Archive for August, 2006

August 7th, 2006

Self Destruct Button

TechEBlog » USB Self Destruct Button Hands-On
Akihabara News gives us a hands-on look at this strange USB Self Destruct Button aka USB 2.0 hub.
i forget where i saw this before, but I still want one
but only if the computer could be made aware of the button’s pressed-ness.  that way you could actually run scripts or [...]

August 7th, 2006

finished reading Dune

Dune (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dune is popularly considered one of the greatest science fiction novels of all time, and is frequently cited as the best-selling science fiction novel in history
warning, their are some spoilers on that page, but lots of good stuff as well.
Dune is oldschool, and you should definately read it.
you may [...]

August 7th, 2006

WWDC06

Boing Boing: Liveblogging Apple WWDC06 in San Francisco
Apple is stupid, and macs are stupid
dual, dual core Xeons are nothing new and nothing all that great.

August 6th, 2006

Can’t read? become a butcher

Man nearly died after eating poison meatballs - 04 Aug 2006 - National News
“A bag of nitrite powder labelled ‘poison’ was kept alongside the bag of flavouring powder,” the man’s doctors and a public health officer, Dr Greg Simmons, said in the journal.
“A worker who knew very little English made the meatballs for the first [...]

August 4th, 2006

bless the maker

“Bless the Maker and His water, Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people”
I am reading Dune again
you should read it too, ask me for the “books” if you want to “borrow” them, I have them all

August 4th, 2006

Upside-Down-Net

wow, best thing ever
Upside-Down-Ternet
My neighbours are stealing my wireless internet access. I could encrypt it or alternately I could have fun.
That machine runs squid with a trivial redirector that downloads images, uses mogrify to turn them upside down and serves them out of it’s local webserver.
And if you replace flip with -blur 4 you get [...]

August 3rd, 2006

better forecast

Tin Foil Soldier
Rochester, NY
overcast
Temp: 75°F
Humidity: 83%
Wind: W at 6 mph
Clouds: overcast
much better forecast than the past few days
it was killer just walking to work

August 1st, 2006

trying to fix the car

Honda owner manual lists talk line | TheNewsTribune.com | Tacoma, WA
WASHINGTON (AP) - A toll-free number listed in more than a million Honda owners’ manuals was supposed to direct callers to a government hotline - not to another number where the conversation is probably about anything but auto safety.
Owners who dial the 800 prefix hear [...]

August 1st, 2006

MOLE MAN IN A HOLE

Mirror.co.uk - News - MOLE MAN IN A HOLE
William Lyttle, 75, spent 40 years burrowing under his 20-room house, removing 100 cubic metres of earth with a spade and pulleys.
you would think that someone called “mole man” would have some sort of idea about structural integrity and how removing all the dirt underneath a foundation [...]

August 1st, 2006

used and new available

Amazon.com: Penis Pokey: Books: Christopher Behrens

7 used & new available from $6.61
um, no thanks

the point of the book is to put a “banana” through the hole in each page, completing which ever scene it happens to be showing