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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
