Fluffernutter? I hardly know her!
There's an awesome media page on the Fluff site dedicated to the glory of a Fluffernutter sandwich. Try playing all the files at once for a surreal experience.
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Inform 7 (Beta)
If, like myself, you are a nerd and over the age of 30, chances are you played a few text-adventures like Zork or The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy in your day. Well, now-a-days these games are referred to as interactive fiction, and there is quite a community of modern-day nerds who are still making text-adventures that rival and even surpass the games from the Infocom heyday.
The modern development language for Infocom, or Z-Machine, type games was created by Graham Nelson and is called Inform. Z-machine games can be played on almost every computing playform including Palm handhelds and iPods! I got my first exposure to object-oriented programming by playing with Inform 6 in the late 90s. Well, in the last month, the first major upgrade to Inform in many, many years has been released.
Inform 7 unlike most programming languages, has been developed based on natural language. So instead of a cryptic list of curly brackets and functions, you simply type stuff like, "The Armoury is a room. The sword is in the armoury." And the compiler does the hard stuff. The development enviroment is really slick, and includes full documentation (Graham Nelson's Craft of Adventure is required reading for anyone even remotely interested in video game design). So if you have an abundance of free-time and a few clever puzzle ideas, start programming and you may be the next Will Wright!
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10 Jan 2006 |
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17 Aug 2005 |
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Hot or 'Stache?
FoH8 Ryan D. busts out the flavor saver. Why? Only Ryan (and possibly Melinda) knows.
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03 Jun 2005 |
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Spelling Bee kid does Napoleon Dynamite impersonation
That's two great Big Media hacks in one week. First, Anil Dash wears a goatse t-shirt for his NYT photo op, and now this... Ah, to be 13 and on television...
(Warning: If you just moved out of a cave, found an Internerd connection and don't know what goatse is, consider yourself warned. Once you see goatse, you can never unsee goatse.)
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19 Mar 2005 |
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11 Mar 2005 |
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21 Dec 2004 |
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20 Oct 2004 |
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Star Wars Episode IV, in ASCII
This is really weird geek sh!t, but what the hell...
Open your terminal in OSX.
Type the word telnet. Return.
Type the word open. Return.
Now paste this in:
towel.blinkenlights.nl
Sit back and enjoy Star Wars Episode IV, the original, in all its ASCII glory.
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10 Sep 2004 |
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Big is the new Small
Dorkbot looks for gigantor cellphones thinking it'll help him pick up chicks.
"Imagine this: I'll walk into a bar and ask for a girl's number, then break out my phone," he said. "How could you say no to that?"
Uh, Eugene, like this: "No, gigantic cellphone dork."
via kottke
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28 Jul 2004 |
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My Dinner With Bill
Intern describes a visit to Bill Gates' house... sounds like an interesting place...
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02 Jul 2004 |
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Lightning Bolt Redux
Unfortunately, no audio on this one, so just make it up your own damn self.
1MB .mov of a bunch of Orcs and shit whalin' on each other with foam weapons.
More hardcore role-playing nerdery here.
And of course, the video that inspired hours of snort-laughing across the nation.
(Thanks, Jim!)
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01 Jul 2004 |
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Retropod
I might actually have one of these lying around somewhere. I'd be more impressed if they'd hacked it so the original Walkman buttons still worked.
via boing boing
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05 Jun 2004 |
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04 Jun 2004 |
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Silicon Chip Art
Where's Waldo?
He's on a MIPS microprocessor
If you had a microscope you might find that there's more in your computer than you think...
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26 Apr 2004 |
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Great Googly Moogly!
Here's the lowdown on how they do it.
It's damn interesting to us geeks. The rest of you can go to Starbucks while we oogle google.
This just in:
google-watch for those who fear the power of google.
google-watch-watch for those who fear the power of those who fear the power of google (ie. the author of google-watch)
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15 Mar 2004 |
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Google in Hacker?
Continue reading "Google in Hacker?" »
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13 Mar 2004 |
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BMW's Easter Egg
Just about everyone knows that most software contains 'easter eggs', or hidden surprises, if you know the right code to release them.
There's a cheat code in the software running the BMW M3's sequential manual gearbox (SMG): Press the right buttons in the right order and the car will launch you from a stop after revving the engine to 5,000 rpm. But don't look for a how-to in the owners' manual—this feature is undocumented, an inside joke of sorts.
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10 Feb 2004 |
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Human-to-human TiVo/PVR suggestions via RSS
I first glanced at this proposed PVR RSS code earlier today, but didn't really have time to fully absorb it. Now there's a more detailed description, and it's a really cool idea.
My TiVo manages to suggest something I might watch perhaps once a week at the most*. I'm probably being generous with that estimate. I'd much rather have people I know send me shows I may want to watch but may not be aware of because I'm TiVo'ing through all the commercials. (All hail the 30 second skip.)
Besides, this also opens the door for all sorts of potential friendly TiVo hacking via RSS suggestions. What? You mean you didn't want to watch that Punky Brewster marathon?
* I admit I probably don't use the Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down as much as I should to get desired results.
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21 Jan 2004 |
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The Bone Phone
Japanese telecom carriers, pioneers of internet-capable and picture-snapping handsets, have now come up with the world's first mobile phone that enables users to listen to calls inside their heads - by conducting sound through bone.
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17 Jan 2004 |
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Micro-UAV Flies Like an Insect
At the recent biennial 2003 International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo, Seiko Epson Corp unveiled the world's lightest and smallest UAV helicopter, the Micro Flying Robot, which Seiko said it plans to be the vehicle for an equally small flying camera. Surprisingly, the machine looks a bit like a scaled-down version of DeVinci's unrealized 16th century plans for a helicopter.
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17 Dec 2003 |
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Not if you was the last hobbit-dork on earth...
I've griped previously about how nerdy the Lord of the Rings movies are, but the english language lacks a word that captures the magnitude of dorkiness contained in the image below; 3 fanboys attending the premiere in Jackson Michigan.
The only women this trio will ever get near are their mothers.
(jpeg shivers in revulsion...)
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12 Dec 2003 |
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Oh yeah? Can your grandpappy do this?
I'm not up on the finer nuances of modern Japanese culture and social scenes, but I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say these guys probably have a lot of free time on Saturday night. Amazing. Be sure to stick it out for the ultimate combo of geek Japanese culture, yo-yos and breakdancing.
via kottke
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03 Dec 2003 |
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14 Oct 2003 |
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More Blogs Like This
Give it an RSS feed, it gives you similar sites.
Interesting idea. Not surprisingly, feeding it House 8's RSS results in no similar blogs. That might be a good thing...
via Scripting News
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19 Sep 2003 |
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Fast Chat
Walkie-talkie type messaging on your cell phone (via software). Not earth shattering, but still kinda cool.
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10 Sep 2003 |
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Did you miss Dragon*Con 2003?
Well, check out their AWESOME photo gallery full of sweet sweet memories. Remember - image tiling RAWKS!
While you're there, check out the 2nd Annual Dragon*Con Parade
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03 Sep 2003 |
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In case of poisoning...
Read this. WARNING: Do not attempt any of the practices listed on this site. You will likely have your ass handed to you.
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12 Aug 2003 |
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06 Aug 2003 |
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Git yo bling on
Useful (?) Photoshop tutorial for acheiving that "Bling Bling" effect all those rapper guys are always talking about. Bookmark it for your next redesign of the St. Lunatic's website, or creating the word mark for your neighborhood up-and-coming rap artist.
Yeah, I think it's time for a redesign...
via more like this
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30 Jun 2003 |
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Can't quite get motivated today?
Take a break and zone out to Hektor the wonder spraypaint-inkjet printer. Watch the movie.
via boing boing
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20 Jun 2003 |
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26 May 2003 |
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One meter per pixel...
Calling all nerds.... if you liked the Megapenny Project that was posted a few weeks ago, then you'll love this.
via Vince
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09 May 2003 |
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Your Name Will Make a Deep Impression on a Comet
Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and NASA plan to send a satellite to crash into a comet in 2005 and aboard the craft will be a CD with the names of perhaps thousands of Earthlings.
Deep Impact will be the first mission to make a spectacular, football-stadium-sized crater, seven to 15 stories deep, into the speeding comet.
If you'd like your name on the CD, submit it here.
You get a nifty certificate too...
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30 Apr 2003 |
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29 Apr 2003 |
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Screw the new iPods
I'm gettin an AK-MP3! Think anyone on the train would tell you to turn down your music with one of these on your hip?
via boing boing
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25 Apr 2003 |
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10 Apr 2003 |
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We don't need no stinkin' GameBoy Advance...
Atari 2600. Wood cases. From Wisconsin. Geek nirvana?
A graphic designer at Jim Greeley Sign and Awning in Richland Center, Wisconsin, Heckendorn builds the units on lunch breaks. Each one costs him about $200 in parts and 10 hours of labor. He uses the company's tool shop (with the boss's blessing), routing and cutting out cases from solid plastic and oak.
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01 Apr 2003 |
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12 Mar 2003 |
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Blue Ray
Japan's Sony Corp said on Monday it would start sales next month of the world's first DVD recorder that uses blue laser light and can pack a two-hour high-definition TV program onto a single disc. It won't be cheap, with a retail list price of 450,000 yen ($3,800) while low-end DVD recorders using conventional red lasers go for as little as 50,000-70,000 yen.
Sony's Blu-ray machine will be able to play red-laser discs using the DVD-R and DVD-RW formats, but not those using the DVD-RAM or DVD+RW formats.
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Someone ought to send out an internal email:
The music industry this week condemned the launch of two recording systems that will let people copy between 30 and 100 hours of music onto a single disc. The launches, from electronics giants Sony and Philips, are being seen as a potential pirates' charter.
"It's a no-brainer. Anything which lets people pirate more music like this has to be very bad news for the music industry," says a spokesman for Britain's record industry trade association, the BPI.
Why Sony should want to launch a recorder that might make piracy easier may seem surprising, as its Sony Music division makes and sells CDs. While Sony Music did not want to comment on its sister company's launch, Mike Tsurumi, a president of Sony Consumer Electronics in Berlin, insists that the move makes sense. "The music companies need to change their business model," he says.
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11 Mar 2003 |
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Google "I'm Feeling Lucky" search: "French Military Victories"
What was that about "soft targets?"
via Q
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05 Mar 2003 |
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3.1415926535897932384626433832795028
Some friendless, sexless geek has created a webpage which displays pi to 220,000,00 places. The page only weighs in at 284 MB!
There's more info on this geektastic feat here.
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028
Some friendless, sexless geek has created a webpage which displays pi to 220,000,00 places. The page only weighs in at 284 MB!
There's more info on this geektastic feat here.
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028
Some friendless, sexless geek has created a webpage which displays pi to 220,000,00 places. The page only weighs in at 284 MB!
There's more info on this geektastic feat here.
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26 Feb 2003 |
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Make Your Own Nightclub Disaster
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25 Feb 2003 |
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Food Critics Blamed For Top Chef's Suicide
The suicide of famed chef Bernard Loiseau sent shock waves through France today and sparked condemnation from fellow culinary masters who accused the countryŐs all-powerful food critics of pushing him over the edge.
The news sent the gastronomic world into mourning and quickly sparked debate about the merits of restaurant guidesŐ rating systems which chefs await each year with bated breath.
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Dude, lighten up!
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21 Feb 2003 |
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Hackers Run Wild and Free on AOL
Using a combination of trade tricks and clever programming, hackers have thoroughly compromised security at America Online, potentially exposing the personal information of AOL's 35 million users.
The most recent exploit, launched last week, gave a hacker full access to Merlin, AOL's latest customer database application. As a security measure, Merlin runs only on AOL's internal network, but savvy hackers have found a way to break in.
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19 Feb 2003 |
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Confluence
The goal of the project is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location. The pictures and stories will then be posted here.
Close to home...
via Qs Pal KK
Confluence
The goal of the project is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location. The pictures and stories will then be posted here.
Close to home...
via Qs Pal KK
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15 Feb 2003 |
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05 Feb 2003 |
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Japanese Scientist Invents 'Invisibility Cloak'
A Japanese scientist has developed a coat which appears to make the wearer invisible.
Perhaps this is the answer to John's post.
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25 Jan 2003 |
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Internet Traffic
So I guess there was some worm that crashed the whole friggin' internet int he last day or two. I didn't even notice, but if I'd checked this site I could have watched it happen. It's the internet version of the weather channel.
Yippee.
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23 Jan 2003 |
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Lightning Bolt!
Lightning Bolt!
Lightning Bolt!
Lightning Bolt!
Lightning Bolt!
Lightning Bolt!
Lightning Bolt!
Lightning Bolt!
5.2 MB of pure, uncut geek.
via John F.
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21 Jan 2003 |
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16 Jan 2003 |
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10 Jan 2003 |
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HEMORRHOIDOGRAM!
It's one from the archives, kiddies. Back in business. The Tellme stuff still works, too! Now, what was that about idle hands again?
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08 Jan 2003 |
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30 Dec 2002 |
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22 Nov 2002 |
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The future is now available for pre-order
Imagine tooling around town on one of these... with everyone thinking you're a tool.
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15 Nov 2002 |
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08 Nov 2002 |
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31 Oct 2002 |
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Googlism
"andrew falconer is currently being held in custody on his third animal abuse offense"
via evhead
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22 Oct 2002 |
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Help cure diseases: fold a protein
Because I am a geek, distributed computing is cool to me. If finding signals from space through SETI@Home was never your thing, perhaps curing Alzheimer's or Parkinson's is.
Head on over to Folding@Home and help really smart brainiacs figure out what makes proteins go wrong and cause diseases. If you'd like to join the House 8 Network team, the team number is 11615. (I'd link to the stats page, but it looks like the protein folders are too busy folding proteins to maintain their web server.)
See also: Adam Beberg's Distributed Computing Design Manifesto.
All of this
via boing boing
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08 Oct 2002 |
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A brief history of cell phone technology
A fascinating (if you're into that sort of thing) article on the development of wireless technology and providers in the US.
via DanSays...
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01 Oct 2002 |
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I'mageek
The worst .sigs on /. prompted me to check:
House 8 Network uptime: 1:36PM up 158 days, 13:49, 2 users, load averages: 0.17, 0.02, 0.01
Thanks Gil! Thanks Apple!
via Camworld
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20 Sep 2002 |
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When physics dorks get bored
Yer gonna poke an eye out! Or lose a toe, or something...
via Mr. Barrett
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04 Sep 2002 |
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18 Jul 2002 |
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could we have your money... please?
I guess Microsoft thinks that MSN is something people would pay for - even if they already have an ISP.
With such outstanding features as "Conquer your phobias", "Avoid a hellish commute", and "OK to haggle with doc?" I know I would... sign me up for a subscription today!
This looks like Bill's crass attempt at getting back some of the lunch money he had taken from him in grammar school and high school.
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17 Jul 2002 |
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Computers Without Clocks
Asynchronous chips improve computer performance by letting each circuit run as fast as it can
When I was about 12 my Dad and I had a discussion about electricity, and how the timing of it was important to everything that relied on it.
This theory pretty much throws that out the window.
Dad would dig it.
via Scientific American via FreshNews
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16 Jul 2002 |
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Brainwashing begins at home
Ugh!
When will the damn religious freaks in this kkkountry realize they are out of control?
This from the Pledge Girl's mom:
"I see my role as just correcting the record and making sure that the American people know that my daughter is being raised in a Christian home," Banning said...
I hope Sarah Jane Hurricane never comes up with malarky like this:
"Her response was, 'That's OK, Mom, because even if they do change the Pledge of Allegiance, I'll still say "under God," and no one will know that I'm breaking the law,'" Banning said.
Scarey!
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09 Jul 2002 |
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06 Jun 2002 |
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31 May 2002 |
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They Fight Crime!
This reminds me of the Y2Katastrophe chooser we put together way back in the heady days of the Internet boom. Unforunately, I seem to have mis-placed the database that contained all of our Perpetrators, Methods and Locations used to determine the eventual demise of the world at the turn of the millenium. (Remember all those arguments about how 2000 wasn't really the start of a new century? Boy, weren't those interesting? Ah, memories.)
via Textism
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13 May 2002 |
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"Alias" desktop wallpapers
Oh yeah! That Vaughn, he's a hottie. Too bad he's stuck in the Magic 8-Ball fluid...
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11 May 2002 |
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09 May 2002 |
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03 Apr 2002 |
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The FireDino Hub: makin' the Teddy Borg look like a pile of puke
It's large, takes up tons of space, and is not all that ergonomic, but it makes up for all of these detriments by having a blue glowing light in the creature's mouth.
via boing boing
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05 Mar 2002 |
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Teddy Borg (or, what you get when you cross a networking switch with a teddy bear)
FYI - Step three: Bear surgery I is not for the squeamish.
via underachievers
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20 Feb 2002 |
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How Fast Can You Type?
Fun little typing test...how fast do you type? My average was around 60 wpm, but i got as high as 74...with 100% accuracy. Let's see what you chumps can do...
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30 Jan 2002 |
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Superaction.com
Martial Arts. Comic Books. Anime. Oh my!
Supervillain: The HackerShe ain't yer ordinary computer villain. She's a Supervillain. You can tell because she has a really big gun and she's chained to her PCMCIA card. Or something.
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18 Jan 2002 |
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The New iMac
the onion gives it's top features of the new imac.
- doubles as a reading lamp
- perfectly matches the iBlouse
via onion
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15 Nov 2001 |
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THE WAY BACK MACHINE
This site is pretty cool...ever wanted to go back and look at an old design for a web site? Well, with the "way back machine", you can surf pages stored in the internet archives web archive. take a look at some old crappy sites. The best part is seeing how ghetto a site used to be.
take a look at this archived ixl site. funny that companys paid them millions of dollars and this is what they saw. no wonder half the market is out of work.
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23 Oct 2001 |
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Star Wars Gangsta Rap
Warning: fat Flash file ahead.
Brilliant? Stupid? Frightening? All these come to mind. All I know is that it's got Storm Troopers waving their hands in the air. Waving them like they just don't care.
(local mirror)
via dan says...
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17 Oct 2001 |
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What's in Your Pants?
The Dockers Mobile Pant. For people with too much shit to carry and a tee time.
via being inundated with the ad on Yahoo! mail
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12 Jul 2001 |
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Arnold Schwarzenegger prank calls!
Otherwise known as a geek, a sampler and a telephone. There are also a couple prank calls by Al Pacino, Norman Bates and Joe Pecsi.
via Garbage Truck 4000
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26 Jun 2001 |
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Ms. Pac-Man World Record!
In this age of uncertainty and violence it was only inevitable that one day a true hero would emerge to lead us out of the darkness. Curtis L. Powell, Jr. is our chosen one.
via Old Man Murray
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04 Jun 2001 |
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Anybody for a "Cheese BORGer?"
Not that I've ever actually *watched* Star Trek or anything... uh.... yeah... anyway, whoever is writing copy for "Quark's" the Las Vegas restaurant mecca for Trekkies, is a bona fide genius:
"Next, you can assimilate a main course, choosing from over twenty delectable dishes including the Talaxian Turkey Wrap, the Wrap of Khan, or the Romulan Warbird (which tastes surprisingly like chicken)."
Karateka for Palm OS
I couldn't tell you how many hours I spent playing this game on my C64.
via Twernt
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01 Jun 2001 |
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Distributed Denial of Service attack on GRC.com
Warning! This is a geek-factor 11 read, but it's also an excellent account of the havoc personal computers are capable of creating now.
Welcome to the brave new world of
the 13 year-old Internet terrorist.
via Mr. Barrett
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31 May 2001 |
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"Take me to your @$#!?* Leader"
Now a PC can do what a Mac has always been able to do. This link sends you a sound file of any titallating phrase you enter.
My faves:
* "Make love to me!"
* "Have you seen my vibrator?"
* "Who farted?"
You'll laugh till you cry.
This is another old link cause people aren't blogging enough for my taste.
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24 May 2001 |
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The sordid history of JavaScript
This article makes me feel old. The first site I built used javascript, then dubbed Livescript, and was launched a week after Netscape 2.0 was released.
I feel like a geezer.
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22 May 2001 |
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Poetry for the talentless
Give it a starting line, and the Heretical Rhyme Generator will finish 'er off for ya.
Let's give it try, shall we kids?
House 8 Network is the bomb
Pulling my trousers down gently in the mist
Crawl from the wreckage, return to the womb.
Thus was the armed knight enticed from the list
Uhhhh...
via Somnolent
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17 May 2001 |
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Poke Alex in the eye
These guys have gone from mildly funny animated .gif to full-fledged interactive time wasting! In the immortal words of Loaded, Good work, fella!
Also, check out that disclaimer. Yowza!