This is so cool. I need one. Puzzle Alarm Clock
Though I’m fairly certain I’d simply smash the damn thing with a hammer on day #2.
Monthly Archives: March 2005
OS icon guide
It’s wtf time again as someone with waaaay too much time on their hands brings us the Operating System icon guide – with clickable icons taking you to app shots, etc. There are also tabs for splash screens, sounds, interfaces and components.
Enormous woman to be built
The woman, with breasts and hips up to 100ft high, will be created 10 miles north of Newcastle from the waste material generated by open-cast mining, with each of her enormous curves concealing millions of tons of mining spoil.
Now this is a good way to use excavated ground!
Pimp my weapon
Dutch government issues Root CA
The Dutch government is the first in the world to both issue a Root CA (Certification Authority) and present it for inclusion in a major browser. (Firefox, duh!)
Users of Firefox 1.0.2 can use
View -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Certificates -> Manage certificates -> Authorities
and scroll down to Staat der Nederlanden to verify this. Sweet.
It’s safe to assume that this is part of the PKI Overheid initiative.
How to steal a house
Simply find a couple of meth addicts and put them to carrying it away. Brick by brick.
Save your stolen phone
Clever – a little java app that installs itself on your phone, and as soon as the simcard is changed emails the new number to you. You can then choose to have a message sent to the phone every 10 minutes with your contactdetails on it. SIMWatcher by Denda
Save Toby Sucks
This guy promises to castrate the owner of savetoby.com if he receives 30K US$.
http://www.heavy.com/savetobysucks/?partner=aff07
Return of the Suckage
George Lucas is describing the forthcoming finale to his Star Wars series as “Titanic in space.”
Oh boy..
Obviously, fans would love to see a movie about Darth Vader running around killing people. I’m not telling that story, and I’m not interested in that. That’s not what the movie is.
What an asshat. The one thing everyone was hoping for and he deliberately doesn’t do it. Seriously, after the horrible suckfest of Ep I & II you’d think the man would have the decency to provide us with some action packed Jedi carnage, but noooo Mr Midichlorians has to make a point by giving us 2 hours of rendered steaming dogshit.
I’m still going to see it, though.
http://movies.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_5343.php/Tears_and_Darkness_in_Revenge_of_the_Sith
Also, the marketing madness is about to start again.
Addidas Intelligent Trainer review
At engadget – unfortunately they don’t tell you how much these things weigh.
Human area network
Forget cables and bluetooth – 2MBps using your skin!
New way to detect planets
Well, they were doing it by looking at how light bends and stuff before, because large mass objects (such as planets) have a gravitational pull (allthough that theory is in doubt considering the flight path of the discovery spacecraft). Anyhow, now they can detect planets and maybe the wind conditions on them by using infrared light glows.
Neural computer interfaces
Well, I knew this could be done using electrodes, but Braingate drills into your skull and connects the wire directly to your brain!
Very curious how long you have to train to be able to use this…
Massive aircraft carrying supersubs
They found a Japanese one from WWII – and who said it wasn’t possible to fly bombers from submarines?
Meet People With Herpes (dot net)
If you do things at speed for long distances
Then a slide rule watch isn’t a bad idea. But Breiltling Old Nav still looks better with the same functionality. But a waaaay higher price!
RFID jammer
Build your own teleprompter
Out of a bunch of CD cases and a laptop
Week 35
Good morning and welcome to week 35. As you can see, we are cruising at a rate of one day per 24 hours, and a spin rate of 365 days per year. Please fasten your seatbelt when you see the light come on. This week we are predicting 5 days of work and 2 days of free time, with some periods of leisure, most likely starting at around 1800 daily.
The stewardesses will now show you how to start your alarm, and demonstrate a proper wake up action and tea making procedure in the event of an emergency.
This was your captain speaking, on behalf of the cabin crew and the company, we would like to wish you a pleasant week.
Squooshy Pineapple Photos
Every language flamewar ever
Yahoo Buzz Game
Google isn’t the only player to experiment – Yahoo has its own public research page.
The Tech Buzz Game is a very interesting fantasy prediction market for high-tech products, concepts, and trends.
In the Web Application Frameworks market, I’m betting on Rails.
Human extinction
What’s it going to be? Asteroid impact, World War III, Global Warming, Global Dimming, Biowarfare or is it just a minor die off post Global Peak Oil?
Consider Voluntary Human Extinction as a more humane alternative.
Evil Overlord list
A top 100 list of things to do once you become an Evil Overlord.
http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
Blackholes ‘n fireballs, my favorite combo
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in New York apparently creates fireballs (whee!) that have the characteristics of a Black Hole, with particles disappearing into the fireball’s core and reappearing as thermal radiation.
Funky. I’ll take two to go.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4357613.stm