While I think I'd heard the name in passing before, I hadn't paid much attention to Bitcoin until this week when news articles came up about malware trying to steal Bitcoins. I figured if it's successful enough for malware to target it, I should read up ( Read more... )

If you're the sort of person who turns off cookies in your web browser, you probably want to turn off local shared objects in Flash. They basically act just like cookies, but aren't as well advertised or discussed yet ( Read more... )

A while back I pointed out ReCaptcha, the anti-spam gadget that also helps digitize books. Useful and neat.

In a similar vein, the folks behind the distributed screen saver Rosetta, which does protein folding, have apparently made an interactive version called FoldIt that lets users aid in the folding and play it like a game. They just released ( Read more... )

For all of you who are addicted to leveling or collecting games and just can't seem to get around to real life tasks: EpicWin

quish just called me from the road to Google what type of glue to use for sticking paper to plastic (without it showing).

While searching for an answer, I found thistothat.com.

Totally minimalist, late 90s web styling, but amazingly useful for answering how to stick two things together. How had I not found this site before?

If you search around a bit, AMD sells a dual-core Athlon II that only uses 25W max. (AMD Athlon II X2 260u) Sure it only goes up to 1.8GHz, but it's a full-bore Athlon II in all other ways and you could passively cool it ( Read more... )

I assume we've all heard about the ridiculous amounts of sugar in most mass produced drinks. But for me, at least, thinking of it all in grams wasn't something I could relate to. I *can* relate to sugar cubes, though. One sugar cube is about 4.17g of sugar. (ref) It's a tangible amount, and I know I use 1 or 2 in a cup or tea, giving roughly 5- ( Read more... )

MTV's Amp.

A user going as NinjaAnonymous has posted quite a lot of episodes on YouTube.

Go. Enjoy. Be nostalgic with me.

Within the past week, Microsoft used some means of detecting Xbox 360s that have been used to play pirated games, or have been modified to allow the play of pirated games. The details of how they detected this haven't really come out yet, but there has been no mention in the news of a backlash against false positives, so I'm guessing it was ( Read more... )

For those who haven't been linked to it elsewhere, OkCupid's new statistics blog is freaking awesome. A couple of the math-heads who helped put together the matching system are doing data mining and analysis on various questions that OkCupid users have answered ( Read more... )