Hash

Patrick Stach has announced the availability of his source code for finding MD5 collisions and MD4 collisions (Coral cache links provided to prevent slashdotting). MD4 collisions can be found in a few seconds (but nobody uses that any more), while MD5 collisions (still being used!) take 45 minutes on a 1.6 GHz P4.

Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters

Yeah, it's kinda old news; but MD5 is still used extensively in the realm of bittorrent! The fear is that fakes will flood torrents and render them useless (I wonder who's a big enough jerk to do that... One name comes to mind). Fear not, however, a lot of clients including Azureus and BitComet use SHA-1 hash functions.

Google Base

Google Base is a place where you can add all types of information that we'll host and make searchable online.

Google Base

Finally, the "free" search engine available to anyone with crap they want to share. Hoorayyy!

Type Managers

Type Manager - November 16th 2005I would like to introduce you to the future of desktop applications, the Type Manager.

Type Manager

Ah yes, the type manager; how I know thee. Seriously I have sold out to iTunes after my music became too much to manage but I still retain control over my own music hierarchy at least. In all seriousness, most type managers suck, i.e Picasa and amorok. The type manager is in and of itself a glorified evolution of the Unix pipe which takes all the separate apps that worked on one type of file and chunked them together with a GUI. It'll be interesting to see innovation in this branch of software; but I won't give up control of my "perfect" file system!

FNN 11.15.05

1. Best of '05: A look at this years best innovations in several categories as compiled by Popular Science.
2. Hachimitsu to Clover Walls: Great H & C wallpapers from Ningen's walls.
3. Death to I2: No more I2hubs sharing.

Lonely in Gorgeous

Music Video of Tommy february6 - Lonely in Gorgeous (MP4, 27MB, for PSP/Quicktime) Memento

Mandriva 2006

Mandriva linux 2006 distro has been released in iso form and is available for public download. This is my flavor of choice in the linux world for its blend of functionality and pretty.
http://frontal2.mandriva.com/en/downloads/mirrors

Micromanagement of Sony DRMs

Microsoft to remove Sony CD code Sony's controversial anti-piracy CD software has been labelled as spyware by Microsoft

BBC NEWS | Technology | Microsoft to remove Sony CD code

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iPod Killers

iPod Killers for Christmas 2005 Part IBy Richard Menta 10/5/05: When Sony execs crowed a few weeks ago that their latest MP3 players were THE iPod Killers one thing was obvious. They were oblivious to the fact that the term "iPod Killer" had already gone from clever market-speak to running joke

iPod Killers for Christmas 2005 Part I

Supporting the Anime Industry

The golden rule in life as well as in anime is to give as you receive. Please support your anime industry or else it'll come back to bite you in the ASS with bad karma. AAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHH!

ADV Films
Geneon Animation
Bandai Entertainment
Manga Entertainment

Star Wars ^ 6 ^.^!

Are you one of those people who haven't seen all the Star Wars films yet? Well shame on you. Are you one of those people who haven't seen all six films simultaneously? Me neither, but someone has.

Fanfic Picks

To tell you the truth I dunno why people read fanfictions; but sometimes I fall prey to their charming but grammatically incorrect appeals. Here are two sites that have a lot of choices of which maybe 1% could be good reading. I joke of course, it's actually 0.5%...
http://www.fanfiction.net/cat/201/
http://www.shoujoai.com/fanfics/ (for the girls).

As a little caveat, here's a Yale compiled list of 100 essential anime words which anyone who takes their anime seriously already knows and regards as material for toddlers.

Rumor FFAC Delayed

Advent Children Delayed, Possible Theatrical Release (2005-11-10 13:22:22)GATV reports that Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children has been pushed back to January 10, 2006 in order to facilitate a possible limited theatrical release.

Anime News Network - Anime News

FNN 11.10.05

1. French Blog Ban: The French government has shut down one outspoken blog in lieu of the recent riots. Many people fear raising their voice against this new crackdown, if this seems all too familiar then think French Revolution. Off with their heads!

2. Rubiks Records: The world champions of Rubix cubing have been weighed, measured, and still wanting of a social life? :(

3. Tommy February 6: Highlight of the singer for Paradise Kiss's opening theme "Lonely in Gorgeous" the single of which comes out 11/30. Please note, this publisher is Sony so expect DRMs.

FNN 11.09.05

1. Manga Strips: Manga in the funnies? Well it's happening in some American newspapers.
2. Linux Gaming: A newer version of Cedega which makes your windows games such as Halo and WOW work on Linux and openGL is available.
3. Japanese Heated Bra: To help with high levels of fuel consumption a company has unveiled a microwavable heated bra and panty set O.o!

Google Landmines

Google Landmines is a game from Kevin Pereira in which you type word strings into google search and then hit "I'm Feeling Lucky" and hope the site that pops up doesn't offend anyone. It's actually pretty fun to play when you're drunk. Here's the permalink on AttackoftheBlog.

iWalls Anime

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Cool website of someone's effort to bring union between Apple and anime. Check it out and I promise that's it's much much safer than weird interwebs.

Apple's Pet Rock

Could Apple have possibly gone into the ROKR project with a hidden agenda to sabotage the final product’s success? Why not? It may serve to sway public opinion of mp3 cell phones. If the Apple iTunes cell phone flops, how great could mp3 cell phones really be? Might potential mp3 cell phone buyers take a step back and choose to stick with carrying their iPod in tandem with their cell phones? It might be worth another few million iPod units sold before someone comes along with the killer mp3 phone. Maybe. Maybe?

The Apple Blog » Did Apple Sabotage the ROKR?

Just put those poor pet rocks to sleep people!

Recall...

I've noticed that there have been many many good animes coming out recently and it's hard to keep up with them. So here's a recap of BOAS recommendations, in short!
To Heart 2, Canvas 2, Rozen Maiden Traumend, Lamune, Solty Rei, Mushishi, Jigoku Shoujo, Blood+, Paradise Kiss, ARIA the Animation, and Karin!

Lamune

You know sometimes you stumble upon stuff on the internet that at the time you really don't know what it is; but it's pretty so you kept it. Well this kinda happens to me all the time and today one of the mysteries has been uncovered. The new harem anime entitled Lamune (pronounced like Ramune) has finally solved that one for me. Give Lamune a look, I'm sure you'll find it pretty as well!