From my brother:

"New paper on the security flaws in the Diebold voting machines by Ed Felten and Alex Halderman, of Princeton. Alex was my TA for Computer Architecture, and is a name to remember: he was the one who showed that a CD copy protection technology could be cracked simply by holding down the spacebar while inserting the cd into your ( Read more... )

I don't think there will ever be an album that can quite compare to PSB's Behaviour. Masterful songwriting; great chords, melodies, and sonic textures; pure emotion. The best PSB album and probably my favorite album of all time. I have good associations with my listening to it in the past (states of mind, places, hopes, dreams!)

I have the complete new Nelly Furtado album here, hopefully this link will work for anyone who wants it.

It's an excellent album with several highlights. I wouldn't have even known about it were it not for
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OMG I was looking through some old photos and I discovered a shot with me at my most militerrific. With the short haircut, American flag, and determined visage one would think I was on the boat to Iraq. Actual-in-factually I was on a employee cruise in Milwaukee; lollerz.


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While biking to work yesterday morning, I had to pause for a few minutes for a long train chugging through the isthmus. Long trains aren't rare but they aren't exactly common in Madison since it's never had much industry. Beautiful morning and the sun shone off the lake behind me. As I sat on my bike a few feet from the train, I read all the ( Read more... )

I have not been so infatuated with a track since Saint Etienne's "Burnt Out Car", I do believe. The "Someone Else's Mix" of Röyksopp's "Remind Me" (which is nothing new, but new to me since it's essentially the same mix as the video version, and I only discovered the video recently) is so different from the album version. The album version is ( Read more... )

I really need help here. I have a bunch of voicemails saved on my current cell phone, a Motorola V276 with Verizon, and I'd like to record them. Is there a way to upload these to my computer without buying some expensive connection device? I'm thinking maybe using the phone's (limited) web browsing capabilities to somehow upload the voice messages ( Read more... )

This is the obligatory short post where the student {Exhibit A} ostensibly expresses his dissatisfaction, frustration, and utter despair at his horrifically intense academic workload, its coming to a head, and his pending academic doom {Exhibit B}. Woe is he! but what he's REEEEALLY trying to get across is, look at how fucking AWESOME I am, I am ( Read more... )

Recently I went to look up a word that began with "o" and stumbled across two dried maroon petals in my dictionary. Kastan was pressing flowers for a while and using all my big books for the process. These two got left behind and now are preserved on page 815. I took a photo because I thought "operatic opportunism" was appropriate in a self- ( Read more... )

I need a woman

And more friends in general

:'(