Tag Archives: Hacks
Review: Makers by Cory Doctorow
I loved this book. Forget my review and go get it now, it’s wonderful. If you don’t have the scratch right now, that’s ok: Cory Doctorow walks the talk and has published his book under a creative commons license. You can get “Makers” for free at his site as a pdf, as html, ePub, or as [...]
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How to snag images that someone doesn’t want you to get in 4 steps.
Sometimes on the web people think that they can deliver images or music to your computer for you to look at or listen to, but somehow keep you from possessing. They can’t.
The NYC Government IT has given up.
My buddy Ian has a great post about his experience trying to find out if he had to move his car. Seems the DOT updates this info on Twitter rather than putting it out on their own website. Now that’s just crazy, but I know why. Sam used to work for the city and I’ve [...]
Better Berkeley Webcasts even better
Nate Whitten wrote in with a suggestion for Better Berkeley Webcasts. He wants to save all of the files to check them out later. He’s using a download manager like Down Them All1, but Berkeley’s files are named poorly, so he doesn’t know which one to watch first. Even better, he sent in the fix [...]
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Professor Robb Willer and the Golden Apple
The group of misfits I grew up with has turned out pretty well. One of them, Robb Willer was my debate partner for a while. He’s gone on to be a professor at Berkeley. Robb won the Golden Apple award for being an awesome teacher. How awesome? Robb’s got intellectual groupies! Berkeley put up Robb’s [...]
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BangoWhatthehell
I am intrigued by this weird advisory on cryptome, keeper of, if not all, then at least exclusively, things you are not supposed to know. There’s no attribution, no explanation, and no other mention of this on the web. The very short gist is: Avoid the treacherous anonymous web browser, bangotango.com. It is harvesting unwary [...]
Internet Explorer, Firefox Preview release and porn.
I’ve recommended to a number of my friends and coworkers that they get firefox for a nicer time browsing this here interweb. If you are still using Internet Explorer, it’s important that you get it updated rightnow. There is a current vulnerability in IE that means simply looking at a .jpg can let bad guys [...]
Steganograhic Poetry II
I just had another idea about steg poems. You could also use a binary scheme. Unfortunately it’s even less practical, as you need even more lines for each letter. My previous scheme involved a 26 line key, then one line per letter. So for a message X letters long, it would take X+26 sentences. Unfortunately [...]
Steganographic Poetry – A Rhyme Scheme
I was thinking about rhyme schemes the other day. You basically take a poem, like a limerick, and map the rhymes to letters. A limerick would be: aabba. a There once was a man from nantucket a Whose dick was so long he could suck it b He said with a grin, b As he [...]
Dasher for Android – coming soon!