The troubling consequences
If you’ll recall my earlier post regarding urinals, you’ll know that guys don’t like using the urinal right next to another guy. Here’s why.
Category Archives: Misc
The Pause
A co-worker comes up to you and says “How’s it going?” by way of greeting. How many of you pause almost awkwardly long, trying to decide whether to give the truthful answer (“sucky”) or the expected one (“fine”)?
Hmm
It looks like my daughter has developed a bit of an attitude problem: We sent this picture in to ThinkGeek (which is where we bought the shirt), and they posted it on the product page 🙂
On boycotts
A recent Bruce Schneier blog post got me thinking about boycotts. Specifically, the user “AwesomeRobot” made the following comment in response to another user who said they plan to forever boycott Sony due to the rootkits they put on music CDs in 2005: Boycotts don’t work unless you say you’ll buy from them again when… Read More »
Texas Instruments shenanigans
A group of enterprising TI calculator programmers have taken it upon themselves to factor the 512-bit RSA keys used by TI to allow applications (and OS updates) to run on TI calculators. (For those of you who aren’t cryptographers: basically it lets TI decide what can run on the calculator and what can’t.) In response,… Read More »