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 Read more about German power plant swarm[…]
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.
Thankfully the effect is only temporary! Men lose their minds speaking to pretty women – Telegraph.
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 Read more about Estimate Distances with Your Arm Your Thumb[…]
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. Think men are the unfaithful sex? A study shows WOMEN are the biggest cheats – they’re just better at lying about it | Mail Read more about Women lie better than men[…]
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 Read more about Back up your iPhone’s SMS Message Database[…]
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 Read more about UK Gov loses MORE data![…]
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..
This is a list of proxy server lists. Proxy Lists.
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. Computer Repair with Diagnostic Flowcharts – Troubleshooting Dell, HP, Sony, eMachines, IBM, Compaq and Gateway PC’s.
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.