A Peculiar Blog

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!www.wholesalestonesinks.com does a great job of proving just exactly how much I DON’T know about sinks in general and design and style of bathroom sinks in particular. I’ll have to admit that some of the things they’re selling look [...]

I discovered Anim8or not too long ago. For those who don’t know, it’s a 3d modeling and animation program. With it you can build 3d models of whatever you want and then create animation sequences that can be exported as movie files.
The problem is in finding tutorials aimed at rank beginners. I [...]

Revision3, an “Internet television” company was attacked over the weekend in the form of a Denial Of Service (DOS) attack. It turns out that the attack came from MediaDefender, a name many will recognize as an outfit doing a lot of dirty work for the RIAA, MPAA and various “Big Content” providers.
The attack consisted [...]

I just got the June 6 issue of EFFector and thought I’d share this item from it for those who didn’t see it. It seems that the issue of immunity for telecoms that participated in the NSA’s illegal warrantless wiretapping program.
Now they’re trying to get the FISA court (remember, that’s the “Secret court” that [...]

Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari, is now claiming that TPM (Trusted Platform Module) chips that are installed on many new motherboards will make it impossible to pirate game software.
While it’s true that the TPM chips he’s talking about will present a seriously increased challenge, there’s no doubt at all in my mind that determined hackers, [...]

www.chicagocareersite.com is a site that looks like it’s making an effort to be a kind of “one stop shopping” site for people seeking or trying to fill jobs in Chicago.
It offers plenty of features for both job seekers and employers. The job seeker can post a resume, browse listings, search by city or by [...]

I just read something that needs some attention. It’s a Wired.com piece called “Air Force Aims for ‘Full Control’ of ‘Any and All’ Computers“.
Essentially, they’re working on developing a suite of software tools that will give them access to and full control over any type of computer they encounter.
The whole point is to be [...]

I’ve just read a BBC News item that reveals a Canadian privacy group, “The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic”, has listed 22 violations of Canadian privacy law.
Basically they say that Facebook is collecting information about it’s users and then sharing that information without their permission. Not only that, but apparently they’re not [...]