Mon

Oct
12th

How to hack into the FBI to get records about yourself

The FBI headquarters in DC

This is actually a really easy hack, all you need is a printer, envelope and a stamp. Oh, and the power of the Freedom of Information Act.

All you have to do is mail the sample letter below with your information to this address:
Director Federal Bureau of Investigations Washington D.C., 20535

<YOUR NAME>
<YOUR ADDRESS>
<CITY, STATE, ZIP>
<YOUR PHONE NUMBER>

Dear Sir: I am requesting a copy of any personal file which you may have on myself (SSN <Your social security number>).
In addition, I am requesting copies of all files, dossiers, documents, or materials referring to myself. If you consider some material exempt from disclosure, release the material to me with deletions indicated and specify your legal support for having made those deletions. Finally, I require a response within ten working days, as provided by the Freedom of Information Act. I appreciate your time and your compliance with my request and the law.

Thank you,

<YOUR NAME>

Happy hacking the FBI!

VIA Reddit.com

 

Tue

Sep
22nd

A Handful of Graphic Design Students + Processing + Breakout (Atari) = Some Really Cool Outcomes

One of the great things about processing is how accessible it is. Indeed the following is a video of some sketches made with processing from a modified version of the old school Atari game Breakout. This done by graphic design grad students who hardly had any (if any) previous experience coding during a six our long workshop. To see what they've explored within the processing library is really amazing, you can see that they've built complicated shapes, colors, physics and even created things that were viewtiful. You can read more about the project here.

game mod from steph thirion on Vimeo.

 

Mon

Sep
21st

Video and Timelapse from the Saturday’s Pedal Hacking workshop

Boss BD2 moddded

The boss BD2 Blues Overdrive, modded.

So this weekend I worked my way through Monte Allum's BD-2 Blue's Stack mod for my Boss BD-2 Blues overdrive pedal. Overall I would consider it a success, the pedal responds very nicely now. For instance the gain is smoother and more crip, it doesn't splatter when it's maxed out. Additionally, the tone is more crisp the the bass is even and doesn't rumble all over the place.

The only difficulty I had was at the end when I was replacing the LED, I kept shorting it out and then blowing the LED. I wish that the instructions had mention to be very careful about that. Fortunately I had multiple spare LEDs but it would be cool to have a different color then red.

Some more media is available via my flickr and Baltimore Node's website. (Thanks to Jon for putting together the time lapse and the short video of me playing around.)




 

Fri

Sep
18th

Compact Flash, Daily Fresh Photos from Jerrold

Smoke The Goove at the green room

Smoke The Groove: (left to right) Joanna Kirby, Doug Stockton, Sonja Bontrager and Tiberius. Full Size Photo and the post

A friend of mine, Jerrold Adler has started a really cool project where he does a daily photo composition and puts it online. The project is called Compact Flash and you can check it out here.

I'm inspired to undertake such a project myself but I'm currently in the process of resolving an "err 99" problem that I'm having with my Canon Rebel XT. I.E. I'm sending it back to Canon today :(

Anyhow, best of luck to you Jerrold!

 

Wed

Sep
9th

I was just curious to hear what melody the birds were creating.

—Jarbas Agnelli

 

Tue

Sep
8th

 

Tue

Sep
8th

Day trip to the DC Zoo

Full photo set available on Flickr

Sorry I didn't take more photos, my camera has been giving me a strange error that I'm in the process of resolving.

 

Wed

Sep
2nd

Phil Keaggy plays Amazing Grace with an Ebow

The guitar playing abilities are just amazing, I had to watch this twice while at work today...shhhh!

 

Mon

Aug
24th

Crazy Hippy Van in Rhode Island

Hippy Van

Whoa, man, that's like peace and love in one.

I went up to Point Judith, RI this weekend and while hanging around a nearby town we saw this awesome little van and I had to snap a photo. We weren't surprised to find a 25th anniversary of Woodstock bumper sticker on it. Go hippies.

 

Tue

Aug
18th

Dog Vs Man Dance Battle

Who will win?

 

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