Trent Reznor has, it turns out, not only not lost it, but matured into a really profound voice. YZ is cheesy in places. It cannot be denied that there are a few place where he’s going for an effect that nobody can quite pull off except live. But songs repeat, and repeat, and repeat, and [...]
Read more →ER•20 High Fidelity Earplugs So, what we have here is ear plugs that have three soft rubber flanges and an engineered plastic stick. Somehow what this produces is a funny thing – ear plugs you can’t hear. Things are quieter, but sound just the same otherwise. Soon, you forget that they’re there. Apart from the [...]
Read more →1> Mahatma Gandhi showed that in some cases, poor people could resist political oppression by economic warfare and collected, calm non-cooperation. If he is understood as an economist, who understood that increasing self-sufficiency reduces the dependence on the State, and therefore, if the State is run by your oppressors, for your oppressors, you get a [...]
Read more →Take a cryptographic key, encode as a 2D barcode, then load on to a camera phone by taking a picture of the key. Generalizes to other devices of course.
Read more →Just to be sure this isn’t patentable. 1> Delicately manipulate a digital image to change it’s SHA1 hash and make bitwise comparison impossible. Options include taking a larger image and changing the subset of the image rendered down into a smaller image (i.e. moving the crop lines), adjusting brightness, contrast and other variables, like color [...]
Read more →Lots of extremely arty fiddly low level command line stuff for controlling desktop apps, things you just didn’t know, potential lifesavers etc. Good Stuff
Read more →Google singles out Darfur for special attention. There are a lot of other crises in the world. By singling out this one, Google is both contributing to helping solve it, and also throwing many other situations into the shadows. As I said before, “I am an individual with a foreign policy.” The new game of [...]
Read more →Weird conservation of energy effect where a stream of shampoo jumps back up into the air if it is being poured from a height on to a hard surface.
Read more →Bizarrely enough, we can see polarization without any instruments. How weird is that? Anybody tried this?
Read more →Japanese fisherman, a year younger than me negotiates the hardest obstacle course that the Japanese TV minds could create.
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