February 2008
46 posts
Video: Mythbusters Felling Trees With A Minigun →
How much fun is this? [via]
Chip and PIN terminals pwned →
Jacob sez, “I’d like to pass on a nice practical attack against the Chip and Pin system used in most of the world
Saar Drimer, Steven J. Murdoch and Ross Anderson, researchers at the University…
Keeping Time →
Comic: Intelligence optional →
Intelligence optional
From-PowerUp-To-Bash-Prompt-HOWTO →
Create a Google Talk chatback badge →
Wind turbine self destructs (video) →
“The braking mechanism that limits the speed of the wind turbine broke during a storm in Denmark. This was the outcome.” Article about the turbine failure
The Ebb and Flow of Movies: Box Office Receipts... →
The NYTimes has an extremely detailed interactive map showing how well movies have done at the box office between 1986 and the start of 2008.
Liondog? →
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Apple Store Milton Keynes to Open on Saturday →
The UKs fourteenth Apple retail store, situated at the Midsummer Place Shopping Centre in Milton Keynes, will open on Saturday March 1st. Join us for the Grand Opening and get the chance to win a Digital Lifestyle Collection that includes a black MacBook. The first 1,000 people through the doors will receive a free Apple T-shirt.
Optimus Maximus Ships, Initial Review Says… →
At last, Optimus Maximus keyboards are finally shipping after receiving a Vaporware Award two years in a row now (2006, 2007). It’s been quite the adventure for the team creating the highly anticipated and over-priced keyboard, filled with many ups and downs. Those who pre-ordered it last year should already have it in their hands, or will have it shortly. Engadget managed to get one to test and...
Adobe Air Sucks...
”Download the latest version of Adobe AIR
A version of Adobe AIR is not available for this configuration.”
Also, the website looked awful in Firefox!
Japanese Retailer Does Right By HD DVD Purchasers →
Japanese electronics retailer Edion has instituted a take-back program for its customers who purchased HD DVD players, offering to replace the units with Blu-ray players. That is true class.
Throughout March, customers can return any of seven Toshiba HD DVD decks and swap them for a BD unit from Sony, Panasonic or Sharp. If the latter is more expensive, customers need to make up the balance, but...
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twitter: 2nd popurls birthday coming up next week.... →
marban: 2nd popurls birthday coming up next week. giving away a custom ipod touch _ popurls edition. you heard it here.
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The man behind the mask: Top Gear's Stig stares... →
Advanced Technology →
Elastic Bookshelf Is Simple And Stretchy →
Despite Steve Job’s accusation that “people don’t read anymore”, I still do. Today it was the back of a cereal box, yesterday it was a nudey magazine I found under my roommate’s bed. Being such an avid reader, I need a good place to store all my literature. Enter the Elastic Bookshelf. Designed by Arianna Vivenzio, the form fitting shelf consists of an elastic band...
"helvetica, arial", Not "arial, helvetica" →
Finally fixing CSS font declarations by putting things in the right place: Referencing Helvetica, then Arial.
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Nerf Vulcan Is Fully Auto, Fully Awesome →
Ah, Nerf guns. Many a fond memory of playing with those things. I had the old school one that shot the yellow foam balls. I forget the name of it. Something popper? I can’t remember. What I do remember is the dog eating all the damn ammo. Then instead of playing with Nerf guns we shot Ping Pong balls out of our mouths at each other. Which was fun until my babysitter hit me square in the eye...
LED lamp uses grandfather clock mechanism for... →
The second place winner in the “Greener Gadgets Competition” is Clay Moulton’s LED lamp, which uses a gravity mechanism to generate electricity. To light the lamp, you lift the weight and let it slowly fall.
A Virginia Tech student has created an LED floor lamp that is powered by gravity, using a weight slide similar to the concept of a grandfather clock. The lamp puts out the...
Library built into a staircase →
The stairs going up to the attic room of a Victorian row house in London have been fitted with books that line each riser and wrap around the edges. As someone who lives in small places with lots of books (and no matter what I do, no matter how ruthless I am, I always seem to have lots more books that I have room for) this kind of thing is sheer aspirational porn for me.
The flat occupies part...
Feed Sidebar updated with everything you wanted →
I’ve just released an update to the Feed Sidebar Firefox extension that adds essentially every major feature request that I’ve gotten since version 1.2 came out:
Biggest improvement: Feed Sidebar now has its own history for tracking which items are read, rather than using the browser history. This means that you can clear your browsing history without clearing your feed reading...
?helvetica, arial?, Not ?arial, helvetica? →
Finally fixing CSS font declarations by putting things in the right place: Referencing Helvetica, then Arial.
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Duty Calls →
Nogz Town - MyMiniCity →
Nogz Page →
Sometimes Red, Sometimes Blue (.com) by Damon... →
Another success in Homeland Security's War on... →
A 14-day-old Samoan infant died in DHS detention at Honolulu airport earlier this week, and American Samoa’s delegate to Congress is calling for an investigation: The baby had been flown to Honolulu for emergency heart surgery. He died while detained inside a customs’ room at the Honolulu airport with his mother and a nurse. Link (thanks Nithya)
How to unboil an egg: He explains that when an... →
How to unboil an egg: He explains that when an egg is cooked, the protein molecules unroll themselves, link up and enclose the water molecules. In order to ‘uncook’ the egg, you need to detach the protein molecules from each other. By adding a product like sodium borohydride, the egg becomes liquid within three hours. For those who want to try it at home, vitamin C also does the...
“Spore™, the highly anticipated game from the creators of The Sims™, will be...”
– SPORE: SPORE Press Notice
Eee PC Easy Mode Editor →
If you’ve stuck with the default Xandros install on your Eee PC, you’ve probably grown used to the easy mode AsusLauncher tabs and icons. You’ve probably also noticed how inconvenient it is to remove, edit, or add additional icons.
An individual by the name of Coyotee on our forums has created the perfect solution to the problem: the AsusLauncher Advanced Editor. Simply put, it’s a graphical user...
Pop quiz, hotshot. There's a bomb on a bus. Once... →
Pop quiz, hotshot. There’s a bomb on a bus. Once the bus goes 50 miles an hour… Who fares worst health-wise, diet soda drinkers or fried food eaters? Surprisingly, researchers have found a correlation between diet soda consumption and metabolic syndrome. The one-third who ate the most fried food increased their risk by 25 percent compared with the one-third who ate the least, and...
The Best Ways For Students (And Anyone Else!) To... →
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Southern hospitality. At 1 o'clock on a bright... →
Southern hospitality. At 1 o’clock on a bright October afternoon, I’m standing in a convenience store parking lot five miles east of Martinsville, Va. In the 24 hours before the green flag drops on the Subway 500, I need to find a ride to the speedway and a $75 ticket to the sold-out race. Problem is, all I have on me is $20, a cell phone and a camcorder. And I’m not...
Video: Swimming At The Edge Of Victoria Falls →
This photo is not Photoshopped. Between September and December, it’s possible to swim close to the edge of Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe due to a natural rock pool called Devil’s Pool being accessible when water levels are low. [via]
Digsby - Manage Your Online Life →
Let me first say that this program is highly recommended - I’m not just writing about it because I’m trying to reach a quota (we get 5 cents per blog post) but because it’s something I’m actually using and really, really like.
Digsby is an all-encompassing program (think pidgin, Trillian, Adium) on steroids as it handles more than just your IM accounts, but email and social networks as well....
★ Translation From PR-Speak to English of Yahoo... →
Company-wide memo from Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang earlier today, capitalization sic, as filed with the SEC: Subject: Building on our strengths
Subject: Shitting our pants first off, I want to thank you for the great job you’re doing staying focused on executing our priorities. there’s obviously been a lot of talk about yahoo! in recent days and we won’t let it distract us from pursuing our...
Perpetual motion contraption stumps MIT professor →
Last week, Thane Heins of Ottawa took his perpetual motion device (the Perepiteia) to Boston to show it to Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Markus Zahn at MIT’s Laboratory for Electromagentic and Electonic Systems.
Zahn says the device’s performance was “unexpected and new.”
It’s now Jan. 28 – D Day. Heins has modified his test so the effects...
LEGO Bible: The Brick Testament →
Apparently The Brick Testament has been a work in progress for over six years, but I’d never been made aware of its existence before, so here it is. With over 3,600 scenes from the Bible, all the classics are illustrated in awesome LEGO detail. I looked through a bunch of them and was pretty impressed with the work. I tried to find the one where the Twelve Apostles were throwing a party for...
Cairo - A Windows Shell Alternative? →
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When the first glimpse of the redesigned Microsoft Office 2007 interface hit the web people were worried about how it would affect their productivity. As it turns out almost everyone that I’ve talked with loves the new interface after they were given a few days to adjust.
This has left people yearning for a similar change to Windows, but we’ve yet to see any drastic changes...
Microsoft bids $44.6B to buy Yahoo! →
holy crap; the press release from Redmond
January 2008
48 posts
Improv Everywhere's Frozen Grand Central →
207 people freeze at the same second and stay still for five full minutes [via]
Internet Fiber-Optic Link SEA-ME-WE 4 / FLAG... →
Not just one but two undersea links are cut and totally out of service. 60% of Indian home and business are experiencing disruption. My home 8Mbps ADSL connection only working at 512K speed It could take up to one week to repair the damaged cables and resume full service. The cause of the damage (SEA-ME-WE 4 and FLAG cables in the Mediterranean Sea) has not been declared, but a number of news...
Real Programmers →