Just goes to show that armed robbers aren’t, as they say, “ze smelliest fish in ze drawer.”
Archive of entries posted on September 2009
“P2P pushes IPv6 surge”
Apparently the only thing preventing IPv6 from taking over was a lack of support from peer-to-peer file sharing programs. Whatever works, I guess.
“Post-Medium Publishing”
Interesting article. It makes a good point, and one that I (and apparently most other people too) hadn’t consciously considered before: [C]onsumers never really were paying for content, and publishers weren’t really selling it either. If the content was what they were selling, why has the price of books or music or movies always depended [...]
“Interview with author of Introvert Power”
Here’s some more on one of my favorite groups of people.
“Estimate Distances with Your Arm and This Rule of Thumb”
This might be the original “rule of thumb.” I can see how it would work in theory, but I’m not sure I’d trust it in practice.
“Thermageddon? Postponed!”
I only know enough about climate science to know that there’s a whole lot we don’t yet know about it. This article just confirms that view.
“Learn to Throw a Knife”
Like many boys, I spent quite a bit of time in my younger years trying to figure out how to throw a knife so that it would stick in whatever I was throwing it at, to no avail. Maybe this will help answer the question for future generations… though I shudder to think of the [...]
Apple, how I wish I could hate thee…
As I’m writing this, I just got off the phone with a customer service representative at a high-tech company. To anyone with experience in the matter, that sentence probably provokes a sympathetic wince, at the very least. But this was a very different experience. Let me ‘splain… no, there is too much, let me sum [...]
“SA pigeon outpaces broadband”
Hm… so, at least in South Africa, carrier pigeons are faster than broadband data connections. And 4GB in two hours is a very respectable bandwidth, too. I wonder if this was RFC 1149-compatible? (More on it here. I’m not surprised that someone else made the same connection, though I am surprised that no one at [...]
“German boffins invent steel Velcro”
Nuts and bolts? How twentieth-century! These days we just Velcro bridges together!