Pheremones tested
Five pheremones have been tested to see if they work and ranked in order of effectiveness.
Author: Robin
VW Beetle with Jet Engine
So you think you’re man enough for this? A T-58 enigne stuck into the back of your car? Next projects: attatching 2 cruise missles to a motorcyle and building a back yard missle silo. With video.
AMD can’t float either
What is it with floating point operations that makes chip vendors so crap at them? Intel had the floating point operation problem when it released the Pentium processor (1+1=1.999999999 but that’s good enough). Now AMD has the Opteron and it turns out that they accidentally released a few into the wild with floating point problems Read more about AMD can’t float either[…]
NEC pirated pwned
Not just NEC products are being rebuilt, but the WHOLE of NEC has been cloned in China! Factories, workshops and all!
Freeware Utility list
Huge list spanning spyware, audio, business, and a whole load more types of software – all freeware
Aphrodesiacs that work
Instead of just moving blood around, PT-141 – a nasal inhalor – works on the brain causing arousal, for both men and women. So you don’t just walk around with a huge erection, you also actually feel like having sex too!
Fast Volume
This little program turns the windows hotkey into a slider for your volume control. You press the hotkey and use the mouse scrollwheel to change the volume. Small and neat.
NASA finds something to do with antimatter
Well, we’ve been creating antimatter for quite some time now, but it’s slow to make, dangerous stuff and we have no real idea what to do with it! But now NASA has come up with a great idea – lets power spacecraft with it. Sounds cool if they can get it to work…
How people look at websites
In a sample size of 232 users, people had their eye movements tracked and mapped over three different websites. This showed that people viewed websites in an F-shaped pattern. Interesting pictures.
EU Domain registry screwed us
Having tried to register a few .eu domainnames from the 10th of April, I was quite frankly surprised to see how many had allready gone. No, I’m not talking about sex.eu, but more normal ones, ones which should have been free. OK, so I quicly realised the reign of the cybersquatters had begun on that Read more about EU Domain registry screwed us[…]
Turn your car into a KITT or KARR replica
Yup, we all wanted one when we were young – and so I guess plenty of people went out and made them: there’s a wealth of stuff available to turn your car into a replicat Knight Industries 2000 clone. Or just buy the bits you think are cool, like the Turbo Boost button!
NASA gets bored
And because their LRO rocket had quite a bit of extra space on it, they decided to crash it into the moon, causing an explosion that should create a 17 foot crater and a 30 mile high plume. Yay science!
Apple releases Windows on Macs
So maybe these maggotboxen will be good for something: comparing them with PCs running the same OS… Has Apple finally seen the light? Their new bootloader, Boot Camp, allows users to run MS Windows or OSX in a multiboot configuration.
Iran continues April’s Fools
Apparently they don’t understand it’s only for 1 day, not the whole month! Now that missle is not only undetectable, it also has guidance systems that can’t be scrambled. They discovered that on the test of the second one. The same article then goes on to the next claim: On Tuesday, state-run television also said Read more about Iran continues April’s Fools[…]
100 Best April Fools Jokes
Over the ages, going back a long way – very inventive some of them
Iran goes April Fools tastic – USA Bites
On the day before April Fools’ Day, Iran published testresults of a multiple warhead, stealth missle that can’t be seen on radar. Which is why no one saw it of course. But it went off without a hitch! On the day after, they tested their new ship and submarine destroying stealth underwater missle which goes Read more about Iran goes April Fools tastic – USA Bites[…]
Bizarre guide to Russia
If you’re an anti-tourist and just want to see… more… of the place.
Spray on clothing
Cotton that comes in in a spraycan!
Why we don’t like invasions of privacy
Here we go – it’s the second time the CCTV camera’s being set up in the home surveillance capital of the world, the UK, has been caught misusing the material captured on camera. The first time the cops were watching people undress at home, now they’ve gone a step beyond and are selling footage of Read more about Why we don’t like invasions of privacy[…]
Desktop Earth 2.0
Using NASA’s Blue Marble, you can recieve high resolution updates often on the state of the earth on your destop.
Rocketry history
An interesting profile of the granddaddy of rocketry – Dr. Goddard. How he was snubbed and turned out to be right.
Wozniak’s name is worth $150m
Which the apple founder raised by going public with a company who’s charter states that it’s a ‘blank-check’ company – ie. one that doesn’t have to do anything. Oh and on the share issue, the company has allready run a $30m profit!
Why animal testing is important
Did some enlightened pharmacologist allow six people to get instantly critically ill because they decided NOT to test on animals before? Yup, that’s why we like lab rats.
RFID virusses
PCs have virusses, Macs have virusses, PDAs and cellphones have virusses, so why should RFID chips be any different? A working proof of concept has been made which is put onto an RFID chip, which infects the backend database and then transmits to other RFID chips that connect to that database.
Microsoft has a sense of humor!
The ipod packaging movie apparently was made internally by Microsoft to show how packaging should be done. The link to the movie is in the article.