- Lock Picking Tutorial on One Project Closer – I hope this post doesn’t cause any undo concern, but lock picking is not a difficult skill to learn (but still difficult to execute). With a little knowledge, the right tools, and enough time, just about any lock is vulnerable. A friend from work got me interested in lock picking so I spent some time learning about locking mechanisms. Before long, I was able to get past several locks I use today.
- Cooper – Cat Photographer: Spring is on the way – Last week we appeared on DarynKagan.com. Daryn did a great video blog about Cooper and how his camera works. We were really impressed with how it turned out. Cooper was pleased that he didn't need to fly anywhere to do the interview. And we appeared in The Oregonian. It's really fun to be a part of such a positive story. However, not everyone is so happy about it – we also were written about in a Letter to the Editor of the Seattle P-I. Apparently some local photographers are worried about Cooper stealing their opportunity to display their work in galleries. Though fortunately for those in the professional photography field, Cooper does not do any work for hire.
- The unnatural death of Mervyn’s – The Brand Graveyard – Salon.com – In 1949 Mervin Morris opened a department store in the unglamorous California town of San Lorenzo. He built Mervyn's into a West Coast institution, where generations of lower-middle-class families bought work pants and school clothes, before selling it to Dayton Hudson for $300 million in 1977. And now that Mervyn's has ceased to be, the 88-year-old Morris says the private-equity firms who wound up owning the chain looted it for cash — "raped" it, in his words — and left it to die.
- Atom can’t feed fab monster – Intel and TSMC have jointly announced the start of a long-term, "strategic" collaboration in which Atom IP will be ported to TSMC's manufacturing process, with the Taiwanese foundry fabricating Atoms for some customers.
"It is a long-term collaboration. It is not about capacity. It's a strategic relationship that allows us to expand the growth opportunities for both companies," said an Intel spokesperson on a call announcing the venture. "This relationship between us and TSMC is strategic in nature; it's the first time we've ported a processor externally outside of an Intel process."
- Night Shift Makes Metabolism Go Haywire | Wired Science from Wired.com – The patterns were initially explained as a function of poor nutrition and low exercise, but night workers don't necessarily live less healthy lives than their day shift counterparts. Risks remained high even when lifestyle was removed from the equation.
That left hypotheses about links between biological clocks and metabolic hormone regulation. Studies on animals suggest a connection, but relatively little research has been conducted on people engaged in shift work. - Sony: PS3 is hard to develop for–on purpose | The Digital Home – CNET News – In one of the most shocking and bizarre comments ever made by a company chief, Hirai, the brains behind the entire PlayStation empire, explained to the Official PlayStation Magazine in its February issue that Sony didn't want to make it easy on developers.
"We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that (developers) want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so then the question is, what do you do for the rest of the nine-and-a-half years?" explained Hirai. - Rush Limbaugh is the leader of the Republican Party | Salon News – But strip away the platitudes and cheap applause lines about freedom, self-reliance and the virtues of capitalism, and you're left with the subject that really interests Rush Limbaugh: himself. The conservative talker with the self-professed "talent on loan from God" spoke incessantly in the first person: there were more "I's" in his CPAC address than in an Idaho potato field. One clear message emerged from the speech:
"Le mouvement conservative, c'est moi."
And it's a message that makes some of the nominal leaders of the Republican Party uncomfortable.
- Obama, Reaching Outside the Bubble – washingtonpost.com – ach morning when he arrives at the Oval Office, President Obama asks his staff to deliver him a package containing 10 letters. It is a mere sampling of the 40,000 or so that Americans send to the White House every day — a barrage of advice from students and teachers, small-business owners and the unemployed. In between his daily meetings with senior staff members and Cabinet secretaries, Obama has made a habit of sitting alone behind his desk and reading one letter at a time, friends and advisers said. The exercise is intended to help keep him grounded, but it also provides Obama with a glimpse beyond the White House walls and the Secret Service perimeter into what the president sometimes refers to as "the real world."
- All your downside are belong to us – Paul Krugman Blog – NYTimes.com – AIG is in trouble because it wrote many credit default swaps, in effect guaranteeing others against losses it lacked the resources to cover. We, the taxpayers, are now covering those losses, for fear that not doing so would cause a financial catastrophe. But this means that US taxpayers have now assumed the downside risks for all of AIG’s counterparties.
- Say it ain’t so, Joe’s! | King Arthur Flour – Bakers’ Banter – Trader Joe’s mission has always been to offer as many TJ’s branded products as possible. And now they’re ready to offer their own flour. So soon, you’ll see Trader Joe’s flour on the shelves at TJ’s, not King Arthur Flour.
Our long relationship is ending.
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