August 2007
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“He who knows not and knows not he knows not, He is a fool - Shun him.
He who...”
– A short verse by Bruce Lee
July 2007
128 posts
Paris Hilton loses inheritance | NEWS.com.au →
PARTY princess Paris Hilton is $60 million out of pocket after her billionaire grandfather - appalled by her jail term for drink-driving offences - axed her inheritance.
For the DeLorean, it's back to the present - Los... →
The iconic gull-winged sports car is once again hot, and there are plans afoot to place it back in production.
Backdoor and default passwords →
Many BIOSes have built in backdoor passwords to use to bypass a BIOS password which has been lost. This is, of course, an unacceptable way of handling this. No machine should have a backdoor password; this is a massive security hole. Instead, the machine should have a hardware jumper or dip switch located in a secure location that is not accessible when the case is locked. For desktops, the switch...
The President We Were Warned About by Robert... →
George W. Bush is the imperial president that James Madison and other founders of this great republic warned us about. He lied the nation into precisely the “foreign entanglements” that George Washington feared would destroy our experiment in representative government, and he has championed a spurious notion of security over individual liberty, thus eschewing the alarms of Thomas...
Frodo's Path to Rivendell - LOTRO Lorebook →
Aquafina labels to spell out source - tap water -... →
The War against bottled water continues. Lets hope bottled water dies.
100 Greatest Cover Songs / Remakes →
Me and My Mac - Columns by PC Magazine →
Me and My Mac 07.25.07 That’s right. I’m using a Mac, and, surprise, I like it. Deal.
speed of light in furlongs per fortnight - Google... →
Team sets solar cell record →
Using a novel technology that adds multiple innovations to a very high-performance crystalline silicon solar cell platform, a consortium led by the University of Delaware has achieved a record-breaking combined solar cell efficiency of 42.8 percent from sunlight at standard terrestrial conditions.
Journal » 7 Things You Didn’t Know Adobe... →
Ethanol is Not the Fuel of the Future » gimme-five →
I just got back from an interesting talk by a man named David Pimentel, who has written and given lots of advice regarding the national use of ethanol and biodiesel as sources of fuel to replace gasoline. Although many people believe that ethanol will be the fuel of the future that will free us from our dependence on oil, Pimentel disagrees. He asserts that ethanol production is economically...
Hydrogen Atom Scale Model →
MILITANTPLATYPUS » Blog Archive » The disturbing... →
Amazon.com: JL421 Badonkadonk Land Cruiser/Tank:... →
10 Reasons It Doesn’t Pay To Be “The Computer Guy”... →
How to Memorize Anything →
In college, I memorized 7 chapters of my psychology textbook — over 23,000 words. Yes, I could actually recite the entire 7 chapters to anyone willing to listen.
Amazing Slow Motion x-ray gun shots (pictures) -... →
Photos by Yinka Oyelese - photo.net →
“You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best...”
– Best Quote Of 2006?
DuH! Using Sink water to Flush the Toilet |... →
Large scale LEED projects sometimes install massive systems to treat and re-use greywater (water from sinks that has been used for washing, as opposed to sewage waste, which is termed black water) for flushing toilets. Now, you can do the same thing in your very own home!
