Category Archives: Humor

The perfect use of an iTrip

Engadget has an article about the perfect use for an iPod with a modified iTrip FM short-hold sender – using it to shut down that irritatingly loud car stereo next to you at stoplights. Not to mention on the beach and other places…..imagine what fun you could have on the subway, or, as mentioned here, at health clubs. Pity you can’t do something similar with CD players….

e-t-a-o-n-r-i Spy and the F.B.I.

The following story by Les Earnest is one of my favorite pieces of writing on codes and cryptography – and is worth repeating for the uninitiated. Les Earnest has also written a number of other interesting accounts of early computer systems and organizational dyfunctionalities associated therewith – but let’s start with this one:

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