Want to hone your mad C coding skills? Try your hand at the Underhanded C Contest. It poses two challenges: to solve a semi-interesting programming problem, while hiding something devious in the resulting code. Sound fun?

Hack of the week: compressing javascripts into PNGs and back again. Horribly excellent, isn’t it?

A great HOWTO on hacking your camera. The coolest thing is that there are alternative operating systems for many common SLR digital cameras.

There’s a daemon available for the Apple infrared hardware built in to most newer Macs, and an example showing how to control keynote. Source code is included, for the curious.

A completely horribly hacky hack for namespaces in Javascript. Not that hacks (or horribly hacky hacks are bad).

A simple logic implemented entirely in HTML … no Javascript, no Flash, etc. It’s a a good example of FSM,¹ and a great tangent hack.

1. Not to be confused with the Flying Spaghetti Monster, also a product of HTML and poorly contrived state machines ↩

Real World: A bizarre dimension in which the standard dress is shirt and tie and in which a person’s working hours are defined as 9 to 5. In conversation, talking of someone who has entered the Real World is not unlike speaking of a deceased person. –Jargon File

A clever way to space things equally using CSS.

Run Leopard on the Asus eeePC? I can’t imagine that Apple will ignore this.

Some tips on cracking binary file formats, old-school style.