* Gearhead: Color profiles simplified (sort of) * Backspin: Spammers and hackers: Evolving to be better * The past 7 days on Gibbsblog
Gearhead: Color profiles simplified (sort of)
Last week we discussed the Lyson Continuous Ink System, which we are very impressed with. We concluded with the note that we had attempted to fine-tune the output color profiles and managed to screw them up royally.
To read Gearhead in its entirety, click here.
Backspin: Spammers and hackers: Evolving to be better
Following the BackSpin column Darwin and spam, I got a fair amount of feedback. Reader Brian Fahrenheit (a pseudonym because, he claims, his letters get him in hot water) wrote: “Your article on spam eradication states all attempts to kill spammers actually contribute to their survival. This curious phrasing of Darwin’s thesis is correct if spammers have the means to adapt to all eradication attempts.”
To read Backspin in its entirety, click here.
The past 7 days on Gibbsblog
Backspin This Week: Spammers and hackers: – Evolving to be better
In Backspin this week I revisit the topic of Darwinian evolution and its effect on spammers and delve into frogs and arsenic as well as old, rich, fat guys with hot young wives.
Your comments, dear readers, would be … ?
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“Fixing” Electronic Road Signs
From Zug: Electronic road signs are annoying. I don’t have a problem with these signs warning me about road construction, except when they’re left up — flashing their stupid warnings — well after the work is completed. Recently a construction company left a pair of these signs in my neighborhood, blasting out their pointless messages. Being a creative tinkerer, I decided to do something about it …
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Vonage Annoys with IPO
Vonage are pushing their forthcoming IPO with what can only be described as manic ferocity!
A couple of days ago the company sent me pitch letters by e-mail for the addresses associated with both of my Vonage phone numbers then today they left me voicemail on both numbers.
Enough already!
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Time Sink #10: The Wooden Periodic Table
This is an amazing creation! A periodic table made of wood that links to information about each elemenet with pictures of samples, videos, data … outstanding!
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Geek Toys #3: Preserving Snowflakes
I know it’s nothing even remotely to do with computers and networking other than I found the information on a Web site … anyway, here’s how to preserve snowflakes using superglue (this is from the Popular Science via the Annals of Improbable Research).
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Backspin: Too Damn Complicated
This week in Backspin, I wonder why vendors make it so hard to use products that shouldn’t be hard to use. And why do they do their best to make purchasing unpleasant? What do you think?
