this guy is my hero. a sweet hack using a wii remote. he's also done a couple others.
http://deflatermouse.vox.com/library/video/6a00c2252555dbf21900e398caa6ad0002.html

oh those crazy disgruntled suspender-wearing unix admins, bringing down power grids and whatnot.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/20/angry-unix-sysadmin-tries-to-shut-down-california-power-grid/

i pity any parents that are trying to get their kids a last-minute wii.
http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9835932-1.html

putin is man of the year. sorry bush. interesting article.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/personoftheyear/article/0,28804,1690753_1690757_1690766-1,00.html

absinthe is legal again, and is being produced by a small local distillery i first heard about in make magazine.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/05/MNQJTO9FM.DTL

you think your job is stressful? try directing airplanes full of people at one of the world's busiest airports by communicating with their pilots who don't always follow directions or have english as a second language.
http://telstarlogistics.com/sounds/JFKGround.mp3

you know what's really good at lunch?
a nap.
so refreshing and rejuvenating. aaaaahhhhhhhh...

i went to the local owasp chapter meeting at stanford last night and got to listen to niels provos talk about his malware research at google. very cool. jerry yang was there too.

cats that glow red in uv light.
http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9833107-1.html

firemen in germany respond to a car crash only to find it was a car full of dummies on a crash test track.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/11/cologne-firemen-make-haste-in-rescuing-crash-test-dummies/

"summertime" by sam cooke. slow and spooky.
http://toughnelliegirl.imeem.com/music/C0wG2fNk/sam_cooke_summertime/

i'm working on migrating my sites into vmware guests on a new system i have at home and have been having problems with clock drift. i beat my head against the wall for several days until i found the solution. install vmware tools, then in your host's /etc/vmware/config add this:
host.cpukHz = 2400000
host.noTSC = TRUE
ptsc.noTSC = TRUE
and in your guest .vmx add "tools.syncTime = true"
my problem was the intel speedstep hosing the clock rate when it would scale the processor speed up and down to save power. if you have problems with you clock running too fast, append "clock=pit" to your guest's kernel boot parameters. if your clock is running too slow, use "nosmp noapic nolapic". make sure you turn off ntp clock syncing in your guest no matter what, it will mess things up.
here's a link that has more information than you'll ever need to know about vmware clock drift:
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware_timekeeping.pdf

a friend and i wrote an essay on piracy back in high school, and it looks like someone in russia used it in a report on piracy. awesome. i bet i still have the original around here somewhere.
link

anyone want to take a field trip here with me?
http://www.computerhistory.org/

the new hacker's dictionary, aka the jargon file. i printed this out when i was a kid and read a lot of it for fun. it took up a whole floppy (1.44mb) which filled a three-inch thick SCO binder i had. i think i might still have it at my parents' house.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/index.html

or, if you're a fancy-pants and want it in more book-like form:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262680920

i had no idea this place was in boulder creek. my dad has a sol, mentioned in the article and shown in the video on the second page of the first link.
http://www.news.com/A-trip-down-computer-memory-lane/2100-1042_3-6203311.html
http://www.digibarn.com/

clips from an entertaining self defense video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3K-mrlYG7Y

well i guess when space is at a premium you'll do just about anything.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSqNx7vJLDE