Another DIY Ring Flash Project
This one is for the flash on your camera, and uses fibre optics to create the ring directly around the lens. It goes for $5,-
Fences: Desktop Icon Organizer
This makes little transparent windows on your desktop to organise your icons in.
Formula 1 Cars getting KERS
Kinetic Energy Recovery System, stores the energy created by regenerative breaking and stores it in a battery. When the driver presses a button, he gets a turbo boost as the energy store is emptied onto the drivetrain. This system gives him up to 6.5s of turbo boost per lap.
Iran Joins the Space countries
Iran is now one of the few countries with a space programme, capable of launching satellites into space. Of course, the US is now worried that they have developed it specifically to rain down EMP weapons on them.
Ipod Touch 2G Jailbreak on Windows
So, they’ve finally done it. It’s not automated, because it’s a tethered jailbreak: ie. every time you reboot, you have to go through this whole process again, but it’s a jailbreak. Dev Team is still working on unlocking the bootrom. When they do that, they’ll automate the process. It is not easy, but it is Read more about Ipod Touch 2G Jailbreak on Windows[…]
Encyclopedia
So I have this bee in my bonnet about wikipedia being used for anything at all. Why? Because it’s not peer reviewed: it’s user reviewed, with users with the most reviews having the most powers – even if they make nonsense edits on things they know nothing about. Then there’s the political infighting and the Read more about Encyclopedia[…]
Army Field Manuals
This is a huge list of the Army Field Manuals. From how to point a gun, to how to run an infantry brigade.
Het Grote Pipi boek
Here’s a big WTF from the low countries, Link goes to the whole book – http://ifun.ru/view/57051
Measurement Lab Checks if Your Connection is Being Throttled
Three seperate tests which look at whether your ISP is fucking with you in their bandwidth allocation.
ex-NASA climate boss declares against global warming
This guy says he doesn’t believe in global warning and he should know his stuff. He was the boss of Hansen, the guy who crusades the man made global warming theory. Especially upsetting is that data sets were changed in a non-documented fashion, so we don’t know why or how the data was changed.
NSA had continuous surveillance on journalists
Using warrantless wiretaps, this shows you who gets targetted when you allow the police state to run amok.
Telemarketers, scam artists, making use of do-not-call list
This is a great example of why centralised databases are lousy: they get used for things they weren’t supposed to – in this case, for the exact opposite of why it was set up!
Scientists Teleport Information Between Ions a Meter Apart
This is the first time they’ve managed to teleport qubits between ions. Slowly but surely, we’re getting there!
Media Keyboard 2 Media Player
Winamps’ atrocious lack of keyboard support has had me up in arms. Unfortunately the other media players suffer from the same malady. This little proggie adds that much needed support for you to most popular media players.
It’s all about content quality!
All those greedy content producers trying to hang on to their old delivery and economic models by their fingernails must be crying about this: Monty Python decided to put all their content onto YouTube for free and in high quality with links to their stuff. This raised their sales by 23000%. So it’s not about Read more about It’s all about content quality![…]
Optical Illusion Candlestick
All you have to do is pay your money, send your picture and they’ll send it to you in your choice of material.
TNO says Piracy doesn’t lead to decreased sales
TNO is the Netherland’s premier research institution and these guys should know what they’re saying. They make the point that pirates turn out to be the biggest paying consumers too. It’s time for people to change their business model, instead of scapegoating their best customers!
iPod Touch mounted on M110 Sniper Rifle
Mounting the ipod on the rifle and then adding the external ballistics calculator app Bullet Flight, allows you to set bullet profiles and enter environment information.
Clippy – Finally Copy & Paste!
It’s called Clippy and can be found in the ispazio Cydia repo. So… only for jailbroken ipods!
This is why law enforcement is trained
With airline personell being able to dictate what they think is ‘terrorist’ behavior without any training qualifying them to do so, what we get is at least 208 people being prosecuted as terrorists for raising their voice, spanking their children or basically causing the crew any kind of headache whatsoever.
Dutch RIAA wants money for embedded video
The Buma/Stemra thinks that if you link to a video of an artist from a site which allready runs the video (for free, such as from youtube) you should pay them so they can hoard the money and then presumably not give it to the artist who put their work up in such a way Read more about Dutch RIAA wants money for embedded video[…]
PSPdisp
This is some amazing software that will make your psp (custom firmware) run as an extra windows monitor / display. Apparently it’s also possible to tether the playstation to your PC with wifi instead of USB…
Invisibility-Cloak Breakthrough
Ah yes, invisible cloaks! I keep covering this, in the hope the technology will finally mature at some point. There’s loads of technologies to choose from Now, the metamaterias gang has produced a cloak measuring 10 x 50 cm It bends waveforms in a large range of frequencies and is very low loss. They’ve developed Read more about Invisibility-Cloak Breakthrough[…]
Windows for warships under virus
The Royal Navy has only lauchend it’s conversion to Windows for Warships a month ago or so, and allready they’re infected by virusses! Not that it would have been any different if it had been OS X for warships (yes, macheads, you do in fact get virusses too) but still… who didn’t see that coming?!