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Month: December 2008

500 Round per Minute Nerf

  By Justin Warren 24 December 2008 24 December 2008 General

Observe the fun you can have with Nerf, a Dremel, and Too Much Free Time: a Nerf chaingun that fires 500 rounds per minute. This is eleven different flavours of awesome. No, I don’t plan to grow up any time soon. Why? Read More

Tagged   nerf, overclock, TMFT, Ubergeek

Persistence Trumps Talent

  By Justin Warren 23 December 2008 23 December 2008 General

I just watched a Pop! Tech presentation by Malcolm Gladwell about a concept called capitalization and how it relates to success in human endeavour. It’s quite interesting, and I might just have to go buy his book Outliers: The Story of Success, which is apparently all about the idea. The… Read More

Tagged   capitalization, General, persistence, pop!tech, talent, Tip

Just Because You’re Paranoid

  By Justin Warren 19 December 2008 19 December 2008 General

I’ve long been one of those nutters who tried to get people to use encrypted email, who cares about privacy, and defends people who do distasteful things but aren’t breaking any laws. A healthy dose of paranoia, I guess. It’s a hard position to take, because people just don’t care.… Read More

Tagged   General, paranoia, Rant, surveillance

Windows Suckitude

  By Justin Warren 17 December 2008 17 December 2008 Software

I had to completely reinstall GameOS (a Windows XP disk that I keep around for the occasional gaming session), losing all my saved games, because Windows somehow magically corrupted its partition setup. I didn’t have any backups of GameOS, because I didn’t feel that it was worth the extra cost… Read More

Tagged   linux, Rant, sucks, Ubergeek, windows

Compiz Rocks!

  By Justin Warren 15 December 2008 15 December 2008 Design

I transplanted fnord (my desktop system) into a new body yesterday. He now has an Intel Core Duo instead of an AMD64 Athlon, 4 Gig of RAM instead of 2, and 2 shiny new Samsung 22″ LCDs screens driven by an NVidia card with dual DVI out. It’s very nice.… Read More

Tagged   compiz, linux, nvidia, Ubergeek

Unfavorable Geometry

  By Justin Warren 12 December 2008 12 December 2008 Design

Unfavorable Geometry is my new favorite phrase. Apart from being a kickass band name, it is possibly the most understated term to describe extremely dangerous stuff I have ever heard. This phrase is from a report by the Los Alamos National Labs titled A Review of Criticality Accidents. If you’ve… Read More

Tagged   nuclear, Tip, Ubergeek, unfavorablegeometry

Evolution of the Obama Logo

  By Justin Warren 12 December 2008 12 December 2008 Design

Interesting interview with Sol Sender about how his team developed the Barack Obama presidential campaign logo. It’s not an in-depth discussion, but it’s a good starting point for learning how a good, simple brand design can have a life of its own. It’s particularly interesting to see the other candidate… Read More

Tagged   logo, obama

‘Tis the Season

  By Justin Warren 12 December 2008 12 December 2008 General

It’s that time of year again, when people suddenly remember that being nice to other people is fun. If you’re struggling to maintain your holiday cheer, check out this thread from AskMeFi. It’s chock full of ideas on how to make someone else’s day. It made me smile. Do something… Read More

Tagged   festive, metafilter, nice, Tip, whimsy

An Obsession With Time

  By Justin Warren 12 December 2008 12 December 2008 General

Check out the guy behind leapsecond.com: he’s so obsessed with time, and precisely measuring it, that he has a hydrogen maser in his house. Wow. Apart from being an awesome geek, he’s super-fun. He build a Nixie tube clock app that you can watch over the web, and updated it… Read More

Tagged   atomic, leapsecond, relativity, time, Ubergeek

OSDC 2008 Photos on Flickr

  By Justin Warren 10 December 2008 10 December 2008 General

I gave up on Yahoo! being able to reset my password on my original Flickr account, so I’ve created a new one and uploaded my photos from OSDC 2008. Unfortunately, many of them are slightly blurry. I was using a 300mm telephoto, without flash, inside, which is always tricky. That,… Read More

Tagged   flickr, General, osdc2008au, photo, Ubergeek
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