I can only begin to imagine the chaos that this species of birds can cause if it is found in your neighbourhood. Skip to the second half of this video to hear the sounds of camera shutters clicking, car alarm ringing and operating chainsaws.
A Lyrebird is either of two species of ground-dwelling Australian birds, most […]
Does our hair and fingernails keep growing after we die? Do we only use 10% of our brains? Researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine debunked a collection of medical myths that are familiar to all of us, even though there’s no scientific evidence to support the claim. They published their results in the […]
Johnny says: The Lakota Indians, who gave the world legendary warriors Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, have withdrawn from treaties with the United States, leaders said Wednesday. Lakota country includes parts of the states of Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming. The new country would issue its own passports and driving licenses, and […]
Simplify Media, the mother of all iTunes plugins, lets you share your iTunes collection over the net, and now works with iPhones and Linux: The Simplify Media Mobile alpha enables you to access your entire music collection on your iPhone or iPod Touch wherever you have WiFi. You can also listen to the libraries of […]
Macromedia Labs - Flex Builder 2 Tutorials
(tags: Flex tutorial adobe flash flex2 actionscript Tutorials programming)
Check out this powerful Snow Plow Train get stuck. At first I thought it would keep going but as massive as they are, mother nature has her way.
Link: Youtube
straight stolen from Neatorama
XBox360 Streaming - Development - Confluence
some documentation on what 360 expects from a upnp server
(tags: media microsoft streaming upnp xbox360 programming projects Networking)
XBox - Coherence - a DLNA/UPnP Framework for the Digital Living
more 360 upnp stuff
(tags: xbox xbox360 upnp programming project Networking)
UPnP
upnp protocol specifications and stuff
(tags: projects upnp programming documentation)
jems - Google Code
java upnp server
(tags: […]
Cops in Rockdale, Georgia are putting helpful yellow stickers on the windows of cars that have packages in plain sight so that crooks know which cars to break into. Officers with the Conyers Police Department will be on foot patrol in the parking lots of major shopping areas in the city over the next couple […]
gotwind.org - DIY Renewable Energy Resource
small cheap wind projects etc.
(tags: diy energy wind power renewable green Generator alternative)
Alex Goldberg, 14-yo urban hustler, has parleyed his chutzpah into free clothes, celebrity friends, and courtside Knicks seats.
Next up: Jamie Foxx. The actor was near the bar, giving a woman a massage, and saw the crowd now gathered around Alex. Foxx offered to buy him a drink. What do you want, little boy? “A pina […]
Music Theory Flash Cards — Musicards.net
(tags: music theory flashcards)
Developer’s Guide - Google Chart API - Google Code
(tags: google api chart graph charts webdesign webservices)
Main Page - PMinMO.com
some info about stepper motors and various control
(tags: Controller electronics)
A Louisiana man and his wife were sentenced prison for scamming their friends and family into giving him over $989,898 with a crazy story about scanning their bodies with a satellites and curing their ailments while they slept. Stacey Finley, 34, persuaded her targets — described by federal prosecutors as “solid, middle-class, educated citizens” — […]
The truth, as revealed by Sean Bonner, who is, incidentally, kickin’ it in Vienna this month with the freaks from monochrom. Here’s a post he did today about a presentation by Scott Blake on Barcode Art….
straight stolen from Boing Boing
µPlanes
light weight electric rc planes
(tags: planes rc electric radiocontrol model)
bassistance.de » jQuery plugin: Autocomplete
(tags: jquery autocomplete javascript ajax plugin development programming webdesign)
I went through and made all of the search terms below into actual links. Now you don’t have to copy and paste. Just click on the term.
Here’s something fun to do when you’re bored. Just copy paste one of the lines below into Google search (be sure to keep quotations). Send in your coolest […]
Carolyn Bohach, a microbiologist at the University of Idaho claims that our bodies contain 10 times more bacterial cells than human ones (bacterial cells are a lot smaller and thus occupy less volume). Human genome researchers believe that at least 40 of our genes are bacterial in origin. Let the compulsive washing begin! All the […]
The Zigview S2 Digital Viewfinder clips onto the optical viewfinder of your DSLR, adding a swiveling live 2.5-inch LCD display that can not only be extended on a cable as a remote, but can also automatically trigger the camera when it detects motion. That makes it possible to mount your camera in odd places or […]
A video tutorial on how to make you own lockpicks. If you’re going to try your new tools out, you might want to take a look at these videos first:
How to Escape a Handcuff
Handcuffs, Handcuffs, Whatcha Gonna Do
Link [Metacafe] - via Miniature Brainwave
straight stolen from Neatorama
Doctors in China admit they are baffled after a man began to perspire green sweat.Cheng Shunguo, 52, of Wuhan city, says his sweat turned green in the middle of November.“I noticed that my underwear and bed sheets were all green, and even the water in the shower,” he said.Cheng says he feels no discomfort, but […]