The TOC of O'Reilly's Make Magazine, which comes out in mid march, has been posted. Include lots of cool projects, an article by Bruce Sterling, and some other cool stuff.

Make Table of Contents posted.

] The jackpot is actually 12 jewels hidden in very public
] places around the United States. Think diamonds, think
] rubies, think the rarest, most perfect Kashmir sapphire.
]
] All you need to do to get any or all the gems is to
] decipher clues in the book "A Treasure's Trove." The
] clues lead to a dozen 18-karat gold tokens. Author
] Michael Stadther, who hid each of the tokens himself,
] promises that they are all in public places where they
] can be easily accessed without digging, moving or
] disturbing objects or structures.

That is really cool!

$1 million treasure hunt hidden in pages of fairy tale

] Also, I do excellent webpage design using HTML, CSS,
] DHTML, Javascript, Java, etc.. Just browse around my
] webpages for various samples of my work.

... ... Excellent? ... ... Shit John... maybe for Geocities.

Not to kick a guy when he is down (how often does a world famous artist email you out of the blue and say you are jumping at shadows?), but good christ you do not advertize webpage design on a website with MIDI music!

About John B. Wilson

] Update 21-Jan-2005: Finally got an email from Sanborn
] "Dear John, This is not the way, Jim"
] However, for me, there are just too many coincidental
] things for this solution to be wrong... It just ties
] together so perfectly, so beautifully...

I remember reading this page a few months back and thinking it was a little too crazy. Oh course, Elonka is a hell of alot smarter than I, and maybe this type of stuff makes sense. This failed attempted just enforces a quote the Author Graham Handcock once wrote:

"People looking hard enough will find Shakespeare in the leaves of trees"

'Solution' to part 4 confirmed as wrong by Sanborn

] What does it say about the Central Intelligence Agency
] that its agents can crack the secret codes of enemy
] nations but can't unravel a coded sculpture sitting
] outside their cafeteria window?

] This is good news to Elonka Dunin, an executive producer
] and manager at Missouri gaming company Simutronics, who
] is obsessed with cracking Kryptos and thinks that the
] more people who work on the puzzle the quicker they'll
] solve it.
]
] "We have lots of different theories that we're chasing
] down," Dunin said of her band of sleuths, which includes
] some CIA employees. "But there's no way we'll know
] whether we're on the right track until something comes
] loose."

Elonka and Kryptos is currently featured in a front page story in Wired.

Wired News: Solving the Enigma of Kryptos

] An "evil twin" is a bogus base station that latches on to
] someone using new "Wi-Fi" wireless technology.
]
] Victims think their laptops or mobile phones are
] connected to bona fide wireless internet connections.

... And main stream media catches on to something hackers have known about for years!

"Man in the middle attacks are entirely theoretical"
-James Pete, Buzzcard Director

'Evil twin' threat to Wi-Fi users

] Bound in the kind of thick, stain-proof pages usually
] employed for preschool boardbooks, this cookbook dumbs
] down basic recipes to inventive new lows. Rather
] than saute or simmer, readers are instructed to "dump"
] and "nuke" ingredients, as in a recipe for Sweet and Sour
] Meatballs, which requires a can of crushed pineapples, a
] can of sloppy joe sauce and a pound of frozen precooked
] meatballs. Other recipes not for the faint of heart
] include Slab O'Ham with Redeye Gravy (essentially
] microwaved slices of canned ham in a coffee/pork sauce
] gravy) and Hot Slam Dunk, a dip that calls for
] mayonnaise, sour cream, canned artichoke hearts, spinach
] and a few other ingredients to be microwaved together for
] several minutes. (The authors award "Extra credit" to
] those who pour the mixture into a hollowed-out loaf of
] pumpernickel.)

I bought this book for a friend recently and thought it might be interesting to some of the cooking challenged people here. It is part of a series of books by men's health that are so dummy proof that it even has pictures of the ingredients that you need to get at the grocery. It also gives you the nutritional info and helpful tips. Check it out, you can preview some of the pages on amazon.

Sometimes, we need shiny pictures are simple instructions!

A Man, a Can, a Plan : 50 Tasty Meals You Can Nuke in No Time

] Do this dude edisoncarter cracked open what appears to be
] a cheesy 3rd party PS2 controller (save the good stuff
] for the gaming, we always say), hooked up the lines to a
] parallel port for signal injection, and then hash-cracker
] style used a custom app that ran brute force key
] combinations until he came up with a slew of unreleased
] cheat codes for GTA San Andreas. Damn, dude.

That is so damn cool!

Brute-forcing GTA San Andreas cheat codes

] The president of Harvard University prompted criticism
] for suggesting that innate differences between the sexes
] could help explain why fewer women succeed in science and
] math careers.
]
] Lawrence H. Summers, speaking Friday at an economic
] conference, also questioned how great a role
] discrimination plays in keeping female scientists and
] engineers from advancing at elite universities.

...! Foot meet mouth.

Women Lack 'Natural Ability' In Some Fields, Harvard President Says

] Luckily, there's a solution: the FISH protocol. FISH
] implements an ftp-like interface over standard SSH. Since
] it interacts with the shell, it supports standard
] globbing constructs as well as completion.
]
] The protocol itself is fairly obscure, though.
] Apparently, it was originally developed as a virtual file
] system layer for Midnight Commander (a console-based file
] manager), but was later integrated with the Konqueror and
] Nautilus file managers, and is currently supported by the
] lftp program, too.
] ]
] Despite the fact that FISH has been around for almost six
] years at this point, it has not received widespread
] attention from either the user or security communities.
] It's probably time that both take a look at this nifty
] protocol. Meanwhile, I've found it to be an elegant, if
] obscure, solution to my file transfer needs, and would
] recommend giving it a try.

FISH Protocol