While filling out a National Do Not Call Registry complaint form, I noticed this at the bottom of the page (emphasis mine):

This voluntary complaint form is designed to improve public access to the FTC Do-Not-Call Complaint Registry. The estimated time of completion is 2 minutes. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act, as amended, an [...]

Now that I’m back home for winter break, I’m connected to the ‘net via Road Runner.

It seems that the ISP has taken to catching URL typos and redirecting customers to pages littered with sponsored ads and unhelpful search results. The “service” is named NXD, short for “non-existing domain landing service.”

Here’s a mirror of what it [...]

I’ve been running a 5,066-entry wordlist though an algorithm designed to rank the words in descending order of fitness according to a gauntlet of tests. Each word is assigned a net score between 0 and 1 that indicates how well it is able to filter distractors (unrelated terms) from targets (related terms).

I first ran my [...]

I rediscovered a wonderfully trivial post I made to the Processing forum in 2004. In it, I listed off the fourteen colors that have the same representation in HSB and RGB notations (when each component is in the range 0..255):

0, 0, 0        192, 127, [...]