The race heats up to replace the jet turbine with a more efficient source of Mach-breaking airpower: the pulse-detonation engine.
Read More : Popular Science | After Combustion: Detonation!
Monthly Archives: August 2003
Scanner to Camera
The Blackout
The Blackout is a blog someone has created to post all the pictures of NY while on blackout. Pretty crazy to see thousands of people walking across the Brooklyn Bridge. Guess I should add that all the pictures were sent in via SMS from cell phones.
Over at The Gothamist, they have posted a lot of great pictures.
Guy dumps girl for iPod
Movie -> iPod Love by Devon
King of Spam Interview
This guy sends out 2 billion emails a month. It’s all spam and he’s responsible for it. Read his interview.
From his home office, where a dozen rack-mounted computer servers hum 24 hours a day, Scelson in customary T-shirt and shorts sends millions of e-mails to 50 or so computer servers in the USA, China, South America and Europe. It costs $20,000 a month to pump out e-mail hawking everything from insurance to toys to lingerie. Software plows through 165,000 e-mail addresses an hour, searching for the roughly 16% that are active. Automated e-mail is then sent to the accounts, asking subscribers if they want spam. On average, only 3,000 of 5 million respond “yes,” Scelson says. He says he continues to send e-mail pitches to those accounts and leaves others alone.
Read More : USATODAY.com – ‘Cajun king of spam’ stirs pot of controversy
Arnold Talk
Some interesting blablabla on Arnold for Governernor.
On August 6th, 2003, the audience attending the Tonight Show recieved a direct witnessing of an historic, jaw-dropping occasion: the announcement of candidacy for the California governorship by former weightlifter and current movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger. Mr. Schwarzenegger (“Arnie” as the media likes to call him) smiled for the camera, waved a massive American flag, and gave what amounted to a full-on political speech, peppering it with catchphrases from his blockbuster hits.
Read More : Arnold Schwarzenegger
Wooden Video Art
I want this in my apartment. Damn neat.
he Wooden Mirror project is an art installation, and as such the goals leading to its creation are a bit vague. The piece explores the line between analog and digital. In the essence of the piece is the notion of inflicting digital order on a material that is as analog as it gets ñ wood. I was hoping to take the computational power of a computer and video camera , and seamlessly integrate them into the physicality warmth and beauty of a wooden mirror. The piece reflects any object or person in front of it by organizing the wooden pieces. It moves fast enough to create live animation.
Read More : Wooden Mirror
A tiny update
ok, so ive added tables to make this blog look more cleaner. I’ll be updating more in the future, who knows when for sure. Thinking about changing the color scheme to resemble my photoblog, but don’t know. We’ll see.
New Windows Worm/Virus
Time to patch your XP and 2000 installations.
By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus Aug 11 2003 3:13PM
A malicious worm that exploits last month’s RPC DCOM vulnerability struck the Internet Monday afternoon, targeting unpatched Windows 2000 and Windows XP machines.
A malicious worm that exploits last month’s RPC DCOM vulnerability struck the Internet Monday afternoon, targeting unpatched Windows 2000 and Windows XP machines.
The worm, dubbed “Blaster” and “LovSan” by security and anti-virus companies, attacks vulnerable machines over TCP port 135, then spawns a shell and initiates a TFTP file transfer to retrieve the worm’s code.
Read More : SecurityFocus HOME News: RPC DCOM Worm Hits the Net
Life Update
Lallapalooza was fun yesterday. It was damn hot during the day, ended up sweating like a donkey in a sandstorm. Incubus was really good, they covered a lot of unique songs. They covered Lionel Richie – “Hello” and Shudder To Think – “X-French Tee Shirt”. Very good covers. Audioslave was great. Chris Cornell did some of his solo tracks. His voice was a little off when he first got on stage, but got much better after warming up. Queens of the stone age was an interesting set. And of course Jane’s Addiction was great.
So I was thinking about signing up for a 24 hour fitness membership. I checked their online membership FAQ and much to my surprise.. they were way expensive. $179.00 Enrollment fee + $89.00 processing fee + $35 a month! Dangdilly thats a lot of money. So I can go work out 3-4 times a week. Isn’t there any way to get some kind of discount. I’d be happy with no sign up fee, no processing fee, and $20 a month. I guess I’m just being greedy… They’ve gotta make money somehow eh?
I accidentally bought some Planters Dry Roasted, “Light Salt” peanuts. They’re kinda bleh. Will make sure not to buy “light salt” again. Work is fine.. Keeping busy like usual. Currently working on spam catching techniques with perl and procmail. Also, I’m still working on the timeclock management software. It’s getting pretty intersting and I’m getting close to finishing up things.
Saw American Wedding on Friday night. I thought it was definately the funniest Pie movie to date. Stiffler is crazy like a shillymonster. They still kept that annoying asshole (i dont have any clue of his name) who always has the role of “hey guys lets be buddy’s and friendship blablablabla”… Funny thing is at the ‘happy ending’ when everything works out for everyone, they somehow forget to show what the hell happened to him. Guess he was just too unimportant.
Kylie was a bundle of joy this Saturday. Took her to the mall with me shopping, she was so good. She was being roudy making loud noise and clapping in the food court and people were looking and laughing. She’s just one big cutiemonster. She kept getting pouty when we’d go into a store with nobody around, the minute we got back in the mall, she got happy and clapping again. She’s so silly. I miss her every bit of my day.
Finished my photoblog over the weekend. I think the layout is pretty solid, now I just gotta find something to photograph everyday.