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This is something I'm leaving in 2009: the (very roughly) chronologically ordered contents of a bookmark folder I generously named "Research". Starting in February 2006 these links chart the rapid decline of so-called Intellectual Property from the meniscus of eccentric financial precedent to the depths of authoritarian insanity. You may also find ( Read more... )

Need to crack the security on the wireless networks of 250,000 - that's almost two-thirds! - of Eircom's broadband customers so you can share copyrighted content without falling afoul of Eircom/IRMA's private HADOPI law? There's an App for that.

Technically the Dessid app is marketed as a "password recovery tool" though the author admits it could ( Read more... )

This is the most horrifying moment in Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan's zombie/vampire novel The Strain:

...the FAA had cleared a fifteen-minute window of downtime for airports within the range of the occultation [solar eclipse], out of concern for the vision of the pilots, who couldn't very well wear filtered glasses during takeoff or landing ( Read more... )

Back in January 2006 I made this prediction:
Going to the movies is not what it used to be. Security at the studio-owned theatres is heavy, it's not a trip to be taken lightly. But if you want to see the film everyone is talking about without waiting a year for the home release, you have little choice. When you enter the lobby the first thing you ( Read more... )

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This just in from Slashdot:

"Google has launched a product called SideWiki. It takes the form of a plug-in to Firefox and Internet Explorer which allows users to mark up the web by adding comments which can be seen by anyone else running SideWiki."

Well, that's... humiliating. Don't suppose it could get any worse really.
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There is very little short of murder that we would not blithely accept the recording industry as being capable of, but this sort of stupidity really just beggars belief. ASCAP and the BMI want to collect royalties on the 30 second track previews in the iTunes store. It seems as though they are determined to cripple what little business they have ( Read more... )

StringThinger.com
This is what I've been working on for that last two weeks.

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Basically, StringThinger is a string manipulation multi-tool. It allows users to apply multiple transformations to a string through a "stack" of functions which can be saved and shared. Thing is, it's very ( Read more... )

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