The story is that Tom Bihn designs and makes bags for laptops and other stuff. Or, at least that’s what Tom says at his site. Tom Bihn has been designing and making bags for well over twenty years. Daypacks he made when he was 13 years old are still in use, and in Santa Cruz, […] » about 100 words
He’ll be on parole of a long time, and he’s facing a number of additional restrictions, but Kevin Mitnick is finally free!
Apple's iPod has spawned a cult of devotees unseen since the Newton. » about 100 words
On the Media’s recent show on November 29th and a piece in All Things Considered explored the relationship between technology and pornography. This is familiar territory for some—Wired magazine reports on it regularly…
Click the links above and listen for yourself.
According to Nathan at PlasticBag.org, Apple has a plan. » about 300 words
Watching QuickTime movies in your terminal window is the height of geekiness. » about 100 words
Mac animators have a tool to do their bidding. » about 100 words
So the project to crack a 64-bit RC5 encryption key is over. Some computer in Japan figured it out in July, but everybody was too busy to notice until last week. The real news here isn’t that 64-bit RC5 is crackable (everybody knew it could be done, eventually), the real news is that they compiled efficiency statistics on the various computer platforms that did the job. Here’s the quote, straight from their press release: “Our peak rate of 270,147,024 kkeys/sec is equivalent to 32,504 800MHz Apple PowerBook G4 laptops or 45,998 2GHz AMD Athlon XP machines…”
To emphasize the point, it takes about 1.5 PCs to do the work of one Mac, even though they operate at very different clock rates.
Hmmm.
Tech artist has online portfolio. » about 100 words
More geeky than Macworld? Less geeky than a linux conference? » about 100 words
What a motley crew who work for ITS. Click for pictures.
Just as I'm about to retire my old Newton, just as I'm exporting the contacts and calendar entries, I rediscovered why the Newton was -- and still is -- the best PDA ever. » about 400 words
Here's a computer book that works. » about 100 words
Listen to internet radio while away from broadband. » about 200 words
My overwhelming interest in earth-tones and browns leads me to look for them and define them numerically. A lousy overview of color models, especially the HSV model. Originally written for one of my classes. Click here for PDF.
[UPDATE]: I’d like to point out a later story about color blindness and streetlights.
Hammernode dynamic DNS services couldn’t be better. Well, what could be better than a free, high quality service?
Apple’s docs on embedding QT media in web pages. It’s here mostly as a bookmark for me.