Year: 2005

This experiment will test a real spam filter, not a specially designed chess program. It won’t aim to beat Deep Thought (I wouldn’t know where to start, and I have a feeling this could be difficult anyway ;-), but it will aim to show signs of “intelligence”, or we won’t claim success. Finally, since dry tables and graphs are no fun, a theoretical proof of concept is not enough: the spam filter must really play chess in a way that everyone can see, and try out at home. [via] Link.

Story about beating the Simon game in a clever way, geek self realization…The effusively fun spirit of Make magazine got me thinking about the day I first realized I was a geek. It sure would be interesting to hear other people’s stories on when they first realized. On that day I knew I was different from everybody else. I also knew I was the same as the proud, the few, the geek. Link.

Chuck writes- regarding the Moonshine post – “Here’s a comprehensive yet easy to follow resource for home alcohol production. Not just moonshine, alcohol is also a primary ingredient of bio-diesel! Unfortunately, home distillation of alcohol is illegal in the land of the free. You can jump through some hoops for the BATF and get a permit to produce limited amounts of ‘fuel alcohol’. Link.

…if you’ve got ten minutes to spare today, make some time to watch Multiple Sidosis. It’s a short, home-made film by Sid Laverents in 1969. It opens with Sid on his birthday morning, being given an Akai M8 reel-to-reel four-track by his wife (who shows that mixture of distain, confusion and mild concern that will be familiar to any married gear-head). [via]. Link.

…a little tutorial about how to make your entire site more mobile-friendly without even touching your pages. You may think that since you write valid code and separate structure from presentation at all times, your site already works great on mobile devices. You may also think bad things don’t happen to good people. In both cases, you’d be wrong. Link.

Paul is a master craftsman in all aspects of fine jewellery and tableware. He has been invited to exhibit at the Goldsmith’s Hall, London, several times in recent years, including in 2003 in the ‘Love Story’ exhibition, where he showed a hand-crafted and jewel-studded 18pc cutlery set complete with matching silver wine goblets. Now he has a blog and shows how he makes all this stuff…I really like the master crafter blogs Hugh has seeded. Link.

The mission of Inveneo, a nonprofit group of inveterate high-tech adventurers, is to bring developing communities that never reached a 20th century level of infrastructure into the 21st century. Its bicycle-powered system brings not just VoIP but also e-mail and Web browsing to remote areas, using a combination of Linux and the Asterisk open source PBX. Link.