The Alaskan Alpine Club keeps a photo-journal of their gigantic creation...Remember, they just use water and strategically placed pipes!
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Friday, January 27, 2006
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Awesome Audio player Wordpress plugin
Once installed, this plugin allows you to insert mp3 audio files into your posts and pages.
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Tuesday, January 24, 2006
(Video) 8088 Corruption....awesome hack
Color video running at 30 frames per second, with audio, on an original 4.77MHz 8088 IBM PC Model 5150 with 640K RAM, CGA video, 10MB drive, and Sound Blaster Pro.
No tricks, this is for real! This kind of speed is only achievable using text mode (!) and 8088 assembler.
Programmer: Jim Leonard
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Wireless Laptop Antenna made from a Pen.
Searching for a way to maximize my wireless signal from my laptop i stumbled across this crazy contraption. A wireless antenna made from a standard ball point pen.
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Friday, January 20, 2006
Crazy Perspective-Bending WWI Propaganda Photos
These photographs were taken on military bases in the early 1900's by photographers Arthur Mole and John Thomas. They often consisted of upwards of 20,000 officers and men and had to be taken from a 70-ft tower built specially for the purpose.
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Ubuntuguide reborn
Ubuntuguide - unofficial starter guide for UbuntuLinux users has been upgraded and updated for Ubuntu5.10
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Photoshop Tutorial - Text Photo Montage
I've seen this effect before, one of my teachers has Einstein made up of just letters. This tutorial shows you how you can easily do it using photoshop. Pretty cool I think.
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Friday, January 13, 2006
Hilarious SUN advertisements that never made it to print
If you haven't seen these, you gotta check it out. I especially like the playboy centerfold ad.
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China Discovered America - Map Revealed
A map due to be unveiled in Beijing and London next week may lend weight to a theory a Chinese admiral discovered America, and not Christopher Columbus.
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100,000+ Lego Pieces Harpsichord
The size is 6 x 3 ft. weighing approximately 150 lbs, and built with an estimated 100,000 LEGO pieces! It actually plays.
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Swallow the "Pill Cam" then let it take 2,600 photos of your Gut
The patient simply swallows the pill with water. It progresses down the esophagus and takes about 2,600 color pictures at a rate of 14 per second. After 20 minutes, the doctor evaluates the video images. The disposable capsule is passed naturally, usually within 24 hours
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Thursday, January 12, 2006
Taiwan breeds green-glowing pigs
Scientists in Taiwan say they have bred three pigs that glow in the dark. The pigs are transgenic, created by adding genetic material from jellyfish into a normal pig embryo.
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Whats Reality?
Someone while on holiday in Japan took these photographs. When they got back, they found the identical place in the Project Gotham 3 race tracks. They are shockingly similar and just highlights the large amount of work that went into making the game. Impressive eh?
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Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Got a Digital Camera? Know where you can take pictures.
This is a great article on the legal issues surrounding snapping pictures. The good news is that most of the times I was told I couldn't take photos, they were wrong (like at the emerging technologies section of Siggraph). ;)
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PriceRitePhoto and Digg Hit the New York Times
What started out as a rant on my blog and was amplified by Digg to the most Dugg story ever today hit the New York Times. The Times offers a strong overview story on the PriceRitePhoto case and says that they would now appear to be out of business. This may be the last PriceRitePhoto update. Thanks to all who helped with this.
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Tuesday, January 10, 2006
JavaScript + CSS = Nice Picture Display
Nice piece of JavaScript and CSS to display a picture in response to a click on a thumbnail. More attractive than just popping up a window or loading the picture raw in the browser. Instead the whole page is shaded down and the image is loaded in the center of the page. (click one of the photos below to see it in action)
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Monday, January 09, 2006
Strip Out The Fans, Add 8 Gallons of Cooking Oil
Ever wondered what it would be like to remove your PC case fans and use cooking oil to cool your PC components? Apparently, somebody did...
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Sunday, January 08, 2006
Optimus Keyboard February 1st!
Yes, The Optimus Keyboard, has been announced to be released February 1st 2006! Take a look, this is a awesome keyboard with great use of LED technology!
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How to use HTML tables properly
You should avoid using tables for layout, but that does not mean you should avoid using tables for their intended purpose. When marking up tabular data in HTML, tables are what should be used. This article explains how to make HTML data tables accessible.
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PHP Easter Egg (Works On Digg!)
Well, it just so happens that if you add ?=PHPE9568F36-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42 to the end of any URL that is a PHP page you will see a funny little picture of a dog. Try it right now with any URL on digg!
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Saturday, January 07, 2006
Friday, January 06, 2006
KnoppMyth R5A30 Is Now Out
You all know KnoppMyth is the easiest way to get a MythTV box up and running. The newest version is now out (1/4/2006).
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Thursday, January 05, 2006
Men Are From Google, Women Are From Yahoo
Men and women have different motivations for doing what they do. According to a recent report from Pew Internet and American Life, women view the Internet as a place to extend, support, and nurture relationships and communities. Men tend to see it as an office, a library, or a playground--screw the community, this is about function not family.
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Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Tom's Hardware Guide for Bios: A-Z
Make Windows XP run faster through BIOS settings. Great for beginners and pros alike.
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Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Classic Apogee Games now Freeware
Remember Blake Stone, Hocus Pocus, Commander Keen, and Duke Nukem? Well 3D Realms has released numerous classic Apogee games as Freeware for you to download and enjoy.
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Free CSS Tab menus
You don't need to be a Guru to be able to code is CSS...with the large number of free online resources available, life as a designer is quite easy!
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Very low-tech pixels
Random Screen is a mechanical thermo dynamic display which does not rely on any electricity. Each of the 12 by 12 cm pixels is built as a seperate module. A tee candle lights and controls each pixel.
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