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Media 1.0 Lies Again

Friday, December 10th, 2010

I used several of the sites that were supposedly “shut down” by Anonymous during the day yesterday. Fox News the next day claimed that these sites had been shut down or rendered useless. I used them just fine. In fact, I tried the same sites that same evening and at 12-1 AM and all these [...]

1024-bit RSA encryption cracked by carefully starving CPU of electricity

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

From Engadget: Since 1977, RSA public-key encryption has protected privacy and verified authenticity when using computers, gadgets and web browsers around the globe, with only the most brutish of brute force efforts (and 1,500 years of processing time) felling its 768-bit variety earlier this year. Now, [three people] at the University of Michigan claim they [...]

Disappointed in an effort that could have been…

Friday, February 19th, 2010

For the past several weeks I was working on something – mentioned here before, an attempt at a calculator RPG which doesn’t use excessive amounts of memory, unlike other programs which would freeze up at the very beginning of the game. After weeks of being up at night listening to my favorite night talk radio [...]

“Happy Happy Joy Joy” Actually Consists of Burl Ives (Snowman in Rudolph) Quotes

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Burl Ives, better known as the snowman in Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, was also a children’s singer and actor whose quotes are repackaged in Ren & Stimpy’s “Happy Happy Joy Joy” under the name “Stinky Whizzleteats” This YouTube video, linked to by Ren & Stimpy creator John K’s blog, shows them side by side. [...]

Some fun quizzes

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

(I used screenshots in certain cases to more easily comply with standards) Big Five personality test (click the thumbnails below): (Big 5 is the only “professional” psychological test I’ve found which works for me. Others like the popular Myers-Briggs are always inaccurate.) Computer Geek Quiz     You Are Teal Green You are a one [...]