Casiello Family Weblog

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Panexa (Acidachrome Promanganate) from MERD Pharmeceutical Group

appeared in 1958, a two-player tennis game using an oscilloscope as a display!

(via Rocketboom)

Sony is allegedly paying kids to spray PSP-related graffiti on walls all over the country.

More: Wired reports that Sony is paying the building owners for the use of their walls.

Check out the Electron Microscopy Snow page, especially the stereo images.

If hackers ruled the world.

For you young ‘uns, the original box.

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Best Christmas Lights Display Ever

Snopes is cautious, calling its status ‘undetermined’, but it seems like something that would be doable with a few thousand dollars worth of light-o-rama boards.

Okay, I’d like to be their across-the-street neighbor for maybe one day. After that, not so much.

(via Drawn!)

Time-lapse figure drawing

and an online app that lets you do your own.

Remember the Sony ‘CD’s that installs a trojan horse program (rootkit) on your PC?

Well, it turns out these bastions of copyright protection (Won’t somebody please think of the content creators?!?) may have used copyrighted code in violation of the license.

As slashdot author CmdrTaco puts it “So apparently Sony violates your privacy to create a backdoor onto your machine using code that violates an Open Source license.”

In the meantime, virus writers found out about the trojan’s file-hiding capabilities which now infects computers on a href=”http://wired-vig.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,69573,00.html”>a half a million networks. Sony issued a patch to remove the trojan – the patch stays on your computer, allowing any website you visit to download and run code on your computer. Sorry, pal, you don’t own your computer anymore.

Lovely. Just lovely.

They’ve even

Slashdot | Bad Day To Be Sony

Sorry, aluminum make make things worse.

21 boxes of cards, a stack over 5 1/2 feet tall.

(via ZDNet)

Sony apparently installs a rootkit when you try to play certain CDs on your Windows PC as part of their DRM scheme.

Be very careful when buying any CDs, once you open it, very often you can only return it for another identical copy of the deliberately broken CD.

Especially check otu the demonstration of inappropriate dress – I have one of those TI’s!

The feasibility study.

This year’s winner of the Visions of Science Photographic Awards.

(via Rocketboom from October 4th.)

The I/O Brush, from the MITs Medial Lab.

Check out the video.

Georgie

… now take a look at Google Moon, showing the Apollo landing sites.

Hint: Zoom all the way in.

Using the Google Maps API, measure your trips by marking locations on a map.

Our solar system has a new planet!

It’s name for now? 2003 UB313

Some boingboing links to some online games including a
cow-milking game