Archive for December, 2007

Sony’s Rootkit scandal

December 17, 2007

Two scientists, Aaron Perzanowski and Deirdre Mulligan, have created an extensive report on the Sony-BMG rootkit scandal in 2005. Interesting, [...]

In the section of totally gruesome stuff…

December 10, 2007

you find this story: Minn. Slaughterhouse Workers Fall Ill [Associated Press]. I’ve been thinking of eating less meat for a time now – maybe today is the day I make true of my thoughts…
“The working theory from two Mayo Clinic neurologists treating the workers: Exposure to pig brain tissue scattered by the compressed air triggered [...]

Awwww..

December 7, 2007

Give me time. Give me space. Give me the ingredients to make this utterly cool gingerbread house before Xmas is over.
“Structural drawings for living cake houses” (this is the babelfish translation of the original Baupläne für Lebkuchenhäuser)

espresso magic

December 4, 2007

I saw this espresso maker a few weeks ago on some webshop and noted it looked like something I might like to own (I never gotten around buying a maker – partly because the good ones are expensive and take up an even more valuable commodity – counterspace!). Ran across a coffee geek’s “review” of [...]