Archive for March, 2005
Tuesday, March 29th, 2005
Tap into OnStar
Finally, something for James to do with his OnStar system.
Any Vehicle with OnStar installed has a GPS reciever inside that is always on, ready to tell you exactly where you are. The problem is, the only way to access this information is to call onstar, wait for them ...
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Tuesday, March 29th, 2005
craftgrrl: Cheap screen printing tutorial
Very simple tutorial on how to screen print a shirt. Doesn't look as durable as the screens we used in high school, but it's a lot easier and should be good for a few shirts.
Cheap screen printing tutorial
Alright, I've finally had the time to "screen ...
Posted in Apparel, Art | Comments Off
Tuesday, March 29th, 2005
PearPC seeking funding to sue CherryOS - Engadget - www.engadget.com
PearPC seeks funding to sue CherryOS. I'm hoping they get it.
More links:
Starport Post by the pearpc developer.
Drunkenblog Definitive proof that Cherry is a copy of pearpc.
On another note, notice how someone at engadget doesn't quite get ...
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Tuesday, March 29th, 2005
A Week of Kindness Blog: Laura K. Pahl is a Plagiarist.
My friend Bill sent me this. This is too funny.
... so I started making up my plan. Which was real simple: Take her money and cut and paste a paper together from the internet that was so obviously plagiarised ...
Posted in Humor, Stupid People | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, March 29th, 2005
Intro to Using PyObjC
Gonna have to try this as Objective-C is like greek to me.
Python is a great fit for the Macintosh. It's an elegant language for an elegant computer. We are all indebted to the guys who made the PyObjC bridge, for it springs the doors wide open ...
Posted in Apple, Development | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, March 29th, 2005
lists and diagrams: DIY iPod stand
Handy iPod stand if you're too cheap/poor/smart to pay $40 for the official dock.
So, you've bought a brand-new iPod, opened the box and couldn't find the dock? What are you going to do? Just leave it on your desk to get scratched? You could go ...
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Monday, March 28th, 2005
Sleeping Monkey - Zack Morris phone is no more!
Great story. The longest I had a cell phone was my Ericsson T-28W from T-Mobile. Had it for about 4 years before buying a T610, and had that a bit less than a year before "upgrading" to a T637.
I've had ...
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Monday, March 28th, 2005
Protein� Feed - Unfortunate Logo Designs
Nice logos.
Almost certainly the worst designed logos I've ever seen.
What were they thinking?
Posted in Advertising, Stupid People | 1 Comment »
Monday, March 28th, 2005
SOLDAM ONLINE > Alphia Mars & Venus
Anyone importing these yet?
Posted in Computers, Gadgets | Comments Off
Monday, March 28th, 2005
[AiboHack] ZipIt Software Reflashing
Hack the $100 zipit (cheaper on ebay) to run Linux and some custom apps. Looks like a tight fit without much RAM or Flash, but certainly a cool hack.
# A Zipit device you are willing to screw up (see warnings above)
# A Windows PC (Windows XP ...
Posted in Gadgets, Linux | Comments Off
Monday, March 28th, 2005
Techdirt:Netflix User Queues Shared On Google
Appears that netflix allows the googlebot into parts of the site that normally require authentication. You can now see cached versions of peoples netflix queue, and it appears that googlebot has actually added movies to user queues.
Though "googling" has been a recognized part of ...
Posted in Google, Movies | Comments Off
Monday, March 28th, 2005
Sky WindPower Corporation
Interesting idea for a windmill. I'm concerned about what happens when the tether breaks, where does this thing crash, and what kind of damage would it do to a house?
[via Treehugger]
In other words, the United States does have at least one technology it could pursue which could ...
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Sunday, March 27th, 2005
Nambers
Welcome to: http://finger.park.throw.bed.mysteryrobot.com/
Each computer on the internet has an address of four numbers. These numbers are translated to nambers to form the namber address. For example, mysteryrobot.com's internet address is 65.214.160.117. The namber for 65 is drum, 214 is start, 160 is orange, and 117 is hope. mysteryrobot.com is added ...
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