August 2007
UK village posts "Ignore sat-nav" signs →
Darren Barefoot sez, “Apparently sat-nav systems are hazardous to the health of British (and visiting) drivers:”
Vale of Glamorgan Council in South Wales is the first in the UK to use visual signs warning drivers not to believe sat-nav advice after once peaceful villages were reduced to bedlam when heavy-goods lorries got stuck in tiny country lanes.
Now a sign aimed largely at...
spaetzel: @billdeys Ahh soo much nicer than the plain TwitterFeed. Gotta set that up (via Twitter / spaetzel)
spaetzel: @billdeys How did you import that tweet from Facebook? (via Twitter / spaetzel)
Midwest Teen Sex Show: comedy podcast on teen... →
Cory Silverberg, sexuality.About.com guide, tells BoingBoing: “I thought you might be charmed by this new pseudo-sex-education video podcast that’s short and full of potential (not to mention cute midwest girls crawling in the fields).”
Each episode is sort of a parody of a given sex-ed topic (birth control methods, the ethics of dating much-older men, and so on) — but...
Roger Lextrait: Eight years alone on South Pacific... →
The Private Islands blog has a story about Roger Lextrait, who lived practically alone on a small island in the South Pacific atoll of Palmyra for eight years.
Each day he woke promptly at 5AM, to the calling of a hundred thousand birds. Nowhere else on the planet do these creatures gather in such numbers. After fixing himself a Palmyra Cocktail (1 part Rum, 1 part Red Wine, 1 part Tang), he...
Craigslist Rocks! →
After trying to sell the XBox 360 plus all the stuff for months
on eBay, I threw together a quick Craig’s List post to see what
would happen. A couple days later, I get a call at 9 p.m. from a
college kid who wanted it right then and there, and I said, come on
over! It turned out that he couldn’t scrape enough cash out of the
ATM until the next day, so he came by last night instead,...
Viacom: Fair Use Is What We Say It Is →
Viacom recently decided to take hypocrisy to untold new levels when it filed a DMCA takedown notice against a YouTube user after using the user’s clip without permission. Periodically, the Viacom owned VH1 runs a show where it pulls in clips from YouTube, without, mind you, asking the users permission or even notifying them that it is using the clip. Of course Viacom can claim fair use for...
How To: Design a Memorable Business Card →
Business cards convey a lot of information about you, so using a good design can leave an excellent first impression. If you’re starting out and need ideas for your business card design, the Quick Sprout blog recommends that you emphasize on color, paper, uniqueness, typography, and feel of your card. After all, you want to have something that describes you in a memorable way. When you...
Why programming sucks →
This is a screenshot of something hideously funny we did to Razvan (not his real name) during fourth year. This is how geeks get their kicks. And now that it’s about five years later, the statute of limitations has expired so I can freely admit to having done this. One day Razvan asks me for a hashtable implementation. Sure, I said. Have this hashtable, I said. While I was preparing this...
Researchers develop a 360-degree holographic... →
Filed under: Displays
Researchers at USC have taken another step towards that holiest of sci-fi dreams: the 3D holographic display. Using a spinning mirror covered with a “holographic diffuser,” a special DVI implementation, and a high-speed projector, the team’s device can project a three-dimensional image that can be viewed from 360 degrees — regardless of the...
Mass Effect goes into effect Nov. 20 →
Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, RPGs
The nebulous “November” release date for the highly-anticipated RPG Mass Effect is now primed for dimensional travel November 20. The preview videos have been yummy, the conversation system looks amazing, even our time with the game was nice — now if we could only get a straight answer on those weird frame-rate hiccups we keep seeing. We...
Where's Duke Nukem Forever? →
Duke Nukem Forever was announced a decade ago. You know what else was going on one decade ago? We were playing our Nintendo 64s and Playstations, 28800 baud modems were bad ass and there was no such thing as Penny Arcade. A lot happened in the past ten years. Unfortunately the release of Duke Nukem Forever was not one of them.
Personally I feel sorry for 3D Realms. Not because they...
Play TV →
Sony’s announcement last week of a TV Tuner for the PS3 was pretty uneventful for me. However this video of the interface has changed my opinion.
The menu’s look excellent and far slicker than normal Freeview boxes. The ability to view recorded content and also live TV on your PSP being streamed from your PS3 was also very impressive. Twin tuners, hard disk recording and HD to 1080p (let’s hope...
Reverse Phone Number Lookup: Get Easy Reverse... →
Sullr is a free and simple online site that lets you to do reverse phone number lookup without wading through ads or come-on pitches.
Just type in the area code and the number and Sullr spits out the person’s or business’s name and address. It even works for numbers in Germany, France, Italy and Argentina.
If the information is not publicly available, then it says “street...
ENUZ →
PMSL & ROFL.
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How much paper would it take to print out... →
An intrepid Wikipedian named Nikola Smolenski has calculated how much paper it would take to print out the English entries in Wikipedia and produced this handy chart showing the relative sizes of the pile of paper and an adult male. This doesn’t include the History or Discuss pages, which would make it a lot less useful than electronic Wikipedia (nevermind the lack of a search...
TorrentSpy judge decides RAM is stored information →
A federal judge issued a decision on Monday that would have required
TorrentSpy, a BitTorrent search engine, to hand over information about its users had the company not ceased operating in the U.S. a day earlier.
TorrentSpy, accused of encouraging movie piracy in a lawsuit filed by the film industry last year, was ordered in June to provide the studios with user information found in the...
Featured Greasemonkey User Script: Clean Up... →
Firefox with Greasmonkey: Get rid of unwanted Facebook clutter with the Facebook Profile Cleaner, a Greasemonkey user script that completely removes Facebook apps from profile pages. Facebook is the decidedly more layout-friendly of the two most popular social networking sites—mostly because Facebook doesn’t allow for custom user layouts like MySpace does—but Facebook has started heading...
William Spaetzel: Back at work. Had a fantastic honeymoon (via Twitter / William Spaetzel)
“Perfect” iTunes equalizer setting →
Perfect
I noticed a lot of people are favoriting this screen grab of the “Perfect” iTunes equalizer setting (I posted it to Flickr, so I won’t keep forgetting it when I need it).
Ever since I saw this in that Mac OS X Hints article, I’ve used it as my default equalizer in iTunes — it seems to give a nice pop to MP3 tracks in particular.
HOWTO and specific settings from the original...
BaldGuyShow - Something Different →
I play great PodSafe Music and I talk Progressive Politics
Bloglines Beta - Now Open to the Public →
Blogliners we’re proud to introduce a beta
of our latest redesign of Bloglines. Our About Beta overview outlines the key
features a personalizable home page, 3 reading-views and drag-and-drop foldering
in an Ajax interface. We’re inviting you, the Bloglines fans, to the new
Bloglines beta in the redesign
cycle to provide us feedback. We look forward meeting you in the...
