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Today at work we had a situation wherein we needed to create several hundred fake MAC addresses. Surprisingly, there wasn’t a list on the Internet that could be found in less time than it took to write up a little python script and generate them. So, that being said, here is a list of 5000 [...]

This is so cool. The original source code for the guidance systems of the Apollo missions has been released and in the video below, compiled into a Palm Centro handheld. Check out the story here http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/ .

I have a bad habit of getting great ideas, working on them furiously for a little while then getting distracted by something shiny. This means I have a lot of half finished projects in limbo (oh God you should see my basement), and others that are nothing but an idea. Here are a few domain [...]

From this article in the NYT about new tech Microsoft is exploring to make life ‘more like the Jetsons’. As always, they miss the more important, finer nuances while aiming for that big picture stuff. “The technology behind Laura could cross over into a variety of fields. Mr. Horvitz predicted an elevator that senses when [...]

It’s especially cool to note how the winner, the now-standard 3×3 plus 1, had a much larger error rate than the two vertical columns. … It seems the most popular, and the one the focus groups had the least trouble working, was the one that mimicked what they were already used to: the standard rotary dial.