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A 4D Rubik's Cube

Posted by spblat on June 8, 2003 10:59 PM

Want to make your brain hurt?

Click here to learn about a 4-dimensional version of Rubik's cube. Then download the simulation and try to solve it. Or at least play with it for awhile.

The original 3D cube has more possibilities than the age of the universe in seconds.

This 4D cube has more possibilities than the number of atoms in the universe.

Ow.

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Fyodor on Network Security

Posted by spblat on June 4, 2003 05:55 PM

Fyodor wrote Nmap, a world-class network scanning tool (which was subtly featured in a scene in Matrix Reloaded). Here is an amazingly insightful interview he did on Slashdot.

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Telling Humans and Computers Apart

Posted by spblat on May 16, 2003 03:39 PM

I just installed a great new Spam filter (TMDA) that forces you to prove you're human before it will deliver your e-mail to me. For now, spammers don't bother to reply to these confirmation requests, so I have instantly gone from receiving over 100 spams per day to zero. It's amazing! When the spammers catch on and start replying to my confirmations, I'll be ready, with a technology like those covered by The CAPTCHA Project.

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Floppy the Robot

Posted by spblat on May 9, 2003 08:45 AM

Is this what I'll end up doing with all my extra floppy drives?

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Home Automation

Posted by spblat on May 2, 2003 08:57 AM

Someday this old story will come true--here's the technology that will get us there! (Thanks Brian)

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Electric Bugaloo!

Posted by spblat on May 1, 2003 09:46 PM

I found elizzle bugizzle dot cizzle while looking for "Horn Dog" by Overseeer. It's the MAD track from a Mitsubishi Endeavor ad I've been seeing. Turns out it's a way cool site even without the track--nice purdy blog ya got there!

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Unbelievable Honda Ad

Posted by spblat on May 1, 2003 12:05 PM

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Have you seen "Cog," the 2-minute Rube-Goldberg ad for the new Honda Accord? OMFG.

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Madonna Tries to Stop P2P

Posted by spblat on May 1, 2003 07:35 AM

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This is classic. Madonna's new album, American Life, came out last week (and I think it might be as good as her last two). Anticipating (correctly) that it would be sought in all the peer-to-peer networks, Madonna and her label injected a false copy of the album into the P2P universe. Read on for the wacky result.

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Synergy

Posted by spblat on April 30, 2003 01:53 AM

http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/

KVM without wires or hardware? Gotta check it out. Thanks Elliott!

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Links, Links, Links

Posted by spblat on April 29, 2003 11:59 PM

For years, I maintained a links page, instead of using browser bookmarks like normal people. This is for a few reasons: 1) when there's an easy way and a hard way to do something with technology, I tend to be drawn to the hard way--the weirder and more time consuming the better; 2) I'm always blowing up machines, and got sick of forgetting to back up my bookmarks file; and 3) in any given week, I use lots of different computers, some mine and some not. I need my bookmarks anytime, anywhere! So here they are, in the "Links" category of my fancy new Blog. Mainly I use the ones on the left side of this page.