I cam across one of the most interesting stories I’ve read in a long time.  A story on wired that is a must read.  It’s an engaging story about a teenage phone phreak and the FBI.

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This is great, I debated whether to put it on the blog but I liked it so much I couldn’t resist.

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Reading techcrunch the other day I noticed a post for a new service called “Rollbase” which is essentially a development platform that allows just about anybody to create sophisticated rich Internet applications. If you’ve developed any web applications in the past you’ll have a ton of appreciation for a service like Rollbase. I [...]

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“Spam Proof eMail Generator” seems like a useful tool if you need to place an email address on a webpage.
An excerpt from the site:
“A spam bot is nothing but a program that crawl a website and takes the email address written there. The spam bots are not able to read the email addresses written on [...]

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I’m a huge Star Wars fan so I had to post this on the blog. Tom Spina Designs created a super unique desk for a client. The desk depicts Han Solo after he is frozen in carbonite and handed over to bounty hunter Boba Fett, who intends to return his quarry to Jabba the [...]

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Engadget has created a video demonstration of the Optimus Maximus keyboard, a product of the design studio Art. Lebedev based in Russia.
When the keyboard runs through its boot sequence it seems to take a little while, but this will probably improve with firmware updates. Upon key initialization the colors are vibrant and the characters [...]

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Press and hold “Control-Alt-Delete” on your keyboard and select “Start Task Manager”. You’ll see a long list of processes that you don’t recognize. How can you tell if these are harmless or malicious? Visit exeLibrary to find out. From the about page:
“exeLib is the fastest growing, most accurate, database of executable [...]

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In an announcement from the Game Developers Conference this week, id Software says they will team up with IGA Worldwide (an in-game advertising network) to bring Quake, free of charge to your web browser. The game will be called “Quake Live”.
This is an interesting idea, though it’s been talked about for over a year [...]

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LOL… oh so true…

How To Behave On An Internet Forum

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2007 Best Game Design
Portal (Valve)
Kim Swift, Realm Lovejoy, Paul Graham
2007 Best Visual Art
BioShock (2K Boston/2K Australia / 2K Games)
Scott Sinclair, Shawn Robertson, Andrew James
2007 Best Technology
Crysis (Crytek/Electronic Arts)
Cevat Yerli, Douglas Binks, Timur Davidenko, Martin Mittring
2007 Best Writing
BioShock (2K Boston/2K Australia / 2K Games)
Ken Levine, Emily Ridgway, Joe McDonagh, Susan O’Connor
2007 Best Audio
BioShock (2K Boston/2K [...]

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