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Let's start this off with
bio2's link to "the tube": an unrollable laptop:super crazy hardware.
seizer sent us the most amusing firewall circumventer: a TCP/IP Email Tunnel.
While on the subject of bizarre technology,
John Petz sent us a webserver running on an Atari 800.
Still not in shock?
hool sent us a hack over at x42.com which uses the hostname as input
to a calculator.
tdunn linked us to a place that lists odd things found inside PC cases.
It includes a *shudder* severed finger tip.
For more wierd tech support, yeahbensteres submitted iamanidiot.com which has some tales that you may or may not believe.
Pike sent us 94 Uses for Old Altoids Tins: Who eats 94 tins of altoids? Oh... wait.
OwenF sent us linkage to the latest robotic pet craze. Look out AIBO, here comes Robotic Fish!
Slashdot's own jamiemccarthy points us to TimeCube.com for all your wierd-science needs.
You econ majors might be interested in
Yhetti's link to the
fortune-cookie market index.
Bradley noted a story about a man who
changed his name to 'Oxford University' to avoid domain squatting charges from Oxford University.
If you have a mission:impossible scheduled next week,
Dr. Manhattan sent us a link to a Swiss company that is developing self-destructing CDs. The CIA has some on back order.
An anonymous reader pointed us to EarthKam, which has several really beautiful pictures of earth from space. Check out their top 10 ... if only
they were bigger they'd make great background art.
And finally for those of you who are sick of all the naughty language
on TV,
deepak saxena sent us a machine that claims it will filter all the damn swearing from TV and video.
I'm waiting for a version that filters out Regis.
Every time an Atari 800 dies, a new one emerges from eBay to replace it. Thus is the endless circle of Atari.
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Business. Numbers. Money. People. Computer World.
That reminds me of a site i visit frequently-- here's a link. it's a real webcam, and much more useful.
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If you look a bit back from the "Tube" page to here, you find that the fanciful tube is one of the ideas from the same people (IDEO) that helped design the Palm V and the Transmeta Web-slate. So, such a thing might not be too far off (though the title of the whole thing was "Welcome to 2010").
The whole series of stuff is pretty cool - flexible large-screen TV's, VR cave style "smart cubicles", and other cool things. The article seems to have a broken link at the end of the chain though.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Heard this story a little while ago, and I believe it was in reference to the CurseFree product. Seems that they had programmed the thing to flag on keywords. Not too uncommon. Problem was, it was pretty undiscriminating.
The most egregious error? The "Dick Van Dyke" show was titled the "Penis Van Lesbian" show.
Possibly an urban legend, but it sounds plausible to me.
At the last job I was at, we used to order HP monitors with every PC we bought (total of about 200 or so over 3 years), and every single one had a nicely folder cheetos bag in it (the single serving snack size one).
Weird.
darren
Cthulhu for President!
(darren)
I love this quote:
"Strict and Religious Settings
Curse Free TV's Strict setting filters out all offensive phrases, including when the names of God are used in an exclamatory way. The Religious setting, however, when viewing Christian programming, allows the names of God to come through without filtering them out."
Well, thank ---!
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
Just thought I'd share this photo of what happened to one of my co-workers last week. We're a pretty cruel bunch, and simple pranks just don't cut it in my office.
yes, it's going to be blatantly obvious by the time i say this.
/. will subside to a non-overwhelming level as this article disappears into the void of "older stuff", but surely the Atari 800 will be so traumatized by this event that it will take years of therapy before it fully recovers psychologically.
yes, it's cliched to say this, and it's a running joke on slashdot to say things of this sort.
but it needs to be said:
cdmrtaco.. what were you THINKING?? unleashing the slashdot effect on an Atari 800?? That's just CRUEL!!
the quickies have been up eight minutes, there are only four comments, and ALREADY the poor thing's slashdotted all to hell.
Yes, i realize in a couple days the traffic from
You should be ashamed of yourself.
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With an HTML page of only 250 bytes, this process can support several hits per second on the 9600 baud link!
*wince*
~=Keelor