Archive for December, 2005
Saturday, December 31st, 2005
Barbara Mandrell's Crutch-Shaped Electric Lap Steel Guitar by Semie Moseley, 1984
Strange.
In 1984, Barbara Mandrell was in a car crash that left her severely injured. Moseley, Mandrell’s close friend, devised a creative get-well gift; an electric lap-steel guitar built as a functional crutch and finished in a bright blue metallic lacquer.
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Saturday, December 31st, 2005
Devo Revamps Tracks For Kids
Would this be considered capital punsihment? Whip It, whip it good!
For the project, all five members of Devo regrouped to re-record some of its best known songs, including the 1980 hit "Whip It!" with vocals provided by a quintet of kids. Also included will be ...
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Saturday, December 31st, 2005
Daisy - Your Personal Web Assistant
This looks very intersting.
Daisy's Feature List
Daisy aims to make your web surfing experience simpler and more productive. Daisy:
* Indexes HTML, CSS, PDF, Atom and RSS documents
* Can recreate any web page viewed as it existed at that ...
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Saturday, December 31st, 2005
MySA.com
Oh dear, not the killer chihuahuas!
A pack of angry Chihuahuas attacked a police officer who was escorting a teenager home after a traffic stop, authorities said.
The officer suffered minor injuries, including bites to his ankle, Detective Bill Veteran said.
Posted in Pets | 1 Comment »
Thursday, December 29th, 2005
Windows 0-day exploit found on Web
A previously unknown vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows graphics rendering engine is being exploited by several malicious Web sites to infect visitors' systems, security experts said on Wednesday.
If you're still using IE, think about making the switch :)
Firefox users on Windows aren't completely immune, but ...
Posted in Browsers, Web Stuff | 2 Comments »
Thursday, December 29th, 2005
kalephunk: Guess who got new license plates in the
This is just way too funny. If you don't get the joke, there's a work safe description of goatse on wikipedia.
Guess who got new license plates in the mail today?
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Wednesday, December 28th, 2005
Official Google Blog: I'm feeling silly
Every wonder what an 8th of a ton of silly putty looks like? Me too.
Not long ago, I walked by the desk of software engineer JJ Furman, and saw that he had made an interesting addition to his desk: a large blob of Silly ...
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Wednesday, December 28th, 2005
Brandon and I are working on a new lyrics site. We've both been frustrated by lyrics sites chocked full of banners, slow images, pop-ups, and misleading links and believe we can provide an alternative.
Link Right Lyrics aims to be the quickest, and most complete lyrics site on the net. ...
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Wednesday, December 28th, 2005
Pearl Crescent Page Saver
Mac and Windows only at this time. Linux support is planned for January 2006.
Pearl Crescent Page Saver is a free extension for Mozilla Firefox that lets you save an image of a web page to a file in PNG format. Options let you control whether ...
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Wednesday, December 28th, 2005
Topless-Sandal.com
I might have to order a pair of these for the next flip-flop day at work.
It's a cool idea, but I seriously doubt I'd get a year out of them. The best made shoes rarely live past 6 months on my feet.
Topless sandals - also called "down ...
Posted in Apparel | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, December 27th, 2005
How to Make Your Own Movie
Also check out their page on making sugar glass.
Here you will find honest, frank advice about how to make your very own movie from script to screen with little to no money. Also, here you will find the latest movie news and trailers from across ...
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Tuesday, December 27th, 2005
Big Blue Saw - Home
Cool service, takes CAD and PNG images to produce real metal parts.
Big Blue Saw can turn your CAD file into real parts using our state of the art robotic tools. We offer instant quotes and online ordering.
We have great prices, friendly service, and quick turnaround ...
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Tuesday, December 27th, 2005
Damn Interesting » Fly Me To The Moon
For only $100M, you can have the vacation of a lifetime.
Get your tickets fast. The Russians are at it again. First, they gave rides in their fighter jets. Then they put a tourist in the International Space Station. Now they are offering the ...
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