Monthly Archives: February 2008

Ten Bricks

This black belt takes his time preparing to break ten bricks, but the payoff is worth it.

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straight stolen from YesButNoButYes

Shrine to bragging, deadly Internet “mall ninja”

The Shrine of the Mall Ninja collects the posts of “Gecko45,” a poster to a gun-enthusiast message-board, who claimed to be a mall security guard trained in ninjitsu who had been given special dispensation to use machineguns after the saved the mayor’s newphew from being sodomized near the Gap store, bravely stepping in where the […]

Gamer sends MS his faulty Xbox360 decorated with custom art and Bungie signatures. Asks them to take good care of it. Guess how it comes back?

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straight stolen from reddit.com: what's new online

links for 2008-03-01

Enabling Virtual Hosts on MacOS X | evolt.org
(tags: apache osx mac development webdev apple vhost webdesign)

Google Shows Off GMaps Street View on Android

The BBC's Darren Waters had a sit down with Andy Rubin (formerly of Apple, General Magic, WebTV, and Danger) who's the main man on Android, Google's mobile OS. Rubin showed the current state of the Android platform and it's looking swell—for the most part. (What's up with having to use a slider to zoom in […]

Eyeball Tattoos

Looking for new ways to impress girls? The good-old-fashioned tattoo on the arm just doesn’t do it anymore? Well, you should try the new hottest thing: tattoo your eyeballs! They absolutely love it. I’m just kidding. Who wants to see a guy with tattoed eyeballs…?But that doesn’t mean it hasn’t been done. It is the […]

links for 2008-02-29

Tag Suggest | jQuery Plugins
(tags: jquery plugin autocomplete tags programming webdesign)

The B-List: Django tips: user registration
(tags: django python registration tutorial programming user development)

stone mind » Django Registration for Newbies
(tags: development django framework login programming python registration authentication user)

Derivatives shell-game leaves mortgages “orphaned” — stop paying your mortgage, keep your house

Worried about your mortgage? How about just not paying it? Some banks were so enthusiastic in playing subprime derivatives shell-games that they’ve literally lost the notes on the mortgages they “own,” and can’t prove that deadbeat homeowners owe them any money. An estimated $2.1 trillion worth of these mortgages are “orphaned” with no apparent owner.

Joe […]

New typography term: Keming (improper kerning)

From Ironic Sans, a new typography term: “Keming” — improper kerning.
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(Thanks, Alex!)

straight stolen from Boing Boing

links for 2008-02-28

The B-List: Django tips: extending the User model
(tags: django python user profile auth tutorial users programming development)

MythTv Player - MythTv Player
windows client for mythtv. sort of anyway
(tags: mythtv windows)

Thumbnail - django-utils - Google Code
(tags: django image programming python thumbnails)

Apple TV DRM makes iTunes rentals incompatible with many TVs

Fred sez, “Those who rent videos from iTunes to play back on their Apple TV units may discover that they can’t watch them unless their displays support HDCP — the DRM technology that infects most Hollywood digital video these days.”
When I attempted to watch the movie, however, the Apple TV displayed an error message: “This […]

How to: Automate Guitar Hero

Everyone loves guitar hero, but what about those who just
plain suck at it. What are they supposed to do at parties,
family gatherings, and LAN Parties? Well, they could always
bring their own hacked guitar which plays every single note
automatically

straight stolen from HacknMod.com - You name it. We hack it.

Torture playlist

Mother Jones has an audio feature up this week — a compilation of songs believed to be used in US military prisons and on bases…
to induce sleep deprivation, “prolong capture shock,” disorient detainees during interrogations—and also drown out screams.
Based on a leaked interrogation log, news reports, and the accounts of soldiers and detainees, here are […]

#8891 - Desiree Palmen, a 44-year-old Dutch artist…

Desiree Palmen, a 44-year-old Dutch artist creates crazy clothing to hide in plain sight with…. wow. (Want more? See NOTCOT.org and NOTCOT.com)
straight stolen from NOTCOT.ORG

Smoking ban workaround in bars: Hold “theater nights”

The Star Tribune reports that dozens of bars in the Twin Cities are holding “theater nights” and declaring everyone in the bar to be an actor. By law, performers are allowed to smoke during theatrical performances. (The law in California is similar. I once saw Art Spiegelman give his presentation about the history of […]

links for 2008-02-26

EiffelSoftware Open Source - EiffelOnMac
updating mac ports with svn instead of rsync. useful if firewall blocks rsync
(tags: mac osx port software)

links for 2008-02-23

limor
(tags: electronics diy hardware howto hack hacks microcontroller project projects avr)

Agile Ajax: 36 GWT Tutorials
(tags: gwt tutorial ajax google tutorials webdesign development programming)

An extensive collection of cheat sheets for programming languages and…

An extensive collection of cheat sheets for programming languages and applications. There are 10 PHP cheat sheets alone and more for related things like Drupal and CakePHP.
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straight stolen from kottke.org

links for 2008-02-22

Ohloh, the open source network
(tags: OpenSource software community programming development directory repository)

Phun: a simulated physics playground

Matthew says:
Swedish graduate student Emil Ernerfeldt created the program Phun, a 2D physics playground, and has made it free to download for non-commercial use.
He demonstrates it in a zenful YouTube video, where he creates devices like cars and piston engines in seconds using simple shapes.

Download app here.

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