Oxblood Ruffin shares word that Cult of the Dead Cow just launched a large-scale scanner project, Goolag.org:
SECURITY ADVISORY: The following program may screw a large Internet search engine and make the Web a safer place.
LUBBOCK, TX, February 20th – Today CULT OF THE DEAD COW (cDc), the world’s most attractive hacker group, announced the release [...]
Through a clever use of the “selection” CSS attribute, you can make blocks of text that turn into blocky artwork when selected.
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Erik sez, “Thanks for linking to my little demo of css3. After making that one, I made one that allows you to supply an image and text and it generates it for you.”
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Sundance Supply - Polycarbonate Greenhouse and Sunroom
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Adam Shepard had $25 and the clothes on his back. As a challenge, he set himself a year to get an apartment, a car, and $2500 in savings.
To make his quest even more challenging, he decided not to use any of his previous contacts or mention his education. During his first 70 days in Charleston, [...]
JeffCroft.com: Setting up Django on Dreamhost
(tags: django dreamhost programming development web python)
SCIENCE HOBBYIST: Top Page
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Dave Park says,
Amplive made a remix of Radiohead’s ‘In Rainbows’ and was planning to release it without the band’s permission leading to a cease and desist order on December 18. Today it was announced that both parties had since met and Amplive was now given permission to release the album. Downloadable MP3s are now [...]
Police in central England are hunting for a badly scorched would-be copper power cable thief after finding a hacksaw embedded in an 11,000 volt power cable on Saturday night.The thief, who also left a lit blow torch at the scene, is expected to be badly charred, spiky haired and not exactly the brightest bulb in [...]
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It’s interesting to see the strategies different species use to operate.
Cat: Back off or I’ll fight! I’m warning you!
Raccoon: I don’t know anything about fighting. I’ll just take the food.
-via Cynical-C
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Randy’s Workshop Home Page
diy wind generator site, sells motors
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Main Page - PESWiki
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It’s a perpetuum mobile!
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Technical Writing Geek writes “The Haiku project, which began shortly after the death of BeOS in 2001, aims to bring together the technical advantages of BeOS and the freedom of open source. ‘The project has drawn dozens of contributors who have written over seven million lines of code. Although Haiku is nearly feature-complete, there are [...]
TESNIC Inc. | Technology | TESNIC Turbine
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Office pranks, ah these can be quite fun. They can actually become quite competitive also, employees always trying to outdo the other. I have come across some very unique and fun pranks, but this one has to be one of my favorites.
Scott from OdeToCode.com decided to “hack” an office HP Laser Jet Printer. His [...]
While this looks to be very useful, and quite clever considering the shape of both ends, I can’t help but think of chimpanzees using a simple stick to get ants out of a log. It’s much more civilized, of course. The title is what threw me into [...]
Airpot Corporation > Home Page
nice little piston cylinder sets
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logging in to a rets server with php
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Canon made this 5200mm lens several years ago, capable of taking photographs of objects “18 to 32 miles away.” That little knob on the right? That’s the camera. It even came with its own sighting scope!
Brochure [CanonFD.com via Kottke]
straight stolen from Boing Boing Gadgets
Forex Education, Forex Training, Beginner’s Guide to Forex Trading - BabyPips.com
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Trend Following Trading Systems, Original Turtle Trading System and Trend Trading
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