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This black belt takes his time preparing to break ten bricks, but the payoff is worth it.
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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 [...]
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 [...]
From Ironic Sans, a new typography term: “Keming” — improper kerning.
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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 [...]
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
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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)
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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 [...]
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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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 [...]
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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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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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, [...]
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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.
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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 [...]