Remember how cool Heavy Metal was? Ok, now imagine that you believe that something like it is real.
Apparently this was created by some Christian fundies. Hilarous, one religious group attacking another…will the fun never cease?
Here’s a fun blog:
It’s a repository where people tell their tales of when they realized religion is a load of horsefeathers or they’ve always been atheist.
Everyone’s making a lot of noise about iMovie’s new Skimming feature. What people seem to be forgetting, or never knew, is that Final Cut Pro has skimming as well for clips in it’s bin. The issue is that it’s hidden, isn’t set up to use right away and it’s not as fluid as in iMovie ‘08.
01) Goto your bin and 2nd click in there and select to view items as large icons (or medium, or small, up to you).
02) Put the cursor over a clip’s icon.
03) Hold down SHIFT + CONTROL and watch as the cursor turns into a hand with two opposing arrows.
04) Drag the mouse around to “skim” through the clip.
When did we stop calling this scrubbing, btw? Oh, and you can also use this to set the poster frame of a clip’s icon in the bin.
While the leaked thin keyboards from Apple were close, they weren’t the exact same as the ones announced today. But…I still don’t like them.
They remind me of this (which means I’m old):
That’s from 1983. I remember programming on one at a friend’s house.
Still, it’s weird not having an Apple logo on the Command key.
Curious to see Michelle Madigan beeing booted from DefCon? Check it out:
Story here.
If you didn’t just smile you are dead to me.
A lot of chatter has been generated lately about Key Bumping. Key Bumping is a real thing but you’ll often hear people say that you just need to install a Medeco lock or one other specific type of Schlege lock in order to be protected. Turns out that’s not entirely true.
I don’t know about Schlage’s bi-lock or Primus locks but Medeco’s locks have very recently been easily compromised.
Medeco deadbolt locks relied on worldwide at embassies, banks and other tempting targets for thieves, spies or terrorists can be opened in seconds with a strip of metal and a thin screw driver, Marc Tobias of Security.org demonstrated for AFP.
If you continue reading the article you’ll see that even electronic locks are no longer secure.
If it worked for Hubbard and Christ it can work for you too!
Just watch it!
And that’s a bad thing.
In an unusual effort targeting a single chemical, several dozen scientists on Thursday issued a strongly worded consensus statement warning that an estrogen-like compound in plastic is likely to be causing an array of serious reproductive disorders in people.
The compound, bisphenol A or BPA, is one of the highest-volume chemicals in the world and has found its way into the bodies of most human beings.
Used to make hard plastic, BPA can seep from beverage containers and other materials. It is used in all polycarbonate plastic baby bottles, as well as other rigid plastic items, including large water cooler containers, sports bottles and microwave oven dishes, along with canned food liners and some dental sealants for children.
The scientists — including four from federal health agencies — reviewed about 700 studies before concluding that people are exposed to levels of the chemical exceeding those that harm lab animals. Infants and fetuses are most vulnerable, they said.
The problem is, how do you avoid it? You can’t check the inside of cans without opening them and few drinks come in glass containers anymore. It’s funny if you think about it; glass is stable, inert chemically safe and easily recycled, but it’s heavy and dangerous if it breaks. Plastic is seemingly less stable, leeches chemicals into whatever it’s containing, tricky to recycle but safe if you drop it and pretty lightweight.
Manipulated photos used by the media and touted to be real photographs has popped up again. Here’s a very interesting article about photo-manipulation and anti-anonymity techniques.