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A few months ago, my buddy Chris and I were “shootin’ the shit,” as one is want to do, and he mentioned that he just found a jump-drive that he had accidentally sent through the washing machine. Unsurprisingly for those of us who know their way around electronic circuits, after drying the thing out, it [...]

One of the things I’ve been sorely missing since I switched from my old Sidekick II to my iPhone is the ability to hop on IRC and kill some time. On the Sidekick, I took advantage of the downloadable shell client and a remote server with a command-line IRC client installed, but on the iPhone, [...]

While its great living in the big city, it’s certainly nice to get out of town every now and then– away from all the hustle and bustle. As such, I’m spending the last full week of April relaxing back home in Denver. It would be great to see the Denver geek crowd again, so hit me [...]

Mark Hurst, User Experience expert and author of the new book, Bit Literacy is hosting a seminar and reader meet-up in NYC this coming Wednesday, May 23rd. The seminar is $40, and includes a copy of the book. Unfortunately, I get into the city too late for the seminar, but I’m hoping to make it [...]

12 Important U.S. Laws Every Blogger Needs to Know

The BBC is reporting that AACS, the company behind the HD-DVD copy protection, has vowed to track down and prosecute any and all bloggers who posted 09-F9-11-02-9D-74-E3-5B-D8-41-56-C5-63-56-88-C0.
Slashdot, as always, has a fantastic analysis of this story in the comments.
AACS, come and get me.

09-F9-11-02-9D-74-E3-5B-D8-41-56-C5-63-56-88-C0
This is the current encryption key for HD-DVD.
Do with it what you will.
Long live free speech.
Background info.

In celebration of International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day, I have decided to make public the work of which I am most proud, a 2007 calendar featuring the skylines of 6 beautiful international cities.
About IPSTD:

On this day, everyone who wants to should give away professional quality work online. It doesn’t matter if it’s a novel, a story [...]

#Joiito on irc.freenode.net is a pretty close-knit community, and as with any group of people who spend a great deal of time with each other, much of that time is spent joking around.
This evening, Nick Douglas introduced us all to The Vagina Game, in which one replaces words in film titles with the word [...]

In these troubled times, it’s important for internet users to have an easy way to determine whether the content on a given site is age/sensibility appropriate. In the past, one would be forced to actually read things to determine their content, but no longer will unsuspecting pussies be placed in this vulnerable position. Introducing the [...]