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[looks at smiling mouse head in Squeak VM]

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[Looks at watch, sees that 20 hours have gone by since entering the CoC]

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[flicks off mouse]

Work It Harder Make It Better
Do It Faster, Makes Us stronger
More Than Ever Hour After Hour
Work Is Never Over

I don;t know if I've memed Hack-a-Day before, but they are a great hardware hacking site. Anyway this projects takes lets you use household batteries to charge protable devices that can be charged over the USB port (like my cell phone and iRiver).

Really simple design. Using a voltage regulator, you drop a 9V to 5V, and attach it USB female connector.

DIY USB 'Battery' charger

] There's not much finer in this life than "Just Before The
] Security Guard Notices The Bear" photos.

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... can't stop laughing! Wild Fibers.... magazine? Hell yeah

Yak: Wild Fiber's

] WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has been flying
] surveillance drones over Iran for nearly a year to seek
] evidence of nuclear weapons programs and detect
] weaknesses in air defenses, according to three U.S.
] officials with detailed knowledge of the secret effort.
]
] The small, pilotless planes, penetrating Iranian airspace
] from U.S. military facilities in Iraq, use radar, video,
] still photography and air filters designed to pick up
] traces of nuclear activity to gather information that is
] not accessible to satellites, the officials said. Aerial
] espionage is standard in military preparations for an
] eventual air attack and is also employed as a tool for
] intimidation.

I am antsy about Iran's quest for nuclear materials, but I believe the country will collapse before they get a bomb. However, Bush's actions are certainly freaking me out. We haven't had a president involved in 2 wars since Truman

U.S. drone flights spying on Iran for last 3 years

How to add/modify/remove buzzcard accounts from building access. The system name is Continuum. I was mistaken, when I didn't call it in an article that does not exits, Osiris.

Ran across this page while trying to figure out the prefix used by GATECH Buzzcards for Stripe Snoop. I never knew the "60177000" number was called a "Site ID."

Operating Instructions for Buzzcard building access

I've been looking for something like this for months. Its the standard defining the layout of the 4 (yes 4) tracks used in all Automatic Ticketinng and Boarding passing, by the IATA. Sadly this one is for Sailing and Train travel, but they document states the format closely models airline tickets. 3:30am is much too early to parse so terse a standard

IATA ATB Magstripe Standard

Update to date and detailed IATA fair code info

IATA Fare Codes