On Tech Now! this morning, I found out about the Octodog’s Frankfurter Converter. When there are products this silly in the world, can the Apocalypse be far behind?
The webpage includes a justification for the existance of such a silly novelty item.
According to them.
The method of slicing a hotdog linearly can reduce the chances of [...]
This picture served as the basis for a fark Photoshop contest, but I think it stands on its own. It’s good to see that our politicians now clearly express their view of people from other countries and cultures.
One of the most bizarre and macabre websites I’ve seen recently is GHOST TOWN, the story of Elena, a young woman who rides her Kawasaki Ninja in through the surrounding countryside of Chernobyl. While other sites may contain more information, the pictures snapped by Elena are eerie and compelling. The events [...]
Today’s Quote of the Day comes from Steve Ballmer of Microsoft.
According to
this report, Microsoft spends 12% of its budget on online advertising. Said Ballmer:
I want to make sure (a user) can’t get through … an online experience without hitting a Microsoft ad.
Welcome to the vision of the future proposed by Microsoft: an Internet [...]
… what you can put off ’til tomorrow.
Sometimes procrastination can pay off, courtesy of Moore’s Law.
A couple of days ago I was driving around and caught an interview of Tim LaHaye on NPR’s Fresh Air program. LaHaye is the author of a 12 volume fictional series called Left Behind which centers around the Christian fundamentalists belief in Armageddon and the Rapture. He’s written a billion other books, [...]
Ever wish you had a simple webserver on a machine? You can do it in a single
line with Python.
python -c “import SimpleHTTPServer ; SimpleHTTPServer.test()”
This will start a webserver on port 8000 in the current directory, and allow you to serve content for any files in that directory.
If you’d like to adopt a new quack persona on the Internet, you could always
look at How to be an Internet Woo-Woo.
Nobody acts this way except as a joke, right?
Soren Ragsdale apparently got himself a press pass and recorded his impressions of the event on his weblog.
While chasing down a fairly pedestrian story on Slashdot about building your own LCD picture frame (seems rather obvious, use a box, a VIA motherboard, some minimal carpentry) I did find an interesting link to Mini-Box.Com.
The link was in reference to their small power supplies, but they also sell a cute little embedded PC called [...]
Are you troubled by frequent alien abductions and their tricksy mind control? Well, it is good to see that amateur scientists are hard at work to make alien abductions a think of the past. Check out the Stop Alien Abductions website for information of we can shrug off the hypnotic suggestions of our [...]
Today the DARPA Grand Challenge was run. The course was shortened to only 142 miles from its original design goal of 250 miles. Fifteen robotic teams were selected to run. The best robot made 7.4 miles before mechanical failure called a halt to its day. The majority of teams made it [...]
While doing one of my usual bored browses of the web looking for odd science projects, I ran across a page detailing a homemade 3d laser scanner. This is another of a long series of projects that I thought would be fun to do, but never have gotten around to working on. [...]
Late on Saturday Night, my charming wife walked into my office and proclaimed “Robin Williams is doing a special set at Cobb’s on Monday Night. We’re going!”. Apparently she’s on the Cobb’s email list and got advanced warning for this special show. WIth the general philosophy of “when you get a chance [...]
Hey, if anyone has a spare 10 grand that they want to
waste on me (your soon to be best friend), how about a VersaLaser, a USB controlled laser cutting/etching
machine. Clink the links on the page to see a nifty demo like they showed on a recent edition of TechTV.
Too much fun.
