The most valuable supply of worthlessness on the web
Anything that catches my fancy as a topic I want to cover. Truly random crap.
IRC: Man, my penis is so big if I laid it out on a keyboard it’d go all the way from A to Z
IRC: wait, shit
Man, Bash.org quotes make me laugh more than anything else I’ve seen lately online.
[tags]More bash.org quote humor, That’s quite a keyboard you have there[/tags]
Mmmmmm, I love pretty PC cases. This is one of the nicest looking mods I’ve ever seen. I’ve actually had thoughts to do my own, even before seeing this one. Now I doubt I’ll even try it, as that just looks too good for me to try and fail at.
[tags]Stained glass PC case, Beautiful case mod[/tags]
This is not available for purchase yet, but Samsung has announced plans to ship an LCD that connects to your PC via USB only.
Known only as the 940UX, the 19-inch LCD would toss aside both DVI and VGA connectors to plug into a computer’s USB port. Instead of relying on a graphics chipset, the display would use the CPU to power its video. This would have the advantage of allowing as many LCDs as the computer’s USB ports and performance will allow, according to the French news outlet.
This won’t be a display for a gamer, as the display processing will be handled by your processor instead of your video card. Still, for a typical office-worker desktop, this could be really handy. To get extra display area, you just need to plug one of these in to a USB port, load the drivers, configure multi-display in Windows, and use it. There is no system to open, no extra card to install, and no cost beyond the price of the LCD. While there are other ways to add display area for a user, it’s hard to imagine a much simpler way to add display space to the typical office-user computer. And honestly, I wouldn’t mind having one or two of these around just in case I need to add to a system at home. (via crunchgear)
[tags]USB based LCD from Samsung[/tags]
First, not all of these screen-heroes are nerds – some are geeks. That out of the way, check out Popular Science’s all-time favorite on-screen nerds.
17. Chris Knight and Mitch Taylor (Val Kilmer and Gabe Jarret) in Real Genius A house destroyed by massive quantities of popcorn, the “Tanning Invitational” full of bikini-clad women, and a car taken apart and reassembled in a dorm room–Chris Knight and Mitch Taylor pull these stunts and more to prove that nerds can party as hard as anyone. Real Genius is like Animal House but with lasers and dry ice.
Continue reading “Popular Science lists all time favorite on-screen nerds”
Do you find yourself tensing up when you realize you have to parallel park? Do you pass potential parking places because you’re not sure you can get your car in? Have you heard about the auto-parking feature from Lexus? Perhaps you’ve thought “If only I could afford that, I could park anywhere.” Well, before getting too hopeful, perhaps you should listen to this audio clip from Talk of the Nation, in which the hosts talks to someone who tested the auto-park feature on the car.
Continue reading “NPR talks about the self-parking Lexus LS 460 L”
From the Bash.org site I recently linked to:
User1: what should I give sister for unzipping?
User2: Um. Ten bucks?
User1: no I mean like, WinZip?
Please, someone else tell me they find that as funny as I do.
[tags]Bash.org funny quotes, The problem with misunderstood questions[/tags]
Working through my huge backlog of “Stuff I want to post but usually don’t want to spend time writing up” I found this awesome picture. I have no recollection of where I got the picture. I don’t remember what story went with the picture. But in an attempt to clear at least one item from my backlog, here is a warning against disposal of radioactive animals at one location:
[tags]Do not dispose of radioactive animals here[/tags]
Now you can keep up to date with all things Hillary through blogHillary.
Welcome to the campaign’s new blog. I’m Crystal Patterson, and I’ll be blogging for the campaign as Hillary travels around the country meeting all of you and sharing her vision for America. I was the one asking your questions during Hillary’s live webcasts (if you missed them, you can watch them here). I look forward to getting to know all of you as the campaign moves forward, and to hearing your ideas, stories, questions, and opinions.
. . .
Let the conversation begin!
I’m working my way through all 100+ comments, but am too early in to say how visitors are settling in. And apologies for the “… is GO!” gaming reference in the title. I just couldn’t think of anything that fit.
[tags]blogHillary is live, Read Hillary Clinton’s new blog[/tags]
Blogging software is easy to find. Lots of it is free. What isn’t is often inexpensive. Yet somehow, the Motion Picture Association of America managed to not only select non-free blogging software but also to not pay for it. In fact, in a bizarre show of disregard for the value of others’ intellectual property, the MPAA stripped all references to the original author and all links back to his site. That does seem odd behavior for an organization who believes piracy to be illegal, bad, and all kinds of evil. It just seems to not match their preaching about piracy:
For consumers to continue to experience the variety and quality of movies they expect, piracy must be controlled. The entertainment industry recognizes the potential of technology to deliver content in new and exciting ways. However, the looming threat of piracy can thwart innovation.
Now I ask, does that sound like the kind of organization that would steal intellectual property created by someone else, strip away all indications of who that someone else is, and then use said IP for their own benefit and profit? Apparently “Do as I say and not as I do” is creedo for the MPAA. (via CrunchGear)
Additional information (and useless techie-geek rambling idiocy with occasional useful and insightful commentary) at Slashdot.
[tags]MPAA is OK with intellectual property theft, “Software stealing is OK – just don’t steal movies” says MPAA[/tags]
This is kinda old news, but since I’be been on a case-mod-seeing virtual self-guided tour lately and came upon it again, I figured it wouldn’t hurt to post it. Wanting to improve the appearance of his iPod, ZapWizard decided to create a new custom face-plate for it. You can see his excellent write-up (with pictures) of how he created this beauty. Seeing this makes me weep for my lack of hand-skills.
This photo is snagged from the original article at Bit-Tech and cropped. Apologies for cutting off the bit-tech identifier, but I wanted a narrower pic for my site. I just want to make sure no one thinks I’m taking any credit for the image as posted. All respect to the original article hosts at Bit-Tech and the fantastic write-up for it by ZapWizard.
[tags]Wood iPod face replacement, WoodPod custom case mod[/tags]
I’ve avoided posting about this because it seemed like most people wouldn’t be interested in it, but since I’m seeing stories about bionic eyes on almost every web site I frequently visit, I figure I need something up about them here, too. Work on these eyes has been underway for a while, and an improved version of already-in-testing eyes appears ready for trials on humans.
At the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science, a research presented the idea that the blind could have their vision restored, thanks to bionic eye implants which would be available to patients in the next two years.
The first of such an implant has been in the works for five years now. Patients fitted with older versions of the “bionic eyes” have been reported to be able to see light, shapes and movement. Newer versions with higher resolution has recently been developed; the US Food and Drug Administration has already approved the implant of these devices in an exploratory patient trial happening across America in two years.
This is not a general cure-all for loss of vision, as it only applies to certain forms of blindness. Also, the device requires an external processing unit for now, but over time miniturization should help with that tremendously. Improving from 16 pixel units 5 years ago, the soon-to-be-tested new version offers 60 pixels and fits in about 1 mm2.
Find more details at the BBC.
[tags]Bionic eye, Steve Majors – the next generation, Bionic eye for less than $6 million[/tags]
I love it when a plan comes together. And this pilot pulled together a plan beautifully.
A fast-thinking pilot, with the help of passengers, fooled a gunman who had hijacked a jetliner flying from Africa to the Canary Islands, braking hard upon landing then quickly accelerating to knock the man down so travellers could pounce on him, Spanish officials said Friday.
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Speaking to the gunman during the hijacking, the pilot realized the man did not speak French. So he used the plane’s public address system to warn the passengers in French of the ploy he was going to try: brake hard upon landing, then speed up abruptly. The idea was to catch the hijacker off balance, and have crew members and men sitting in the front rows of the plane jump on him, the Spanish official said.
Seems every once in a while, you do see bitching hard karmic payback. (via boingboing)
[tags]How not to hijack a plane, Stupid criminal loses in the end[/tags]
