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Gveloper wrote in to say that
x11amp is in CVS.
An anonymous reader sent us a link to a Linux based
synthesiser.
I probably wouldn't have posted it, but I was playing with
it quite a bit and its just a lot of fun. Make little drum
beats and throw power chords over top of it. Whee.
AbsurdSnore wrote in to tell us about a
Slashdot mentioned in New Scientist's Netropolitan
column for February 6th regarding the fight for ajax.org and the creation of
the Domain Defense
Advocate site.
Anyone who thinks that the world is coming to an end is
probably right as evidenced by the following three inventions:
A nonymous Coward sent
us the first. Pray that it
is a hoax.
fcw sent us number 2: the world's first (and I hope only)
Ass Kicking Machine.
And last of all, for the completely random,
David Price sent us
a link to gas powered couch
Don't care about the advancement of technology? How about some bits
about a a more primal topic?
Knish wrote in to
say that the Swimsuit Edition
of Sports Illulstrated is online. Somewhat related I guess,
Greedo sent us another
Pseudo O'Reilly Book
that you won't see in bookstores.
Yeah, you drink some beer...have some chili...and watch that couch go full speed!
This could be the best selling ORA book, if only....
Pierre
Do those ass kicking machines come with corporate management size boots?!?
I know a few managers that could use a good swift kick in the ass..
Max
as many times as i've heard women complain about squatting by a bush this is actually a fairly good idea... whether or not it deserves patenting though...... i dunno :-)
I don't know... I just showed it to my wife and said we needed it for our trip to the Strawberry Music Festival this spring, and she said, "There's no way I'm using a Bumper Dumper."
mmmmh....
wget -r -np -m http://cnnsi.com/features/1999/swimsuit/
I've actually had the pleasure of riding around campus on a gas powered couch (not this particular one). The one I was on went forward instead of sideways, which I think is much more amusing to look at :) A couch with 7 people on it goes pretty slowly, though, and can't climb hills worth a damn...
...to tell us about a Slashdot mentioned in New Scientist's...
There's more than one? Cool! Do they run their's any better?
I find it interesting that Sports Illustrated considers a difference of about 10 pixels in length and width to be the distinction between their small pictures and large pictures. I guess they don't want anyone using their pictures for desktop backgrounds. Does anyone have a scanner?
;)
14m3R.
"An Overshot type Ass-Kicking Machine" I can see the patent now...
there are more nice music-progs for linux. e.g. aRts - analog realtime synthesizer a modular synthesizer currently under development. if you can help, please do so. the music-scene must use linux as os :-). bye -aurora
The scary thing is the guy reading on the back of the Pathfinder. I'm failing to see any bag attached to that particular bumperdumper. Does it come with covers for your shoes?
Could some kind person mirror the ORA image and rename it to something other than porn? Our firewall filters 'dodgy' words. so no, porn/sex/penis/hamster/ names...thanks!
Thanks!
damn filter.
How about those painted on swimsuits?
My name is David Rysdam and I think Slashdot has a ways to go before it meets the editorial quality of lwn.net.
interesting....software.....;)
This one would have been a little more clever if the featured cover animals were a bird and a bee. I think it's the comedian in me calling for a little more subtlety to spice things up.
what if alan turing or ada lovelace came back from the dead and was cruisin the net for some pr0n?
yer site has got to have more robustity
for these special cases!
6000dpi is way overboard for a magazine. Now, if you have the orrigianl negatives . . .
Do you?
Well, d--- that copyright law anyway, right?
Too bad SI wouldn't let us OpenSource the images.
On second thought, that might not be such a good idea. The Slashdot effect would kill the download server. So we'll just have to keep our hi-res versions to ourselves, eh?
Anybody got a "non-skin tone to skin tone converter utility?"
...you'll lose your keys between the cushions ;)
I just can't say the phrase "Ass-kicking machine" without laughing out loud!
My Freakin Blog
Why do people write such perfectly tuned satire and then fail to put their names to it?
Never mind...
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Oh common. All the ORA books have animals on the cover. They should have used a beaver. :)
- My Blog - http://www.memestreams.net/users/rattle/
I guess the answer has something to do with sexual guilt. The porn mags have less attractive models, because if you're wacking off you don't "deserve" to see a pretty girl. Whereas presumably the SI thing is for educational rather than masturbatory purposes, so it's okay to use beautiful women. Seems to me that the Japanese (or many mainland Europeans) are far less neurotic about this sort of thing.
fish and pipes
Hardly the same thing, though, is it? It's still clearly censorship. Anyway, I don't think they sell that mag in England, and there are other mags I'd buy first (because they have actual nudity, not painted over or artfully concealled).
fish and pipes
A friend of mine has been bringing his electrically powered couches to Burning Man for three years now. They are a very cool geek project, because he has built custom electronic motor controllers based on the PIC embedded CPU. All the design, programming and other details are home-built. It is a much cleaner design than the gas powered one - no fumes, much lower cost to run, and it is controlled via an electric wheelchair joystick. One electric motor power each side of the couch, and it drives sorta like a tank. It can turn on a dime! And the best part is that it hardly looks like he is driving. Its top speed on a good smooth surface is about 20MPH. Another friend of his has made a couch capable of about 35MPH. There are also electrically powered end tables, Lazy Boy recliners, desk chairs, and other wild stuff. It is a an incredible fun to ride on these things.
i r.html
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/1436/cha
has has some pictures of electric furniture racing. The couch pictured on the left is my friend Greg's, he is sitting on the far right wearing the straw hat.
Eric
Gee, thanks so much for reporting on the
availability of the sports illustrated
swimsuit edition. I could never find this
out from the mainstream media which is
always doing its best to hide airbrushed
pictures of damp identical plastic 'women'
from the freedom-loving public.
Check out the Apostrophe open-source CMS: http://www.apostrophenow.com/
Freebirth is fun. Thanks for putting it in the quickies. It can make some pretty raw (a la Aphex Twin) sounds. And it can only get better.
You'd have to be pretty dumb to need to have a book to look for *that*. Like me? Pooh, confused again, sorry.
Great item during rush-hour. Can you use this thing on the 'go'? Be sure you got the keys in your pocket before you use it! Always 'hitch' up your pants after using.
I really liked the picture of the guy reading the paper.
Well, not exactly. But see Frank Garvey's robotic sculpture, "One-legged men at a butt-kicking contest" at http://www.omnicircus.com/robotics/r obot1.html. I've seen it in action, and it's truly awesome. Check out the whole site at http://www.omnicircus.com.
Tom Geller
Shift stick, or automatic?
LOL
500lbs capacity
I'm amazed that nobody mentioned anything about the possible slashdot effect to the Sports Illustrated site by all the geeks.
Eh?
Sorry, this is a random place to put it, but who is this Chris Richardson (SLASHDOT-DOM)
806 Arnold Way
Menlo Park, CA 94025
US
guy?
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