Hmm. Interesting accessory.
Category Archives: indistinguishable from technology
No quarter asked and none given
June 27, 2007 – 9:42 pm
Yet another cool google hack: Pirates!
(via, which has upgraded to a great new design since I’ve last visited)
Gute systemprogrammierung / rechentechnik / whatever
June 14, 2007 – 4:44 pm
Bit the bullet last night and upgraded to openSUSE 10.2. Slightly nerve-wracking since I couldn’t really afford to have the box out of commission should anything go wrong, but it went like a charm. Two problems and one “problem”:
Something odd happened to Samba, I can’t reach the SUSE box from my windows box anymore, so [...]
Things I didn’t know yesterday
March 26, 2007 – 1:49 pm
I suppose I’m the only one who didn’t know this, and I’m a little ashamed to even blog it: apparently you can apply multiple classes to a single HTML tag! I suppose that’s the downside to learning by solving problems - if something doesn’t manifest itself as a problem, you never learn it.
The WP theme [...]
A device to get you (well, me) to leave the house
December 26, 2006 – 6:13 pm
This, from MIT’s Media Lab, looks to be very cool:
Ambient Addition is a Walkman with binaural microphones. A tiny Digital Signal Processing (DSP) chip analyzes the microphone’s sound and superimposes a layer of harmony and rhythm on top of the listener’s world. In the new context, some surprising behaviors take place. Listeners tend to play [...]
Drinks, for all my friends
October 31, 2006 – 3:15 pm
This is very cool:
British scientists have grown the world’s first artificial liver from stem cells in a breakthrough that will one day provide entire organs for transplant.
The technique that created the ‘mini-liver’, currently the size of a one pence piece, will be developed to create a full-size functioning liver.
Described as a ‘Eureka moment’ by the [...]
Periodic spiral
October 20, 2006 – 11:10 am
I didn’t know that there were flaws with the periodic table, but the periodic spiral purports to fix them.
Google no-knock hack
July 18, 2006 – 10:26 pm
Radley Balko on the rise of the militarization of our police:
Americans have long maintained that a man’s home is his castle and that he has the right to defend it from unlawful intruders. Unfortunately, that right may be disappearing. Over the last 25 years, America has seen a disturbing militarization of its civilian law enforcement, [...]
Enhance 34 to 36. Pan right and pull back. Stop.
July 18, 2006 – 11:24 am
If you had any doubts that we’re living in a science fiction movie:
The Khronos Projector is an interactive-art installation allowing people to explore pre-recorded movie content in an entirely new way. A classic video-tape allows a simple control of the reproducing process (stop, backward, forward, and elementary control on the reproduction speed). Modern digital players [...]
Back up your tunage, dudes
June 8, 2006 – 9:36 pm
Whoops!
Apple iPod owners love their sleek machines. That’s when they work. When they don’t, they enter a twilight world where they discover their prized music player is considered by its manufacturer as nothing more than a throwaway item.
Apparently their life expectancy is only a year.
Flood
May 30, 2006 – 8:30 pm
Another cool google hack:
Apologies if this has already been noted in the TJICisphere - can’t remember where I found it, but remember vaguely having wanted to blog it.
Google Murder Hack
May 8, 2006 – 8:07 pm
Discovered while doing some research today: the above morbid google hack, that the Boston Police Department has a blog, and that some cops ride segways and wear bicycle helmets.
Snakebot
March 22, 2006 – 3:10 pm
Pretty damn cool:
Powered by a lithium-ion battery, the ACM-R5 is a radio-controlled amphibious robot designed to move like its real world counterpart. It can slither or swim underwater for 30 minutes on a full charge. Inside, you’ll find an intricate sensor system (attitude/torque), small-sized camera, and a 32bit micro controller.
Go see the video!
(via)
From the spamfiles
February 14, 2006 – 3:19 pm
My absolute fave:
From: “Bret McDonald”
Subject: Industrial Robots
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 13:37:11 -0400 (EDT)
www.We-Buy-Used-Industrial-Robots.com
If you have any industrial robots to sell,
please visit our web site or call,
Toll Free: 1-877-4USEDROBOTS (1-877-487-3376)
To be removed from the mailing list, please send a blank email to unsubscribe@robots-wanted.com with unsubscribe in the subject line.
Robots-Wanted
501 London Rd.
Delaware, OH 43015
I wouldn’t [...]
RCN speeds
November 21, 2005 – 11:42 am
Better than yesterday… or is it? It’s only been a couple of minutes since installation, but I get significantly different speeds every time I take a measurement - some down in the DSL range.
When the singularity arrives
October 30, 2005 – 2:24 pm
It won’t only be people who benefit.
(from, via)
It’s Google’s world, we just live in it
September 20, 2005 – 2:35 pm
Interesting tidbit, via Joe’s Darblog, speculating about Google’s possible moves in the browser market.