Interactive Urban Growth Map
The BBC has a map showing the population of urban centres globally over time. What it very specifically shows is that the Middle East and Asia are growing at an astonishing pace.
Author: Robin
Carry your PC around with you
Here in the office we have a problem with people who work 32 hour work weeks – it basically means that one workstation is unuseable for one day per week per 32 hour employee. This means we have troo many computers. As space is at a premium, we need a solution that allows employees to Read more about Carry your PC around with you[…]
In Dash PC
This is a tiny connector kit that connects your PC to your car stereo. It comes with software which allows you to select and play music using the stereo’s buttons. Cheap too.
Daily WTF
The Daily WTF is a site that has a daily example of programming gone completely awry. Some are hilarious, others are just sad, and some are too deep for me to figure out – if you’re a programmer, this site will most certainly have you in tears.
US Military Pondered Weaponry
From bombs that made soldiers go mad with gay love, to halitosis and making an area an attraction point for wasps and rats, the US Military has pondered non lethal weaponry quite deeply.
The ultimate wakeup
It costs a bit, but the reviews are all positive – the Axbo sleep phase alarm clock reads your body movements and wakes you up at the optimal time within 30 minutes of when you set the alarm to go off.
Brainfuck
Nice little optical illusion, showing the effect of imprinting on the cones in our eyes.
More sex in games!
Damn, I remember that space invader clone where you had to shoot tits and condoms using your sperm quivering penis. Apparently sex in games looks better now, and game developers want more of it. Me too!
USB hacking
A seriously elegant way to hack someone’s network: drop USB sticks containing a trojan on the target’s parking lot and wait for the mail to come in.
Implanting magnets
If you want to ‘feel’ electricity and magnetic fields, why not implant a magnet into your fingertips? The world will look different. Stay away from MRI scanners though!
OGLE
OGLE is a project that captures 3D objects on your computer (eg. in games) and then allows you to re-use them for other purposes.
Jetpack parachutes
After being dropped from the aircraft, using this system paratroopers can zoom about the skies for 200KM. Apparently ze Germans have been using this since 2003 – is this what the air raid warnings are about?
Celebrities then and now
Hairstyletastic!
Stop shooting pigs with exploding bullets
PETA wants this crime to be stopped right NOW!
Random net humor
This guys list is worth googling and watching – especially number 2 and 1
Viewing the internet
There are a few ways to visualise internet and the traffic on it. One way is to map it. The BBC has a good article on this. The following programmes take a starting point and use linking for distance. The amount of links to and from a place is used for size. I/O/D 4 (the Read more about Viewing the internet[…]
Smokers are cheaper for society
The Erasmus University has studied the costs of leading an unhealthy life, and discovered (duh) that allthough smokers cost more to care for, they lead lives which are on average 10 years shorter than non-smokers, so they cost society less.
New drug wakens vegetative patients
Only for a few minutes, but they can talk and move about a bit. No telling what the long term effects are, but they have to be better than staying asleep hooked to life support. The drug activates dormant parts of the brain around the damaged tissue, causing a sleepy waking period.
Pimp your heart
with the HBBB – Heart Beat Bass Booster – plugs on to you and boosts your heartbeat to your car stereo.
Lightsaber fighting techniques
The guy who filled this wiki has WAY too much time, needs to get out more.
419 Scammers hit pay dirt
Apparently those Nigerians really are making millions out there scamming idiots using email
Dali meets Escher
Weird surreal transformational pictures, nicely done.
World Mapper
An interesting way of viewing the globe using maps where countries get larger as they have more of a property and smaller as they have less. This site has quite a few properties they’ve mapped the world to.
Practical tales of RFID hacking
We knew RFID chips were insecure – if you didn’t you’ve been living under a rock. Anyway, this Indymedia story chronicles a few concrete examples of RFID hacking in reality.