Matt’s Blog > Hero of the Day

Ed.: Because the blogs have been slow, and because this is a hot topic, I’ve fudged the date on this to appear to have been published two days later, so it will stay on the main page a bit longer.
It looks like Obama is the Democratic nominee, while Hillary Clinton, the woman who has twice [...]

The International Herald Tribune reports that Myanmar’s leaders have just allowed foreign aid workers into the country. I seem to recall a story from a week or two ago about how they were accusing France of sending a warship to take over their country, when France suggested that the ship was actually coming with doctors [...]

I don’t know why, but I find these absolutely hilarious. Since I haven’t given it out in a while, this guy gets HERO OF THE DAY.

There were a couple people screaming profanities outside my window. After about ten minutes one of them shouted, “Come drink with us” at some girl, and I looked out and saw that they had beer bottles.
Sufficiently irritated at this point, I called Campus Police. The dispatcher said, “I just sent someone up that way for [...]

It’s very common for spammers to create blogs on Blogger (something.blogspot.com). There’s a survey out there that found that 74% of blogs on the site were spam.
It turns out that you can report spam blogs pretty easily on Blogger: they’ve got a form for it here. You won’t find it linked to on their site [...]

I used to like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. They were both well-qualified, I thought, and the country would be in good hands either way. But I worried that Hillary had too many people who were opposed to her for one reason or another, so I thought Obama had a better chance of getting the [...]

…Ever.
Hulu. You can watch TV shows online. In (seemingly, I don’t know the exact resolution) high def. That’s pretty cool. Plus, it’s legal. Oh, and, the most important part: there’s no catch… It’s free. You sign up and watch TV shows.
With shows like Arrested Development, The Office (only 9 episodes right now), House (only 2 [...]

There’s a women’s rights movement going on in South Africa.
One thing I think is interesting is that people tend to view this as backwards–they’re just now having a women’s rights movement? But I view it differently. They became a Republic in 1961. It took us centuries from being founded on supposedly-democratic principles before we truly [...]

I just discovered PhotoRec, a tool for recovering digital camera images.
For the non-geeks, a quick basic background…. When you save a file, it writes it to various blocks on the disk. Then it makes an entry in the File Allocation Table, pointing to where on the disk the file is. When you delete a file, [...]

Slightly manipulated: the moon is a full-size crop pasted into a scaled-down image of the background (to keep the noise consistent). I’ve got a few others that are similar but might have a little more detail on the right. (Specs: 200mm, f/5.6, ISO400, 4 to 6 seconds.)