Monthly Archives: June 2007

Time Warner Impements Packet Shaping

Time Warner has begun implementing packet shaping for all users.

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Mckenzie Exercises

The McKenzie Exercises are a sequenced selection of stretches to help relieve vertebral pressure and sciatic pain– good stuff.

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London 2012 Brand Backlash

It’s not often that design gets the level of press coverage that it truly deserves, and when it does, it’s usually negative– as is the case with the hub-bub surrounding the recently announced identity for the 2012 London Olympics. Almost 50,000 people have signed an online petition to have the logo– designed by Wolf Ollins [...]

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Behind the LOLcat: Schrodinger’s LOLcat

A few days ago, I was listening to a podcast lecture on the basics of quantum cryptography when I got into a discussion about the nitty-gritty of the subject with my friend Justin.


dantekgeek: exponential on a regular computer, but reasonable time on a quantum computer, right?
justinwick: Right right
justinwick: assuming ur in ur quantum computerz, giving [...]

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Basshunter

Despite his shoddy pirate technique and library and content library management, my younger brother really does have quite good taste in music– a fact which I often fail to acknowledge due to sheer laziness. He introduced me to Pendulum a few weeks back, and this evening assisted my discovery of Basshunter.
I listen to a [...]

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