December 2003

Tuesday 30 December

  • Aircraft Carrier for sale on Ebay (11:38) - If you have a spare $6M USD laying around you can bid on this aircraft carrier auction on Ebay. Is it for real?.. I have no idea. ... this vessel is DECOMMISSIONED and therefore not Ordanance. We are shipbroker and...

Monday 29 December

  • you are not supposed to do that (00:27) - What happens when you find a bunch of negatives from about 7 years ago, but you don't have a negative scanner? You put them in your scanner anyway and see what comes out. ...

Saturday 27 December

  • A2 Stencils Come Again (22:08) - [link]...
  • Girls of Fafi (13:25) - Ok, JT, you asked for something with love, detail, and Mona Lisa quality. I think Fafi has got it all. The collaborations on walls = the dr00lz. ...
  • Still stupid (12:21) - view...

Friday 26 December


Thursday 25 December

  • Mujahid-Dean (06:30) - Part 4 of the Dean-o photoshop sketches at allahpundit. Also hiliarious is Allah's Bitchslap in Beantown....
  • What's the difference? (05:24) - Canada, our innocent neighbors to the north (or south if you're from Detroit). Not so innocent when their plans include: Infiltrating the USA and through a cleverly designed plan, destroying it, and using its resources for our own purposes. The...

Wednesday 24 December

  • I, Robot (19:05) - The available-soon NS-5 Personal Domestic Assistant is able to shop for groceries and cook your dinner, mow your lawn, and even take care of your finances. But most importantly this robot is billed as "3 Laws Safe", no worries of...
  • ZIP 0xC0DE (03:23) - Interesting Java project from Ben Fry at MIT which lights and then unlights dots on a map of the US as you enter in each successive digit so that you can see how much of the country each substring of...
  • Update (03:12) - Contemporary Origami by HOJYO Takashi. No way can that robot folder crunch these out (yet) with the complex folds involved. But when it can, Instant Cup Origami for everyone! Combining LEGO, robotics, and Rubik's cubes: CubeSolver, the Lego robot that...
  • The Importance of Science (02:58) - Fantastic article about the importance to democracy of a scientificly literate population. In a system where each individual basically holds the same amount of power (well, most of us) to make decisions in courts as juries and in politics as...

Tuesday 23 December

  • I want to kiss you (13:30) - I think Joe Namath was drunk during this sideline interview. Its incredible....

Monday 22 December

  • microPALOOZA (02:52) - December 30th in Portland, OR: The Pacific Northwest's first 'chip music' concert and Commodore 64 Super Summit -- microPALOOZA Video game music aka "chip tunes" are made by programming the built-in synths in older gaming consoles such as the SID...
  • One Ring (02:20) - What better way to spend $849.00 than on a 22K gold replica* of the One Ring of Power. *Magical powers not included....

Sunday 21 December


Saturday 20 December

  • Q" (04:57) - "As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest...

Friday 19 December

  • Final design for WTC site unveiled. (12:11) - Officials presented today the final design of the building to be constructed on the World Trade Center site, revealing a slender curving tower that will rise 1,776 feet above downtown New York City, a height symbolic of the year of...
  • Record Industry May Not Subpoena Online Providers (11:59) - There is some very promising news on the legal end of the digital front for once. The Times reported that the DC Court of Appeals rejected the RIAAs claim that internet service providers should have to respond to subpoenas for...
  • DrugWarMachine Using Our Money To Ensure Its Own Self-Propagation (04:28) - In January of 2001 a decriminilization organization called Change The Climate began an ad campaign on the D.C. bus system supporting the reform of current laws to stop wasting tax dollars. In retaliation, the House of Representatives just snuck in...

Thursday 18 December

  • Slugging (01:51) - Today I learned about slugging, a byproduct of the 1970s oil embargo crisis forcing the policy of HOV lanes! Cars without the required number of people to travel in the HOV lanes will pick up "slugs" who then share the...
  • MagicBike (01:32) - MagicBike, a wireless internet connection on wheels. How it works is simple: a computer hanging off the bike connects to the internet via cellphone internet (or to another wireless access point) and it allows others in the vicinity to share...

Wednesday 17 December

  • Autogami (02:00) - Devin Balkcom is a PhD student at CMU. His research includes the topic of robot origami [there are .movies]. The robot can only fold, fold, fold at the moment -- no reversing or anything more complicated than moving the paper...

Tuesday 16 December

  • jingleballs (22:45) - Jingleballs is a flash game where you run around throwing snowballs at holiday shoppers and steal their gifts. Half the reason I posted the game is because I was just impressed with the game in general. Flash games have certainly...
  • Artifictions (14:27) - The Invisible Library is a collection of books that only appear in other books. Within the library's catalog you will find imaginary books, pseudobiblia, artifictions, fabled tomes, libris phantastica, and all manner of books unwritten, unread, unpublished, and unfound....
  • Presents (01:56) - "Build a car that runs on water!" What better way to get young people excited about technology than the Thames & Kosmos Fuel Cell Car & Experiment Kit! For the young-ish elite female hackers Mattel brings you B-Book laptops running...
  • Microsoft Power! (00:28) - Press Release Dec. 12, 2003 Microsoft has learned of a mistake in the Bookshelf Symbol 7 font included in the Microsoft Office System client applications. Due to an unintentional oversight, we failed to identify, prior to the release, the presence...

Monday 15 December

  • Planes in compromising positions (02:19) -
  • A job for PETA (01:35) - NSFW...
  • Taxicarbussharing (00:58) - Recently, I learned about Taxibus, a new hi-tech dynamically-routed microbussing solution in the UK, "Revolutionary Urban Transportation for 21st Century Cities". It works like this: a rider contacts the Intelligent Grouping Transportation system with their cellphone, request a pickup (whoa,...

Sunday 14 December

  • Geek Tattoos (22:50) - Find these and more at BME's Geek Tattoos gallery. I was only able to get through the first 11 pages before I was asked to pay up. [The Nintendo tattoo was featured on this post originally.]...
  • Verified Voting (21:44) - Many of us will be voting electronically next fall. As some of you many already know, computer code occasionally contains bugs. A simple way to make sure that your and everyone else’s vote counts is to have the voting machine...
  • Politic-tic-tic-tic (21:35) -
  • Retro Raunch (10:14) - Retro Raunch features photos from strange pornos of yesteryear. Users compete to write the funniest captions for the photo of the week. This site is not work safe. Our photos are fascinating, erotic, exciting, and sometimes pretty strange. One of...

Friday 12 December

  • ladies of the pen (18:53) - Ladies of the Pen is an online dating/penpal service for meeting women who are currently incarcerated. The website provides you with key information about the women, including a personal statement, height, weight, earliest possible release date and what kind of...
  • first acupuncture session (18:12) - When I left the clinic, I felt totally allergy free, but that is starting to fade. I’m supposed to take some herbs each day and then go back next week for more pin sticking. Today, the pins left no mark...
  • bush asshole mosaic (17:53) - The bush asshole mosaic depicts President Bush's face by the creative composition of 1200 photos of human assholes....
  • ignorance of the time cube is evil (17:23) - Ignorance of Time Cube Time Cube dooms humans... Time Cube Central "My name is Gene Ray. I represent a Power that transcends power of God. That Supreme Power is in Nature's Harmonic Simultaneous Perpetual 4X4 =16 Corner Rotating Principle 4-Day...
  • Graffiti on girls (01:13) - Damn, a day late and in NYC anyways. GRAFFITI ON GIRLS LIVE BODY ART by CRAM CONCEPTS featuring QUIK RTW and T-KID TNB Cooler than naked sushi and unlike Banksy painting cows, no pesky PETA. Tagging naked girls has been...

Thursday 11 December

  • acupuncture for allergies (13:10) - although, as tomo has shown, gas masks can be cool, i have decided to see if acupuncture will help my allergies. my first appointment is tomorrow and i'm a bit nervous about it....
  • Ratemygasmask (03:06) - The ultimate mixing of fashion and function as well as the perfect defense against the cedar spore invasion: RateMyGasMask.com. The gasmask scenes in Yana's Friends were spicy business. ...
  • Violence In Gaming (02:33) - A dispute between two Counterstrike teams after a match in LA ended with a gun pulled to one kid's head [press release]. As Chris, and others attempted to calm the situation a member/associate of Team BZ ran to his car...

Wednesday 10 December

  • the wary fat kid (23:03) - I have no idea about what this is about, but its funny....
  • Cedar: The plague of Trees (16:20) - If one more person says to me, 'at least we don't have cold weather in Texas,' I don't know what I'll do. Winter here is unbearable due to the tremendous amount of pollen in the air. See this for a...
  • Urban Farming in a Post-Industrial Detroit (02:10) - Grassroots projects are taking root in Detroit's urban wasteland, literally. Volunteer, student, and neighborhood groups (as well as anarchist groups like Trumbullplex, but for other reasons) are either buying up long vacant lots on the cheap or simply taking custodianship...
  • Longest Line (00:35) - An Apple store opened up in Ginza, Tokyo. Some people made a pilgrimage to this gigantic Kaaba. No, seriously, there are more people standing in this line than a lot of Michigan towns. ...

Monday 8 December

  • LEGO (23:39) - I've been coming across lots of LEGO-themed sites lately. Like this company called PixelBlocks which manufactures blocks that are LEGO-like, but what makes them stand out of the crowd is ... translucency. Not that there aren't translucent LEGOs. One...
  • Yo (22:32) - Video from the March 30, 2003 Japan National Yo-Yo Contest. When yoing isn't tricky enough, combine with breakdancing. More videos here or check out these hilarious gangstaz....
  • Space Invazn (00:43) - Taito of Japan is returning Space Invaders to arcades across the states for its 25th anniversary. Did they not realize the invasion had already began over four years ago, in Paris of all places? A few months ago, I noticed...

Saturday 6 December

  • I (20:51) - At Shoryuken you can order DVDs filled with hours upon hours of Street Fighter tournament coverage, read up on how to enhance your skills, or finally learn why the Japanese are better Street Fighter players....
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  • Not knowing Japanese will only (14:36) - Not knowing Japanese will only help to increase the WTF-factor of these Flash animations. Here is just a sample. Let me translate the third one because it's more wordy: How to Make Kitty Au GratinMake Au Gratin Wait for it...
  • Interlude (13:36) - "Appetite for Dstruktshun [Quicktime] was produced using a series of stop frame photographs which where fused together to cause a short motion experiment."...
  • Rave On (05:53) - Many people, young and old, are deceiving and being deceived through the RAVE movement. Here, we will expose the reality of the "lie" that is deceiving so many people throughout the world. RAVE parties are an occult spiritual movement. Not...
  • "'Trampled' Wal-Mart Shopper Has History (05:03) - "'Trampled' Wal-Mart Shopper Has History Of Injury Claims" An investigation by WKMG-Local 6 reveals Vanlester has filed 16 previous claims of injuries at Wal-Mart stores and other places she has shopped or worked, according to Wal-Mart, court files and state...

Friday 5 December

  • Guess where this company is located. (15:15) - ES5...
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  • The moral values of a (01:58) - The moral values of a California commisioner are behind that state's decision to ban sale of the GloFish [video] in the state, "despite accepting recommendations from scientists and the California Fish and Game Department that there is no danger to...

Thursday 4 December

  • Keeping Things Cool The Lotek Way (01:08) - When you have the need to refrigerate fruits and vegetables and you live in Nigeria where you have no electricity because you live off the grid not by choice but because you have no choice... what do you do? You...

Wednesday 3 December

  • Megaman2 Time Attack Another time (20:11) - Megaman2 Time Attack Another time attack video played by Morimoto, this time MEGAMAN2! Okay, so it's not as impressive on technical grounds as SMB3, and not as hax0ry as the SMB1 video, but it does show some sweet normal gameplay...
  • Barbie Porn (02:00) - Millionaire Playboy's PlayDollof the Month gets the Paris Hilton Sex Tape treatment, deemd SFW. But where's the PHONE?! And.. Rick Solomon. If that was too SFW for you I recommend this Flash movie and that photo gallery and finally this...
  • Hottest New Gaming System From Microsoft: eXCELBOX (00:43) - Games in MS Excel?? First there was PACELMAN and now CELLVADER. And you thought Conway's Game of Life in Excel was a neat trick....
  • SMB1 Shenanigans (00:04) - Super Mario Bros. 1 hacker video Old and of somewhat shit quality but somewhat relevant with all the SMB3 Time Attack hype. It's not as exciting but contains all sorts of hacker sorcery but watch out, it's a huge 100...

Tuesday 2 December

  • Ahhh Hillbillies (12:19) - This is what happens when you climb on top of your truck, leaving it to drive itself....
  • Pixelporn (03:19) - Create your own personal pornstar avatar with the ability to customize such aspects as: amount of chest hair, amount of facial hair, amount of pubic hair. Isometric pixelporn. ...
  • Currently Under Destruction (01:27) - So what do you do when you have a few days off in January ? Go to the library and find some books about Hungary. Then look in the chapter "where not to go". Get an airplane ticket, fly to...

Monday 1 December

  • Extreme Ironing (22:59) - When speedcubing isn't enough, you can always get into Extreme Ironing. Welcome to the home of extreme ironing - the latest danger sport that combines the thrills of an extreme outdoor activity with the satisfaction of a well pressed shirt....
  • Speedcubing (02:33) - Speedcubing. What could it be? You probably guessed "solving Rubik's cubes with mad speed, the ultimate combination of athleticism and algorithm" and you are correct. With Minh Thai being featured in a recent Giant Robot, you know it's not long...
  • To Shape The Future (02:09) - My first experience with programming computers consisted of copying lines of code from a library book into a BASIC interpreter that came with my computer. I dream of the day that genetic engineering is as accessible to futurekind. We can...