David Ehlers » life http://davidehlers.com Art, Algorithms, & Design Mon, 14 Mar 2011 04:01:58 +0000 en hourly 1 Navigating Past Nihilism http://davidehlers.com/2010/12/navigating-past-nihilism/ http://davidehlers.com/2010/12/navigating-past-nihilism/#comments Mon, 06 Dec 2010 00:21:00 +0000 David Ehlers http://davidehlers.com/?p=347 The nytimes has an interesting op/ed by Sean Kelly, chair of the department of philosophy at Harvard University, Navigating Past Nihilism. “Melville hoped for a life that steers happily between two dangers: nihilism and fanaticism.”

At his site ( http://allthingsshiningbook.wordpress.com ), he has a couple of interesting posts in particular the post on Preachers who don’t believe. Good stuff.

]]> http://davidehlers.com/2010/12/navigating-past-nihilism/feed/ 0 ProtoDojo’s Nintendo Controller Secure USB Drive http://davidehlers.com/2009/10/protodojos-nintendo-controller-secure-usb-drive/ http://davidehlers.com/2009/10/protodojos-nintendo-controller-secure-usb-drive/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:52:07 +0000 David Ehlers http://davidehlers.com/?p=238 Jovens Protodojo Nintendo USB Drive

Joven's Protodojo Nintendo USB Drive under construction

My pal Joven, over at ProtoDojo has been at it again, this time creating a secure Nintendo USB drive. Now THAT is a USB drive.

He writes about his motivation, “When cleaning out the garage a few weeks ago, I found my original Nintendo Entertainment System. Rather than sell it on ebay, I decided to do a few projects using this iconic video game system.

At first, I simply wanted to turn the controller into a flash drive and be one of the thousands of videos and blogs of people turning everyday objects into external memory, but ever since I got my first arduino working, I’ve been itching to do something different. I thought, wouldn’t it be cool to add a security feature that required someone to enter the classic contra “30 lives” code before they could access the data?”

Check it out here:

http://www.protodojo.com/content/2009/10/retro-gamerdrive/

]]> http://davidehlers.com/2009/10/protodojos-nintendo-controller-secure-usb-drive/feed/ 0 The Power of Kindness and Emotional Intelligence http://davidehlers.com/2008/04/the-power-of-kindness-and-emotional-intelligence/ http://davidehlers.com/2008/04/the-power-of-kindness-and-emotional-intelligence/#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:11:16 +0000 David Ehlers http://davidehlers.com/?p=43 Dacher Keltner, a professor of psychology at Berkeley, has a nifty essay on Power and it’s not Machiavellian.

Read the essay here

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