Category: Technology

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Microsoft EULA Haiku

Microsoft EULA Haiku
Microsoft EULA Haiku takes text directly from Microsoft’s End User Legal Agreement (EULA) for Windows XP Home Edition and forms it into beautiful, if not disturbing, poetry.

Click on the image to the right to get started.

Some of my favorite results are:

contact Microsoft
for loss of business profits
serving your country

There is no software
please see the “Consumer rights”
legal agreement

you are not allowed
refund, if applicable
shall be limited

they supersede all
courts sitting in Toronto
to use the Software

Software is designed
if failure of the Software
you are not using

accident, abuse
limited to the greater
U.S. Government

Suppliers shall not
copy, or use this software
you do not agree

and the very succinct:

in accordance with
the written materials
legal agreement

local law applies
one copy of the Software
License Agreement

Have Fun. If you find a result that is particularly amusing, please comment.

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Geo Tagging

Flickr Maps

It’s no secret that I think flickr is one of the best things the internet has to provide. A few months back they got better by adding geo-tagging maps. It’s a mashup between Yahoo Maps (a rip off of Google Maps) and its own API.

Although it has some privacy issues for cameras that automatically GeoTag their photos, it’s a windfall for people who see a great photo or even a lousy photo of a great place and want to explore more in depth.

For example, someone takes a picture of a great plating of food at a restaurant. You see that photo and think… that would be fun to go to … and now you know where it is, too.

A year ago you had to use terse tools which created machine tags in your photos – those were messy and unstable. Now that it’s been solid in Flickr for half a year it’s worth noting how simple and solid geo-tagging can be.

The only complaint I have is that Yahoo doesn’t always report the correct location in your photo details, but it still shows up fine on the map.

So every public photo taken at a specific location other than my house has been geo-tagged for your enjoyment.

Check out what others have Geo-Tagged.

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Total Geeky Binary Love

greenKarat-Jewelry Product Detail Page

This is a geeky-cool-lovr product.

It’s a binary ring with five pits going across the ring to represent 2^5, or a binary representation of the digits 0-31. That’s more than enough to represent the 26 characters of the English alphabet.

There are a series of 20 spaces around the ring for your characters. Even better, it’s made out of recycled gold or titanium. These people are very enviro-friendly.