Passive-aggressive notes
“Painfully polite and hilariously hostile writing from shared spaces all over the world” http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2007/09/01/ps-bacon-is-life/. Bacon is life, indeed.
Month: May 2008
Do More with Your Webcam with Free Tools
A nice overview of webcam tools: Webbased video chat motion sensing security login with your face creating time lapse videos turning your pc into a photo booth chronicle your face document the weather make a birdfeeder webcam make your phone a webcam
Boobpedia
Yes – it’s Wikipedia for big breasted women!
Jupiter Grows Third Red Spot
In 2006 a second red spot was observed which now rivals the first in storm furiousness and also almost in size. The third red spot, recently discovered is the same size as the Earth and is growing rapidly.
Semantic Web Searching
Powerset is another semantic web search engine – ie. it searches by meaning instead of by words and phrases. It’s a total new way to look at information retrieval and is useful in that it can (should be able to) answer questions and make relevant conclusions. This becomes more and more important as the size Read more about Semantic Web Searching[…]
Windows XP faster than OS X at rendering RIA’s
Oh dear – after being the most insecure computer OS of the lot and being hacked a full day faster than even Vista, now it turns out that it’s also slow at browsing the web. About 50% slower than XP. Oh well. They’re still cool. If you’re still wearing black turtleneck sweaters.
Fashion tips for women from a guy who knows dick about fashion.
I mainly agree with Maddox on his list. No Crocs and no tit curtains being the main ones I totally see eye to eyegina on…
Wrightspeed The X1 Prototype
This electric car prototype will do 0-60 mph in 3.07 s – and they expect the production car to be a whole load better. I hope they manage to get the gearbox to hold up!
Cold Fusion – For the First Time In Decades
Cheap, renewable energy for everyone? In Japan, Yoshiaka Arata has produced cold fusion in front of many witnesses AND claims the experiment is easily reproducible, which was a problem with the first time anyone saw it.
World’s biggest drawing created with the help of GPS and DHL
As an advertisement for DHL, this guy sent a package with a GPS device and a tracker all over the world from destination to destination, and made a drawing that spans the world
Extreme body modification
Identical twins exchange body parts. Real or fake? Click on the link and decide for yourself… http://www.bmezine.com/news/people/A10101/addsub/
UltimateDefrag Freeware Edition 1.72
Ultimate Defrag allows you to choose where on the platter to put files or directories – stuff you use a lot or want to run faster should be near the centre. It has an auto mode so that it puts the files in the right place automatically as it monitors file useage. It’s tiny (1.7 Read more about UltimateDefrag Freeware Edition 1.72[…]
Fire!
Nowadays, fireplaces are no longer just the plain old hole in the wall with chimney and wood affairs anymore. Designer fireplaces are the way to go! Digifire: Radius Design: Safretti BV: Of course all these guys have a whole load more models available, and variations on the models shown here.
Shredder Surfboard
Mike Sheldrake This is what happens when you get a nerd to design a surf board – a cardboard hollow, light structure which can be built on the cheap. He’s using easy tools to keep production costs down, and even though he’s not finished on his design, he’s got a pro to surf it and Read more about Shredder Surfboard[…]
Student isolates microbe that lunches on plastic bags
Instead of it taking 1000 years to degrade a plastic bag, he can do it in around 3 months with his microbes and their helper microbes.
Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA’s Spytechs, from Communism to al-Qaeda
This book details the way the CIA built and used technologies to spy on other people and countries. a former head of the CIA’s Office of Technical Service (OTS) and an internationally acclaimed espionage historian join forces to tell the story of the covert devices critical to America’s intelligence operations for more than half a Read more about Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA’s Spytechs, from Communism to al-Qaeda[…]
The Secret History of Star Wars
This is a totally unofficial look at the Star Wars universe, how it was created and what motivated Lucas and the film companies as they built the franchise. The Secret History of Star Wars traces all the way back to 1973 to examine how the first 14-page treatment that began the series came to be Read more about The Secret History of Star Wars[…]
PosteRazor
This basically takes a picture, cuts it up and then resizes it over as many pieces of paper as you like, so you can just stick them together and make a poster.
Some PDF coverts PDF files to other files
Some PDF – Free PDF to Word, PDF to Html, PDF to TXT, Text to PDF, PDF Image Extract convert tools
AMXD For your long term urinary needs
Especially for fighter pilots, taking a piss hasn’t always been easy – it’s been about wearing condoms or wearing Pampers. Now there’s a pump driven, clean option – for males and females, costing in the region of $2000,- from Omni Medical Systems
First IMOD-based Mirasol displays
reflective interferometric modulation Qualcomm announces working displays which are an OLED / LCD / Plasma competitor: reflective interferometric modulation (IMOD). They offer: low power consumption, visibility in outdoor lighting, and no backlighting requirement
Palm Virtual Developer Lab
Have you ever wanted to own a Palm unit – or all of them? To develop on, maybe to just play with? Device Anywhere has a lab where you can play with them virtually – software emulations of the devices so that you can try out whatever you want on all the Palm devices without Read more about Palm Virtual Developer Lab[…]
Smoking Ban Causes Increase In Drunk Driving Fatalities
Yup, by forcing people to not smoke where people who don’t smoke don’t generally go anyway, the incidence of drunk driving fatalities has increased. Another new way to kill more people invented!
Evil Mastermind Lairs
.. no, actually. Sorry. These are Network Operation Centers. But don’t you just see Bond walking into one of these while battling SPECTRE minions? NOC gallery
Unbound – BIND Alternative Launches
Unbound is supposed to be lighter, faster, better and supports DNSSEC