The Linkielist

Author: Robin Edgar

  • Finally UK CCTV figures

    It turns out that CCTV cameras all over the place don’t really help much at all: for every 1000 camera’s, one crime is solved. That’s a very very expensive way to go about invading people’s privacy. Instead of getting rid of the camera’s, the Metropolitan police is saying they need to figure out how to…

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  • Ice Tube VFD Clock kit

    This clock is an open source project: make it yourself from free downloadable plans, or buy a kit from them and then assemble Ice Tube VFD Clock kit – Glowy retro tube clock.

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  • Stellarium

    Stellarium is a hugely featured program to look at the night sky with. It’s written for Mac, Windows and Linux. Stellarium.

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  • Movement

    This program allows you to change the order of your icons on the computer instead of by dragging them laboriously across the screen. Only for jailbroken ipods and only for Mac 🙁 Movement – Organise your iPhone apps with ease! – iPod touch Fans.

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  • Concert Hands

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    The way this system works, is wrist straps on a rail guide your hands to the right place and then zap the finger with electricity to indicate that you should press it. You load up the software with midi files and it’ll make you play it. I guess the idea is that if you build…

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  • iPhone 3GS Jailbreak, ECID Grabber & iBEC and iBSS Grabber

    In order to futureproof your iPhone upgrade, you need to get and save your ECID, iBEC and IBSS. In order to do this you need the following program: difrnt » Blog Archive » ECID Grabber & iBEC and iBSS Grabber. You can then follow these instructions from step 6 on – the grabber will do…

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  • Nykov Charge Base Ic

    This Wii charger uses magnetism to stick the controllers to the base and then induction to charge the controllers through the jacket Nyko – Products – Charge Base Ic.

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  • The iPhone sonic ruler

    OK so maybe it’s not quite as accurate as a proper sonic ruler, but being able to use sonar on your iphone is a pretty neat trick! Found Footage: The iPhone sonic ruler.

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  • US 24th Air Force stood up

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    This is the cyber air force, responsible for defensive as well as offensive use of cyberspace – ie. hacking, sniffing and cracking other nation’s networks, as well as defending US networking. US military cyber force activated • The Register.

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  • Clark Little Photography

    Clark Little makes some awesome pictures of waves crarshing on the beach

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  • Denim Gadget Case

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    Well, this ipod case is the best looking one I’ve seen – and it’s really easy to make! This site gives the instructions. Denim Gadget Case.

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  • Sickipedia

    This is the most awesome collection of paedophile, racist, anti-semitic, mysogenistic jokes ever. Basically, if you’re PC, don’t go. It’s fucking funny though. Sick Joke Wiki – Sickipedia.

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  • 2 Ways To Fabricate DNA Evidence

    It turns out that you can easily pland DNA at a crime scene – any biology undergraduate could do this: it’s easier than planting a fingerprint. One method requires you to have a sample of the actual DNA, the other requires you have access to the DNA information in a police database. Centralised DNA databases…

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  • IBM scientists build computer chips from DNA

    So, together with the nano lasers, we now have two new technologies for future growth in computer chip capacity. IBM’s technology makes strands of  DNA self-assemble into shapes such as triangles or squares on top of silicon. This assembly acts as scaffolding for semi conducting nanotubes which become a nano circuit board. IBM scientists build…

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  • 44 nm Nanolaser

    This is very very tiny – it’s by far the smallest information carrying line we can create now. Computer chipmakers are running into walls trying to cram more information lines (wires) into a chip, but they can’t make them small enough to fit. This could change all that, if they can build lenses with switching…

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  • New battery could change world, one house at a time

    The battery breakthrough comes from a Salt Lake company called Ceramatec, the R&D arm of CoorsTek, a world leader in advanced materials and electrochemical devices. It promises to reduce dependence on the dinosaur by hooking up with the latest generation of personalized power plants that draw from the sun. … Inside Ceramatec’s wonder battery is…

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  • Lockerbie bomber ‘to be released’

    Unbelievably, the man convicted of being responsible for the greatest disaster in Scotland, is possibly being released on ‘compassionate grounds’ of all things! BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Lockerbie bomber ‘to be released’.

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  • We lie a lot.

    This comes back a lot – we know people are basically not honest, that lying is taught to us by our parents from an early age. Robert Feldman’s latest study shows that even when we don’t have an agenda, we lie around 12 times per 10 minutes – and these are just the lies we…

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  • The Pre Reports Your Location to Palm

    It turns out that Palm wants your data – as much as possible! The Pre sends the following information home daily: Location Which apps you’ve used and for how long App crash logs Installed apps Apparently Palm says you can turn it off, but they don’t tell you how. You OK it by agreeing to…

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  • It’s hidden

    It’s Hidden is a Dutch VPN service that allows you to surf the web and bittorrent anonymously. They say they don’t store any data and they encrypt it for you. The results I’ve seen so far show that they’re a fast service. Home.

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  • Bone-anchored hearing aids

    Finally! They’ve passed testing and can be implemented! You can plug an mp3 player into them, they’re not as huge and unsightly as the current hearing aids and they are much much more effective than the old school ones. Bone-anchored hearing aids filter out noise, finally ready for human implantation.

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  • Molecular condom vs AIDS

    Utah scientists have developed a liquid that turns semi solid in the presence of semen, trapping the AIDS virus. If a woman uses the liquid before sex, sperm gets trapped in a gel like structure. By the time the gel melts into liquid, the AIDS virus has died. So it’s not a sure fire contraceptive,…

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  • El Reg to launch space paper plane

    The register has had enough of reporting on space and the hugely expensive space programmes, and (probably following on the tail of the UK Space Cheese project) has decided to launch their own paper space program in an attempt to keep the UK space race open! El Reg to launch space paper plane • The…

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  • UK Gov sticks fingers in ears and closes eyes in ID card hack

    The National ID card was hacked – last week. It only took 12 minutes to do. Now the government is flying in the face of the evidence and bluntly stating it never happened. Maybe if they say it often enough it’ll become true. Or not. Government rubbishes ID card hack report • The Register.

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  • Slashdot IT Story | UK National ID Card Cloned In 12 Minutes

    After all the millions spent on it, after all the privacy concerns and the backlash, after the bloody minded determination of the Wacky Jacqui to implement this, it only took 12 minutes to clone the fucker. Slashdot IT Story | UK National ID Card Cloned In 12 Minutes.

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