(context: we live in a ~560-square-foot one-bedroom apartment with a gas stove and radiators. we don't have a television, microwave, or electric coffee maker, and we use our building's shared washer and dryer.)
after spending a significant portion of my workdays reading about home energy displays, i wanted to ...
(more after the jump)On January 6 we celebrated Mazie's 23rd birthday. Her friends arrived to a back yard bonfire. It was a relatively mild January evening. A wonderful group drifted in and out till dinner was served around 6:00. Mus and I left them to it, but we hear a good time was ...
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Every few years, the MPAA’s lobbying power, rhetoric, and immense campaign contributions succeed in purchasing a bill in Congress to advance their agenda in a way that’s hostile to the technology industry and consumers.
Their bills have had mixed success and usually die before being brought to a vote, but ...
(more after the jump)More pictures of Berlin today, taken in late November, 2011. This follows on my earlier post, “Berlin #1”.
Despite the WW II bombing, there’s still a lot of nice old buildings around. And of course the industrious Germans have rebuilt many of those buildings as well. I like ...
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Google Earth's Lessons in Wave MechanicsTechnology Review Feed - arXiv blogTechnology Review Feed - arXiv blog 2012-01-05
A close look at Google's virtual globe reveals almost unlimited examples of the way waves behave.
Google Earth provides a cornucopia of exotic images of our planet taken from above. For the most part, the focus of attention is on the land and the cities, roads and natural formations that ...
(more after the jump)Today, I gave a talk on an implementation of a man in the middle (MITM) attack on HDCP-secured video links. Here is a full copy of the slides that I presented (with explanatory diagrams), as well as the text-only of the paper which accompanies the slides, below.
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Imagine you walked into your mother's kitchen and you found her on the phone. She was gossiping to a friend about family business. She was telling them about your grandparents, your aunts and uncles, your cousins, you and your siblings - no ...
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HAXLR8R is a 111 days startup accelerator program which is focused on providing hardware-based startups from ALL OVER THE WORLD with the appropriate support to deliver their concept into a competitive reality! Let’s check out the rules:
How it works
HAXLR8R runs from March through June 2012, with the ...
(more after the jump) Rickshaw - Realtime JavaScript graphing libraryThe Changelog - Open Source moves fast. Keep up.The Changelog - Open Source moves fast. Keep up. 2011-12-12
Rickshaw - Realtime JavaScript graphing library:
The Shutterstock team has released Rickshaw a nice-looking JavaScript library for creating real-time graphs. The project supports a number of graph types, built-in color schemes, and the ability to load data via JSONP, all in an object-based API:
var data = [ { ...Zipcar CEO Scott Griffith, in an otherwise pretty standard interview:
Our Millennials survey shows that this group is substituting trips on the asphalt highway for trips on the information superhighway.
This is my favorite sentence of the week.
Amendment 1092 to the Defense Authorization Act of 2012 is a well-intentioned but misguided provision outlining measures designed to reduce the prevalance of counterfeit chips in the US military supply chain.
The Defense Authorization Act already has drawn flack for a provision that gives the US military authorization to detain ...
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Search Git history easily with git-diff-grepThe Changelog - Open Source moves fast. Keep up.The Changelog - Open Source moves fast. Keep up. 2011-12-01
Search Git history easily with git-diff-grep:
Always on the lookout for Git timesavers, I’m a regular user of Vincent Driessen’s git-flow and TJ’s git-extras. The newest addition to my git toolbox is git-grep-diff from Oscar Del Ben. This simple bash script allows you to search your ...
What happens when a government wants to build hackerspaces?Seeed Studio BlogSeeed Studio Blog 2011-11-30
It is going to be true! Shanghai Government Technology committee has announced a proposal that to build 100 “innovation houses” funded by the Chinese government. Each space is required to be at least 100 square meters, open more than 200 days a year, and equipped with wood lathes, metal lathes, ...
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[Images: From Minescape by Brett Van Ort].The Minescape project by Los Angeles-based photographer Brett Van Ort looks at the ironic effects of landmines on the preservation of natural landscapes, placing woods, meadows, and even remote country roads off-limits, fatally tainted terrains given back to animals and vegetation.
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[Image: From "Flight Assembled Architecture" by Gramazio & Kohler].Semi-autonomous flying robots programmed by Swiss architects Gramazio & Kohler "will lift, transport and assemble 1500 polystyrene foam bricks" next month—starting 2 December 2011—at the FRAC Centerin France. The result, they hope, will be a "3.5 meter ...
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[Image: Men of Good Fortune, North Kivu, Eastern Congo, by Richard Mosse (2011)].Photographer Richard Mosse, whom long-time readers might recognize from his two interviews here on BLDGBLOG, will be celebrating a new show tonight, Thursday, November 17th, at the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York City.
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[Image: Photo by Alissa Walker of Gelatobaby].An overlooked urban land-use typology is the telephone pole farm, used for honing the climbing skills of telephone-repair personnel, as seen here in a photograph from Los Angeles by Alissa Walker. Along these lines, it might be interesting to explore a ...
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I’ve just returned from my first vacationin China. I came to the realization earlier this year that despite routine visits to China, I had only seen one tiny part of China — mostly the insides of factories in Guandong province. I’ve heard that China is much bigger than that, ...
(more after the jump)The Ware for November 2011 is shown below. Click on the image for a much larger version.
To give a sense for the ware’s size, here’s a shot of the business end with my hand as a scale reference.
Have fun!
A few years ago, I ran into my friend Jay in the MIT Infinite Corridor. He was looking for volunteers to have their pictures taken and then added to the library of freely licensed and remixable media that would ship with every version of Scratch-- the graphical programming ...
(more after the jump) Move over, Frank Miller: or why the Occupy Wall Street kids are better than #$%! SpartansContrary BrinContrary Brin 2011-11-13
A few days ago, the famous comic book writer and illustrator Frank Miller issued a howl of hatredtoward the young people in the Occupy Wall Street movement. Well, all right, that’s a bowdlerization. After reading even one randomly-chosen paragraph, I’m sure you’ll agree that “howl” understates the red-hot fury ...
[Image: Via China Digital Times].China's leaders are "largely insulated" from the everyday air breathed in the country's notoriously polluted urban environments. "As it turns out," the New York Timesreports, "the homes and offices of many top leaders are filtered by high-end devices, at least according to ...
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