My birthday is within the first 100 million digits of Π (specifically, 1,040,331 digits in [or 11,057 digits in, if I use the non-zero-padded version of my birthday 5373]). So is my current phone number, sans area code (49,168,544 digits in). My social security number isn’t, though. Bummer.
Text Pong
Just in case Infocom making Tetris wasn’t weird enough, here’s one weirder — text-based Pong!
Let’s nuke Mecca!?!?
Just in case things in the world weren’t getting freaky enough, the editor of the National Review is pondering nuking Mecca. There is a column at The American Prospect looking at this from a slightly saner perspective.
Something for Casey
Something for Casey — how to hack a half-price Apple Airport base station.
The truth about Asimov
Janet Asimov, in a biography of her late husband Isaac Asimov (It’s Been A Good Life), has revealed that he actually died of AIDS contracted during bypass surgery, but the doctor at the time advised that the information not be disclosed to the public. Interesting.
Sure, we checked their credentials
Why I trust my government to keep me safe: On Monday, the INS approved student visas for two of the 9/11 airplane hijackers.
Those eyes!
How completely fascinating. If you’ve ever picked up a National Geographic magazine, you probably remember a cover from 1985 of a girl with stunning green eyes, from a story about war in Afghanistan. Somehow National Geographic found her again.
Our leaders at work
One has ordered his forces into battle more times than any other postwar British leader. The other threatens military action against “evil” nations and keeps a scorecard of dead al-Qaida leaders, marking each fatality with an X. Now, Tony Blair and George Bush have received international recognition for their unswerving willingness to use force: a nomination for the 2002 Nobel peace prize.
I got into As The Apple Turns!
Hey — I’m famous! Or…something like that. See, I stumbled across a link earlier today that I thought might be of interest to my favorite Apple-flavored soap opera, As the Apple Turns — and they used it for one of their stories today! Too cool…check it out: Aqua in the candy dish!
2 hours in the life of a ‘puter geek
Ever wondered just what ‘geeking out’ entails? Some nights it’s diving into whatever the geek’s code of choice is (HTML and CSS for me), other nights it’s more hardware based. Well, tonight I had a problem with my primary work Mac, and kept a log of what I was doing as I went along. Feel free to take a look if you’d like….