Archive for August, 2006

creative bastard – telemarketer loop

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

creative bastard
It’s one of those slow days today. A little while ago I put together a little application on our phone system so that when a telemarketer calls in, I can transfer them to this extension and annoy the hell out of them. I thought about it a bit more and decided to make it [...]

Gamer cracks code, finds jewel

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

Gamer cracks code, finds jewel | Chicago Tribune
With clean-cut looks, a steely-eyed stare and 25,000 lines of computer code, the Chicagoan has been catapulted from his humble roots as a computer gamer to the forefront of the geek-o-sphere, earning the title of “Hottest Hacker on Earth” and landing on the cover of Linux Journal.
Among the [...]

best of craigslist : DO NOT EAT PRINGLES FAT FREE POTATO CHIPS.

Friday, August 25th, 2006

DO NOT EAT PRINGLES FAT FREE POTATO CHIPS
I tried out these Pringles Fat-Free chips because they were super low-cal. BBQ flavor. the fuck.
The can said they had 70 calories per serving, which meant the whole can had 490 calories inside total. I could munch through a can in a day with my lunch, dinner, etc. [...]

PistolWimp – The Daily Show: Pink Taco Restaurant

Friday, August 25th, 2006

PistolWimp – The Daily Show: Pink Taco Restaurant
Ed Helms reports on a restaurant in Scottsdale, AZ with a name that insinuates that you can eat a “box lunch” there. From June 27, 2006 Daily Show.

HumanCar® Inc.

Friday, August 25th, 2006

HumanCar® Inc.
The FM-4 v1.0 HumanCar® ‘geometry prototype’ on the right has been so successful that no changes have been required. Several downhill time trial runs have had the car above 60 mph with incredible handling and BodySteer® characteristics. The steel tube space frame chassis features a bi-lateral human power interface and front passenger body-steering capabilities. [...]

Sonya The Black Widow – Competetitive Eating Champion

Friday, August 25th, 2006

Home / FAQ
QUESTION: Is there a sport in which ladies routinely compete against men?
ANSWER: Yes, Competitive Eating.

Hackers can Turn Your Home Computer into a Bomb!

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

Hackers can Turn Your Home Computer into a Bomb!

soap homepage

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

soap homepage
Interesting.
Soap is a pointing device based on hardware found in a mouse, yet works in mid-air. Soap consists of an optical sensor device moving freely inside a hull made of fabric. As the user applies pressure from the outside, the optical sensor moves independent from the hull. The optical sensor perceives this relative motion [...]

Chip Chick: Pink iPod Editions from Colorware

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

Chip Chick: Pink iPod Editions from Colorware
If you’re a pink lover who has been hesitant to let go of your beloved pink ipod mini, the time has come to move on and shell out money for Colorware’s pink ipod editions. Their pink 30GB IPod Video retails for $389, the 60GB for $489, and their 4GB [...]

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

Maluke Co. → Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Amazon EC2 enables you to increase or decrease capacity within minutes, not hours or days. You can commission one, hundreds or even thousands of server instances simultaneously. Of course, because this is all controlled with web service APIs, your application can automatically scale itself [...]