Category Archives: geekery

Tim Hildebrandt, 1939-2006

Tim Hildebrandt, one half of the legendary artistic duo the Brothers Hildebrandt, died on 11 June 2006. Complications from diabetes. As you can see, he was only 67. What a terrible, unfortunate loss.
Every time someone like Tim Hildebrandt dies, it’s like a little piece of me goes with them. Unfortunately, there [...]

What kind of science is this, Otto?

Here’s an article from 2002 that’s on the BBC News website today, in conjunction with this article about a newly published report from the British Ministry Of Defense, declaring that there is no proof of alien life.
At the time of his UFO article, David Whitehouse was the BBC News Online Science Editor. He still [...]

Eat this, Creationism!

Yeah, I’m afraid science wins.
Again.
Don’t you folks ever get tired of being wrong?

Clooney update

I linked, in a previous post a few down from this one, to a blog entry on the Huffington Post purportedly made by George Clooney. I even quoted from it. (The post has since been removed; you can still see it here, though.)
The next day, as some of you might know, it was revealed [...]

The coolest article I’ve read today.

Even if it is at Eonline, which is entirely populated by illiterate monkey diddlers.
Faster, Higher, Stronger…Hoth? – Mar 09, 2006 – E! Online News

Windows WMF Vulnerability

As you may or may not have heard by now, there is a lovely new 0-day Windows exploit that has cropped up in the past few days.
To nobody’s surprise, Microsoft has yet to come up with an answer to plug up this vulnerability. It’s always amazing to me how a company as vast and [...]

PSA

You probably all know by now about the infamous Sony rootkit, which was included on a whole bunch of their music CDs, and which, when one of the affected CDs is played on a Windows computer, installs itself silently and then doesnt allow you to uninstall it again if by some miracle you happen to [...]