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Lets start this off with some eyecandy from Mdog.
Hi res pics of coronal loops meet Rob's First Rule of Art.
Wow.
Not enough eye candy?
tradica noted that Pixar's new movie 'Monsters Inc.' now has trailers available even the the movie won't be out for a year. Course since Jobs is @ pixar, no surprise that I can't watch the clip.
Instead of food for your retinas,
Nerf97A4 sent in recipes that will never be used on Iron Chef since they all involve cooking with twinkies in some form or another. Deep fried Twinkies? Makes me shudder... maybe instead you should look at
jedigeek fouund an online
store called CyberCandy which allows you to buy candy from around the world.
funferal noticed that a OECD have publshed their Privacy Statement Generator.
Ant noted one wizard that
that probably doesn't exist in Word.
alecto sent us a fun link where you can read 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall which has code snippets to generate the song in languages from APL to zsh.
PhadeRunner
sent us Mr. T vs. The Matrix. and
FlameSnyper sent
The Matrix and Ghost in The Shell. One is slightly more serious then the other.
An anonymous reader documented
filling a cubicle with packing peanuts in case your boss is out of time and you need some help.
Speaking of bosses, Need a weapon?
WD_40 aims you at a site where you can learn how to create your own spud gun.
Course you could do it the old fashioned way:
pimp showed us a site dedicated to electrocuting common household stuff. Like, for example,
a furby.
While on the subject of electricity,
loose_change sent in several links about Power meters and how they aren't exactly the best in user interface. A competition followed to try to make a better on. The winner is definitely less hostile ;)
CresentCityRon sent in something you don't want to electrocute: apparently MIT students are working on Geek Porn which is pretty much what is sounds like. School officials aren't so happy about it.
cybercandy.co.uk doesn't have pocky!!! It even has a japanese section, so where's the farking pocky? It doesn't have jelly babies either, but I guess since it's a brit site the assumption is you can just walk over to the chemist's or some such and buy those, so that's forgivable.
No mexican salty plum balls either. Pretty poor selection if you ask me!!!
One more drink, and I'll move on. --Dave Matthews Band
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Far gone are the days where you could duct tape a soda can to a piece of pvc, throw in some zippo fuel, and light it with a lighter next to a little hole in the side of tha can and call it a spud gun.
Now, you have to have rifled barrels, metered propane insertion, and electronic ignition.
I wonder when california will start to put emmisions regulations on Spud Guns, or require that they all be compressed air as opposed to fossil fuel.
Aww fuck it, I think I will go suck on the Nitrous for a while and forget about it.
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I don't understand the whole appeal of the spud gun. I mean, who would want to shoot a potato? Potatoes are quite tasty and rarely ever do anything to anger people.
-atrowe: Card-carrying Mensa member. I have no toleranse for stupidity.
Not only does that potato gun not function properly, but it did some really nasty things to my vintage collection of Mr. & Mrs Potato Heads.
Oh sure, it seems like fun and games now, but that's how Gerald Bull started out. One day you're launching potatoes across the road, a few years later Saddam Hussein wants you to launch canned hams into Israel and the Mossad is breaking down your door...
Most geek friends I have are the weirdest people in the world. If weird=geek generically, than this site makes a hell of a lot of sense.
- I don't care if they globalize against free speech. All my best free thoughts are done in my head.
I had no problems viewing all of the clips with the latest version of xanim. Open mouth, insert foot...
Me too, but usually they are socially awkward, bumbling, have poor hygene, and would not be the kinds of people who'd you'd want to see naked.
I dunno, I guess I saw that pick of two tan, skinny, good lookin' folks fucking on a desk, and I thought to myself, "The geeks I know aren't in good shape and tanned!"
If weird=geek generically, than this site makes a hell of a lot of sense
By that definition those bondage, S&M, watersport, etc. sites are all geek-oriented then? (A bit of subjectivity there, me decrying those acts are weird. Oh well.)
I could not justify my existence if I were a turkey farmer. Would I terminate myself? Undoubtably, yes.
If you make a spud gun and really want a kick, use starting fluid from your local auto parts store, it's almost pure ether. I've always used this in my spud gun and I once put an apple through a sheet of plywood. Make sure you only put about a half-second shot of it in, or it won't have enough oxygen to burn it all and you'll get a weak charge.
Make sure you air the cannon out very well between each shot or you won't get enough oxygen for a powerful explosion.
The gun I made has a 5' barrel with a 2" diameter, and a 4" diameter chamber about 10 inches long.
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While in college I participated in a class that required the construction of a device to launch a golf ball over long distances.. (there was a little more to it, and we eventually ended up with a small article describing the project in Golf Digest..) The team I was involved with ended up building a glorified spud gun..
;-).. hat opened the ball valve, releasing the gas from the secondary chamber and allowing the gas from the primary chamber to push up the barrel..
Our final design was a wheeled deviced (a nice welded aluminum chassis), with a 4" diameter x 1' long primary pressure chamber, a 4" x 1" secondary pressure chamber, and a 4" rubber plunger that separated the two chambers from the 3' PVC barrel (note: an aluminum insert was turned to take up the gap between the golf ball and the PVC barrel).. The primary chamber surrounded the barrel (think coaxial), and the tail of the gun was outfitted with a hose that connected to a pressure regulator and a RC servo triggered, coil spring actuated ball valve.. The operator would close the valve, and set the trigger, then begin filling the secondary chamber with pressurized gas. The gas pushed the plunger forward sealing off the end of the barrel. As the pressure increased the plunger edges deflected allowing the pressurized gas to fill the primary chamber.. A slight pressure differential was eventually established between the two chambers, with the secondary chamber carrying slightly more pressure than the primary chamber. This kept the plunger firmly pressed against the end of the barrel.. Until the operator backed up and hit the fire button
Unlike a traditional spud gun, the course dictated that no explosive devices could be used.. Believe me, this device didn't need it.. It would fire a golf ball roughly 500 yards with ~80 psi charge.. The pressurized air was supplied using a CO2 fire extinguisher, and that small extinguisher had no problem firing until we got tired of chasing golf balls around the driving range...
From the MIT drinking song:
-*- Any technology indistinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced -*-
Serial Experiments Lain and the matrix share several similar scenes as well, the first one I can think of is the traffic light changing in the scene where neo and morpheous are walking in the simulator. Each episode of lain starts off with a traffic light change which looks exactly the same...
Shine on, you crazy diamond.
Anyway, here are some of my favorites:
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There are a few to start, someone else was moaning about the average 640x480 or so resolution, I say combine a few in The Gimp and give it some extra coloration and you've got a decent desktop. Now too bad I don't have time to make a magnetic-field-line theme, wouldn't it be cool to have those fuzzy lines for your window borders?
Bleh!
Hrmmm... I wish I had gone to school with the "geeks" portrayed at GeekPorn instead of the more representational ones... Sigh.
I could not justify my existence if I were a turkey farmer. Would I terminate myself? Undoubtably, yes.
After watching UHF last night, I couldn't believe that Hostess left out the greatest Twinkie recipe of all -- the Twinkie wiener sandwich!
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The guy that did the wizard that probably doesn't exist has just come off a 53 day battle to get a 6 day old Toshiba laptop repaired/replaced. I strongly recommend reading the log. The guy's writing style is great fun - have a look at http://www.vaxer.net/~jeeves/
A firend of mine built a Spud gun one. Combustion chamber was a 4" by 12" cylinder, with a 4' by 1" barrel on it. Ignition was by means of a gas grill igniter (piezoelectric spark). He usually used hair spray, sometimes propane as the fuel. I don't know what the range was on potatoes, but he did get it used in the school play (Peter Pan) with small bits of styrofoam as the ammo. It easily crossed the stage with styrofoam, which has approximately zero mass (no momentum...) and a lot of air friction. The carrel was interchangeable; When he instead connected up a .68" barrel, and used paintballs, it got truly destructive. With a paintball (which is supposed to break open and just leave paint, right?) he could take ark off pine trees and seriously scar telephone poles (no structural damage, I don't think...) He claimed 600FPS muzzle velocity on the paintballs; I don't know how true that was, without a good electronic measuring device. Damn cool tho.
YES! A STORY ON SLASHDOT ABOUT SPUDGUNS! my life is now satisfied! The first website i ever made was about spudguns...that was back in sixth grade when i was young and stupid and used "ack" clarisworks homepage to build a page..and we weren't allowed to use anything except pictures, links and anchors. If you want to have a good laugh at my ignorance..go to here! don't flame about it or criticize it..I admit..it was dumb...if it even still exists.
.5 miles away...I love those things.
back to potato guns though..I have a potatto gun, made from pvc...I use propane as fuel (hairspray is smelly and sticky and expensive.) and on a good day, I can send a potato flying 300 yards! We punched holes in plywood with it...we thought about sending small rodents through it..but my parents wouldn't allow it...and it was a cruel idea anyways... we also tried ether to fuel it (don't do this) but the one we tried blew apart...so we were forced to build another, large potato gun..with a 4 inch combustion chamber...we launched a spud from my friend's house to the highway...i am serious..the highway was about
The anti-salmon
Do I really need to be entertained? Geez, even using that word conjures up Huxleyan images. Why is it that most big companies (including, apparently, VA Linux) think that I need entertainment like I need to breathe? That's what bothers me about the web - they all want to feed me some eye candy and never feed my brain.
An anonymous reader documented filling a cubicle with packing peanuts in case your boss is out of time and you need some help...
That's nothing! I once filled our entire server room with Halon gas!
of course it wasn't exactly planned...
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I wear pants.
Rob, if you have a platform which can play Diablo 2, then you have a platform which can view QuickTime. If you don't -want- to watch QT, then just say that instead of pretending you -can't-.
I posted the geek porn story on the Stile Project a few days ago. (Lots of sex and gross stuff, don't click those links if you are offended by such things)
The link to their site, while being somewhat obvious, is www.geekporn.com. Neither the quickies above, or the story it links to, actually lists the URL anywhere. I had a few readers mail it to me.
-- Kevin
No, the link was easy to miss, and then, once you're there, it's easy to think you missed something. Those images only technically satisfy Rob's first rule of art... if you're running 1280x1024 or bigger, they don't quite look like Rob-qualified art. Crisco pulled out the best links for us, though.
I wager that if you write to the folks who run the TRACE gallery site, they will point you to images that you have to scale down to fit on your desktop. At least, this worked for me for Hubble Space Telescope images.
In the meantime, check out the awesome image I use for my desktop. (Tips: Click on the small one to see the real eyecandy. Crop off the credits, and place on black background. Collect compliments from fiends and cow-orkers. Distribute only the original, please.)
I can see the fnords!
This site should have been in that quickie list.
http://www.algorelovesyou.com
My bretheren (and sisteren), followeth this link to seeth a Divine image of His face... He has gaineth a little weight in the cheeks over the years, but verily, the True Believers will recoginize... the Time is at hand!
If you're not wasted, the day is.
If you're not wasted, the day is.
This box is a 486, and is rather slow and old. It's connected to the internet with a 56k modem, and is located in Shrivenham, Wiltshire, England.
Having your 56k 486 slashdotted must really ruin your day.
Using your sig line to advertise for friends is lame.
Why is it too bad Jobs has to run Pixar? If you think Pixar would be anywhere near as cool today if he hadn't come in and bought the place, I have a very, very nice bridge that you might be interested in buying.
Mod down posts with a "Free Mac Mini/iPod" sig, they're spam!
...so he turned it around to see if the potato was stuck and it nailed him right in the eye at point-blank range.
If he would have used a higher caliber potato, we could have nominated him for the Darwin Awards. He would have been very tough to beat.
Nope. I found some images, but Tet's first law of art states that if I have to scale them up to fit on a 1600x1200 desktop, they're not hi-res... Hell, they don't even fill a 1280x1024 desktop. Cool images, certainly, but not hi-res.
"The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." -- Delos B. McKown
I think it's a reference to Jurassic 5's song World of Entertainment. And it's a damn fine song too.
http://www-tech.mit.edu/V119/N2/reg day .2n.html.
Apparently it used to draw crowds of a few hundred students.
Goes to show how realistic the animators have gotten in dealing with things like humor timing. This wouldn't have really worked with the CGI figures of the early 80's.
- I don't care if they globalize against free speech. All my best free thoughts are done in my head.
For it to confirm to whoever's law of whatever you have to be able to find at least a 640x480 image, preferably a >1024x768 image. Did I miss a link? can anyone find high-res images?
I really don't see what makes that porn site more "geeky" than any other. What? It's the math formulas all over the girl and the glasses of the guy?? Of course... I should have known that because the girl is in front of the MIT it has to be geeky...
Come on... who are they trying to bring in with that name? I mean... just because I am a geek I should somehow think this porn site is more appealing than any other?
"When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun...
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear"
No, please! NO!@#!@# Coworker here had a bag of these strange candies on a stick from Mexico. they were brownish colored, and looked all crystal like.
The problem? They LITERALLY smelled like a petting zoo. The most disgusting candy I have ever come in contact with in my life. Can't remember for the life of me what the name was, but I couldn't bring myself to eat it.