A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Data mining at Target: Lots of people buy lotion, but one of Pole’s colleagues noticed that women on the baby registry were buying larger quantities of unscented lotion around the beginning of their second trimester. Another analyst noted that sometime in the first 20 weeks, pregnant women loaded up on supplements like calcium, magnesium and …
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At the Microsoft TechDays 2012 in Belgium, white hat Paula Januszkiewicz shows how the tool Fiddler can be used to intercept the password of a LinkedIn user. The reason is because the password is not being encrypted by LinkedIn, although https is being used. Not that wow imho, as it’s basically a man in the …
The LS3 platform is designed with the squad in mind and is therefore significantly quieter, faster and has a much higher carrying capacity (+100lbs) for longer mission durations than DARPA’s earlier mobility technology demonstrator BigDog By DARPA/Boston Dynamics, who also brought us BigDog (also see this spoof), LittleDog and AlphaDog (again, via teusje)
Zoomooz is an easy-to-use jQuery plugin for making any web page element zoom. jQuery plugin that basically does the same as the aforementioned zoom.js. One thing that’s missing though is a shortcut (most likely something like the ESC key) to zoom out again, but that can easily be implemented 😉 Zoomooz.js →