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links for 2008-05-02

• Declassified NSA Document Reveals the Secret History of TEMPEST
  Who would have imagined that TEMPEST attacks were discovered in 1943?
  (tags: Security)

Posted by PJ on May 2, 2008 | Comment |

links for 2008-04-30

• The Billy Letters
  Richard Ramirez has Night Stalker™ stationary with a Night Stalker™ logo. When did serial killers get corporate identity packages?
  (tags: Culture Disturbing Funny)

Posted by PJ on Apr 30, 2008 | Comment |

links for 2008-04-29

• Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain Performs Life on Mars
  You really have to listen to the whole thing. There are some nice (and surprising) vocal overlays near the end.
  (tags: Music Video)

Posted by PJ on Apr 29, 2008 | Comment |

links for 2008-04-22

• Juno Movie Parody from MADtv
  “From the irritatingly quirky mind of Oscar award winner Diablo Cody.”
  (tags: Funny Film Video)
• Kosher-for-Passover Coke and Pepsi Are Back!
  How to identify cane-sugar colas.
  (tags: Interesting Useful Soda)
• PETA Pushes Test-Tube Meat
  This appears to be the most reasonable thing PETA has ever done.
  (tags: Science Food Ethics Environment)

Posted by PJ on Apr 22, 2008 | Comment |

links for 2008-04-19

• Bloxorz
  The rules seem really long-winded but this game-play is actually very intuitive and fun. Highly addictive as well.
  (tags: Games Flash Free)

Posted by PJ on Apr 19, 2008 | 1 Comment |

links for 2008-04-16

• Amazon Blows Away Objections
  A good rundown to the new EC2 features (and how they are game-changing).
  (tags: AWS EC2 S3 Programming Computing)

Posted by PJ on Apr 16, 2008 | Comment |

links for 2008-04-11

• Analytics According to Captain Kirk
  The guy who wrote this either needs to be fired or promoted.
  (tags: Analytics Scifi Funny Statistics)

Posted by PJ on Apr 11, 2008 | Comment |

links for 2008-04-08

• Decoding Hand Signals Used on the Floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange
  I can’t believe they still have actual traders on the floor of an exchange doing this. Computers anyone?
  (tags: Markets Funny Interesting)

Posted by PJ on Apr 8, 2008 | Comment |

links for 2008-04-03

• Two Fools
  In which OCR-A gets swashes, courtesy of Tobias Frere-Jones and Jonathan Hoefler.
  (tags: Typography Design Funny)

Posted by PJ on Apr 3, 2008 | Comment |

links for 2008-04-02

• Guitar Rising
  It’s like Guitar Hero, but with a real guitar.
  (tags: Cool Games Music)

Posted by PJ on Apr 2, 2008 | Comment |

links for 2008-03-25

• Scala Girls Choir Covers the Divinyls ‘I Touch Myself’
  This kind of reminds me of the Langley Schools Music Project.
  (tags: Music Funny)

Posted by PJ on Mar 25, 2008 | Comment |

links for 2008-03-20

• Les Horribles Cernettes
  The first photographic image posted to the WWW by Tim Berners-Lee.
  (tags: History Internet Funny)

Posted by PJ on Mar 20, 2008 | Comment |

links for 2008-03-18

• Derek Abbott’s Animal Noise Page
  What do *your* roosters say?
  (tags: Animals Language)

Posted by PJ on Mar 18, 2008 | Comment |

links for 2008-03-13

• Direct Note Access with Celemony
  It’s like autotune on the individual notes of a chord. I can’t wait to see how this gets abused.
  (tags: Music Cool Interesting Software Recording)

Posted by PJ on Mar 13, 2008 | Comment |

links for 2008-03-10

• The Psychology of the $14,000 Handbag
  “Mr. Schwarz calls the top-priced goods ‘anchors.’ Anchors, he says, set the ceilings on prices of objects that don’t have a clear value.”
  (tags: Marketing Consumption)

Posted by PJ on Mar 10, 2008 | Comment |

links for 2008-03-07

• Richard Feynman Playing Bongos
  “I gotta have my orange juice.”
  (tags: Video Funny)

Posted by PJ on Mar 7, 2008 | Comment |

links for 2008-03-05

• Comparative Sex-Specific Body Mass Index in the Marvel Universe and the ‘Real’ World
  Glad to know our public-health researchers are hard at work.
  (tags: Science Health Comics)

Posted by PJ on Mar 5, 2008 | 1 Comment |

links for 2008-03-03

• Famous Assassinations: Who Could Doctors Save Today?
  Pointless hypotheticals can be so entertaining.
  (tags: History Medicine)

Posted by PJ on Mar 3, 2008 | Comment |

links for 2008-03-02

• Geldof and Bush: Diary From the Road
  A very well-written account of Bush’s trip to Africa by Bob Geldof (of all people).
  (tags: Interesting Politics)

Posted by PJ on Mar 2, 2008 | Comment |

links for 2008-02-23

• Unclutter your writing with self-imposed limitations
  “At some point in our technological past we perfected word processing. Every feature since then seems to have subtracted from the experience. Do yourself a favor and look into some single-purpose, ‘underpowered,’ and self-limiting tech.”

Posted by PJ on Feb 23, 2008 | Comment |

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