Steve Jobs held an interesting graduation speech to this years graduating class of Stanford University. In it he proclaimed that dropping out of college was one of the best decisions he ever made because it forced him to be innovative: PALO ALTO, California — Steve Jobs told Stanford University graduates Sunday that dropping out of [...]
Entries from June 14th, 2005
Fuck The Crazy Frog!!!
June 10th, 2005 · 12 Comments · Personal
For all you people like me who HATE the commercially inspired abomination known as the “Crazy Frog”, someone has created a petition against it: Welcome friends, to the site that dedicates itself to ridding the world of this terrible, mind crushing, spirit numbing creation from hell! Here is your chance to let the world know [...]
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A Brief Summary Of Middle East Grievances Towards The West
June 10th, 2005 · No Comments · Middle East
I just read this GREAT opinion piece on Aljazeera.net. It pretty much sums up why so many Arab people have a problem with the west and is a MUST read if you want to have at least a basic understanding of why things are the way they are in the Middle East. Excerpt: Why do [...]
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Radio Controlled Loch Ness Monster
June 10th, 2005 · No Comments · Mobiles & Gadgets
In what will undoubtely be a huge hit with geeks young and old next christmas, Takara Toys has released a radio controlled Loch Ness Monster: The Loch Ness monster will be spotted again! This time swimming in ponds, lakes and pools across America. Takara will bring the Loch Ness Monster to life who promises to [...]
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Computer Case Made From CPU Fans
June 10th, 2005 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff, Hardware
Some dude has make a computer case by using only CPU fans: I work in a computer store building PCs all day. With every new case there are one or two 8cm case fans included. Most of the systems we build do not need any more cooling than is supplied by the CPU fan as [...]
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Happy Birthday PHP!
June 10th, 2005 · No Comments · Coding & Web Development, Internet
PHP Developer reports that today PHP is officialy 10 years old: I suppose, like everyone, I should chime in with how things started out for me with PHP: I was a Perl kind of guy until a friend/coworker of mine (who now works with me again) introduced me to PHP back in college. At the [...]
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Woohoo! Simpsons Movie Is A Go
June 9th, 2005 · No Comments · Movies, TV
Yahoo Movies reports that The Simpsons movie is definately coming: Get ready to toast your Flaming Moes to some excellent news. The Simpsons movie is off the drawing board and in preproduction. “You know what? We’ve just done the table read for The Simpsons movie, so although we’ve been promoting that we’re going to do [...]
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Thoughts On Using PGP As Evidence
June 9th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Crime, Freedom & Democracy, Privacy
Bruce Scheier reports on some intersting comments regarding the recent Minnesota court hearing that just having PGP on your computer can be used as evidence against you: The opinion is not explicit that the PGP evidence was used to show criminal intent or consciousness of guilt, but I think that is fairly implied, especially since [...]
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The Z Machine Gun Shoots Faster Than the Earth
June 9th, 2005 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff, Math & Science
Forget the fastest gun in the west, these guys have made the fastest gun in the world: Imagine a gun sending bullets at 34 kilometers per second, faster than Earth moves through space. This is the new speed record recently broken by the Z machine at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL). With this machine, Sandia researchers [...]
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Windows Server To Get New Shell
June 9th, 2005 · No Comments · Microsoft
Tomshardware reports that Microsoft is going to change the standard Windows Command Line to a new shell, called Monad Shell, over the next 5 years: Orlando (FL) – The command line interface to the Windows Server OS will be changed to the new Monad Shell (MSH), in a phased implementation to take place over the [...]
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