The Tech Zone has an interesting editorial on how Apple is missing a huge opportunity by limiting OSX to Apple PCs: I heard a rumor last week that Apple would announce they are switching to Intel chips. My first thought is that I hoped that Steve Job’s success selling iTunes to the other 95% of [...]
Entries from July 27th, 2005
Star Wars Models That Can Actually Fly
July 26th, 2005 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff, Movies
I just saw this great link on Boingboing about people building remote controlled Star Wars craft that can actually fly! Check it out is you’re a Star Wars fan, you won’t be dissapointed.
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Fractals For Beginners
July 26th, 2005 · No Comments · Math & Science
Kuro5hin has written the first of what will be a whole line of articles on fractals for beginners. An excerpt: In order to cover fractals in any meaningful way, I am going to first examine what lies behind them. The first, and most important, of these elements is “Chaos Theory”, a branch of mathematics that [...]
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Tariq Ramadan Profile
July 26th, 2005 · No Comments · Religion
The BBC has written an excellent profile on one of the most talked about Islamic thinkers of our time, Tariq Ramadan: Islamic extremist or the man leading reform of the faith? Professor Tariq Ramadan explains why his critics are wrong and why the London bombings mean more than ever that Western Muslims must split from [...]
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Blink And Your Mind “Switches Off”
July 26th, 2005 · No Comments · Math & Science
The BBC reports of a new study with some suprising reults. Namely that certain parts of your brain switch off when you blink: Parts of the brain are temporarily “switched off” when we blink, scientists have found. The team from University College London found the brain shut down parts of the visual system for each [...]
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Gary McKinnon Interviewed
July 25th, 2005 · 4 Comments · Freedom & Democracy, Security
The BBC World Service has an interesting interview with Gary McKinnon, who hacked into Military computers to find out the truth about UFOs and now faces 75 years in an American jail: This week ‘The Interview’ talks to the man described by US prosecutors as “the biggest military computer hack of all time”. Briton Gary [...]
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Gamepad Interface For PSP
July 24th, 2005 · No Comments · Hardware, Video Games
In what wins the award for cool hack of the day someone has made a controller interface for the PSP: The target of this project is creating a low-cost interface that allows multiple Gamepads to be connected to the PSP’s infrared port. As it is in a pretty early (but working) stage, the interface only [...]
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Do You Know Where That Memory Stick’s Been?
July 24th, 2005 · No Comments · Hardware, Security
Yet again Microsoft Windows security is in the spotlight as it seems that the whole USB codebase is inherently insecure. At least this is what eweek says: Vulnerabilities in USB drivers for Windows could allow an attacker to take control of locked workstations using a specially programmed Universal Serial Bus device, according to an executive [...]
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How To Become A Game Designer
July 24th, 2005 · No Comments · Video Games
Gamespot has an excellent interview with some prominent game designers which answers the questions of what it takes to be a game designer and what they actually do: Admit it. The thought has crossed your mind while playing a game at some point. Maybe it was a terrible game you rented at the video store, [...]
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A Thorough History Of The Amiga
July 23rd, 2005 · No Comments · Hardware
Reading on Slashdot that the Amiga is 20 years old today, I decided to link to a very thorough history of it that someone wrote. A random excerpt: While Commodore were focussing their resources into the Amiga, the Tramiel-owned Atari had not abandoned their goal of 16-bit domination. Through the use of off-the-shelf hardware and [...]
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