On Monday, Maura and I finally got out to see An Inconvenient Truth up at Potomac Mills with our good friends Jon and Ingrid. They are soon to be moving out to California, where Jon is going to study for his PhD in Oceanography, so they were excellent people to go see this particular movie [...]
Congress is readying an upgrade to the incredibly sucky DMCA, so get stoked! Included are such great ideas as allowing wiretaps for copyright violation investigations, upping the penalties for copyright infringement to ten years in prison, and making it illegal to posses copyright circumvention software/tools (including your shift key). But I think the choicest part [...]
PBwiki is having a craaaazay special where if you blog about PBwiki they double your space for free. I mean who can pass that up, so here we go. What is this, how do you say, PeeBeewiki? First, read this if you need a refresher on wikis in general. PBwiki is a free hosted wiki [...]
You’ll be hearing a lot this week about the Challenger disater, which hits its 20th anniversary tomorrow. But today is also the anniversary of another space disaster, that of Apollo 1. Three people (Command Pilot Virgil I. Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee) died when a spark turned the 100% oxygen [...]
From space.com: The LiftPort Group, the space elevator companies, announced September 9 that it has received a waiver from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to use airspace to conduct preliminary tests of its high altitude robotic “lifters.” The lifters are early prototypes of the technology that the company is developing for use in its commercial [...]
As many of you know, a few of us at haduken have been working on a side project dealing with crime in Richmond. As of today, the site is officially open to the public: RichmondCrime.org. At RichmondCrime.org you can see recent crime plotted on a google map, in a nice human-readable format. You can also [...]
Originally I planned on heading over to Henrico county to pick up one of those 50$ iBooks everyone has been clamouring over. Well they just moved the event to RIR. Apparently people are coming from all over the world to get a 50$ iBook that has been carried around in a bookbag for four years. [...]
Ok. Haduken is officially back and I apologize for the down time. Hopefully there won’t be anymore down time ever. There is an issue though. Since haduken is now hosted on *real* servers that are in a “data center” somewhere, the Piper must be paid. In fact he must be paid one hundred and fifty [...]
Well that was the longest (two days) haduken has been down in about three years. It hurt my heart. Well it is back up now, on a *real* server — not some box behind my couch. Good news: stability! Bad news: $$$. More on this later.
I totally don’t know if Shot Tracker® is a registered trademark of Wimbledon or not, I just like using the Little Symbol®. Anyway Wimbledon.org has a pretty cool flash app you can use to track the Latest Exciting Tennis Action®. Click on “Launch the IBM On Demand Scoreboard” over on the right. If the match [...]
New Tech Trends! Less organization, more cool things to look at!
Some crazy stuff going on in the world of gadgets Hopefully at least some of this will be new to you.
I am not usually one to slather myself with celebrity gossip, but this one is proving impossible to avoid. Apparently Paris Hilton’s sidekick has been hacked and various types of pictures have been leaked out onto the net. I’m not going to tell you what kind of pictures Paris was taking with her sidekick. Let’s [...]
It’s Friday! w00t! Around these parts – at work – Friday means more water cooler chat, less work, and longer lunch breaks (if you are reading this and you are my boss, I was just kidding). For some reason on Fridays I usually find a ton of cool links; it just works out that way. [...]