A guy I worked with this died this morning. He sat no more than ten feet away from me and was a super nice guy. He was one of those people I felt I had an instant connection with. He was out sick at the beginning of the week, thought he had come down with a stomach virus. Then the next I heard--yesterday evening--he was in the ICU at Seton ( Read more... )

http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/local/over-10,000-without-powerRead more... )

http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2011-01/mexican-authorities-seize-homemade-marijuana-hurling-catapult-border

Technically, that's definitely a trebuchet.

This comment on Slashdot essentially encapsulates my feelings on the subject:

"It doesn't get around it. Unless you live somewhere enlightened enough to not allow software patents, it probably isn't legal to use without a license for the patented tech.Besides which, even if you do live somewhere with software patents then the liklihood is you ( Read more... )

I was making pretty good progress in getting my little wireless router with homebuilt firmware to convert/stream USB webcam into streaming H.264 which is found fairly ubiquitously on a lot of mobile devices particularly from Apple, and then I read ( Read more... )

The follow link gets me all hot and bothered: http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/RHEL6Xen4Tutorial

I'm so ready for a new nerdcore home project.

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The fact that an organization with an annual operating budget under $1 million is standing the multi-trillion dollar intelligence-industrial complex and military-industrial complex on its head is amusing to say the least, assuming that's the case... The other case is that Wikileaks is really yet another operation controlled by some US intelligence ( Read more... )

http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/local/austin-named-best-city-for-next-decade

http://www.astro.umd.edu/~avondale/extra/Humor/MiscellaneousHumor/TandemStory.html