Mark.

Password safety

Mark — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:30:01 +0000

It would appear that you do not need ^5$£7*09 symbols in your passwords. You just need 20 letters to be safe for hundreds of billions of years. Of course that assumes they hit you last … (and yes I know the tables aren’t equal down the left but it is still a good demonstration).

I’m moving from 1Password to Last Pass. Gives cross-OS functionality which will be good and it is forcing me to update those many sites which all use the same password. Tut tut.

Ask Coca-Cola

Mark — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 20:51:20 +0000

Does the acidity in Coke damage teeth or bones?

I bet their answer for “Does Pepsi..” would just be “Yes”

Minute Memes

Mark — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:40:39 +0000

The Minute Memes project: reframing copyright restrictions one idea at a time, through a series of short, captivating, classroom-ready videos by award-winning artist and animator Nina Paley.

Theft

Mark — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:37:46 +0000

Nuclear

Mark — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 16:20:40 +0000

This is slow but stick with it.

Multi-media artwork
“2053″ – This is the number of nuclear explosions conducted in various parts of the globe from 1954-1998.

wearing white?

Mark — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:54:27 +0000

DSotM close

Mark — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:23:43 +0000

from The Wall / The Departed

Mark — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:12:53 +0000

Friday

Mark — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:11:12 +0000

Electrons don’t care. Once data of any sort go into the net, time is frozen. All that is necessary is to remember that all the endless riches of the past are available any time you punch for them.

Friday by Robert Heinlein 1982

Bigger is faster

Mark — Tue, 25 May 2010 14:31:12 +0000

It is amusing the way that music pirates will copy the music but encode it as the open source FLAC before uploading to file sharing sites. Because those sites pay out depending on bandwidth used to download it pays to use the open source FLAC rather than mp3.

Audio encoded to FLAC is typically reduced to a little less than half of the original file size. An MP3, by comparison, is typically one tenth or so of the original file size, but with lost audio information and lower quality. Audacity wiki

Result is the same – stolen music – but open source material helps them “profit” faster.