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Rove tactics infographic
Here’s an image I prepared based on a story about Karl Rover’s smear campaign tactics in salon.com . My graphic illustrates the story’s claims. I haven’t personally fact-checked it at all.
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A totally new way to play
This is really cool. It’s called Block Jam and it’s a sony design project . There’s a video you really should watch but maybe play with the flash demo first. My comments: It’s hard to learn, but once you do, it’s really neat the way it works. Use lots of starter blocks to get the cool effects.
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OS X color picker paean
Yes, it truly is cool: paean on the OS X color picker .
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american but not in america? you can vote
If you are an American citizen, but you live outside the US, you can still vote . Basically it’s really, really easy. Just follow the link at the end of this post, and fill in the easy questions. They’ll do all the work. All you have to do is add a stamp.
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cell phones galore
whee, I just unlocked my Nokia 3600 using this free nifty tool that I found using Google Groups (formerly known as USENET…). It had a SIM lock which meant that when I took my Fido SIM and stuck it in, no go I got the “SIM not valid” message. Now that’s fixed. Not that Rogers should complain since I’ve spent so much money on them. In other cell phone news, I just bought a P900 and I’m going to sell my P800 which I never used anyway. The P900 is just better for a development platform. I should actually make back a pretty substantial amount of the money I sunk into the P800 when I sell it on eBay. I hope.
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why lisp
Why lisp .
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downgrading debian packages
So I kind of managed to screw myself recently by upgrading gcc on my debian stable installation to the testing version to get gcc-3.3. ( First of all, will someone explain to me why gcc 3.3 still isn’t in stable yet? That’s just bizarre. ) So it turns out that the upgrade left me with a non-working symbian toolchain ( something’s wrong with wine? it’s hard to be certain ).
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more symbian errata
I’m now porting my Semacode DLL SDK over to windows so that I can build a WINS (emulator) library and DLL file. Needless to say there are some small hiccups. Here’s one. I’m using Visual C++ .NET, which while it apparently works, is not like the standard. They still consider VC6 to be standard I think. So when I get this error:
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Top Notch Idiots
So I just finished sending letters of complaint to VeriSign and a certain online vendor that shall remain anonymous until I’m sure they flushed my CC number from their system. These guy are really, really stupid.
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RFID privacy
The main problem with RFID is remote hacking. You can just walk by someone, or aim an antenna at them, and pick up their RFIDs. So in this example a malicious user can find out a kid’s unique ID, and potentially their full identity, just by walking by the kid.
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