Archive for May, 2006

Oil industry PR firm and neo-con thinktank The Competitive Enterprise Instutute has got a new campaign out that’s sure to help convert all those tree-huggin’ hippies into reasonable, complacent oil consumers in no time at all - They’ve even got a video campaign, complete with a snappy catch phrase:
CO2: We Call It Life
In a move […]

By cole, 23. May 2006, 11:14 o'clock

Warning!
Thanks to the inescapable logic of the DeCSS, the following prime number is illegal:
4 85650 78965 73978 29309 84189 46942 86137 70744 20873 51357 92401 96520 73668 69851 34010 47237 44696 87974 39926 11751 09737 77701 02744 75280 49058 83138 40375 49709 98790 96539 55227 01171 21570 25974 66699 32402 26834 59661 96060 34851 74249 […]

By cole, 21. May 2006, 12:12 o'clock

If I told you there was a better way to put on a band-aid, would you believe me?
I didn’t think so.
Then may I present, wary naysayer, “How To Put On A Band-Aid So It Stay On All Day“… And, trust you me, this isn’t the only way that Japanese culture is slowly chipping away at […]

By cole, 21. May 2006, 11:10 o'clock

THE PRINCIPIA DISCORDIA
or
HOW THE WEST WAS LOST
DISCORDIANISM ACCORDING TO MALACLYPSE (THE YOUNGER), H.C.
Ande beeing the Officiale Handebooke of The Difcordian Societye ande A Beginning Introdyctun to The Erisian Misterees,
Which is Most Interesting.
Written under inspiration by MALACLYPSE (The Younger), H.C. Omnibenevolent Polyfather of Virginity-in-gold and High Priest of The Heretic Fringe & Protestant Persuasion
ALL HAIL […]

By cole, 20. May 2006, 23:59 o'clock

An athiest’s worst nightmare. TV’s Kirk Cameron explains…

By cole, 20. May 2006, 23:51 o'clock

If it isn’t obvious from my sidebar(s), I am a big fan of social bookmarking, and del.icio.us in particular. The ability to aggregate and browse the shared mindscape of all del.icio.us users aside, I am particularly fond of having instant access to all of my bookmarks, regardless of where I may be or the operating […]

By cole, 18. May 2006, 19:15 o'clock

A musical realization of the motion graphics of John Whitney as described in his book “Digital Harmony”, rendered in actionscript, perl, & flash. The music box has the bars for a 48-note chromatic scale - The pattern causes chords, ascending and descending runs and melodies to be heard as each “dot” passes the zero-point line.
From […]

By cole, 18. May 2006, 14:45 o'clock

A new trojan was discovered in the wild yesterday by Sophos Antivirus. Big deal, right? Well, here’s the twist:
The trojan, called Erazer-A, targets the default download directories used by numerous P2P programs. The trojan works by searching for the default download directories that download programs use, and deleting any file that is a .mp3, a […]

By cole, 18. May 2006, 12:19 o'clock