Archive for February, 2008
Friday, February 22nd, 2008
This week I met someone who recently got to watch the Navy's latest railgun test firing in person.
The flames are caused purely by friction with the air, not by any kind of explosive propellant. Yikes.
The projectile was traveling at 5,600 miles per hour (Mach 7). By contrast, a ...
Posted in defense, news, tech | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
I've joined Twitter. Micro-blogging is a new evil that I must experience.
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Posted in crackbaby, meaningless, travel | No Comments »
Friday, February 8th, 2008
Speaking of Zodiac cipher news, Chris tipped me to this recent Florida news story:
A student at Rutherford High School was arrested Wednesday on a felony charge of making death threats against teachers and other students.
Freshman Dakota Gates, 14, is alleged to have written a coded note with detailed plans for ...
Posted in news, zodiac | 1 Comment »
Friday, February 8th, 2008
Brax Cisco, Wesley Hopper, and Michael Eaton have just beta-released their wonderful "Zodiac Decrypto" program, a fun piece of software designed to attack the Zodiac ciphers as well as other substitution ciphers. It uses letter-level n-gram frequency analysis (no, not Engram analysis!) to estimate the validity of solutions generated ...
Posted in computing, math, tech, toys, zodiac | 5 Comments »
Thursday, February 7th, 2008
The white noise of the internet comes and goes. Here is a recent example:
Round One:
On Jan 19, 2008, at 1:59 PM, kastoria01@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I want to propose you a deal, if you let me use your ebay account i
will give you 5000$ a month.
You will only have to let me ...
Posted in meaningless, pain, scams | No Comments »
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
I was just now looking at the Barack Obama Wikipedia article and was surprised to learn about his religion:
Obama, how could you???
I refreshed the wiki article, and the vandalism disappeared. Click here to see what it looked like when it was active.
Posted in bizarre, funny, meaningless, people, politics, tech | No Comments »
Monday, February 4th, 2008
In one of the biggest upsets in NFL history, the National Football Conference (NFC) champion New York Giants (10-6) defeated the American Football Conference (AFC) champion New England Patriots (16-0) by the score of 17-14.
A Patriots win in this game would have made New England the first NFL team ...
Posted in funny, meaningless, news, sports | No Comments »