Stick it to The Man! Don’t Go to Arkansas to Tan!
Posted on April 28, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
Via boing boing:
WAYNE: “Hi, do you require a thumbrpint scan to get a tan there?”
TANNING BIMBO: “Yes, sir, we do.”
WAYNE: “OK, let me see if I understand this correctly. Is there a state or local law that requires you do this?”
TANNING BIMBO: “No, sir, it’s for our computer systems”
WAYNE: “So you want to breach people’s [...]
URL ABCs
Posted on April 28, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | 2 Comments
These are my URL ABCs:
A is for au.search.yahoo.com - yahoo australia
B is for bloglines.com/myblogs - Bloglines rocks
C is for cebidae.blogspot.com - me
D is for del.icio.us/cebidae - me again
E is for ebay.com.au
F is for freefall.purrsia.com - great webcomic
G is for gmail.google.com/gmail - email
H is for ht.com.au - onlince store for computer stuff
I is for ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/dynhome.jsp - [...]
Scoble, why can’t I use my preferred input method?
Posted on April 27, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
It seems that Microsoft isn’t making it easy to allow third party screen-keyboard applications to hook into the Tablet Input Panel (TIP). For some examples of these type of applications see this great jkOnTheRun article. I prefer the MessagEase application, but jk has only great things to say about SHARK.
Anyhow, these alternative keyboard applications have [...]
wifi in freefall
Posted on April 26, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
Hehe. Wireless gameplay can be fun I guess, but what would really be fun is wireless gameplay whilst plummeting towards earth.
Read More..>>cold sleep for mouseys
Posted on April 26, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
Wow, they have managed to induce hibernation in mice. If we can do it to humans, not-so-boring space travel is in our sights! Thanks futurismic.
Read More..>>Impressive Home Theatre
Posted on April 25, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
This is a fairly impressive home theatre, in an over-the-top, very tacky kind of way. Thanks, boing boing.
Read More..>>virtual fridge magnet fun
Posted on April 25, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
This is fairly amusing, a virtual fridge with letter magnets you share with the rest of the internets. It can be fairly childish, and it is amusing when you are fighting with (many) other people for the same letters. Thanks, Nickster.
Read More..>>Caesars Palace to launch guest biometrics
Posted on April 25, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts, biometrics, security | Leave a Comment
You probably already know I think this is a bad idea:
Pride believes the move to fingerprint biometrics makes it more convenient for customers who need not worry about lost keys.
Yeah, lets just start handing out our biometric information to anyone in the name of convenience. This just means that the security of any one application [...]
3d face generation
Posted on April 23, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | 3 Comments
These people look interesting. They appear to be selling applications that can generate three dimensional models of human faces either at random or from a limited number of regular photographs. I don’t know if this is impressive or not, or how well the applications actually work (I’m just going by their website), but random face [...]
Read More..>>Starting a fire with only a coke can and chocolate
Posted on April 23, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
Simple really. Just polish the can using the chocolate and use the polished can to focus the sun on something flammable. Link. Thanks, make blog.
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