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 [...]
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 [...]
It’s a perpetuum mobile!
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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 [...]
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]
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Unable to afford food, poor people in Haiti resorted to eating mud cookies made from dried yellow dirt:
Merchants truck the dirt from the central town of Hinche to the La Saline market, a maze of tables of vegetables and meat swarming with flies. Women buy the dirt, then process it into mud cookies in places [...]
A Nottinghamshire postman’s taking an hour and a half longer to deliver his letters than his colleagues because of his big head!Jason Clay from Sutton-in-Ashfield can’t find a bike helmet to fit him so he has to walk his round - his head is about seven inches bigger than average.Jason’s used to getting some stick [...]
Uw Moeder posted three hours of MTV from 1983 (with Mark Goodman as VJ), including commercials, on two Google videos. Link
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This was a pretty expensive prank to make…via
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How does Russian police deal with a dangerous pit bull? They shoot it. If that doesn’t work, they run it over with a car. But what if that doesn’t work either? Warning: pretty shocking images. This video is not very funny…via
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Both Super Mario Bros. 2 and Super Mario Bros. 3 had incredible percussion and drum tracks for 8-bit NES games. If you’re anything like me, I’m sure you were surprised and impressed when you heard the hand percussion in SMB2 or the timpani work in SMB3. Prepare to be even more impressed when you hear [...]
The “I Am Not a Paper Cup…” is a double-walled porcelain mug with a silicone lid, giving you the feel of those disposable paper coffee cups without all the waste. It’s not on sale until February, but should cost about $20.
It reminds me of Graham Hill’s “We Are Happy to Serve You” mug.
Product Page [DCIGift.com [...]
This must be the best cubicle prank to date!Video: YouTubeTags: Cubicle | Prank
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Boing Boing Gadgets's Joel Johnson has just posted unedited footage of his appearance on AT&T's The Hugh Thompson Show, where he asked Thompson and his audience how they felt about AT&T's plan to spy on all its customers to find copyright infringers.
Joel Johnson, you are my hero:
Yesterday, I was invited to talk about gadgets [...]
Download some software, plug in your drums, and presto, you
are now ready to record, play, save, and share your wicked
drum smashing skills!
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This video gives a fascinating look at what a huge ant colony look like underground. 10 ton of cement was poured into the colony and after solidification, the soil was excavated. Digging starts at around 4:10 min.
The structure covers over 538 square feet and travels 26 feet into the earth. In its construction, the colony [...]
A collection of videos of some of the luckiest people in the world.Video: MyspaceTags: Lucky | Near Miss
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I had a really tough time seeing the dolphins…via
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A while ago we wrote about removing the DRM from Netflix “Watch Now” movies. At the time, it involved wading through a bit of HTML source to find the target video URL. Since then, a couple of important things have happened: a Greasemonkey script was written that makes it a bit easier to download [...]