May 2008
88 posts
Linkwasher's awesome junk robots →
Flickr user Lockwasher collected a bunch of junk to make rayguns out of, and then decided to use the leftover junk to make a stunning collection of junk robots. Link (via Neatorama)
Q. What is an Economic Stimulus Payment?
A. It is money that the federal government will send to taxpayers.
Q. Where will the government get this money?
A. From taxpayers.
Q. So the government is giving me back my own money?
A. Only a smidgen.
Q. What is the purpose of this payment?
A. The plan is that you will use the money to purchase a high-definition TV set, thus stimulating the economy.
Q....
April 2008
84 posts
Circuit City Firedog Tech: In-Home TV Calibration... →
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Albert Hofmann, the discoverer of LSD died today →
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Artist repairs spiderwebs, spiders say no thanks →
Artist Nina Katchadourian tried repairing spider webs with thread, but her efforts were rebuffed: “My repairs were always rejected by the spider and discarded, usually during the course of the night,…
Ron English billboard mods in L.A. →
Famed NYC-based prankster/billboard artist Ron English recently took his brilliant brand of witty culture jamming to the Los Angeles area. Our pals at Hi-Fructose have the photographic…
Totally geeky bottle opener →
Filed under: On the Blogs, Food Gadgets, New Products
I love the intersection of different forms of geeky-ness. I am in love with this Star Trek bottle opener I found over at …
Serial killers answer letters from guy pretending... →
Radar asked Bill Geerhart to send follow-up notes to the serial killers he wrote in the late 1990s, posing as a 10-year-old. The killers promptly replied (both in 1998, and recently).
in…
Zealous Autoconfig →
Now This Is What the Internet Was Made For:... →
You’re in the East Village and you want a Grizzly Peak Marzen on draft. Think fast. Wandering in Midtown West, thirsty for a Brooklyn Pilsner. Where to turn? A few clicks later, …
Barack Obama is poised to run the first privately... →
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Miracle diet pill with teeny-tiny side effect →
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Gin, Television, and Social Surplus →
Super Mario as Unreal Tournament level →
The fun-loving gamers at the Unreal Tournament forum have recreated Super Mario Bros as a rockin’ UT2D level. Link
Original Lolcat →
picture: dunno source, via our lolcat builder. lol caption: Bismarn
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Number of donors who contributed to Barack Obama's... →
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Sign advertising rabbit meat →
I don’t know about you, but this sign makes me awful hungry for rabbit meat. Link (via Vegan.com)
An 87-million-year-old praying mantis found... →
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My Parents Managed to Raise Two Kids on One... →
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Wesley Snipes Finally Defeated By Blood-Sucking... →
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Ballmer: You want XP, we'll keep XP →
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Untitled 1 - Boing Boing →
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Debian Bug report logs #477454 - insulting source... →
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Matthew Garrett →
Note that by “Enable Touchpad” it also means “Make my touchpad mouse buttons work”. For machines that are only equipped with a touchpad (and, indeed, some that are equipped with a…
Octopart, a search engine for electronic parts. →
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Logo nightmare (Rotate 90 degrees) →
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Saving Seconds →
I’ve been ripping on the mouse for years. The argument is one of precision. The mouse, while incredibly useful as a casual means of interacting with a computer, is not a productivity tool,…
Hey. u hav perty eyez. →
Hey. u hav perty eyez.
y fank yoo. i wurked hard 2 git mai eyes liek dis.
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Stephen Hawking calls for Moon and Mars colonies →
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Why someone noticed this, I have no idea. [pic] →
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New Pet →
Why being the latency monkey makes you want to... →
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If ABC ran the Lincoln-Douglas Debates →
The Lincoln-Douglas debates, as conducted by ABC:
LINCOLN: In my opinion, slavery will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” I…
Shakespeare's Pulp Fiction →
Livejournal’s Ceruleanst’s produced a couple of passages’ worth of Pulp Fiction, as written by William Shakespeare: J: And know’st thou what the French name cottage pie?
V: Say they not cottage…
Droste Effect: when a package's artwork features... →
The Droste Effect is the name for packaging art that features the package itself in the artwork, in a recursive, diminishing marketfractal:
At my grocery store I could only find three examples:…
DS Print: 4/11/08 →
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Use SSH to Create Secure Tunnels for File... →
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25 minute composition: "The Most Unwanted Song" →
After a long search, Scott McLemee finally found a recording by a pair of Russian conceptual artists who created a song that most people will despise, as determined by a survey they conducted. For…
Perfect length for a pop song: 2:42 →
Joshua Allen of The Morning News says all pop songs must be 2:42. Even one second, in either direction will ruin it. What else is at 2:42? “Don’t Do Me Like That” by Tom Petty. “Divine Hammer” by…
Grilled Cheese Invitational (to do in L.A., April... →
People who really, really, really like melty dairy products and bread — rejoice. A new competitive sport is emerging in cities across America. “Grilled Cheese Invitationals” are kinda like…
Chumby hackers go to town →
Wired’s got a great article on all the diverse uses that hackers are coming up with for the Chumby, the adorable, hackable, wide-open bean-bag computer that does anything you can think of.
The…
Russell Coker: Resizing the Root Filesystem →
Uwe Hermann has described how to resize a root filesystem after booting from a live-cd or recovery disk [1]. He makes some good points about resizing an LVM PV (which I hadn’t even realised was…
Gates “Small Schools” Have Worst Dropout Rates in... →
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Advertisers: Men Are Not Idiots; Bashing Fathers... →
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Night Hacking (the productivity boost of 2 am) →
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NixOS: A Purely Functional Linux Distribution →
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New York Sun column: "Why I Let My 9-Year-Old... →
Lenore Skenazy wrote a piece for the April 4 edition of the New York Sun about letting her 9-year-old son find his way home from downtown NYC using the subway system. Many people were upset with…
Absolutely stunning erect fox →
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New York Sun column: "Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride... →
Lenore Skenazy wrote a piece for the April 4 edition of the New York Sun about letting her 9-year-old son find his way home from downtown NYC using the subway system. Many people were upset with…