Now, Matt, I gotta say I had never heard of you before this afternoon. But, well...
Just take a look for yourself.
Really pretty inspirational if you think about it.
July 8, 2008
June 21, 2008
June 20, 2008
Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers
From the "No-Shit-Sherlock" department:
June 16, 2008
Lucky.
I think we really lucked out.
Building damage surprisingly low -- Yomiuri Newspaper
June 11, 2008
Crash test
Here's a little something to make you think about the engineering that goes into controlling the destructive power of a traffic accident.
April 19, 2008
Major vulnerability in Adobe Flash
A rather nasty bug has been found in Flash which allows a malicious website to run arbitrary code-- for all intents and purposes what this means is the site owner can take complete control over your computer. I won't explain botnets here, but typically computer taken over in this fashion function normally to the person using them but are also twisted to send out massive amounts of spam to both email hosts and to comment forms on sites like this one, host web sites used in online fraud (phishing), run hacking operations, and run extortion rings based on distributed attacks which can take down pretty much any website. This is done without the computer owner's consent or knowledge. Pretty much every piece of spam you get is from one of these compromised systems. And we all hate spam, don't we?
If you're a responsible computer owner, you should make sure your browser and operating system are patched up, but usually the Flash player is neglected in these upgrades. (Flash is used to display videos on YouTube, ad content on websites, and interactive stuff like online games.) You can check here if your Flash player is up to date, and if the version is less than what's listed on the chart you should download and install the latest version immediately.
February 27, 2008
You'll not find a better Buddha
A friend showed this to me the other day. It's a deaf dance troupe performing; they've practiced for ten years together. It's one of the most amazing things I've ever seen.