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ThansCornerThansCornerNews articles, musings, coldfusion, technology, gadget and web design discoveries, code snippets, and Than's commentary on the news of the day - a filter of the news and web through my lens of interest. Not a journal Not a diary. Just commentary.
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2007-10-30 06:07:00 Have you ever found yourself sitting in class, or reclining on a hillside beneath a beautiful sunny day, and realized the depth of things within which you were immersed? Walking along, deep in thought or worry about the difficulties of the day, it’s pretty easy to walk along a path or through a front yard, ... More About: Philosophy , Life , Nature , Photography , Title
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2007-10-30 06:07:00 Have you ever found yourself sitting in class, or reclining on a hillside beneath a beautiful sunny day, and realized the depth of things within which you were immersed? Walking along, deep in thought or worry about the difficulties of the day, it’s pretty easy to walk along a path or through a front yard, ... More About: Philosophy , Life , Nature , Photography , Title
Left Brain vs. Right Brain Optical Illusion
2007-10-29 21:44:00 Perth Fun: The Right Brain vs Left Brain test A friend of mine pointed out the above article about testing left-brain/right-brain dominance. The idea is that judgments can be made about hemispherical dominance according to which way someone perceives the spinning of the dancer. Those who see it as a clockwise rotation are right-brain ... More About: Science , Life , Optical Illusion , Optical , Illusion
Judgement on Al Gore?s Inconvenient Truth
2007-10-19 22:37:00 Check out these two articles in that order. It’s amazing what people can do to science. Junk Science: Hey Al Gore, We Want a Refund! vs. An ‘error’ is not the same thing as an error London Justice Burton heard a case regarding the problems with presenting Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth to classrooms across the UK. ... More About: News , Politics , Life , Nature
GoDaddy Applications
2007-10-19 19:33:00 I’ve been hosting this website on GoDaddy for five months now and I’ve been incredibly happy with the experience. Server uptime has been reliable, the administrative interface is very smooth and easy to user, and at $4.95/month, the price is right. Something I hadn’t realized until this morning, though, is the suite of applications they offer. ... More About: Web Design , Applications
A Few Web Development Tips to Secure Your Web App
2007-10-16 07:06:00 This is somewhat old news (the original blog was written November 2006) but it’s a really good collection of simple things we can all keep in mind to avoid gaping security holes as we develop new web applications. Included are reminders about the vulnerabilities in browsable directories, plain-text variables, and freely-visable web stats from ... More About: Security , Web Design , Web Development , Tips , Development
Books, Cars, Plane Tickets and Such?When to Buy
2007-10-15 00:55:00 Ok, so I hate to simply post links to things I find on Life hacker quite this much, but some things are just too good to let go. Everything Finance did an analysis on the cheapest days to shop for certain types of things including books, plane tickets, hotel rooms, cars, clothing….you get the idea. ... More About: Cars , Books , Tickets
Quick and Dirty Photography Tips in 60 Seconds
2007-10-15 00:36:00 From lighting to composition to landscapes and portraits, there is a lot to be learned in a short period of time from this whirlwind tour of photography tips. These tips may not be applicable in all cases or true for everyone but know I personally get bored of taking the same kinds of shots ... More About: Photography , Tips , Dirty , Quick , Seconds
?Victory for Costa Rica?
2007-10-09 19:32:00 The Washington Post Article by the same title represents what we can safely consider to be the general United States perspective on the matter. The approval of the “Tratado de Libre Comercio” by 51.5% of the Costa Rica n voting public represents the culmination of several years of debate over the issue and it’s many ... More About: News , Politics , Victory , Life
Free Online Course Materials From MIT
2007-10-09 04:01:00 If I had the time and energy, I’d take courses in a huge variety of different departments and subjects. Unfortunately, my college career is 4 years long, and majoring in Physics and Computer Science, I’m limited mostly to courses along those lines. I recently stumbled across MIT’s OpenCourseWare which hosts more than 1700 courses, fully accessible ... More About: Education , Free , Online , Materials , Materia
Mozilla WebRunner 0.7
2007-10-05 18:35:00 Firefox has been our browser for quite some time now, touted all along as safer and more efficient. Everyone knows, though, that firefox has memory leaks and, when using many of the web applications out there (gmail, meebo, facebook, etc.), firefox can slow down to a crawl. Mozilla ’s WebRunner is a streamlined version of the ... More About: News , Websites
Embodying Wisdom
2007-10-03 03:51:00 Lost in a world, fresh and vivid, the weary and seeking mind of a man beneath the blossom of branches and colored leaves begins a journey. The novel, whose pages flutter like the leaves above on the autumn breeze, could be a calculus text, or a romance novel, or a simple story with ... More About: Philosophy , Life , Wisdom
Block caller id for your cell phone call
2007-10-01 17:56:00 I had forgotten about this useful bit of cell phone lore. Now and then, there’s a time when you wouldn’t want someone to have your number or know it was you who called. To make a cell phone call that will show up without your caller id info and number, dial *67 before the call. More About: Technology , Phone , Cell Phone , Cell , Call
Protesting Monks in Burma
2007-09-26 20:52:00 By 12:30 p.m., hundreds of monks, students, and other Rangoon residents approached the police, stood in the road and began to pray. Then the soldiers and police began pulling monks from the crowd, targeting the leaders, striking both monks and ordinary people with canes. Several smoke bombs exploded and the riot police charged. The monks ... More About: News , Politics , Life , Burma , Monks
Turn a Smartphone into a Webcam
2007-09-26 19:02:00 SmartCam Alas, I can’t personally justify to myself the need for a smartphone, but if I could, I would totally take advantage of this SmartCam project. You install a server on your machine and then extract the client on your smarphone and voila! you have your very own portable webcam. I could see this coming in ... More About: Technology , Phone , Smartphone , Webcam , Turn
Xming and Linux Programs on your Windows PC
2007-09-24 23:02:00 As a computer science major, I spend a fair amount of time in the Science Center on Linux machines working on homework and projects. With the semester wearing on, the trek over there and the time spent in the lab have become more and more of an annoyance. Solutions for my laziness? I could ... More About: Windows , Technology , Programs , Grams
Your Online Footprint
2007-09-21 02:08:00 Each of us has at some point done a google search of our name, curious about what sort of information is out there to be found about each of us. Taking this process one step further is a new site in beta called Pipl. Enter the first and last name, and home city of a ... More About: Online
ReCAPTCHA Putting Website Users to Work
2007-09-17 23:33:00 ReCAPTCHA puts a new spin on the typical ‘Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart’ (CAPTCHA) CAPTCHA describes a technique for restricting website access to spammers or bots by means of an image with scrambled letters that a human user should be able to recognize and authenticate. ReCAPTCHA ... More About: Website , Work , Putting , Users
White House Benchmarks on Iraqi Progress Released - Success?
2007-09-14 22:37:00 White House Press Release on Assessment of Iraqi Progress This morning, the White House released the mandatory assessment of Iraqi progress on a number of benchmarks. All-in-all, there has only been one additional ’satisfactory’ benchmark rating since the same assessment was made in July. So, our ultimate purpose for military and political action in Iraq was ... More About: Success , White , Released
Xbox Media Center
2007-09-14 21:59:00 Lifehacker: Turn Your Xbox into a Killer Media Center This article is really a sweet tutorial for how to turn your (probably) neglected Xbox into a networked media center capable of running video, music, and additional applications off of its own hard drive or those of any PC on your network. I look at this and ... More About: Media Center
Productivity
2007-09-13 01:56:00 Skimming through my daily set of blogs this afternoon, I encountered one of the many productivity posts out there, outlining a system for organizing your life, managing time and getting things done in an orderly and effective manner. These things pop up all over in different forms all over the web, appealing to our universal ... More About: Productivity
Oh Man Apple?
2007-09-10 23:12:00 With the most recent set of apple announcements came a new line of iPods and an updated price on the iPhone. The iPod nano got a makeover, shaped now to handle movies with a wider screen and more square design. The iPod Classic got a slightly sleeker design and a price cut. Most exciting, ... More About: Apple
Off to Canada
2007-08-05 09:09:00 Well I’m off to Canada for five days of camping in the woods of our neighbors to the north. I expect it’ll be a good chance to relax without the usual hustle and bustle of daily life. Believe it or not, the laptop stays home - nature at its best without interruption. ...
And We Thought the Age of the Pirates Had Drawn to a Close
2007-07-27 04:39:00 I’ve always wondered if this sort of thing still happened in today’s modern world of high-level weapons and global surveillance. Well, it turns out some 200-300 pirate attacks are reported each year to the Piracy Reporting Center in Kuala Lumpur. Long gone are the days of rope-swinging, eye-patched, parrot-adorned raiders, plundering the riches of the ... More About: Pirates , Thought , Close , Irate
Nighttime Light Show
2007-07-27 04:20:00 This is one sweet video. This group used long exposures to paint each frame with multicolored lights and then ran them together to make a minute-long Spring commercial.Take a look at the sky over time and recognize how long these guys were out there… Hit up this Link for more about the artists.] More About: Show , Light
Interesting Security Exploits
More articles from this author:2007-07-27 03:30:00 Talking with my good friend Chris Mueller this afternoon, we stumbled across an article about a cross-site scripting sort of vulnerability that’s pretty wide-spread on the internet. The general background is that many many dynamic websites, including probably this one, use forms or variables in the url of the page to communicate information from one page ... More About: Security , Interesting , Exploits , Eres 1, 2 |
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