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Back to Nebraska

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

I’m headed back to Nebraska for a friend’s wedding and to spend time with the folks. I’ll be there April 26th - May 6th.

While at the airport I picked up a copy of Fast Company magazine because Hack-A-Day was rumored to be in it. Well, the article is actually about some company called Facebook—I think they publish those Who’s Who books. That’s Facebook engineer Alex Moskalyuk rocking the fine Hack-A-Day threads. I met him at DEFCON last fall when he was working for Yahoo. Yes, the sombrero is required when sporting HAD gear.

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Hack A Day stickers

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

hack-a-day sticker
I returned yesterday from SXSW and have a ton of work to get to. Which is kind of refreshing since I actually like my job. I picked up these vinyl Hack A Day stickers today. I think I’ll peel out the skull and just leave the wrenches. Shmoocon in D.C. will be your first chance to get one from me.

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Pointless arguments

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

The term hacker is usually used by the press to indicate someone who breaches computer security systems. Using hacker this way is somewhat controversial. At Hack-A-Day we’re proud to embrace the original definition: a computer enthusiast. I got a tip the other day that apparently we’re wrong. Here’s the exchange that followed. (more…)

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Netscape Video

Sunday, October 15th, 2006

new office
I’ve got most of my gear set up now. The office floor is still covered in random crap. We had another torrential downpour the other night. I guess all the rain is going to arrive in October. In the free time I’ve been cutting videos from ToorCon for Hack-A-Day. Here’s the keynote by Cory Doctorow. My friends from Midnight Research Labs also released a great tool. I got the slides from Aaron and cut them into the video. They’re both 50 minutes and recomended only for the nerdy. It takes iMovie at least 10 hours to squeeze the ~1Gig MP4 down to 170Meg MP4 while maintaining the 640×480 resolution. I think it looks great. That’s a hell of a lot of time though and I really doubt iMovie 7 is going to add render farm support.

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World Record BASE Jump Jumping from the Burj Dubai

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Mark Bittman’s Bad Kitchen [via jimray]

Wed 15:53 - #

The 44th president by Patrick Moberg I've seen this illustration a couple places like the hilarious C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER! and wanted to make sure the source wasn't lost.

Mon 20:48 - #

Kathy McCarty - Rocketship Futurama: Bender's Game used the opening to this song. I really like the sample.

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A Sexy Halloween Goes well with Girls's Costume Warehouse.

Tue 14:05 - #

This T-shirt links to your Facebook profile. Uses ShotCodes which can store 49bits. ShotCodes use URL redirection (which you can update) because of the low bit count and presumably the circular design allows for faster acquisition. I like the idea, but data matrix and QR readers already have a huge install base not tied to a service.

Tue 11:31 - #

Living Out of a Shipping Container in Style

Fri 13:45 - #

YouTube - Wassup 2008

Tue 18:16 - #

PhotoshopDisasters: Marie Claire: On reflection, perhaps not This is a great retouching example. I kinda wish the vetical distortion had been corrected, but that's a bigger problem.

Sat 13:36 - #

In Defense of PG Porn & The Brothers Gunn Watch the video first. It's PG.

Fri 17:57 - #

The Things He Carried Jeffrey Goldberg and Bruce Schneier completely dismantle the airport screening proceedure.

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The MacGuffin Library (scroll down) Uses rapid prototyping to transport items from fictional narratives into the real world.

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Tutorial for creating a side-scrolling shooter in Flash There's a link in the post for doing it with free tools too. [via Waxy]

Mon 23:15 - #

I don't write any code currently, but I do enjoy reading about people solving problems. There were two good posts I read this week along those lines: First was Andy Baio and Joshua Schachter using singular value decomposition to correalate a massive dataset—something I've been interested in since my time at Propeller. Next was Chris Finke generating dynamic CSS sprites for the Mahalo homepage. They're both quick reads and definitely interesting.

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Don't Cry for Me, I'm Already Dead [via Cartoon Brew]

Tue 15:43 - #

Youtube, now in Super HD Hit restart after you let it buffer. A very neat hack. [via Waxy]

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ABC Family: Brigitte Dale Brigitte's new gig

Tue 18:04 - #

Interview Sarah Palin Answers generated using Markov chains. [via Matt]