Year: 2018
-
Temporarily disabled GC7Q9E6 Oxford's Wild Wolf One
This checkin to GC7Q9E6 Oxford's Wild Wolf One reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Checked in on it while passing by and this cache has disappeared. :-(
-
What Cyber-War Will Look Like
When prompted to think about the way hackers will shape the future of great power war, we are wont to imagine grand catastrophes: F-35s grounded by onboard computer failures, Aegis BMD systems failing to launch seconds before Chinese missiles arrive, looks of shock at Space Command as American surveillance satellites start careening towards the Earth--stuff …
-
Dot-dash-diss: The gentleman hacker's 1903 lulz
A century ago, one of the world’s first hackers used Morse code insults to disrupt a public demo of Marconi's wireless telegraph
AltNevil Maskelyne – doing it for the lulz?
LATE one June afternoon in 1903 a hush fell across an expectant audience in the Royal Institution’s celebrated lecture theatre in … -
Big Rain
Invisible Bread -
This Colorful New Font Is Made Entirely of Brand Logos
If you're completely, irrevocably head-over-heels for brands, we finally have just the typeface for you.
Creatives at digital agency Hello Velocity have developed Brand New Roman, a font comprised of 76 corporate brand logos. The Idiocracy-style project is partly parody, but you can actually download the font and use it—and artists have already been playing around … -
They
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal -
How Edge Follows In IE's Security Failings
Replicating an experiment Steve Gibson performed into browser EV certificate acceptance, Dan discovers that an ugly security-weakening "feature" of Internet Explorer also appears in Edge. What the hell, Microsoft?
-
Thoughts on Reflex 2.0
So Reflex are now designing the 2.0 version of the camera they’ve so far yet to ship version 1.0 of or even find manufacturing partners for. Add to this the nonsense of trying to build a set of primes, film processor and scanner without securing any more funding and I’m increasingly leaning towards this…
… -
Review of The Glebe Play Park
This review of The Glebe Play Park originally appeared on Google Maps. See more reviews by Dan. The Glebe Play Park, 2 Glebe Rd, Cumnor, Oxford OX2 9QJ, United Kingdom. Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent play area especially good for young children. Swings, slides, fort, mini hedge maze, musical instruments, exercise equipment, roundabout, trampoline, and climbing frame …
-
What Monogamous Couples Can Learn From Polyamorous Relationships, According to Experts
Polyamory — having more than one consensual sexual or emotional relationship at once — has in recent years emerged on television, mainstream dating sites like OkCupid and even in research. And experts who have studied these kinds of consensual non-monogomous relationships, say they have unique strengths that anyone can learn from.
Consensual non-monogamy can include polyamory, … -
Digest for August 2018
Summary
This month, I shared photos of a mystery box I discovered in a meeting room at work which turned out to be an adapter to a proprietary kind of 13A plug socket and developed a software tool which pixel-scrapes open mapping data to estimate what percentage of a given graticule (degree of latitude by … -
One off the #bucketlist this morning when local radio station @JACKfmOxford said, on-air, "Dan, please stop texting us puns."
-
Swiss startup Energy Vault is stacking concrete blocks to store energy Quartz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmrwdTGZxGk
Thanks to the modern electric grid, you have access to electricity whenever you want. But the grid only works when electricity is generated in the same amounts as it is consumed. That said, it’s impossible to get the balance right all the time. So operators make grids more flexible by adding ways to store … -
Oxford IndieWebCamp is go!
Save the dates folks!
On Saturday 22nd September and Sunday 23rd September we will be having the first ever Oxford IndieWebCamp!
It is a free event, but I would ask that you register on Eventbrite, so I can get an idea of numbers.
IndieWebCamp is a weekend gathering of web creators building & sharing their own websites … -
Before You Turn On Two-Factor Authentication
Many online accounts allow you to supplement your password with a second form of identification, which can prevent some prevalent attacks. The second factors you can use to identify yourself include authenticator apps on your phone, which generate codes that change every 30 seconds, and security keys, small pieces of hardware similar in size …