Month: October 2007

Bacon Scarf

Where I live, I won’t be needing a scarf anytime soon, but if you’re fortunate enough to live where it’s starting to get a bit cold, warm up with a strip of marbled fat. One that’s made out of yarn, that is. Plus ten points for wearing it with vegetarian irony. [via] Link.

JTAG pinout detector

JTAG pinout detector

JTAG is a standard for device testing ports found on the PCBs of many devices. Finding the pads and pinouts for these ports allows hackers to gain access to the embedded systems, their on-board debugging tools, etc., effectively providing a back door. But determining the JTAG pinouts can be a time-consuming and frustrating process. To […]

DIY Halloween 2007

We’ve been looking over the pictures submitted to our Flickr DIY Halloween group and we must say we are pretty impressed with what we see. For example, these Squidcakes: Don’t they look yummy? But Halloween is, of course, not just about food. It’s also about scaring the heck out of people. Which is why we […]