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Caltech Michelin Lecture
Caltech Michelin Lecture
01/03/2004 05:55 AMgreat speech about how science is letting us down .. "consensus
science" is not science at all .. Aliens Cause Global Warming ..
speech by Michael Crichton .. very interesting talk .. a fabuous
speech .. more» ..
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Caltech and JPL Build 50ft Robot
Caltech and JPL Build 50ft Robot
12/31/2004 05:11 PM"tech dork mills like Caltech and MIT"
"tech dork mills like Caltech and MIT"
06/22/2005 02:23 AMThis is a must read: "We're looking for a few boring dorks; the engineer
shortage made simple."
[Forwarded to me by an MIT faculty member who probably wishes to
remain anonymous. Posted from the delightful FBO in hip lakeside
Madison, Wisconsin (UW is not a "tech dork mill"), about to leave for
Winnipeg.]
MIT, Caltech offer low-tech voting
advice
MIT, Caltech offer low-tech voting
advice
09/22/2004 04:10 PMThe universities suggest taking along a sample ballot, among other
election tips.
Caltech Researchers Weigh Individual
Molecules
Caltech Researchers Weigh Individual
Molecules
04/01/2005 06:38 AMQ&A With MIT's Nicholas Negroponte
Q&A With MIT's Nicholas Negroponte
06/17/2004 04:34 PMMIT's technology matchmaker
MIT's technology matchmaker
01/26/2004 02:20 AMBoston Globe Jan 26 2004 6:53AM GMT
MIT's Stata Center Dedicated
MIT's Stata Center Dedicated
05/09/2004 06:27 PMMIT's Music Net Shut Down Over License
Issues
MIT's Music Net Shut Down Over License
Issues
11/01/2003 05:20 PMSome Possible Office Pranks
Some Possible Office Pranks
06/17/2005 06:17 PM
As a public
service, we're bringing you a list of interesting and topical office
pranks from Pocket-Lint. I think my favorite, which appears above,
involves clover seeds (?), a keyboard, board chow, and a bit of water.
The resulting chia keyboard made me pee a little.
If you would like to amuse me today, please send your images of
office pranks to tips at giz. We'll post the best few.
Office
pranks on the increase [Pocket-Lint]
Office pranks
Office pranks
06/17/2005 03:35 PMDavid Pescovitz:
Pocket-lint has a small photo gallery of hysterical office pranks.
Gizmodo, where I saw this post, is
seeking reader submissions of other office
prank photos and will post the best few.
Link
(via Gizmodo)Reinventing the wheel: MIT's "music
sharing network"
Reinventing the wheel: MIT's "music
sharing network"
10/29/2003 12:13 AMMIT's Tech Review Pulls A Jayson Blair
MIT's Tech Review Pulls A Jayson Blair
03/22/2005 05:03 PMnonuser writes
"MIT's Technology Review retracted two stories on
reaction by HP rank and file employees to the firing of CEO Carly
Fiorina, both written by a New York freelance journalist named
Michelle Delio. The stories referred to a Hungarian immigrant,
identified only by the initials G.S., who worked at HP's Imaging
System Laboratory for nearly three decades before resigning in disgust
in 2003. G.S. compared Fiorina's leadership with that of the
Communist regime he had fled. The only problem was the employee
apparently didn't exist, as HP officials pointed out to the
embarrassed Tech Review editor." Delio (who also used to write
articles for Wired News) apparently still insists that the guy is real
-- but no one else can find any evidence of him. It's also not clear
if this is a case where Delio made the guy up, or someone tricked
Delio into believing he was real. The original Tech Review article
was a bit strange. When reading it, it seemed that the guy put in
enough information about himself that it would be quite easy to figure
out who he was if you worked at HP Labs. Still, what may be most
interesting is that HP actually did an internal investigation to
figure out who the guy was.
Office Pranks Update
Office Pranks Update
06/17/2005 06:14 PM
We're getting lots of
fun office pranks, and we might just have a winner. Please keep the
pranks coming, though, and please remember that it's not a prank if
you just stuff your boss in a fridge—this means you R.J. of
Chicago. That's what they call manslaughter.
Keep 'em coming. We'll post the best ones tomorrow.
MIT's LAMP music network shut down over
licensing issues
MIT's LAMP music network shut down over
licensing issues
11/01/2003 12:54 PM"credit card signature pranks"
"credit card signature pranks"
03/27/2005 04:45 AMApril Fool's Day Computer Pranks
April Fool's Day Computer Pranks
03/31/2005 05:36 PMAbout Mar 31 2005 9:39PM GMT
Media Pranks Start When You're Young
Media Pranks Start When You're Young
06/17/2005 03:38 PMNational Spelling Bee entrant Dominic Ranz Ebarle Errazo had
apparently slipped in a Napoleon Dynamite reference during his brief
appearance on TV, and then he showed up in the comments on Romenesko's
Obscure Store blog on TypePad to talk about it. Well done, Ranz!...
Truly Unbelievable Credit Card Pranks
Truly Unbelievable Credit Card Pranks
06/22/2005 02:41 AMHere’s a series of real life pranks by a guy from Zug.com who
wanted to see just how important credit security was when he used his
card at various stores and restaurants. He starts out slow - signing
names other than his own, advances to wacky names like Beethoven, and
even devolved into drawing ducks, hieroglyphics, and a little grid
picture. None of it mattered. (The photos are hilarious.) Eventually
he started signing blatant theft…
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Office Pranks - The Silver Medal
Finalists
Office Pranks - The Silver Medal
Finalists
06/17/2005 06:11 PM
Some of the mid-level attacks
include:
GADC's demonic Mac Scripting: "Make a Shutdown script and save
it as an applet with a name that in no way implies its true nature.
Then set it up to run on startup or on login. Now whenever the victim
starts up or logs into the computer, it'll shut down. This one is
killer for obvious reasons."
Tim's Birthday Chair:
Disassemble a musical birthday card and carefully tape it
underneath a coworkers chair so that when the chair is leaned back,
the card activates. It took more than four hours for one coworker to
discover the source of the intermittent noise!
And Brendan's Word hack:
Subtle in execution, but so hot when it yields results.
Change the AutoCorrect on a coworker's Word settings such that when he
types in, say "facilitate," it gets auto-corrected to "faliatiate".
Don't have the patience to wait for him to type facilitate? Change
"the" to "teet", and so on.
And the Silver Medal goes to Anthony and his ’84 Westfalia
van cubicle mod. The van cost $400, but the joy it gives is
priceless.
Office Pranks - Bronze Medal Finalists
Office Pranks - Bronze Medal Finalists
06/17/2005 06:13 PM
Well, I received quite
a few pranks these past few days. Some good ones, some bad
ones—mice in the blender? Come on Emeril!—and here's the
best of the worst. The Bronze Medalists dealt almost exclusively with
computerized mayhem, which is kind of a cop-out. But you're all
special in your own ways.
The most basic prank came to us from just about everyone. It's
good and important, don't get me wrong, but it's been played.
Essentially, you take a screenshot of someone's desktop and make that
the wallpaper. Hee hee.
Brendan Colby writes:
We took a co-worker's monitor power cable and ran it
through the wall into a separate power strip/surge protector so we
could turn his monitor on/off at our leisure.
Rubin sent us an entire list of possible pranks including, but not
limited to:
Taping up the microphone of someone's phone, causing
them to speak louder.
Put a piece of clear tape on the glass of the photocopier. This is
fun, but it has a second part to it. If the sheer frustration of
someone having to make 100 copies all over again isn't enough, you
could try making 100 copies of the piece of tape, and then load the
paper into the paper feed. Funny to see people go crazy trying to
figure out why the copy is coming up with this square on every
page.
Post a For Sale on the lunchroom posterboard with your co-workers
extension, offering to sell "One size adult XL outfit of baby
clothing, including pacifier, bottle, bib and diaper."
James suggested using BoinkMail which allows you to send embarrassing things to your coworkers. Or
just send embarrassing things to your co-workers.
And the winner of the Bronze Medal is the big, pink office created
by Dan. The performance and planning were quite ambitious, though the
ultimate delivery could have been improved by a hit of Hello Kitty.
Stay tuned for the Silver and Gold medalists later today.
RE/Search Pranks Festival in San
Francisco on Saturday!
RE/Search Pranks Festival in San
Francisco on Saturday!
12/02/2003 01:39 AM
"Fifteen years after it first hit shelves, PRANKS! remains one of the
most important and relevant books ever to emerge from RE/Search's outre publishing
house. In today's current surreal political landscape, a well-executed
prank can do much more than yelling theater in a crowded fire!
In that spirit, RE/Search and The Lab present The Pranks! Festival
(Saturday, 12/6). The Pranks! Festival will celebrate ten Bay Area
artists who appeared in PRANKS! Through art exhibits, panel
discussions, and chaotic socialization, we will fete the fearless
Situationist spirit that San Francisco's pranksters embody. This is a
rare opportunity to engage with prankster pioneers Mark Pauline of
Survival Research Laboratories (SRL), Monte Cazazza, Bruce Conner,
Paul Mavrides, Mark McCloud, Mal Sharpe (yes, of Coyle & Sharpe),
Fluxus anti-artist Robert Delford Brown, John Trubee, tattoo guru Don
Ed Hardy and Jello Biafra (tent.)."
Update: Milton Rand Kalman, Chief Scientist of the
Billboard Liberation
Front, tells us that the BLF will also be making an appearance!
Link
April Fool's Day prompts Google, Apple,
Bush pranks
April Fool's Day prompts Google, Apple,
Bush pranks
04/01/2005 12:12 PM
Blog: April Fool's day is here, and pranksters worldwide are making
merry.
Probably the best roundup of jokes this year...
No weekend
No weekend
05/28/2004 05:06 AM
You know... I have nothing planned for the weekend (except for the
optional regular events). It feels so strange - I don't think I've
had a zero weekend for months. Rest will do some good, I'm sure.
Though, knowing myself, I'll probably end up coding some sorely missed
JSPWiki
stuff regardless of the weather; sitting in a dark room and becoming
generally obsessed with finally releasing 2.2 :-)
Weekend fun
Weekend fun
07/31/2004 07:10 PM
Been having a stag party. Not mine, though, contrary to some rumors.
Pretty much traditional stuff, except that a) I have not slept since
Friday (39 hours up straight I think - I opted for quality time with
Outi over sleep, I think I'm going for my record here), and 2) the
weather has been tossing some surprises our way. Suffice to say that
we have been very wet.
Sleep now.
This weekend...it better be!
This weekend...it better be!
12/05/2003 11:20 PM
Ow my ass. I didn't think I was going to take a spill on a double toe
today. And I...
So like, what did we do this weekend?
So like, what did we do this weekend?
10/29/2003 12:09 AM
Well, for one we went to a wedding in sweden… My mothers cousin,
who lives near stockholm got married.. On...
What a weekend!
What a weekend!
04/19/2004 11:05 AM
My wife scored some new office furniture at a warehouse sale. The
deals where unbelievable so you can guess what...
Yet Another Weekend Is Upon Us...
Yet Another Weekend Is Upon Us...
04/15/2005 01:10 AM
... so, what have you done this week for the goodness of the world?
:-)
IE Weekend
IE Weekend
04/19/2004 05:50 AM
I didn't do anything except work this weekend on an IE toolbar for
a client.
Much of the time was spent on pushing pixels around to try this
look and that effect.
Still, it's not state of art GUI because Win32 alphablending
functions are not supported
on all the platforms. I won't be doing much animation
either. Just no
time and no room.
Thankfully, the visuals are mostly done and I can move on to
messing with IE's COM
objects and events. Lots of joy there (eyeroll). I
would rather design
new technologies and lead special teams on hot projects but being a
consultant means
having to do what clients ask for. I sure hope rest of you
had a better weekend
than me.
Not Everyone Has a Bad Weekend
Not Everyone Has a Bad Weekend
09/26/2004 05:18 PM
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Wow, A Weekend!
Wow, A Weekend!
03/19/2003 10:25 PM
Amazing. I just spent a weekend without touching the computer for
longer than 15 minutes. This is a rare thing...
In Lillehammer for the weekend.
In Lillehammer for the weekend.
05/07/2004 09:09 AM
We’ve gone up to Lillehammer for the weekend, due to a death in
the family. Luckily, my parents have finally...
A Weekend With The 4G iPod
A Weekend With The 4G iPod
07/26/2004 07:19 PM
It's definitely a step forward. And I can't tell you how great it is
not to have those touch-sensitive buttons anymore. By Jason Snell,
Macworld (via MyAppleMenu)
Executive Weekend
Executive Weekend
06/20/2004 03:53 AM
Free Internet Press Jun 20 2004 7:13AM GMT
SF RoboGames This Weekend
SF RoboGames This Weekend
03/26/2005 09:00 AM
SCALE 3x Next Weekend!
SCALE 3x Next Weekend!
02/06/2005 01:09 AM
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Real Networks), Jon "maddog" Hall (Linux International), Larry McVoy
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Totally 80s Weekend
Totally 80s Weekend
04/09/2004 04:00 PM
I'm a child of the 80s and I take great pride in it. I've always
scored above average on the various "80s purity test" sites. As a
result, I have a particular fondness for the popular music of the
80s--especially the one-hit wonders that seemed to make up a fair
amount of the Billboard charts. One of the few local radio stations
that I can tolerate (there are exactly four) has been playing only 80s
music this weekend, calling it...
Downtime this weekend
Downtime this weekend
08/07/2002 03:29 PM
evolt.org will be unavailable from approx 1700 GMT on Friday August
2nd until the middle of next week, as we're moving all our servers.
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