computers
Wednesday 20 February
- 'Circular' Domain Name Set, $125,000 (20:38) - Here's an ebay auction for the entire set of "circle" .com domain names on a keyboard. What is a "circle" domain name? If you look at the keyboard in front of you the keys are laid out in offset rows... | 0 Comments
Monday 14 January
- Drawing with HTML (20:05) - Why climb a mountain? Because it's there. ... | 0 Comments
Monday 7 January
Thursday 8 November
- 24 - circa 1994 (22:03) - Hilarious, even if you don't watch the show. What 24 would be like in 1994... ... | 1 Comments
Wednesday 3 October
Sunday 8 July
- Telekinesis - OS X Remote Desktop for iPhone (21:53) - By far the best iPhone application I have seen yet. Telekinesis (iPhone Remote) is a web application/service you run on OS X 10.4 to provide access to your desktop from your iPhone. While it is still in a very early... | 2 Comments
Sunday 24 June
Saturday 19 May
- Phone Losers of America (16:54) - I don't know what made me think of Phone Losers of America today, but I was surprised to find that the PLA is still around and active. When I was a youngin' I lived off this stuff. Wikipedia has some... | 2 Comments
Monday 23 April
- Debris by Farbrausch - Breakpoint 2007 PC Demo Winner (09:47) - The demo scene is alive and well. Debris by Farbrausch [download for PC] was the winner for best PC demo at this year's Breakpoint demo party. At only 177K in size, it is 7 minutes of amazing 3D. If you... | 2 Comments
Sunday 25 March
Saturday 17 February
Friday 9 February
Saturday 3 February
Wednesday 15 November
- NBC's Today show compares Zune to 2 year old monochrome iPod (12:46) - I am all for competition as it helps spawn better products in the marketplace. But shame on NBC for bowing to their Microsoft overlords and producing this fluff piece of news *cough*advertisement*cough* introducing the new Zune player. If you are... | 1 Comments
Wednesday 25 October
- Windows 3.1 Hot Dog Theme (05:35) - Brings back memories... also goes to show that Windows really hasn't come that far. ; )... | 0 Comments
Wednesday 23 August
Saturday 3 June
- Fortress (01:48) - My gums are watering.... | 3 Comments
Saturday 13 May
Saturday 4 March
- maxwell interiors (22:15) - This kitchen looks perfect. Almost like a computer made rendered it. ... | 4 Comments
Thursday 9 February
- Powerglove Mouse (13:37) - The time has come to bring new life into our old friend and to welcome him back as a productive member of society with the ‘Powerglove Mouse’. With this hack I can strap on the Powerglove and have total control... | 2 Comments
Saturday 9 July
- Bjarne Stroustrup named IEEE Fellow (23:10) - "For contributions to the creaton of the C++ programming language and its applications" Stroustrup's webpage which seems to be fairly recently updated, at least with news of his promotion to IEEE Fellow. Somewhat unrelated to this, the last statistics I... | 0 Comments
Thursday 23 June
- bling (11:55) - | 2 Comments
Wednesday 18 May
- The so-called Linux Community (23:25) - I've read two articles recently which describe "the Linux community" in a negative light. They are both about the same topic, a reporter named O'Gara wrote a disgraceful piece which included the apparent personal contact information of a figure... | 5 Comments
Wednesday 27 April
- The 1337357 Hacker (11:19) - that is "leetest" for those that dont speak 1337. ... | 0 Comments
Monday 18 April
- Adobe to Buy Macromedia in $3.4B Deal (10:22) - SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Combining two of the largest makers of software for creating and delivering digital content, Adobe Systems Inc. said Monday it will acquire Macromedia Inc. in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion.... | 0 Comments
Sunday 10 April
Monday 4 April
- $100 Laptops (11:59) - Details are still being worked out, but here's the MIT team's current recipe: Put the laptop on a software diet; use the freely distributed Linux operating system; design a battery capable of being recharged with a hand crank; and use... | 17 Comments
Saturday 12 March
- How to Start a Startup (22:23) - Another worthwhile and entertaining read from Paul Graham, this time on the topic of how to start a startup. I can think of several heuristics for generating ideas for startups, but most reduce to this: look at something people are...
Sunday 13 February
- Can This Black Box See Into the Future? (23:18) - Deep in the basement of a dusty university library in Edinburgh lies a small black box, roughly the size of two cigarette packets side by side, that churns out random numbers in an endless stream. At first glance it...
Wednesday 9 February
- Scan your handwriting, get a font (09:49) - At fontifier.com you can download and print out a form to get a sample of your handwriting. You then scan the filled out form and send it back to them and it is turned into a font of your...
Tuesday 8 February
- Linux Virgin (13:18) - Artist -> Klara Hobza On February 14th 2005 www.linuxvirgin.info will begin hosting weekly installments of the linux virgin 1.1-1.5 series, an erotic and informative video series about learning to build a computer to run linux. This amusing series chronicles...
Monday 7 February
- iPod Shuffle RAID (11:45) - So, what do you do when you and some friends are all getting iPod Shuffles? You make a RAID array out of them, of course! ...
Wednesday 19 January
- You, Robot (14:35) - Scientist Hans Moravec says humans will download their minds into computers one day. So he's put his money where his mouth is, and started a robotics firm to pioneer the journey from warehouse drones to Robo Sapiens. ...
Monday 17 January
- Mr. Bill, teen idol (10:36) - Dig these slinky photos of Bill Gates from Teen Beat, circa 1983. ...
Tuesday 11 January
- iPod Shuffle and Mac Mini announced (14:10) - Apple.com is getting nailed right now, but they have a site up for the new Mac Mini. Starting at $499 it comes with a 1.25Ghz G4, 40GB HD. You can spend a little more to get a faster processor and...
Monday 18 October
- BBS Documentary (12:48) - Currently Slashdotted, bbsdocumentary.com has a preview of a new 7 hour documentary DVD on the history of the BBS....
Saturday 2 October
- Big Brother inside your printer? (13:12) - Regarding detection of attempts to print pics of US currency: "Its broad adoption represents one of the rare occasions when the U.S. technology industry has quietly agreed to requests by government and finance officials to include third-party software code in...
Wednesday 22 September
- Relay me some more funny (00:25) - Most of you probably don't remember, but I posted something about relay calls meant to help the deaf. Well I found some call recordings. Not safe for work!! Though quite amusing. Hahahaha, it's just funny to hear operators say "touch...
Wednesday 1 September
- Philadelphia to be totally wire(d)less (16:17) - CNN Reports: PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) -- For about $10 million, city officials believe they can turn all 135 square miles of Philadelphia into the world's largest wireless Internet hot spot.The ambitious plan, now in the works, would involve placing hundreds,...
Tuesday 31 August
Monday 23 August
- Microsoft's cultural blunders (14:07) - This SF Gate article lists some (often humorous) occasions where Microsoft has put their foot in their mouth. When coloring in 800,000 pixels on a map of India, Microsoft colored eight of them a different shade of green to represent...
Thursday 15 July
- Humor for Nerds (23:45) - Nerd check. Gallery of funny Unix/networking-related pictures. Start from page 4 and work backwards. Also, check out the collection of war and propaganda galleries on the same site. ...
- Netcat (00:35) -
Thursday 8 July
- Software Piracy? (01:23) - I just had to comment on this Reuter's news report with the headline "World software piracy losses climb to $29 billion". I guess it's normal practice to use controversial or unsubstantiated headlines and then clarify them later in the article,...
Monday 28 June
- Have you stopped using IE yet? (11:53) - I have. Especially after reading and testing this analysis of the IE hole. CERT (a division of Homeland Security) recommends you start using Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape or Opera too. Personally I recommend Firefox. In many/most ways, it is better...
Monday 7 June
- AirPort Express with AirTunes (15:34) - PC & Mac users alike should be drooling over this. "Enjoy your iTunes music library in virtually any room of your house. Share a single broadband Internet connection and USB printer without inconvenient and obtrusive cables. Create an instant wireless...
Thursday 27 May
- PC Cassette Deck (22:42) - The PlusDeck 2 is a full-logic cassette deck for your PC. Use it to archive your old cassette tapes of 80s hair bands into digital media files for playback on your PC. Or better yet, archive your favorite audio...
Wednesday 19 May
- OSX under Windows, mac classic under Flash (13:04) - "OS News has an article by a user who successfully installed Mac OS X using the 0.1 version of PearPC, the PPC emulator for x86 machines. He said it took 5 hours to run the first install CD but he...
Thursday 8 April
- VI - Throw Yo Hood Up (21:58) - If you're down with the One True Editor, throw it up muthafucka. It's the vi gang sign. ...
Saturday 7 February
- Geek Humor (21:23) - <HTML-HUMOR> Via the not quite dead memepool comes instructions for building your own gas mask out of computar parts. It may not filter gasses but it will surely filter girls. #5. Yo momma's so fat, she uses FAT256. Robots save...
Friday 6 February
- Dilbert (19:08) - High magnification of a computar chip reveals this Dilbert easter egg....
Monday 26 January
Thursday 22 January
- Machines Need Love Too (23:20) - DFORM1's 2004 reel is sofa king hot even if it is basically one long commercial. Cuz machines need love too....
Tuesday 16 December
- 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...
Wednesday 3 December
Tuesday 21 October
Saturday 18 October
- Banksy Strikes (05:05) - Stencil graffiti legend "Banksy" did it again last night when he managed to sneak a painting into the Tate Britain gallery last night. Artwork being considered for display at Tate Britain usually undergoes a rigorous process of nomination. But under...
Wednesday 20 August
