Ken Shirriff's blog

I recently wound up on CNN for a couple seconds doing some Arduino hacking as part of a segment on Google's workshops. Click the image ...

I attended a very interesting talk "All Questions Answered" by the famous computer science professor Don Knuth in March, where he ...

The last launch of the Endeavour space shuttle has been delayed 48 hours (update: indefinitely ) due to a problem with the APU heater and t...

You may have heard about Firesheep , a new Firefox browser add-on that lets anyone easily snoop over Wi-Fi and hijack your identity for serv...

A mysterious package showed up on my doorstep today - box "INTJ-28", an instance of the The Great Internet Migratory Box of Elec...

My wife's car radio suddenly quit working, so I figured I'd take a look and see if I could fix it. The first problem was that it wa...

My driveway has a gate that automatically opens when you drive up, and then closes. Recently it stopped working and this blog post describe...

Recently Craig Venter (who decoded the human genome) created a synthetic bacterium . The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) took a bacterium...

Craig Venter recently created a synthetic bacterium with a secret message encoded in the DNA. This is described in more detail at singulari...

I came across an interesting paper that uses a mathematical model of relationships to show that relationships are likely to fall apart unles...

This article describes how to use a USB Panic Button with Python. The panic button is a pushbutton that can be read over USB. Unfortunate...

Recently, I've been attempting to improve my Spanish by reading Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal , the Spanish version of Harry Potte...