Friday, September 23, 2005
- "So, why don't we just nuke tropical storms?" [via feministe]
- Broadcast outlets and newpapers in Hurricane Rita's path anticipate going Web-only during the crisis [BoingBoing]
- Clickers bring remote control into classroom students' hands
- "Japan's coolest vending machines" will sell you porn, eggs, rhinoceros beetles - even refrigerator space.
- Someday your keyboard will snitch on you: UC Berkeley scientists have developed a way to spy on what is being typed on a keyboard from a distance - with high accuracy - just by the sounds of the clicking keys. Surprisingly, the keyboard emanations technique described by Doug Tygar, Li Zhuang and Feng Zhou doesn't require a "teaching sample" (an exemplar of each key's sound from a keyboard for comparison) for the method to work. [The just published paper linked on this page describes the technique in detail]
- Random observation: medium-gauge electric guitar strings will grow calluses on your fingertips with amazing speed. You've heard the old saw about "playing 'til your fingers bleed" (no thanks to Bryan Adams for that one), but I think the trick is to play 'til your fingertips are numb - after the pain stage, but just before blister stage, to the point where you experience slight peeling of the outer layers after a day or so. After all, if you get blisters, and the blisters peel off, you lose valuable callus-building epidermis. Thankfully, this only affects my (left) fretting hand, and I'm no southpaw. That is all.
- And now...the Friday Random Ten!
- Royal Crown Revue - "I Love The Life I Live"
- Sonny Rollins - "Opus V"
- Foo Fighters - "Friend of a Friend"
- The Style Council - "Long Hot Summer"
- Ladytron in the Velvet Goldmine OST - "Venus in Furs"
- Pedrinho Rodrigues - "Vivendo De Ilusão"
- KLF - "Rock Radio Into The Nineties and Beyond"
- Melissa Auf Der Maur - "Skin Receiver"
- The Magnetic Fields - "Take Ecstasy With Me"
- Karunesh - "Punjab (Chiller Twist Fruity Mix)"
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