Entries from January 2006 ↓

Hacking Google China

Chinese web users can see full, uncensored results for their Google search by replacing “&meta=” with “&meta=cr%3DcountryBR” in the URL. Once the string is replaced, the censorship will not affect the results.

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After the Golden Globe, here comes SUNDANCE

Check this link for a lot of links for this year’s festival.

I like this way of sharing

“百万美元”网站遭黑客“毒手”

Bayesian thinking?

Bayesian is hot. We use it to block spam, to predict patterns. And recently people think we are Bayesian thinking machine. Cool. If I learned the Bayesian algorithm, can I get smarter? Read Bayes rules.

Seem this is the research paper, if Economist.com made an error.

Why you enjoy the Illiad and I enjoy classical music?

Here is the answer: Hardwired to seek beauty. [From Arts & Letters Daily]

Hack your neighbor's wireless network

Free Highspeed Internet

HOWTO detect two-way mirror

HOW TO DETECT A 2-WAY MIRROR at about.com

Download the music, almost everything

link

You won’t be dissapointed.

这个想法好

教你

Download APOD and National Geographic Picuture of the Day automatically with Perl scripts

I always get awed by Nature and I visit apod (Astronomy Picture Of the Day), Nat Geo pod (National Geographic Photo Of the Day), and espod (Earth Science Picture Of the Day) daily. But I’m tired of the daily mouse clicks to store those pictures on my Mac. Below are two Perl scripts to lessen the fingers. They should run smoothly on Mac OS X, except the script for Nat Geo pod requires addtional install of LWP through CPAN (I will give instructions to achieve this below).

apod script

Nat Geo pod script