NSA Lifer

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July 11, 1968
Your voice is always with me. Today I went to the bank and told the teller that your birthday was coming up and I wanted to get you a television. The teller really seemed happy about it, and he winked at me when he handed over the money. I know this is just my fantasy but I need something. I’ll put the money back in the bank tomorrow. I can’t get you a TV now. Contact would be treason, I think.
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Thermos

iphone propoganda

so you've heard of the iphone hack, read this blog i ran across, looks like its the frontlines of effort.

solar bike trip

san and dara may like this one:
http://www.solar-umpc.com/

lane spitting

please tell me you people on two wheels are not doing this.

carry a paddle if you become president

why? to ward off the attacking swamp rabbit of course.

gmail video

for all you nerds that haven't noticed the "watch our video" at the top of your gmail page... click on that or here. my two favorites are the legos and the old ladies.

better-n-utube

http://www.paulyanez.com/labs/apple/
has a nifty proof of concept using flash that shows video from popular sites.
snazzy.

motherload; game

i really enjoyed this game.
hint, dig deep instead of clearing out entire sections there are some good valued ore down there, upgrade often, ignore score reset when save often.
i like the idea of 'upgrading' - and the system was done quite well.

like wikipedia but

more honest about it's accuracy:



Uncyclopedia is a fun read.

car hack

anyone want to try this on their car?
I wonder how new the car has to be?
more info on using a laptop to start a car.

Rocky

I Just ran across this. the story seems a little too straight forward. I suspect you may have some explaining to do.

carbibles.com

Carbibles.com is a site with what I consider to be some really straight forward and easy to understand info on cars and specs. I read the section on oil and it agrees perfectly with what i've learned over the last few years. its a must read. for reference, it looks like the site was made and run by this guy

heres the proof its a good read and will suck you in.. after an hour or so of reading in the engine section (i knew alot of it, but his diagrams are superb) i ran across the following

[on the topic of extra valves] When you get further down the page (and if your wife / husband hasn't come and complained to you about spending so damn long reading this stuff so late at night), you'll find some more information on why this is A Good Thing.

I love his cost of ownership example. I think it will help most 'paris hilton' americans understand a little something. look for it on page 2 of fuel and engine

The owners of these vehicles are Barbie and Ken, and to be suitably sexist, Barbie has a pink VW Polo and Ken has a blue Ford Crown Victoria.

ok, off on a tangent, but oh well. its hard to find EPA MPG ratings for cars, but you can see it here where it is from real people submitting data. the datasets arn't very large, but it is big enough for me to see that i'm 1-2mpg low on my milage on the car, not bad, but hope i can do better. the cool thing is that in 2008 the EPA is changing how they rank cars, for example, they will actually turn the AC on when its on the dyno... still not a real world test, but at least the AC's running. see the comparison of what the old numbers were to what the 2008 numbers will be. everything is drastically reduced! all these scientists make up some crappy test when you all you had to do was have a temp worker drive it like crazy and make a few laps in LA and you'd have much more realistic results and it would only cost you the price of the car (the temp worker crashing it would be the obvious conclusion to every test)

housing bubble

another angle on the housing bubble. An interesting read, with GRAPHS

freecorder

freecorder is a tool for recording from pretty much any audio source (hardware based of stream based) and goes straight into mp3. this should replace windows recorder, and i think the interface is simple enough to replace adacity for most things. (i haven't installed it yet, so i'm not totally sure)

157mpg

the loremo AG boasts a 20hp 2cyl diesel stuffed into a 1000lb car, that hopes to do 0-60 in 10sec (manufacturer says 20 sec) and top speed of 100mph. a full $13,000 gets you 157mpg. if this german monstrosity makes it to the states in 2009 i may just have to upgrade.

check out this where highschoolers added an ultra capacitor and a 1.9TDI engine to a kit car and with $15k got 0-60 in 4 seconds and 50mpg

blackhat

heres a presentation from a VERY recent black hat hacker convention. its just to funny, i had to link to it. of course i found this on none other than offensivecomputing.net

for more, see all of metasploits presentations

red pill

I ran across this while looking at a hack mode in the nokia 770. unrelated to the 770, this instead talks about virtual machines and some vulnerabilities with their implementation. one of the higher quality quick reads I've stumbled across recently.

(anyone interested in rootkits and backdoors should read this thing)

it looks like the people on offensivecomputing.net actively search for virus's, trojans and general malware and eat it for breakfast*! this is where the origional paper is hosted.

*as in probably reverse engineer/decompile it, understand it, spruce it up and then most likely deploy an even worse version. ok ok.. thats just mean if its not true, instead see what they say about themselves

tug

crazy tugboat almost sinks

polish headlights

jen and i spent a few minutes (hours) and $25 to take 150k miles off the front headlights. you can see the how to on VWvortex if you need to do it on plastic lenses as well.