Archive for December, 2007
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
The UK Daily Star confirms that I am not wasting my time with my fruitless pursuits of the Zodiac killer's unsolved mysteries:
But that’s if [Britney Spears] can tear herself away from the internet where she has been indulging her latest obsession – trying to solve crime.
The star has become fascinated ...
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
Another quick update to the Zodiac webtoy: now there are links to flip and rotate the ciphertext. This was a popular feature request that I finally got around to implementing. Enjoy!
(Zodiac webtoy)
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
I've finally made some more updates to the Zodiac webtoy! The biggest change is the addition of simple letter-frequency statistics.
Remember when Ralphie cracked the "secret code" in A Christmas Story?
Ralphie: [Reading his decoding]: "Be... sure... to... drink... your... Ovaltine. Ovaltine? A crummy commercial?!? Son of a bitch!!"
Here is the ...
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Saturday, December 1st, 2007
I enjoyed this brief glimpse of the underbelly of Apple's product marketing. An interviewer asks a touchy question about iTunes acting as a monopoly, and Apple's PR folks start to freak out:
(video link)
Such is the ugly reality of companies attempting to control expectations.
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Saturday, December 1st, 2007
From Microsoft's Help and Support pages:
Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music
View products that this article applies to.
Article ID : 261186
Last Review : March 27, 2007
Revision : 3.3
This article was previously published under Q261186
SUMMARY
During normal operation or in Safe mode, your computer may play "Fur Elise" or "It's a Small, Small World" seemingly at random. This is an ...
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