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Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the where-love-imitates-life-and-people-get-famous dept.

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.

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  1. If you know what's good for you... by G-Man · · Score: 3
    you'll stop this insanity!

    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...

  2. Re:"Can't watch the clip" by jCaT · · Score: 3

    I had no problems viewing all of the clips with the latest version of xanim. Open mouth, insert foot...

  3. Re:spud guns! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3

    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..

    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 ;-).. 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..

    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...

  4. Here are some that weren't very difficult to find- by crisco · · Score: 3
    - as they were linked to from the page CmdrTaco linked to.

    Anyway, here are some of my favorites:

    http://vestige. lms al.com/TRACE/POD/images/T195_000715_111152.gif
    http://vestige. lms al.com/TRACE/POD/images/T171_000930_000227.jpg
    http://vestige. lms al.com/TRACE/POD/images/T171_000412_033151.gif
    http://vestig e.l msal.com/TRACE/POD/images/TRACEtruecolormosaic.jpg
    http://vestige.lmsa l.c om/TRACE/POD/images/T171_0602_14UT.gif
    http://vestige .lm sal.com/TRACE/POD/images/T1216_000527_144307.gif

    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?

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    Bleh!

  5. Geekporn.com misrepresentational by Skim123 · · Score: 5
    Just checked out GeekPorn.com, and have to admit that I found it quite a misrepresenation of the geek community (at least the computer geek community). I didn't see one overweight person, one woman with more facial hair than the guy she was with, not a single person who was more interested in their computer than sex.

    Hrmmm... I wish I had gone to school with the "geeks" portrayed at GeekPorn instead of the more representational ones... Sigh.

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    I could not justify my existence if I were a turkey farmer. Would I terminate myself? Undoubtably, yes.

  6. Wizard guy fights with Toshiba - more interesting by Kris_J · · Score: 3

    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/

  7. spud guns! by fjordboy · · Score: 3

    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.

    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 .5 miles away...I love those things.


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    1. Re:spud guns! by jCaT · · Score: 4

      I too have ventured into the dark underworld of potato weaponry. Our device was constructed of schedule 80 black ABS pipe. The barrel was 1 1/4", with a 4" chamber and a barbequeue ignitor to set it all off. Fuel of choice was AquaNet (TM) hairspray.

      Well, we had just finished constructing this beast in my dorm room on a saturday night, and we just HAD to fire it. We had a full can of hairspray and a 10lb bag of hairspray, and a hankerin' for some projectile vegetable fun.

      We took our contraption out to the farthest parking lot on campus, waaaay in the back, and proceded to seed the fields back there with our 10lbs of potatoey goodness. It wasn't until we piled back in to my car and started to take off that an officer of the peace spotted us. He happened to be making the rounds, and seeing 3 kids in the middle of an empty parking lot on a saturday night made him a little suspicious.

      Long story short, he pulled me over, we tried to give him a bullshit story, fessed up, and he made me break the gun up and throw it away. He had me go find a dumpster so he could watch me destroy and throw away my creation.

      HERE is where it gets interesting. Note earlier that I said this beast was made of schedule 80 ABS pipe. It has a burst strength of 400PSI- which means, in short, that you can drive a car over this shit and not dent it. Mr. Nice Officer however wanted me to BREAK this stuff. He stood there as I tried in vain to break this pipe. I'm not a small guy, and I was WAILING on this shit with all my strength.

      He stepped in, grabbed the pipe from me, and said "gimme that." I'm thinking to myself- "Does he really know how strong this stuff is?" Apparently not, as he tried repeatedly to break it against the edge of an empty metal dumpster. He utilized the classic cop beatdown stance... and BOY did it make a racket!

      My friends were sitting in my car trying to stifle their laughter. Marshall later told me he had considered rolling down the window and yelling "WHY DON'T YOU USE YOUR GUN?" I'm glad he didn't.

      The moral of the story kids: Don't shoot your spud gun when the Long Arm of the Law is near by! He notified us that while a potato gun is not a weapon, it is classified as an explosive device- just as illegal.

  8. Packing Peanuts! That's Nothing! by Ribo99 · · Score: 3

    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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  9. "Can't watch the clip" by Another+MacHack · · Score: 5

    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-.

  10. Geek Porn Link by toastyman · · Score: 3

    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

  11. How come no AL Gore Loves You. com Quickie?? by WhoLovesYou · · Score: 3

    This site should have been in that quickie list.
    http://www.algorelovesyou.com

  12. Re:spug gun by empesey · · Score: 3

    ...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.

  13. I'm pretty sure it's a reference to... by Beek · · Score: 3

    I think it's a reference to Jurassic 5's song World of Entertainment. And it's a damn fine song too.

  14. Lots of porn at MIT by giannifive · · Score: 4
    Believe it or not, some people organize "Reg Day Porn" every year here at MIT on registration day:

    http://www-tech.mit.edu/V119/N2/reg day .2n.html.

    Apparently it used to draw crowds of a few hundred students.