Category: bookmarks

So, even if I were to use one from the list, a hacker might still need 500 tries to crack it

Another case of the viral web & online protests

Interesting suggestions – should make for a nice change in perspective

The defining post for the internet OS. Quite an exhaustive one at that.

A thermal map of the satellite that resembles pacman

Wonder how all the data will be used

The detailed document is also embedded from scribd – http://www.scribd.com/doc/29115406

Interesting online application to build up reference points\scales for numbers

Companion site for the book of the same name.

A video of the entire flight is also available. Nice for sightseeing.

So now we can really say ow.. ow.. ow…

… or into an ad watching extravaganza

There you go: 'Scientists have finally confirmed what the rest of us have suspected for years: Bacon, cheesecake, and other delicious yet fattening foods may be addictive.'

A real legend & possible one of the greatest before Bradman

Also includes a greasemonkey script that works with Safari

A livejournal community for vintage ads. Quite a collection. Mainly US ads though.

How much is enough?

Not all that extreme, but quite a few extraordinary shots

Quite a list

Gravity I suppose, not to forget the radiation.
'Scientists have found that if a nuclear weapon did blow an asteroid apart, it could reassemble itself in a very short period of time, continuing its path to death and destruction.'

The original speech

The Matrix… Are we there yet?

Result of a competition apparently

Quite a videos

Series of posts leading up to the picking of the worst company in America for the year. Wonder who'll win.

Useful utility to help troubleshoot & repair OS installations. Available in both CD & USB versions.

Software to track the activity of employees online. Wonder what this means for privacy.
via http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/social_sentry_track_employees_across_the_web.php

Who'd have thought of applying carbon dating to wine

Some really costly mistakes.
An example: 'In 2006, an broker for Mizuho Securities in Japan wanted to sell off a share of J-Com stock. The price he wanted? ¥610,000. So he entered it into the system and then noticed something slightly off. He realized that he told the system to sell 610,000 shares for ¥1 each.'

So how much of it does actually happen?

I still prefer my apps to be free

'The discussion started innocuously enough, within Bug #532633 in light-themes (Ubuntu) on Launchpad, where the order of the window controls within the Light theme were requested to be re-arranged to be on the upper right side of any given window. Light, it seemed, now placed the buttons on the left side, similar to the Mac OS X interface. '
'It's critical to recognize that open source does not bring complete democracy to software development. It never did, and it never should. Ultimately, someone in the developer chain will have to make the tough calls.'

I used the more mundane buses & autorickshaws & the likes

Useful guide

The changing face of online referrals

Very interesting technology. Can turn out to be of immense value if it can be extended to organs.

A handy list of tools not just for remote media streaming & control, but also for remote desktop usage

The top 10 real life quotes from a magazine contest. Real gems.

An interesting image creation tool in the form of flames

A set of online tools for image & media editing

Just a matter of scaling it up then

A handy guide to use vmware to setup a virtual WinXP installation

A handy tutorial with a humorous presentation

Toothpicks can be really handy & so can the photoshop clone tool

The puzzle: 'There are three guardians, A, B and C. Their names are Knight, Knave and Chaos. Knight always speaks truly, Knave always lies. Chaos tossed a coin this morning to decide whether today he would behave like Knight or like Knave.
Your task is simple: ask three yes-no questions, each of a single guardian, and determine which is Knight, which is Knave, and which is Chaos. There is, alas, a complication: the guardians understand English but will answer in the local language, in which “Da” means yes and “Ja” means no. Or possibly “Ja” means yes and “Da” means no – you cannot remember.'
There's apparently an entire page on wikipedia for the puzzle including a solution – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hardest_Logic_Puzzle_Ever

NASA technology and macrophotography come together to produce a stunning set of images of the real alien ant farm.
A clear gel that holds up in zero gravity & during take off to make special ant farms for NASA

Very interesting talk on how the usage of free time has changed over time
via http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/03/but-its-better-than-tv.html

'Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. It has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.'

A very handy software along the lines of Privoxy that acts as a local HTTP web-filtering proxy.

Understand the reason behind success or failure & the context rather than blindly following a company or leader.