“Forget your abacus? Lose your calculator? Every geek should know how to use binary to count to 31 on one hand. It won’t replace your slide rule, but it’s an attention-getter. If you’re familiar with binary you’ll pick it up quickly.”
I categorized this as being a ‘hack’, considering this is an innovative application of using fingers as an aid to counting.
“We’re three folks working to bring IM to Web 2.0. Hopefully this lets you get all of your IMing done in one place and makes it easier too.”
“When Lego executives recently discovered that adult fans of the iconic plastic bricks had hacked one of the company’s new development tools for digital designers, they did a surprising thing: They cheered. […]
All it took was being open-minded enough to see that their biggest fans weren’t trying to rip them off; they were trying to improve Lego’s products in a way that, just maybe, the company’s own designers hadn’t thought of.”
“Perhaps, [colleagues and friends] suggested, the AHA was monitoring internet traffic at the conference, or maybe the FBI was keeping a watchful eye on Arabic cardiologists. One colleague even suggested that the FBI had mistaken “PLoS” for the PLO. “But in any case,” said one colleague, “when did it ever become a crime to look at a Palestinian website?””
“Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) is providing new AC Adaptors free of charge to replace certain AC Adaptors that are supplied with the new black slimline [PlayStation 2]. To verify if you own an affected AC Adaptor you will need your [PlayStation 2] model number (located on the back of your console), your AC Adaptor code and AC Adaptor manufacturing date code (both located on your AC Adaptor).”
ps2ac.com via ITviikko via Juha
The instructions are available in many other European languages besides English (including Finnish).
“The recent news that South Korea is to take the US to task over Google Earth images which expose its military installations to close Commie scrutiny has provoked a mini stampede of other peace-loving nations eager to protect their assets from prying eyes. Enter stage right Thailand, which says it may ask Google to “block images of important state buildings vulnerable to attack”.”
“I was served notice yesterday that Watch Tower has launched a suit against me due to my web site: http://quotes.watchtower.ca/ […] Oh, be sure to not miss paragraph 31 for an interesting, and bizarre claim: the Watch Tower’s books and materials “embarrass[es]” the Watch Tower!””
“Top business publications refused to run our bold ad concepts because the headlines were thought too controversial. At Sun, we’re the radical engineers that build “ass-whoopin” technology – we’re not Miss Manners and we never want to be.”
“We would like to kindly inform you that we are in progress of switching data centers and upgrading the free hosting cluster with better and faster servers. Please note that the switch should be completed within 72h time frame starting from 13.09.2005 11:00h AM GMT. During the switch we are expecting downtimes of the user web sites and the main web site.”
Tämä vaikuttaa siis underground-sivun ja webkamerakuvan näkymiseen.
“Enterblogissa on tänään otettu koekäyttöön kommentointimahdollisuus. Spämmäyksen estämiseksi kommentit tarkastetaan ennen niiden julkaisua.”