lcreech writes with an excerpt from the Daily Mail’s description of a new Segway-style one-person vehicle being shown off by Honda: “The vehicle looks like a very modern unicycle and to ride it you…
Lately I’ve put a bit of thought into the state of drug policy in our nation. It’s really not in dispute that illegal drugs are a major problem which doesn’t seem to be on the road to solution. It’s…
“We should petition God to open source the universe.” via @harleypig
This is not really Mac-specific, but still a good idea. I like two things: sharing and encryption. But you can’t have both with wi-fi. Either you share it or you encrypt the OTA transmissions with…
99luftballon writes “The British government has officially apologized for the treatment of Alan Turing in the post war era. An online petition got more than enough signatures to force an official…
David Gerard writes “Remember the good old days of the 1990s, when you could teardrop attack any Windows user who’d annoyed you and bluescreen them? Microsoft reintroduces this popular feature in…
Quick: How can you get 23 MacBook Pros, 14 iPhones, and 9 iPods in 31 seconds, for free? Tip: According to this security video, you need four friends, a brick, and a visit to the Apple Store in…
Hey, I was just notified that my proposal to speak on Apache Lucene at the Utah Open Source Conference was accepted. The conference is October 8 - 10. I will also give a short discussion on Hibernate…
At Backblaze, we provide unlimited storage to our customers for only $5 per month, so we had to figure out how to store hundreds of petabytes of customer data. After looking at several overpriced…
![Fine, walk away. I'm gonna go cry into a pint of Ben&Jerry's Brownie Batter(tm) ice cream [link], then take out my frustration on a variety of great flash games from PopCap Games(r) [link].](http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/suspicion.png "Fine, walk away. I'm gonna go cry into a pint of Ben&Jerry's Brownie Batter(tm) ice cream [link], then take out my frustration on a variety of great flash games from PopCap Games(r) [link].")
