to get a better understanding of what is getting read on this site, I downloaded and installed Randy Peterman’s StatTraq plug-in (his site is down at the time of this writing — I luckily could find the source-code mirrored somewhere ).
For something free (as in beer), the interface looks excellent and statistics are [...]
On Nostradamus…
Last night, there was this silly TV quiz on which asked a question on Nostradamus — which actually contained mis-information.
The question they asked was `Who predicted the 9/11 attacks on New York & World War II?‘
Funny thing is: the thing about 9/11 is totally wrong:
Anyway, quibbling over words is futile, given that Nostradamus didn’t even [...]
Guerrilla Funk Records
From the Public Enemy Board I hit the Guerrilla Funk Recordings site — a must-read for just about everyone. Well, if you’re into Hiphop and against current American policies, that is..
Become a Hard Truth Soldier!
Indeed, the corporate rap machine should stop commercialising a non-capitalistic culture. It should stop using rap and hiphop to pimp products [...]
KRS One on MLK & the Hip Hop Nation
KRS-One wrote an essay, Reflections on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Hip Hop Nation. Incidentally I wrote a little blurb on MLK just yesterday.
Today, on MLK-day, we should:
* Let us fast from spending money on things we really don’t need.
* Let us tend to [...]
Noam Chomsky meets Eat The State
The January 5th issue of Eat The State includes an interview with Noam Chomsky,
For over 40 years, MIT professor Noam Chomsky has been one of the world’s leading intellectual critics of US foreign policy.
(…)
ETS!’s Geov Parrish spoke with him by phone, on Dec. 9 and again on Dec. 20, from his office in Cambridge, Mass.
The [...]
The Carlyle Group
This weekend I found this (Dutch) Flash animation that scratches the surface of this Carlyle Group — an investment firm with its focus primarily on fighting wars.
And it’s highly probable they are causing them, too… More and more people believe they are the group behind the Gulf Wars, Afghanistan, and this so-called War-On-Terror which [...]
Dark Matter stream may have been revealed
| by in Interesting Links, Space & Beyond |
A Slashdot-reader posts:
A team in Switzerland has discovered that most of the small satellite galaxies around the Milky Way’s near-twin, Andromeda, are lined up in a single plane that slices through Andromeda’s spiral disc. Using images from the Hubble space telescope, soon to be decommissioned, the researchers found that 9 of the 14 of Andromeda’s [...]
China map lays claim to Americas — so what?!
| by in Interesting Links |
According to BBC News, a soon to be unveiled map in China lays claim to Americas.
The map, which shows North and South America, apparently states that it is a 1763 copy of another map made in 1418.
If true, it could imply Chinese mariners discovered and mapped America decades before Columbus’ 1492 arrival.
Yeah — so what? [...]
Make a web-cam work in infra red
Looking for a web-cam that supports night vision I discovered this cool hack: How to make a web-cam work in infra red. Still having some old Logitech Quick-Cam lying around, I think I might give that little experiment a shot.
Some camera’s happen to have an infra red filter placed behind the lens which only lets [...]
This is a test of the Firefox Performancing Extension
| by in General, Interesting Links |
This message is posted with the Firefox 1.5 Performancing Extension. This extension enables one to easily post new journal entries from within Firefox.
I have to say, it looks pretty nice and I like the way they’ve implemented it.
One tiny bug though: I use the SimpleTags WordPress plug-in to easily add Technorati tags at the end [...]
The Book Of Cool
| by in Arts & Poetry, Interesting Links |
I was reading this post from a buddy of mine which made me pretty curious as to what this Book Of Cool was all about.
So, I visited the Book Of Cool website. After seeing the trailer, I was immediately convinced I wanted that thing, too.
The tricks that some of these guys can do [...]
Spinning black holes leave dents in space-time
| by in Interesting Links, Space & Beyond |
MIT has an article on Spinning black holes leaving dents in space-time.
Similarities seen nine years apart imply something very fundamental is producing a pair of observed frequencies, namely the warping of space and time predicted by Einstein but rarely seen in such detail.
(…)
“The fact that we found the exact same frequency of X-ray oscillations nine [...]
Webservers: Latest Netcraft survey shows 69.15 percent is Apache
A recent Netcraft survey shows that 69.15 percent of the total websites on the Internet run the Apache webserver.
Isn’t ‘choice‘ a wonderful thing?
Apache, Webservers
When doves cry and bees fly…
Scientists have figured out how bees fly!
Funny enough, this seems to be an argument for the evolution of species-theorie, or at least an argument against Intelligent Design. From the article:
Proponents of intelligent design, or ID, have tried in recent years to promote the idea of a supreme being by discounting science because it can’t [...]
Excellent Microsoft rant
| by in Humour, Interesting Links |
I think this Microsoft rant on the Internet Storm Center is worth a read, as it contains 2 important aspects: it’s funny and on-point.
Even now, the Oompa Loompas are hard at work out in Redmond, simultaneously regression-testing and translating Microsoft’s WMF patch into Swahili and Urdu. And, somehow, as if by magic, all of [...]
How to figure out if someone is snooping your email
Interesting tips on Bruce Schneier’s web-blog.
The Dogon Culture — how intriguing….
A friend of mine sent me this link going into the Theory of Creation of the Dogon culture.
The first Western scientists to visit and study the Dogon people were French anthropologists Drs Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen, who initially made contact with them in 1931, and continued to research them for the next three decades, [...]
The God Movie
I just hit an interesting page. Well, if you don’t believe in any of those silly religious theories you might find it interesting.
If you are an avid believer of Christianity, you might be in for a shock. To quote the site itself:
Bowling for Columbine did it to the gun culture.
Super Size Me did it to [...]
New Mammal Species Discovered
BBC is reporting on a new mammal species being discovered in Borneo.
So far, two images are all that exist. But they were enough to convince Nick Isaac from the Institute of Zoology in London that the animal may indeed be new.
“The photos look most like a lemur,” he told the BBC News website. “But there [...]
Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
| by in Interesting Links |
Yesterday I started reading Einstein’s Theory of Relativity (Project Gutenberg link, the copyright-terms in your country may vary). A few typos in the translation but that shouldn’t ruin the fun.
Quite interesting stuff.
This was obviously complicated material when it was written (honestly, I expected it to be pretty complicated material), but for the average technical [...]
Jesus The Anointed One
From EbaumsWorld I visited this page going into the possible usage of Marijuana by Jesus Christ. I have read articles like ‘Jesus was a pothead‘ and similar before, but it’s always nice to read about facts that the ‘believers’ will always try to disregard as bullshit.
Some noteworthy quotes:
The ancient recipe for this anointing oil, recorded [...]
Nice Javascript ‘animation’
| by in Humour, Interesting Links |
I found an old Javascript animation that I used to redirect malicious requests too.
