I saw this image the other day on Hacker News and Reddit:
It’s a Game of Life pattern that prints out “Golly”. Neat, but I wanted my own. After about 5 minutes of playing around with the Golly logo pattern in Golly (a program for experimenting with the Game of Life), I gave up and wrote [...]
BugMeNot is a great little service for bypassing the registration process for websites that really shouldn’t require it (ahem, nytimes.com). The bookmarklet brings up BugMeNot for the current website you’re viewing, and gives you login/password pairs which you can then copy and paste.
But wouldn’t it be better if it automagically filled in the username and [...]
This post describes how to extract incident summaries and metadata from the USC Department of Public safety’s daily incident logs, which is used extensively in TOOBS
Background
A couple of years ago when the Google Maps API was first introduced I wanted to make something useful using it. The USC Department of Public safety sends out these [...]