X-Cop Fly Company

conservapedia is down…

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

the internet is weird here. and it’s very hot. i hate laptops. At home it’s 99 degrees but it never reached that here. i hate the taste of hard alcohol even though the entire country likes it. there is just no sugaring out that terrible medicine taste. i’m getting kinda bored too. i was up [...]

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 [...]

The Man Who Changed The World

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

He taught our parents to question authority, he helped create the music we love, and before he died he predicted that computers would empower us and let us create our own reality. (Unfortunately it empowered the bad guys too.) And now his ashes orbit the earth. Here’s an awesome techno video made just before his [...]

Another Bunch of Quizzes

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

    Nerd Test 2.0:       You Are Brutally Honest Hey, the truth hurts, but that’s not exactly your fault. You call things as you see them and pull no punches. You believe that you shouldn’t be punished for speaking your mind. It’s a lot better than being a liar. In fact, you [...]

Life: 30 Dumb Inventions

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Life Magazine has a photo gallery of "30 Dumb Inventions from the Mid-1900s" (wow) Some, like the Baby Cage and the Dog Restrainer, were just tasteless. Others, like the Goodyear Illuminated Tires and the Flying Platform, I thought were pretty cool. The Finnish Portable Sauna looks like a predecessor to the modern Snuggie. A predecessor [...]

HelloFromEarth.net (continued)

Friday, August 21st, 2009

I had stupidly forgotten to copy and paste my HelloFromEarth.net alien broadcast message and so I had to wait until approval to search for it and put it on my blog. Well here it is: I hope this will be a fine addition to your collection of Earth transmissions. If you aren’t collecting, do-we’ve got [...]

Funniest Privacy Policy Ever

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

You acknowledge that your Hello from Earth Message may be read on our website by people from planet Earth, but may also be intercepted in space or be received by the target planet to which it is beamed, Gliese 581d, or other planets in the Gliese 581 star system. If you want to send a [...]

NASA: Send Your Name to Mars

Monday, August 10th, 2009

Put your name, country, and zip code on a microchip to be sent with the Mars Science Laboratory rover in 2011: http://mars9.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/participate/sendyourname/index.cfm

Yes, you saw right, it’s a brand new blog!

Friday, August 7th, 2009

All the Azz Pizz posts have been integrated into the “new project” I was talking about. This is the personal blog portion of the X-Cop Fly Company, a new TI calculator software development group. (As of the date of this post, there are currently no members other than myself.) The blog is my personal blog, [...]

The visitor count is rising, and I'm rejecting lots of spam comments!

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

I guess with these latest SEO moves we’re doing pretty well! (There’s a hot keyword to add right now And here at the Azz Pizz Institute, we do everything well, so well that we once won an award for “Kickest Assiest Think Tank” by Hot or Not Magazine (2005). We’ve won lots of other awards [...]