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A Particle Physics Joke 7

This wouldn’t fit into the confines of twitter, but I had to share it:
A Higgs-Boson walks into a church, the priest says “We don’t allow Higgs-Bosons in here.” The Higgs-Boson says “But without me how can you have mass?”

from fora.tv via reddit
Posted via web from Dave’s Desktop

Google Voice Voicemail with Any Existing Phone Number 1

Google Voice just announced that it will officially support any existing phone number on its platform. This means that the hack that I posted previously is depreciated and you no longer need to use the “Do Not Disturb” option – and this fixes the annoying extra rings that callers would hear upon entering your voicemail.
Steps [...]

A Poor Man’s VPN: Proxy Web Connection to Remote Server (via SSH and Tunnel) 5

Did you ever have a situation where you needed to access a website that had an IP restriction in place? I recently had a situation where I needed to access the web via my university connection (due to IP restrictions placed on accessing databases of research papers). They do not have a VPN setup so [...]

Sensor Graphing via Wireless Sensor Network to a Mobile Internet Device 0

I wrote this paper during this past spring semester at West Chester University, for a class in the Computer Science department. My paper was accepted and published in the proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Wireless Networks which was held on July 13-16 in Las Vegas, NV. The title of the paper is “Sensor [...]

Report a Phishing site to Google, Get a Witty Response 1

Visit http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/ and report a phishing page this is the response:
Report Sent

Thanks for sending a report to Google. Now that you’ve done your good deed for the day, feel free to:
1. Take a second to rejoice merrily for doing your part in making the web a safer place.
2. Call/email/write to a neighbor/friend/relative and tell [...]