The end of this month, May 31st, is Quit Facebook Day. Over 23,000 people have already committed to quitting at the site www.QuitFacebookDay.com. A lot of the Anti-Facebook sentiments have become popular lately because of recent changes Facebook made to privacy settings. With the backlash growing, Facebook has recently been back-peddling trying to find the right thing that … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2010
Greener Electronics
Greenpeace today published their 15th version of their Guide to Greener Electronics. In it, they give companies like Nokia, Apple, HP, Sony, and others a score out of 10 on how the company is doing in important green efforts in the categories of chemicals, e-waste, and energy. The organization has been publishing these guides regularly since August 2006. Our three goals for … [Read more...]
Make Your Firefox Search Engine use Google’s SSL (https) Search for Security Reasons
Google is now offering SSL-enabled searching with the Google blog announcing it last Friday. SSL searching for Google is enabled by visiting the site with https:// in front of the usual www (note the 's'). Using SSL where possible allows you to communicate securely between your browser and the website, meaning that any ISPs, routers, governments, or other prying eyes between … [Read more...]
‘Lost’ Series Finale Leaked! Download it here!
After bugging a friend of mine inside "the Industry" for the past couple of weeks, he has finally given in and sent me a copy of the Lost series finale. It's a long video at 2 and a half hours but it was great to see things wrapped up from the last six years. Lost changed TV forever and while it's sad to see it go, it's so relieving to finally have resolution. The last episode … [Read more...]
Manufactoria – Making Turing Machines Fun Again!
Ah, who am I kidding? Turing Machines have always been fun. Manufactoria is a Flash-based puzzle game for those of us that like a good brain-scratcher. In reality, we're making a finite state machine which simulates computer logic. We look at a sequence of inputs and react based on the state we're seeing. In the game, we're building test machines to run through some robots' … [Read more...]