Possibly the best Ford commercial ever, Ford Sync - Objects is hilarious. Treadmill On... (Ungh!)
Blinds Close... (Cover your eyes!)
Door Open... (Ka-Squish!)
Not everything responds to your voice like Sync....
One of my coworkers just got a new Focus with Sync, he says it rocks hard, he actually didn't order the car with it, but now they'll get it ( Read more... )

From ars technica, the Mumbai police have decided to require keyloggers in all cybercafes. No mention of whether it will be trivial for hackers to tap in to the information, although there is discussion of the police using it to crack down on blasphemy ( Read more... )

On a quiet New Zealand ranch, a genetic experiment has gone horribly wrong... as the body count rises, a desperate handful of outnumbered survivors take a last stand against the ovine onslaught. There are 40 million sheep in New Zealand... and boy, are they pissed.

Black Sheep official website

Releases on DVD Oct 09, 2007, already in my Netflix ( Read more... )

Just got an EFF alert... the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is standing up for freedom, and you can help, click here to donate to the EFF and keep the pressure on. The bottom line here is that once the executive declares that certain activity is a state secret, that's the end of it? No cases, no litigation, absolute immunity? The king can do no ( Read more... )

Click here to see my pictures from the 2007 Willow Run airshow, sponsored by the Yankee Air Museum. My friend Pam from work and I joined the museum, so we got a ride in a 1943 Stinson Reliant during the show ( Read more... )

Now that all of the Harry Potter hype is over, here's a list of really good children's books and juveniles.

Narnia by C.S. Lewis, beginning with The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. Four children who live in London during the blitz are sent away by their parents to stay with an old college professor (so they won't be killed by the Nazi bombers ( Read more... )

Just had an utterly magnificent brunch... I asked Asya to make potato pancakes, and I made a Cheese, Tomato & Ham Souffle Omelette from ( this British Egg Industry Council recipe )

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Just heard that a demo of how to break TPM and BitLocker scheduled to be presented at Black Hat was withdrawn without explanation... whether that means that the presenters didn't have anything that actually worked, or that someone who has bought into TPM pressured or paid them to withdraw it until they could fix a bug, your guess is as good as mine ( Read more... )

"A cat turd perfectly positioned on a pillow, I suppose, is not often regarded as very important in the general scheme of the world. It does, however, undeniably indicate that somewhere, somehow, some way, someone misses you." Kinky Friedman, The Prisoner of Vandam StreetThat's orginal! Not saying it is the best book ever, but it does have some ( Read more... )