Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
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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Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
Aaron Schwarz (one of the people behind TShirthell.com) wants a new name. Not only does he want you to pick it, he will pay you $25,000 for it!
“My name is Aaron Schwarz and I’ve decided to change my name. I figured, rather than dealing with the boredom of researching mythological deities or wasting my precious time looking through popular books of names, I would just get the entire population of the world to do the job for me. Oh yeah, I’m going to give $25,000 to whoever suggests the best name.”
Why are you still here? You should be suggesting a name!
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Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
If your like me, your easily entertained by blinking lights, and semi-obsessed with iTunes visuals.
Well some guy named Stefan is too, so he wrote an iTunes plug-in that makes your backlit keyboard react to the music.
Backlight Visualizer for iTunes on MacOS X
After seeing info on hacking the keyboard backlight of newer Apple portables and someone posting a CPU meter using the backlight, I decided that it would be time to put this into an iTunes plugin.new and improved: now it can optionally blink the screen’s backlight! Use at your own risk.
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Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
Visor is a cool little OS X app that gives you a drop down terminal ala Quake.
Visor provides a systemwide terminal window accessible via a hotkey, much like the consoles found in games such as Quake. Visor requires elements of Quartz only found in 10.4. Visor is compatible with 10.4 and higher only.
If you use the terminal often, this is indispensable. Not only does it take on whatever color scheme you have set for your terminal, it supports Quartz animations in the background. You really have to try it to see how cool it is.
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Monday, June 5th, 2006
Most people have no idea that 6 seconds of drumming from a 1969 B-side is the foundation for almost all modern Jungle and Drum & Bass music. Used in literally thousands of songs, from hip hop to electronica, and even in commercials, the drum break from The Winston’s Amen Brother is the single most used sample of all time.
Sure the video is kind of long (at 18+ minutes) and all you ever see is a turntable, but it’s quite informative for those who dont know the story. Once it’s been pointed out, you will hear sample’s of this song everywhere.
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Saturday, June 3rd, 2006
Less than a week after the Sweeds raided their servers under US pressure, The Pirate Bay is back and serving torrents! The servers are now in the Netherlands. I expect this is just the biginning of the war. This should get very interesting.
And in true TPB fashion they have posted some interesting stats:
Just some stats…
… here are some reasons why TPB is down sometimes – and how long it usually takes to fix:
Tiamo gets *very* drunk and then something crashes: 4 days
Anakata gets a really bad cold and noone is around: 7 days
The US and Swedish gov. forces the police to steal our servers: 3 days
.. yawn.
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Saturday, June 3rd, 2006
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
The 10 Commandments, re-edited as a teen comedy.
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(Found Via BoingBoing)
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Friday, May 19th, 2006
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.
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Monday, May 15th, 2006
This how-to is my favorite kind of hack. They show you how to make a copy of a record (thats right VINYL baby) with some basic hardware store items. Silicon for the (reusable) base mold and some liquid plastic for the new record. It doesnt damage the original at all. You can only copy one side, and I am sure the mold would only last a few copies, but it’s so simple even small children and stoners could do it.
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