Looking at birds on a powerline and turning that into a musical score is one thing. The fact that it’s quite attractive music is fairly amazing!
Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo.
This Clip is Proof That Birds Are Secretly Composers – Musical birds – Gizmodo.
The Germans want to create a swarm power plant by putting gas fired fridge sized units in people’s basements. They should release less CO2 than other power methods and they want to roll out 100,000 in the coming year, which will create the same amount of power as 2 nuclear plants. They’re calling it SchwarmStrom and sounds like a grand plan to me!
Lichtblick wants to charge people to set up their own powerplant, and then controlls them. So people are payed a modest rent to have the powerplant in their houses. Now I think I’d rather have my own powerplant and plug it into the Lichtblick network. Then they can pay me for any extra power I generate, don’t use and give them, which they can then in turn resell to people who don’t have their own powerplant.
Home power plants project unveiled in Germany | Grist.
Using SQL injection and the recent IIS faults, a grey hat hacker called Unu from Romania has hacked 4 large banks and a UK government website. He’s on a roll, and MS has no fix for their IIS holes…
Hacker ‘Unu’ valt Europese banken aan | Webwereld.
Well… not technically the first: they used to sell cocaine in Harrods, but the only one open now! It’s called Route 36 and it moves from location to location in La Paz, Bolivia
The world’s first cocaine bar | World news | The Guardian.
There are certain things that just don’t fit into our current theories about how things work. Others that are just beyond what we have workable theories about. This is an interesting list of a few of those things…
13 more things that don’t make sense – New Scientist.
A neat little trick!
Basically, all you need to do to estimate a distance using this classic method is hold your arm out and stare at your thumb with an eye closed. Silly, yes, but it makes sense, because you’ll switch which eye you look through and sort out how far the object appears to have “jumped” to the side:
How far did it move? (Be sure to sight the same edge of your thumb when you switch eyes.) Let’s say it jumped about five times the width of the barn, or about 500 feet. Now multiply that figure by the handy constant 10 (the ratio of the length of your arm to the distance between your eyes), and you get the distance between you and the barn — 5,000 feet, or about one mile.
Estimate Distances with Your Arm and This Rule of Thumb – measurements – Lifehacker.
That’s nothing new, but it turns out they’re especially good a lying about affairs. And they’re having a lot of them. Especially now that they have more opportunities to have affairs.
Mugasha collects sets world famous DJs have played and streams them online for you.
The best way to listen to electronic music online | Mugasha.
Using ctrl, win and / or alt you can move and shift your windows around. The utility is small and doesn’t require installation.
WinLayout Moves and Sizes Windows with Your Numpad – window manager – Lifehacker.
The instructions are here – a good plan to do this before you update. Anyway, it turns out that they’re kept in a sqlite3 file in
/var/mobile/Library/SMS/sms.db
if you want to do this on the iphone itself through terminal you need to apt-get install sqlite3
Then you need to convert to CSV:
sqlite3 -csv -separator ',' sms.db "select * from message;" > output.csv rowid: A unique identifier for each message address: The telephone number of the sender / recipient date: The Unix Timestamp of when the message was sent / received text: The message content flags: 3 Indicates that the message was sent, 2 indicates that it was received group_id: Indicates the conversation the message belongs to (messages are linked together via groups and the group_member table). If you use SSH to back up and replace the files, make sure you keep the permissions right: -rw-r--r-- 1 mobile mobile 61440 Sep 2 22:35 /var/mobile/Library/SMS/sms.db
Exporting your iPhone’s SMS Message Database to a CSV file | Geekology.
They’re curbing them! They don’t want people, corporations or the government itself to collect too much data on individuals and they certainly don’t want that linked up. An individual’s privacy is important, they think. Well done Scotland!
Scottish gov to curb personal data collection • The Register.
Yet again the UK has managed to fluff it, losing a USB stick with all the logon data (yes, and passwords) to the UK Government Gateway. This holds all kinds of data about UK Citisens.
With the plan to link National ID cards to crime databases, they UK will not only give anyone who can access the databases a whole lot of personal information, but they’ll probably mail it to the local crime syndicate on USB stick, unencrypted.
Now it seems that project STORK is about linking all of these databases – across the EU! This means that the next time the UK loses this kind of data (which it most certainly will), it won’t just be UK citizens and armed forces and MI5/6 personell that are fucked, it’ll be the WHOLE EU!
How much of the EU’s data will the UK lose? • The Register.
This site has a list of all emergencies in Holland called n to police, fire department and ambulances and links the locations to Google Maps.
WWW.112MELDINGEN.NL Online 112 meldingen / P2000 alarmeringen van de hulpdiensten volgen..
KD-AVX77 – this is the dog’s bollox head unit with touchscreen, ipod / iphone in, CD, DVD, radio, fully customiseable interface and you can put your own buttons and background on it. Must. Have.
via JVC Nederland » Producten › Car Audio › Multimedia › KD-AVX77.
These flowcharts are very very good indeed, with a “Boot Failure Troubleshooting Poster” which encompasses all of the flowcharts in one huge poster.
These cases are amazing – the rubber becomes hard on impact and is soft at rest. This means that you can throw your iphone against the wall without being afraid of it breaking.
iBand Cases For The iPhone Made With Shock-Absorbent Flubber – iBand – Gizmodo.