Archive for January, 2006

January 5th, 2006

Bionic Quest

Wired 13.11: My Bionic Quest for Boléro
And then, on July 7, 2001, at 10:30 am, I lost my ability to hear Boléro - and everything else. While I was waiting to pick up a rental car in Reno, I suddenly thought the battery in my hearing aid had died. I replaced it. No luck. I [...]

January 4th, 2006

Tin Foil Soldier » Blog Archive » WordPress 2

Tin Foil Soldier » Blog Archive » WordPress 2
Apparently it worked!
Its lunch time, but i will bitch about what sucks about Wordpress 2 when i get back

January 4th, 2006

WordPress 2

um, no one told me!
so… I am going to attempt an upgrade since I dont have anything better to do @ work
WordPress Development Blog › WordPress 2
The WordPress community is very proud to present the next generation of WordPress to the world, our 2.0 “Duke” release, named in honor of jazz pianist and composer Duke [...]

January 4th, 2006

Back in ROC

So i was home for break, which means i had friends to hang out with, turkey to eat and alcohol to drink
on the way back, my car started sputtering about 30 minutes after i left my house (I-83 crossing the susquehanna towards Harrisburg)
It was raining really hard, and my car was being all pissy with [...]

January 4th, 2006

Sci-Spot.com

Sci-Spot.com - News
a bunch of really cool projects, mostly to assist in other projects, but still insanely cool in their own right.
extracting iodine crystals, an accelerometer display, a dynameter that can do rpm and torque built from an old scroll wheel mouse, the list goes on and on
check it out

January 3rd, 2006

Skinning a Furby

New Furby Hacking : Part 1 : Skinning on eecue.com - (dave bullock)
Give Furby a more colorful vocabulary
Teach Furby some tasteless jokes
Change Furby’s voice tone to be less cute and more evil
Give Furby a funny accent and maybe a lisp and a twitch
wow, the new furbys are apparently awesome

January 1st, 2006

The Lion, The Witch and The World Trade talks

The Lion, The Witch and The World Trade talks - World - theage.com.au

A story issued by financial news agency AFX on Sunday, picked up by several other outlets, has left a series of red faces by faithfully reporting a press release from “the independent state of Narnia”. The story claimed Narnia had walked out of [...]