20101111 Marcan strikes back (re: Open Kinect / freenect)

I was happily in my happy world, when mrdoob mentioned that someone had hacked the Kinect and thus won the $3000 that were offered for the first person who did it. And he added: isn’t this the same guy that wrote the laser demo? Indeed, he’s the same 20 year genius! Whenever I see news [...]

20090113 How to recruit curious people, the automattic way

I was doing some feeds processing and needed to check their HTTP headers. Oh the surprise when I saw this line among the headers returned by blogs from wordpress.com: X-hacker: If you’re reading this, you should visit automattic.com/jobs and apply to join the fun, mention this header. They aren’t the first ones to find prospective [...]

20061013 How about a nice game of chess?

Warning: if you haven’t seem this movie don’t keep reading – lots of spoilers below! Don’t remember how, but I ended up in the page of the manufacturers of the computer which Mathew Broderick used on the mighty War Games, called IMSAI 8080. That page has plenty of trivia and funny facts about the equipment, [...]