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Monday, January 18th, 2010I have always been sceptical about the more extreme claims of the Global Warming True Believers. However, despite news media and left wing politicians using the climate change issue to bludgeon the economy, I really had believed the underlying science.
However, many people saw the climategate emails as proof that the science had been manipulated. [...]
A BlackHat / DefCon Secure Communication Tip
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009From A Day in the Life of an Information Security Investigator, currently attending the Black Hat Technical Security Conference:
Here’s some early feedback for the folks connecting to wireless networks around BlackHat (and soon to be at DefCon).
Y’all aren’t taking this whole secure-communications thing too seriously.
Clear-text POP3/IMAP e-mail credentials are getting plucked out of the air [...]
Looking for a Life Partner Who Looks Like Your Favorite Actor or Actress
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009In a move that could stir up some controversy, Bharat Matrimony, one of most popular matrimonial website in India, has launched a facial recognition feature to help you search for a potential life partner who looks similar to your favorite film actor or actress.
You can either limit your partner search to a selected set of [...]
Car is a Rolling Obama Tribute, Owner 3 months behind on Payments
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009Label this story The American Dream, All care / no Responsibility, “the audacity of hope,” or just plain greed and irresponsibility but it probably won’t make the network news. Jennifer Hale of Scripps-Howard News Service reports on unemployed artist Jennifer Stone-Anderson of St. Petersburg, Florida, who used her free time to turn her car into a rolling artistic [...]
Share on FriendFeed Tweet ThisGlobal Financial Crisis hits Sesame Street
Thursday, March 12th, 2009The recession has spread from Wall Street to Sesame Street. Sesame Workshop, the 41-year-old non-profit educational organisation behind the Sesame Street television programmes and home to such luminaries as Elmo and Oscar the Grouch announced on Wednesday that it would eliminate a fifth of its 355-strong workforce as market turmoil ate into its income and [...]
Share on FriendFeed Tweet ThisWarlach’s Band has a new Album
Monday, March 2nd, 2009Actually, it doesn’t. And neither does mine. It’s the current meme du Jour of the web. I normally don’t indulge in these, but this one intrigued me…
From Warlach’s World, the instructions for creating your own album cover:
1 – Go to “wikipedia.” Hit “random”
or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is [...]
Maori receive IP rights over Haka ritual
Thursday, February 19th, 2009In a landmark decison, the New Zealand government has assigned intellectual property rights in the traditional Maori haka, the Ka Mate, to Ngati Toa, a North Island tribal group.
The haka war dance, made famous by the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team, was officially handed back to a Maori tribe on Monday 11 February to [...]
Madoff Fraud
Monday, December 15th, 2008The Wall St Journal has plenty of stories on what’s shaping up to be the largest fraud case of all time:
Bernard L. Madoff, a former chairman of the Nasdaq Stock Market and a force in Wall Street trading for nearly 50 years, was arrested by federal agents Thursday, a day after his sons turned him [...]
Why Newspapers are Dying
Friday, December 12th, 2008It’s all about the numbers, according to this O’Reilly Network article, Why Are Newspapers Dying?.
As of April, 2008, only three newspapers had a subscriber base in excess of 1,000,000 readers – USA Today (2.3 million), The Wall Street Journal (2.1 million) and the New York Times (1.1 million). Most newspapers average approximately 300,000 subscribers. This [...]
Australian charged after reposting YouTube video
Thursday, December 11th, 2008Any doubts I ever had about letting Government Officials decide what I can view over the internet have been completely erased. Apparently, reposting a video that shows a man swinging a baby by the arms (BTW, the baby is shown laughing and smiling at the end of the clip), that was broadcast on US [...]
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