Someone with way too much time on their hands ported a NES emulator to JavaScript. Feel like playing Super Mario Bros or Zelda at work? Grab a fast browser like Google Chrome and head on over here,
http://benfirshman.com/projects/jsnes/
What if we could turn all the plastic waste we create on a daily basis into fuel to power our cars? A Washington, DC-based company called Envion claims it can do just that with a process that turns plastic into an oil-like fuel for just $10 per barrel. According to Envion, the resulting fuel can be blended with other components and used as either gasoline or diesel.
via Inhabitat » New Envion Facility Turns Plastic Waste into $10/Barrel Fuel.
This is an interesting article about someone who wore a North Paw (available as kit or with DIY instructions here for a while.
The North Paw is an ankle bracelet that continuously signals where North is by vibrating in that direction. Apparently this leads to some interesting results.
via My New Sense Organ | h+ Magazine.
The Haiku Project is proud to announce the availability of Haiku R1/Alpha 1, the first official development release of Haiku, an open source operating system that specifically targets personal computing.
Haiku is a continuation of BeOS in open source form. Should be good!
via Haiku Project Announces Availability of Haiku R1/Alpha 1 | Haiku Project.
The odds of a coin coming down heads or tails are not 50/50: they’re actually 51/49!
A great precis of an article explaining why, and how to leverage it.
The Coin Flip: A Fundamentally Unfair Proposition? – Coding the Wheel.
If you get breathalised, make sure the cop isn’t covering the exit port for the air when you blow, or the purported alcohol consumption will go up!
This thing is beautiful
You can download a template on the site to print and cut it out.
Dessine moi un objet » Blog Archive » Iphone and Itouch paper stand / dock.
The Belkin Home Base plugs into your (wifi) network, and allows you to share USB peripherals with all the computers in your network. It has automatic backup to external HDs as well as Flickr / Picasa sharing.
At $129,- not too bad.
Print, Share, and Back Up Files Wirelessly with Belkin Home Base.
This, the production version of the Mission One Electric Superbike managed to do 150 mph average over at Bonneville over two runs of 1 mile. It has a range of 150 miles on a charge.
Massachusets, USA, is doing something that should have been done a long time ago: Car manufacturers are computerising their cars to a greater and greater degree. This is great – more power, more control, more safety, more fun.
Unfortunately, the software and interfaces for these computers are closed – repairmen are not given access to manuals or other information that allows them to manipulate the computer. Thus they have serious trouble making repairs that they should be able to make easily.
Massachusets is sponsoring a bill that forces the car manufacturers to give over all the information necessary to make repairs on cars to whoever wants them; independent garages, or just you.
This device has several settings allowing you to see kw/hr, view the cumulative useage and displays Volts, Amps, Watts, Hz, VA.
It’s the only device I’ve found you can plug any device into and see how much power it’s really drawing.
There are 3 versions of the product.
Even though they keep supporting Internet Explorer 6, they’re not going to support XP?
Microsoft had stated the reason for continuing support for IE6 was that it came with Windows XP and so they had to keep supporting it. Now it turns out that they’re not supporting XP either. Not exactly their road map, but oh well.
XP is thus fully broken, with a security hole in the TCP/IP implementation.
You’re doing well, MS – it took you long enough to fix the hole for Vista et al as well!
Microsoft: No TCP/IP patches for you, XP.
As an organised activity: websites tell you which lines are particularly good for groping fellow passengers on.
Travellers warned of Tokyo train gropers | Travel News | News.com.au.
It turns out that the 3.1 patch for the iphone removes tethering for any carrier that isn’t a partner of Apple. This means that if you own an officially unlocked iphone and run it on another network, you can’t use the iphone as a modem for your laptop any more.
Well done, Jobs – keep fucking your customers up the arse! They’re your fanboys, they LOVE it!
Apple – Support – Discussions – no tethering on officially unlocked ….
This one is so obvious, it’s incredible it hasn’t been done before: take the fat from a woman’s arse and insert into tits. Voila! Completely natural bigger breasts!
The Press Association: Unwanted fat for breast enlargement.
For under $150,- you can start your own satellite programme – you need: a weather balloon, a digital camera and a GPS enabled phone. Some hand warmers and a styrofoam cup keeps everything warm.
By changing the qdr:nXX parameter after enabling the time parameter in ‘Search Options’, you can get Google to refresh every second and show you the new indexes.
Realtime Googelen met url-hack | Webwereld.
A South African IT firm sent a carrier pigeon 50 miles with a datacard attached to it’s leg. The pigeon was faster than the internet, which after 2 hours had only completed 4% of the transfer. This was in protest at the sucky internet connection available through Telkom.
Pigeon transfers data faster than South Africa’s Telkom – Yahoo! Canada News.
Japan has an automated logistics supply vehicle for the International Space Station, which has been launched today for the first time. It’s composed of pressurised and upressurised areas and will be stopped at 10 m from the ISS. Using the robo hand, astronauts can dock it. It’ll stay there as a kind of larder for a month and then decouple and return to earth. In further versions of the HTV they’ll modify it to carry humans, so there’s a third way to get astronauts up to the ISS, but it can also act as a lifeboat.
Japan hurls first space freighter at ISS • The Register.
All those crib sheets with quick command references for shell programming, using Linux or vim, etc. have been collected here for your printing pleasure!
TechPosters: Technical Posters and Cheats for IT Guys.
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 and sounds like a grand plan to me!
Lichtblick wants to charge people to set up their own powerplant, and then controlls them. So people are payed a modest rent to have the powerplant in their houses. Now I think I’d rather have my own powerplant and plug it into the Lichtblick network. Then they can pay me for any extra power I generate, don’t use and give them, which they can then in turn resell to people who don’t have their own powerplant.
Home power plants project unveiled in Germany | Grist.
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.