Year: 2005
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Troma Night Makes International News
If you come to Troma Night tonight, I'll explain the above picture (click for a larger version). It's got something to do with this new account on the web site.
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The Starling
I have a hard time believing that this story is true: it's just too crazy - but the photos are good and hard to forge without more resources than your average internet prankster. So, here's the tale as it was told to me...
There's a company in the States that sells automatic car washers as a … -
Physical Device Fingerprinting Over TCP
A PhD student in San Deigo has written a fascinating paper which will spook internet anonymity freaks - Remote Physical Device Fingerprinting - which describes how a physical computer can be uniquely identified on the internet, regardless of operating system, IP address, or data sent, just by looking carefully at it's TCP packets (which contain …
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Settlers Of Catan
Total three to six players wanted for pre-Geek Night rules exploration and playtest of The Settlers Of Catan, this evening. Usual rules apply.
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Infinity Games
Bookmarked via del.icio.us: Infinity Games.
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World Jump Day
Bookmarked via del.icio.us: World Jump Day.
If we all jump at the same time, we'll move the earth: 20th July 2006 -
Building your own PBX
Bookmarked via del.icio.us: Building your own PBX.
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How To Destroy The Earth
Bookmarked via del.icio.us: How To Destroy The Earth.
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Things Bots Shouldn’t Learn
This afternoon, I've taught Iggy, the robot who looks after the RockMonkey ChatRoom:
How to play The Game. Damn - I'm out. He's not very good at it, and, by proxy, neither am I. Comprehension of facts expressed as "concept ARE fact", rather than "concept IS fact", and about knowing "who" people are (ask "Iggy, … -
Opera 8’s Solution To IDN Exploit
I'm sure you've all seen the recent Internationalized Domain Name exploit, which affects most web browsers (except for Internet Explorer - shocker! - because it doesn't yet have the power to support internationalized domain names): if you haven't, why not visit paypal.com - looks just like the real thing; doesn't it: the browser bar says …
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This Has GOT To Be Anti-Trust/FUD
This screenshot taken from Microsoft Anti-Spyware:
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MEng Dissertation - Hamster Music
No, I'm not talking about that god-awful de-da-de-da-de-do-do-do de-da-de-do do thingy: I'm talking about this ingenious MEng dissertation project, in which the student hooked up six hamsters to a MIDI device and, with some clever hardware and software, used their movements to compose music. If you look at the site, be sure to download the …
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Now That’s Customer Service
Do you remember in the middle of last week I finally discovered that I could make Firefox have all the features I loved in Opera, using plugins? Well; I'm honoured to report that my comments haven't gone un-noticed: I've recieved a comment on that post from Jonny Axelsson, dude who does standards-related stuff for Opera. …
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Photopia, Again
I wrote the other day about Photopia, one of the most brilliant and unusual pieces of interactive fiction I've ever experienced. Finally, JTA gave it a go, and loved it too - and he and I have been spending the last few days discussing some of the really, really clever bits and putting our own …
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Rejected Crayons
You won't find these from Crayola...