I was at the local VW dealer this morning buying a spark coil for my trusty 2004 GTI when I noticed a bunch of half-naked keys scattered around behind the parts counter. I thought it would make for an interesting picture so I reached across the counter, gathered them up, and laid them across the […]
An appeal court judge in Trieste, Italy reduced the prison sentence of a murderer who was able to show he has genetic mutations linked to violence. WTF? To me, it makes sense to do the opposite and just put the bastard to death right then and there. If you as a murderer are coming to […]
Mark Russinovich is like a legend… half of the dynamite due that used to be SysInternals. They put out tons of utils for Windows admins. With machine cloning technologies that came of age during the last administrative epoch, and virtualization cloning become commonplace, the NewSID util is probably the most used utility they ever put […]
Ok, warning. This post is blatantly callous and perhaps veers into sexist territory toward the end, but I think a point has to be made here. I read stories like these and just can’t figure it out. Three girls drown when they drive their Jeep into a pond. They have enough clarity and time to […]
Like the author of this website, I too have dreamed of the day I had enough time and skillz to build an automated sentry gun. Ever since I saw that scene in Aliens with these automated weapons, I thought it would be pretty sweet to mount a high powered BB gun on a tracking platform […]
As I stood there at the cash register (a PC running POS software), I noticed an upturned napkin with some writing on it. I couldn’t believe that someone (probably the manager) had written down not only the username and password (clearly marked with labels USERNAME and PASSWORD) but also the site those credentials were used […]
I always thought the fashion industry was quite strange, but this takes the cake. Hmm, maybe I shouldn’t mention food.
Every once in a while I have to do an unusual join in SQL and I can’t exactly remember what join type to use. I found this blog post and I think it perfectly visualizes the different types of joins, without a lot of text and fluff. Plus it references pirates and ninjas. What more […]
Apparently, clean smells promote moral behavior. From ScienceDaily: People are unconsciously fairer and more generous when they are in clean-smelling environments, according to a soon-to-be published study led by a Brigham Young University professor. The research found a dramatic improvement in ethical behavior with just a few spritzes of citrus-scented Windex. Of course, I immediately […]
From BoingBoing: Researchers have identified the pathway in the brain that causes cognitive impairment when we haven’t gotten enough sleep. In a new study, Penn State biologists and neuroscientists found that when mice were deprived of sleep, a particular enzyme built up in the brain’s hippocampus. The hippocampus is the region of the brain linked […]
