June 2010
2 posts
A Simple Proposal for Future Offshore Drilling:...
Often mitigating damage is easier than preventing it: 1) Require all future oil wells have one or more relief wells drilled right at the start. 2) Require companies slowly retrofit existing wells. 3) Resume drilling.
Fix the real problem: We don’t have a response plan for oil spills.
This may be an effective policy to allow us to more safely engage in this type of drilling in the future.
Wherein I Spot an Election Error on Sight
https://twitter.com/djcapelis/status/15758617571 https://twitter.com/DBowen/status/15762944328 https://twitter.com/DBowen/status/15766757538
May 2010
1 post
Via Google News →
Biggest financial reform bill in decades and what is on the front page of Google News?
White House sees a rat, but scientists say visitor is a vole
San Diego Union Tribune - 56 minutes ago By AP AP A vole, a small rodent, runs in front of President Barack Obama as he delivers remarks on Wall Street and Financial reform, Thursday, May 20, 2010, in the Rose Garden of the White House in...
April 2010
5 posts
Ken Thompson was not allowed to check-in code at... →
Now that’s an edge case they hadn’t planned on.
I wonder what happens when he eventually takes (took?) the test and gets a question “wrong.” Do they have to re-write the question?
Joe Auricchio on grad school
<jauricchio> but for me grad school has been like <jauricchio> yep i am a Sixth Year in college. So what. You wanna drink about it?
Tonight on confessions of a former undergrad... →
When I was a freshman I had this t-shirt pinned up over my bed. Oriented so the back side was visible.
Can you believe someone actually slept with me that year?
March 2010
1 post
June 2009
1 post
Downfall of Companies →
Perceptive!
May 2009
1 post
iPhone as art device →
April 2009
2 posts
The future approaches →
This was always sweet in Sim City.
March 2009
1 post
February 2009
2 posts
MIL-STD-188-125-1 →
This is what you read if you want to protect a building from an EMP shockwave. The guidelines are geared towards designing against a high-altitude nuclear detonation which would cause a specific type of EMP (called HEMP) that is annoying to deal with. This is the military standard for how one ought to deal with it. Most of the rest of the HEMP research is classified.
http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-witness-wife-ove... →
January 2009
12 posts
Virtual Desktops? Awesome. Spaces? Not Awesome. →
A KDE developer is surprised to find that Spaces is truely terrible to use and ponders how it could be that kwin’s virtual desktop implementation is just so much better. The answer of course is that Apple really messed up spaces and Linux has about 20 years on Apple at this, but that’s not really my point. My point is for everyone that says virtual desktops aren’t that great...
Speaking of side channels →
I love hacks like this… this one makes your monitor emit AM radio waves to transmit your MP3s to any nearby radio receiver. Well played! (…Ha ha hah………….)
Howto: Insult →
This is pretty amusing, mostly accurate and also depressing.
Potential in this one... →
Well there’s some potential here after all… (I’m linking to a blog which links to the real story, follow the trail of breadcrumbs for the full thing.)
