May
10th
Sun
10th
May
1st
Fri
1st
Apr
5th
Sun
5th
Exploding computer claims life
A young software engineer working with Tata Consultancy Services was killed in a suspected computer blast; his charred body was found in a sitting posture in front of the burnt computer.
Apr
3rd
Fri
3rd
Social network distributes free .mp domains
[Social Network] chi.mp’s exclusive long-term agreement with the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) for the .mp top-level domain (TLD) enables the company to give away .mp domain names free of charge. [via]Pretty neat. You can’t do much with the domains though, just use it for your chi.mp profile.
Mar
23rd
Mon
23rd
JPEG compression 600 times over: “Open the last saved jpeg image. Save it as a new jpeg image with slightly more compression. Repeat 600 times”.
Mar
18th
Wed
18th
Indian PM moves from Outlook to Squirrel Mail following virus infection
After making the discovery that the PM Office was failing to receive many emails on account of an MS Outlook Express virus, they’ve decided to dump MS and adopt Squirrel Mail.
Mar
13th
Fri
13th
Bicycle Built For 2,000 is comprised of 2,088 voice recordings collected via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk assembled to sing Daisy Bell. Workers were prompted to listen to a short sound clip, then record themselves imitating what they heard.
Mar
12th
Thu
12th
Feb
27th
Fri
27th
The rise of the unemployment rate is something that is rather unprecedented. The open source community to a certain degree is dependent on the willingness of people to contribute. We see no indication that anything might change there, but who knows? People need something to live off.
Feb
20th
Fri
20th
The 224 Word Palindrome
A palindrome is a phrase that reads the same forwards or backwards.
