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Evolution of the Earth in 60 Seconds

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

This a neat little representation of the evolution of the earth done in sixty seconds. It’s takes a little bit at first to get an idea of what’s going on but once you realize that there is a counter in the lower left, and the voice is speaking the events happening at that time, [...]

GSM cracked

Monday, December 28th, 2009

Turns out those cell phone calls of yours aren’t so private anymore. Honestly, I know that this is quite the technical feat, but I’m surprised that it’s taken this long. Just goes to show you the level of difficulty involved in dissecting this kind of information.
Secret code protecting cellphone calls set loose %u2022 [...]

I’ve just learned….

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

Madame Curies lab notebooks are classified as intermediate nuclear waste.

A first for open source

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

Firefox declared as the leading and most prominent browser in the market. This is a major step for the open source browser and it’s never ending war with it’s closest competitor IE.
Firefox 3.5 passes IE7 as most popular web browser

pictures for sad children

Friday, December 4th, 2009

I love this comic. I think this strip sums up my feelings about media and this nations obsession with the irrelevant and mundane details of other peoples private lives.
pictures for sad children

Searchable Database of House Expenditure Reports

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

I love the sunlight foundation mostly for it’s attempts to take the data that comes from government and put it into some consumable form. Their latest effort is no exception from that history of awesomeness. They’ve taken a 3000 page PDF document of house expenditures and parsed it into a searchable database, where [...]

container office-building

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Saw this interesting, but short time lapse of construction of a shipping container office building in RI.
Time-lapse of construction of shipping-container office-building – Boing Boing

The Yankees already went.

Friday, November 6th, 2009

There is no further point in chanting, “Let’s go Yankees.” It is also correct, crowd, that we are in the “U-S-A”, very good.
If I may for a moment relate the suffering to which I am exposed this morning. Throngs and herds of drunken sports fans blowing horns and various whistles. They’re all [...]

PETMAN Prototype

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Here’s a pretty awesome prototype of a bipedal robot. Although it’s a pretty simple video it’s a very complicated task.
Make: Online : PETMAN Prototype

Coredata tutorial

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Those who know me know that I’m a software engineer who recently made the switch from Linux to OS X. It’s an entirely different world with regard to programming so I’ve been trying to get my head around some of the tools and concepts that are used in building OS X applications. Coredata [...]

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