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The hawks are circling Iran again
What the crap is this!? Here are some of today's headlines:- Voice of America: US Military Chief: Iran Has Enough Material to Make Nuclear Bomb
- L.A. Times: Iran has the materials to make a nuclear bomb, top U.S. official says
- FOX News: Top Defense Officials: Iran Has Fissile Material for Nuke, but No Bomb Yet
- Wall Street Journal: Iran Amasses Enough ( Read more... )
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Will It Lens? Food Edition
If you missed it, here's part 1 and part 2 of our adventures with a 4'x3' fresnel lens. As always, I've got a gallery of all the raw pictures, and this is a summary of the good ones.
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Will It Lens? Part 2
In case you missed it, here's part 1 of our adventures with the 3'x4' fresnel lens. Oh, man. I have lots more pictures. The same SAFETY NOTE as last time applies again, but with a few more additions. You should probably wash your hands after you're done handling stuff in the lens. In particular, when you heat copper up until it turns black, you've ( Read more... ) -
I'm not usually into beatnik stuff,
but this is pretty good.
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A new vulnerability in Java
Looking at Sun's take on it and Secunia's links, there's a fun little exploit in Java's calendar objects that can allow a remote user to obtain escalated privileges, allowing them to read, write, and execute any files on your computer that you have access to. The interesting thing about this bug is that it doesn't depend on memory being set up a ( Read more... ) -
Will It Lens?
A couple weeks ago, Dustin got a whole bunch of people to each contribute a few dollars, and we bought a four foot by three foot fresnel lens. It arrived earlier this week, and we've been spending our lunch hours out in the sun playing with it.
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This made my day
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Stand Back, I'm Going to Try Science!
My father is a chemical engineer at a large company. He volunteers in an outreach program where the company gives him science demonstrations aimed at precocious elementary schoolers, and he periodically goes to schools and birthday parties and stuff to show how neat science is. One of the kits he does is all about cryogenics, where he gets about a ( Read more... ) -
Getters and Setters aren't all they're cracked up to be
Allen Holub, author of Holub On Patterns, has an interesting article on how if you use getters and setters, you're probably doing it wrong.
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