269 Electronics
On the way home from work today I stopped by 269 Electronics in Chinatown. From the outside this looks like a typical Canal Street junk store, with a big spread of knockoff watches, perfume, mp3 players, etc. on display. However…
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Views From a Teardown
Sometimes you find interesting things in the oddest places. Like a funnel of crashing foam. Or a new Jovian moon.
Last Chance for Beginning PHP!
If you’ve been considering signing up for Beginning PHP, do it quick! The class is this coming Sunday! The class is geared towards people with no prior programing experience, so don’t be intimidated if you aren’t too handy with variables and functions.…
E-Mail Waiting Light for Awesome August
Greetings! This is my last hail-mary #AwesomeAugust post before we roll into the decline and death of Summer here in the Northern Hemisphere. Not that I mind, the last few weeks have been a bit hot and humid, and I…
Awesome August – smashersDOTbiz
Zach and I pledged that we’d launch the best TV series on the Internet this month and here it is. SmashersDOTbiz is live. Because some things just need be smashed. If you like it or you hate it and you…
Another one bites the dust, first WEP, now WPA and GSM
PC Advisor: WPA wireless security cracked in 60 seconds The WEP standard for encrypting wifi networks has long since been easily crackable. Now the next ‘uncrackable’ standard, WPA, can be cracked in 60 seconds. Expect more and better automatic cracking…
Nanotron 3000 – iPod nano hacking robot
The linux4nano crew has put together the Nanotron 3000, a robot made with Lego Mindstorms for automating the brute force hacking of Apple iPod Nanos.
Last weekend’s Interactive Party round-up!
Last weekend we had a party to celebrate Awesome August. I am sure some folks missed it. That really sucks for them, because it was probably the best party we’ve ever thrown. A great deal of awesome was experienced by…
Seth Hardy running for (ISC)2 Board of Directors
My long time friend Seth, and a founding member of the Hacklab.to hackerspace in Toronto is making a run at Board of Directors for (ISC)2. In case you aren’t familiar with what (ISC)2 does, read their “about” page. The short…
What browser does a socialist use?
Apparently at least more then any other american political group, it’s Opera. Earlier this month I decided to use Amazon Mechanical Turk to test a hypothesis in which I posited that IE as a browser would bias to the political…