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“Adding just one capital letter and one asterisk would change the processing time for an 8 character password from 2.4 days to 2.1 centuries.”

New web app from values of n (Stikkit). Billed a a free e-mail assistant. It has my interest peaked.

Lifehack.org has this enticing proposition, clone yourself by hiring a part time personal assistant. They posit that, if you use a little thinking and planning, it is not as expensive as one might think.

There are some really cool product suggestions here but also good for out-of-the-box ideas to help you think beyond a simple desk and chair.

“rsync+hfsmode is a patch for rsync to enable recognition of Mac OS X HFS+ resource forks and Finder metadata, and to copy them to a remote filesystem.” – I may also need this for the big backup project I have planed.

Very nice cutting board available in custom sizes. I am redoing my kitchen in one of my houses and there is a space for a board. May see about getting one of these.

A few good ones here.

A family tree of Greek gods. At once, fascinating and useful.

Excellent and simple explaination.