I previously reported on the "Amazon Tax" Bill (HB 3659) making its way through Illinois Legislation and landing on the Governor's desk. Two months later, Governor Pat Quinn (recently elected Governor by .9%) has signed the bill into Public Act 096-1544. The Act "closes the loophole" (a.k.a. twists the law in lobbying groups' favor) so that the same law that requires businesses … [Read more...]
Readability
Readability is a company with the goal of making the Web a more reading-friendly place. Readability removes a lot of the distractions from a website and allows you to format documents the way you like for a consistent and improved reading experience. You can utilize Readability as a web app or a mobile app to remove the distractions or to save something to be read … [Read more...]
What Does MS Paint Sound Like?
From YouTube, user r2blend has discovered that importing an executable into an audio editing program can have some interesting results. To be specific, they imported the MSPaint executable from Windows 7 x64 into Adobe Audition as 22050hz 8-bit stereo audio raw PCM data. The description of the YouTube video: Just made a really weird and awesome discovery. If you import an EXE … [Read more...]
Magic Boss Key – Get Back To Work Instantly
So let's say you're at work and you're on the clock. You're supposed to be working, but your friend two cubicles over just sent you a link posted to something funny. It was funny and then you got distracted looking at some of the other postings there. Suddenly you hear footsteps rapidly approaching your desk! Those footsteps sound like your boss and they're headed your way! You … [Read more...]
The Zero Day Initiative Pwn2Own Contest Takes Place Later This Week
The Zero Day Initiative team is having the annual Pwn2Own contest later this week, March 9th, 10th, and 11th of 2011 in Vancouver. The contest always seems to be an interesting spectacle - seeing how fast certain systems are compromised, learning how companies respond to the vulnerability disclosures, and seeing patches come out up to the very last minute. The targets this year … [Read more...]