It’s national hamburger month!
Yesterday was INSANE. I stayed up all night doing two projects and writing a long paper (plus a visual outline). It was the most intense breaking of night I’ve ever done. For once, I actually thought I might not finish everything. It was kinda scary. Haha. But alas, I did finish, and now I just have to stay awake through the rest of this week until Thursday (tomorrow, I guess) and I’ll be DONE. Yes, that’s right. FINISHED. NO MORE. HOME FREE. It’s a good feeling.
According to A Hamburger Today, it is national hamburger month — all month long!!
I got an email this morning telling me about Endless.com, a new way to shop for shoes and handbags from Amazon.com. I browsed the site a bit and came to the conclusion that it has a really cool way to browse categories and shoe types, but the selection still isn’t as good as Zappos (that is, if you want to buy your shoes online). But really, the way the results are generated on Endless are so much better I think. It’s nothing revolutionary, but it’s nice for a shoe site. I guess you could always shot Shoes.com if you really wanted to.
This is a cute video of a sedated cat. [via] So funny!
That tanker fire that caused parts of a California highway to melt and collapse on Sunday has a new conspiracy website called 4/29 Truth. It’s an obvious take on 911truth.org. Anyway, 4/29 Truth aims to find out how this highway system collapsed despite being structurally sound and all this other crap that I don’t want to get into mainly because I think the site is friggin’ ridiculous. -_-
But hey! More photos here! :D
The processing key used to unlock HD-DVD and Blu-Ray disks has been hacked and uncovered. Apparently, 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 is the magic code needed to unlock any current disk on the market.
The new crack follows that from earlier this year, when a hacker by the name of muslix64 broke the AACS system as it applied to each movie. While the earlier hack led to 100 HD-DVD titles and a small number of Blu-Ray movies being decrypted one-by-one, the so-called “processing keys” covers everything so far made.
It’s not yet clear what it means for the consumer’s ability to copy movies, or, for that matter, that of mass-market piracy operations. The short form is that the user still needs a disk’s volume ID to deploy the processing key and break the AACS encryption — but getting the ID is surprisingly easy.
Who really thought this wasn’t going to be cracked? Not me. In any case, The Pirate Bay has the code right on their homepage, which I think is really funny.
I can’t wait until Super Smash Bros. Brawl comes out for the Wii.
Ha! I didn’t know Fire and Ice by Robert Frost might (or might not) have the shape of dangling icicles or raging flames, depending on how you rotate it and look at it. If this is what Frost intended, then he is one smart fellow (he felt smart).
I’ve posted a few NYC biking videos previously and now it’s nice to see a change of pace and scenery in the San Francisco track biking video above. Track bikes are a type of fixed-gear bicycle that [generally] has no brakes or gears. The New York Times has a great interactive slideshow on “the fixers” (as they call it).
Riders of fixed-gear bikes are as diverse as bike riders in general. Messengers are big fixie aficionados, but more and more fixed-gear bikes are being ridden by nonmessengers, most conspicuously the kind of younger people to whom the term “hipster” applies and who emanate from certain neighborhoods in Brooklyn. You see these riders weaving in and out of traffic without stopping, balancing on the pedals at a stoplight and in the process infuriating pedestrians and drivers alike.
But the question arises: Especially in this city, isn’t it insane to ride a bike that you can’t easily stop? By riding a bike that’s meant to be raced around a special track on the chaotic streets of New York, aren’t you risking life and limb?
It doesn’t make sense. But that may be the appeal, and has been ever since the bikes appeared on the scene more than a century ago.
The New York Times article about them can be read here.
Ok, off to work now! It’s my second to last week! I wonder if I have anybody to interview today. Hmm!
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