Word of The Day – Chapatsu

This literally translates to “brown hair”. Chapatsu (チャパツ) is the once-rebellious, once-trendy style of bleaching and occasionally dyeing hair, found among Japanese teens. While the style itself began to show up in Tokyo streets during the early to mid-1990s, the word did not appear in Kōjien (one of Japans authoritative dictionaries) until 1998. The style first […]

How to use EL (Electro Luminescent) Wire

A primer on how to wire and use Electroluminescent wire… EL Wire, also known as Electroluminescent wire, is a stiff wire core coated with phosphor and then covered with a protective PVC sheath. When an AC signal is applied to it, it glows an aqua (blue green) color. Sometimes its covered with a colored plastic […]

Rapier vs. Longsword, fight!

Many games, including Role Playing Games (D&D, I call you out!), treat most swords the same.  A Rapier is a Longsword, is a Rapier.  But they actually are quite different, and have significant differences. What would happen if a Longswordsman & a fighter with a rapier fought? Let’s find out.

A Waste of Money and Time – Room for Debate

Brice Schneider, the security technologist, and author, is debating on The Body Scanner issue in the New York Times… I highly recommend reading it… A short history of airport security: We screen for guns and bombs, so the terrorists use box cutters. We confiscate box cutters and corkscrews, so they put explosives in their sneakers. […]

Your Word for the Day – Hirsutism

Hirsutism is the excessive hairiness on humans in those parts of the body where terminal hair does not normally occur or is minimal – for example, a beard or chest hair. It refers to a male pattern of body hair (androgenic hair) and it is therefore primarily of cosmetic and psychological concern. Hirsutism is a […]

iOS 4.2.1 – New Safari Features

As you know iOS 4.2 is a free update for every iPhone, iPod or iPad device available now. Apple has not yet updated the developers documentation reflecting this, but Maximilano Firtman has discovered some of these changes.  This new release provides some major changes on HTML5 and W3C future standards support, like WebSocketsand Accelerometer support, print support, […]