Posts by D. H. McKee

TrueCrypt

Update: You may have heard about this, but a while back the FBI/NSA/CIA/Whatever hacked the TrueCrypt code or otherwise compromised...

The Lonelygirl That Really Wasnâ..t

A nearly four-month-old Internet drama in which the cryptic video musings of a fresh-faced teenager became the obsession of millions...

How can you patent a perpetual motion machine?

Allegedly, by patenting different parts of it – because patent offices do not accept claims for perpetual motion machines. Of...

An open letter of apology to the country of Iceland

I would like to take this opportunity to finally, formally, apologize to the country of Iceland. What I did was...

The Mayan Grill

Looks good. Not to many Mexican places in the KW area. THERECORD.COM | Home | DINING GUIDE With tacos, chimichangas,...

Racing Deluge

Went to the horse races in Elora on Friday last. That was a pretty interesting experience. I haven’t been since...

Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn LOTR DVD commentary

This is awesome. McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Unused Audio Commentary By Howard Zinn & Noam Chomsky, Recorded Summer 2002, for The...

The Death of Privacy

The general disinterest in doing little more than the bare minimum to shield consumer privacy extends well beyond companies that...

Criticize Israel? You’re an Anti-Semite!

Publish something sharply critical of Israeli government policies and you’ll find out. If you’re lucky, you’ll merely discover that you’ve...

Smoking out photo hoaxes with software

Dartmouth College professor Hany Farid is no fan of Josef Stalin, but he acknowledges that the photo retouching done during...