This post was originally published on November 13, 2006 (which wasn’t actually a Friday). It has been edited for style and content.

The date made me wonder why a Friday the 13th earns special mention any time an event comes up on that day. Consider that there are twelve months in a year, and each one [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]