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Interesting follow-up to my last post…from Skirmisher.org:
Tomas Bohr and colleagues made plexiglass buckets, 13 and 20 centimetres across, with metal bottoms that could be rotated at high speed by a motor. They filled the bucket with water and spun the bottom to whip up the liquid into a whirlpool that rose up the sides of [...]

Test post via Flickr email

Originally uploaded by jarnot.

A faithful remake with excellent graphics and a modern interface is ready for downloading…
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Just found this video on YouTube:

Here’s an excellent list of Japanese emoticons (or smileys). VERY different from the emoticons that originally developed in the West.
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Steve decided that if a company copied the Mac ROM into their computer, he would like to be able to do a demo during the trial, where he could type a few keystrokes into an unmodified infringing machine, and have a large “Stolen From Apple” icon (featuring a guy in prison bars!) appear on its [...]

Wired News: History’s Worst Software Bugs
Excellent article detailing the worst bugs of all time.

The obituary of a Chicago-area WWII veteran named Theodore Roosevelt Heller requests “in lieu of flowers, please send acerbic letters to Republicans”. Within days, hundreds of people have left comments on his obituary page pledging their support.
Just for fun, I’ve created a Wikipedia entry for “Heller Letter”.

Via Boing Boing:
WEP, the access-control system for WiFi, is notoriously shit. Now Fed computer scientists have shown an attack that can break a WEP key in three minutes. Gabe sez, “Brilliant approach, using a second computer to re-send the same packet back to the router, thus generating more traffic, thus catching more weak packets, etc.”

The [...]

Why do computer geeks celebrate Halloween on Christmas?
Because Oct 31 is equal to Dec 25.