Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
Taser
Wanna see someone get hit with a taser?
Entries from February 2007
Monday, February 26th, 2007
Do gamers make better surgeons?
Via Reason, originally reported in the LA Times Doctors who reported having played video games at least three hours a week sometime in their past worked 27% faster and made 37% fewer errors on the surgical tasks compared with those who had never picked up a game controller, according to the study in the Archives [...]
Monday, February 26th, 2007
GEEK: How to install Firewatir on Intel Mac OS X Tiger
[EDIT: This is outdated! Go here for an updated tutorial. ] Firewatir is the Firefox version of Watir, which is a web application testing framework that uses ruby to drive Internet Explorer to run automated test scripts. Both Watir and Firewatir are developed natively on Windows–this is an incomplete, rough draft of my attempts to [...]
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
Hotel California
Okay, I'm back in the Bay Area. (San Mateo to be exact.) And all my worldly possessions are in transit.
Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
GEEK: Why does Thunderbird display attached text files as inline text?
Whenever I tried to send someone a text file as an attachment via Thunderbird, the “attachement” would be displayed as inline text when opened in Mail.app. This forum page explains why: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=121230 Although the fix below doesn't always work, it appears to work for me. When creating a message, by default Thunderbird treats text attachments [...]
Monday, February 19th, 2007
"You don't take books seriously." (NSFW)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWlPkUFJNJ0 Via .
Friday, February 16th, 2007
Think Small
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/16/realestate/greathomes/16tiny.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all The New York Times February 16, 2007 Think Small By BETHANY LYTTLE WHEN John Friedman and Kristin Shepherd of Berkeley, Calif., purchased 160 acres in the mountains near Telluride, Colo., it was with the intent to build — just not right away. Before designing a small, ecologically sensitive second home they wanted to spend [...]
