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Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
Imagine rx2008
Just Brilliant!
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Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
Wikimapia
Wikimapia (WARNING: CRASHES SAFARI) is a really cool Google Maps mash-up. In true wiki fashion, anyone who wants can select/create/edit points of interest anywhere on the planet. It sounds kind of simple, but it’s hours of entertainment.
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Saturday, June 3rd, 2006
3 Nissan Skyline R32s Up For Auction
On June 8th the US Treasury will be auctioning 3 Nissan Skyline R32′s here in Los Angeles! There is two GT’s and one GTS (sorry no asphalt melting GT-R’s), all right-hand-drive (straight from Japan), and must be exported out of North America after purchase:
• NISSAN SKYLINE GT, SILVER, 6 CYL, 2 DR, AUTO, YEAR UNKNOWN, RIGHT-HAND DRIVE, ODOMETER READS 72,598, VIN: ECR 33-106508 (EXPORT ONLY) CANNOT BE EXPORTED TO CANADA OR MEXICO
• NISSAN SKYLINE GT, WHITE, 6 CYL, 2 DR, MANUAL, YEAR UNKNOWN, RIGHT-HAND DRIVE, MISSING FRONT GRILL & REAR SPOILER, ODOMETER READS 99,389, VIN: ECR 33-014234 (EXPORT ONLY) CANNOT BE EXPORTED TO CANADA OR MEXICO
• NISSAN SKYLINE GTS, RED, 6 CYL, 2 DR, AUTO, YEAR UNKNOWN, RIGHT-HAND DRIVE, ODOMETER READS 87,014, VIN: ECR 33-015109 (EXPORT ONLY) CANNOT BE EXPORTED TO CANADA OR MEXICO
While your there, there is a 2000 Ferrari 360 Modena in just my color, so if you wouldn’t mind……..
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Friday, May 19th, 2006
There Goes The Neighborhood
This just proves that Rodney Dangerfield is as funny in death as he was in life.
I was at the Westwood Memorial Cemetery yesterday for a funeral and knew it had a lot of famous people. Truman Capote, Eva Gabor, Janis Joplin (sort of), Jack Lemon, Dean Martin, Walter Matthau, Roy Orbison, Frank Zappa, and of course Marilyn Monroe. Hugh Hefner owns the empty plot (vault space really) next to Marilyn’s. When the funeral was over I was walking to my car and found Rodney’s grave. Really turned my crummy day around. I know the shadows look funny and some might say it looks photoshopped, but I swear it’s unedited (besides shrinking it down), my cameraphone just sucks.
-CGP fo Life-
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Monday, March 27th, 2006
Guinness Surger
Gizmodo pointed out this really cool new gadget from Guinness. Only available in the UK for now, the Guinness Surger is a special plate that sends ultrasonic waves into your pint of Guinness to produce the perfect head.
Watch a video of it in action.
So who wants to ship a couple of these to me in the States?
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Thursday, October 20th, 2005
Watch a Guinness Record Get Broken Live
Local SoCal radio station KROQ is having their phone screener, Dave “The King of Mexico”, attempt to break the Guinness record for most continuous hours watching TV. The cool part? You can watch him watch TV. It’s oddly entertaining, I swear.
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Thursday, July 21st, 2005
Mac OS X POWERED Autonomous Car
Xlr8YourMac pointed out this cool Fully Autonomous VW Toureg that is powered by the 3 Mac Mini’s pictured above.
“how can a car drive itself?
computers inside the car control electronic pistons and belts to control the steering wheel, brake and gas pedals, and gear shifter.
how does it know where to go?
the car follows a series of GPS waypoints that define the course boundary and periodic check points.
how can it “see” the road or avoid obstacles?
various video cameras, radars, sonars, and lasers are used to estimate what the terrain is like and what obstacles may be in between.”
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Saturday, July 16th, 2005
Ninjam
Ninjam is the newest creation from Justin Frankel.
“NINJAM is a program to allow people to make real music together via the Internet. Every participant can hear every other participant. Each user can also tweak their personal mix to his or her liking. NINJAM is cross-platform, with clients available for Mac OS X and Windows.
NINJAM uses compressed audio which allows it to work with any instrument or combination of instruments. You can sing, play a real piano, play a real saxophone, play a real guitar with whatever effects and guitar amplifier you want, anything. If your computer can record it, then you can jam with it (as opposed to MIDI-only systems that automatically preclude any kind of natural audio collaboration1).
Since the inherent latency of the Internet prevents true realtime synchronization of the jam2, and playing with latency is weird (and often uncomfortable), NINJAM provides a solution by making latency (and the weirdness) much longer. “
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Tuesday, January 4th, 2005
Bling Wallet
Nothing says “I’ve got cash” quite like cash itself. So MoneyWallet.org came up with some cool instructions on how to turn 20 $1 bills into something usefull, like a wallet. Plus your guide to the bling is licensed under the über-cool Creative Commons License.
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Friday, June 18th, 2004
Erotica LA
Looking for something special to do with your Dad this coming Fathers Day? Bring him down to the Erotica LA convention. Meet your favorite porn star. Experience a RealDoll. Collect free samples of Astroglide and flavored condoms. Nothing says Fathers day like a convention center full of people with VD.
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