Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [2014] – “Subway Fight” Scene
Tyrannosaurus hunting Triceratops – Video
https://youtu.be/JIX_Pr9ufR8 EVERYTHING WRONG WITH THIS 'RE-ENACTMENT' SETTING: Looks like these dinosaurs have been pictured as duking it out in the dry, frigidly cold (most of the year) south western Alberta (Canada) of today: Exactly the kind of environment where tropical reptiles (the dinosaurs were just that) cannot survive. By way of contrast, during the Cretaceous period... Continue Reading →
“Aerospace Neurology” – Ch. 4 of Fundamentals of Aerospace Medicine (5th ed. – 2020)
From the chapter: "In the practice of medicine, the neurologist is called upon to answer the following questions: (1) Does the patient have neurologic disease? (2) If so, what is the localization of the lesion or lesions? (3) What is the pathophysiology of the process? (4) What is the preliminary differential diagnosis? Utilizing the tools... Continue Reading →
Textbook: An Introduction to Ray Tracing
This post is about a book (the link to full text is at the end) for those more technically inclined and/or who want to know more about the details underlying the creation of realistic images through computer graphics: It's a first book on ray tracing: a classic on the subject. While it may be 'ancient'... Continue Reading →
Serious Netmask vulnerability found to affect three Perl IP modules
"A trio of Perl modules are potentially vulnerable to a serious upstream security flaw in Net::Netmask, a Perl distribution used to parse, manipulate, and lookup IP network blocks. The affected CPAN modules include Net-CIDR-Lite, used to merge IPv4 or IPv6 CIDR addresses; Net-IPAddress-Util, a version-agnostic IP address representation; and Data-Validate-IP, an IPv4 and IPv6 validator..." Full article: https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/serious-netmask-vulnerability-found-to-affect-three-perl-ip-modules
Latest web hacking tools – Q1 2021
"The coronavirus-induced lockdowns experienced by much of the world over winter has done little to scupper researchers’ desire to tinker and create. In fact, the past three months saw the release of a variety of new hacking tools to make the lives of penetration testers, bug bounty hunters, and infosec hobbyists that little bit easier." Full article: https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/latest-web-hacking-tools-q1-2021
Dystopian Times 