SOPA Wikipedia blackout hack

January 18, 2012

Are you mad about this outrageous Wikipedia censorship?   Disable JavaScript. The black censor never appears. Here’s how: Chrome Open up the preferences, and go under the hood. Remember when they said it was English language Wikipedia only? That’s why we use en.wikipedia.org. Firefox Safari

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missed connection

December 14, 2011

Remember the October 2010 Washington DC John Stewart rally? I’m told John Stewart grew up in my former stomping ground in central NJ. The humbling thing about attending this rally was meeting and hearing about numerous awesome friends and acquaintances from New York, San Fran, Rochester, Philly & New Jersey – i.e. people from a [...]

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Calling Safari 6. Dinner’s ready.

October 7, 2011

I had an idea for a new web project with a front-end focus and have been stepping up my JavaScript game. Progress has been fine but it turns out several aspects of JavaScript are a disheartening mess, not least the drag and drop disaster. The project employs the service of File, FormData, and XHR2 objects [...]

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On simple solutions

October 2, 2011

A few years ago I re-purposed an old desktop PC from uni as a media and file server. A design goal was having the machine be as close to silent as possible. Noisy stuff is annoying anyway, but doubly so in a living room where silence really is paramount. To achieve that goal I used [...]

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Shishion River

June 17, 2011
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