The Porn Myth
July 30th, 2007
From an article in the New York Times:
In the end, porn doesn’t whet men’s appetites—it turns them off the real thing.
10 Tips for Razor Sharp Concentration
July 29th, 2007
Writing to-do lists and keeping a schedule may keep you organized, but does it really help you get more done? I believe that organization is important, but what you really need is focus. Being able to sit down and concentrate intensely on your work for a few hours. Even a half hour of focused effort can get more done than an entire day of distraction and multitasking.
Brian Eno’s Ever-Evolving Ambient Art
July 28th, 2007
Advice for Students: How to Write Research Papers that Rock!
July 27th, 2007
No assignment save the comprehensive final exam seems to engender such fear in students as the research paper, especially the open topic research paper. Faced with the prospect of writing 5, 8, 12, or more pages on a topic of their choosing, a lot of students panic, unsure what to write about and how to research it. Far too often, students endanger their grades and even their academic futures by turning to online essay sites or other sources and copying what they assume is decent work (it rarely is, of course).
Wikipedia and the Intelligence Services
July 26th, 2007
Is the Net’s popular encyclopedia marred by disinformation?
Newsflash: Time May Not Exist
July 25th, 2007
Not to mention the question of which way it goes…
No one keeps track of time better than Ferenc Krausz. In his lab at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, he has clocked the shortest time intervals ever observed. Krausz uses ultraviolet laser pulses to track the absurdly brief quantum leaps of electrons within atoms. The events he probes last for about 100 attoseconds, or 100 quintillionths of a second. For a little perspective, 100 attoseconds is to one second as a second is to 300 million years.
All that funk
July 24th, 2007
Some very good funk mixes from funky16corners
zZz is playing: Grip
July 24th, 2007
This is a great video. It’s a one take & top shot with trampoline gymnasts simulating typical video effects.
DNS Tunneling
July 23rd, 2007
Did you ever sit at the airport or at a cafe and there was a unencrypted wireless access point nearby, but whenever you wanted to visit a site their website would pop up asking for a fee to use the internet through their AccessPoint (aka. Captive Portal)?
In most cases you are able to look up arbitrary hostnames, ie. google.com. That is because if you cannot resolve a host name your browser won’t display any site. So these providers usually allow to look up hostnames to then filter whether they are allowed to access the site or not. In the latter case, their pay-to-get-access site pops up.
But you can use the fact that you can resolve arbitrary hostnames to gain free connection to the internet. Not a very fast one, though, but still a free internet connection.
27 Design Guidelines/Fundamentals/Tips
July 22nd, 2007
The arts are called ‘creative‘ fields because there are no predetermined correct answers to problems, infinite variations in interpretations and applications are possible. But there are some things that can help you out…