Got an old pair of shoes lying around, waiting to be used in a ritual gesture of disrespect? Send ‘em to the GW Bush liberry so they can put them on the My Pet Goat shelf.
While waiting for a new rebuild of KDE from subversion I usually waste way too much time on Knetwalk. It’s a fun little game where you need to connect all the pcs to the net (the world symbol).
And just for the ego factor: my current high score is 55 seconds for a ‘hard’ game (171 points).
Just saw this lovely machine on TV. It is a Wireless enabled rabbit with rather good speech.
You can send messages to the rabbit or ask it questions. It will connect to different services. It also has the ability to interact through a couple of lamps and by moving its ears.
Denon has these wonderful (probably UTP) cables on offer for $500. The cable has the following benefits (taken from the Denon product page):
Attention to detail when building this cable was used by employing high quality insulation, tin-bearing alloy shielding and woven jacketing to reduce vibration and to add durability. Additionally, signal directional markings are provided for optimum signal transfer.
Amazon has the cable on sale and the comments people give there are just hilarious. Here are a couple of good examples:
A caution to people buying these: if you do not follow the “directional markings” on the cables, your music will play backwards. Please check that before mentioning it in your reviews.
If I could use a rusty boxcutter to carve a new orifice in my body that’s compatible with this link cable, I would already be doing it. I can just imagine the pure musical goodness that would flow through this cable into the wound and fill me completely — like white, holy light. Holding this cable in my hands actually makes me feel that much closer to the Lord Jesus Christ.
For $500 I would have expected these cables to be worn in. They aren’t. The procedure for pre use wear in of digital cables is significantly different to analog cables. They should be worn in for a period of 24 hours in each direction. Use a unidirectional protocol! _Never_ use TCP for wearing in digital cables, as TCP uses return packets for acknowledging, causing interference in the uplink channel being pre worn.
I’m an engineer, so trust me on this one. Sound is a wave, moving in one direction. A uni-directional cable such as this is needed for optimum listening pleasure. Some other poster, incorrectly I might humbly add, said using it backwards causes the music to play backwards. Installing it in reverse causes the 1’s and 0’s to start to clog the line since they have no where to go. As a result, you’ll get no sound at all. If you do that, be careful when you turn the cable around as all the 1’s and 0’s will come out at once, potentially overloading your ethernet connection and exceeding your ISP’s bandwidth caps.
I have been thinking about cutting the amount of tax I need to pay. I finally decided that opening my own church was one of the best ways of achieving this goal. Picking a name was relatively easy: jordism wasn’t taken and due to the Scandinavian roots of the word ‘Jord’ a nice connection with mother earth was included for free (Jord is Swedish for Earth).
But before one can start a church you need a lot of followers. Luckily boingboing came to the rescue:
Carey Burtt’s superb “Mind Control Made Easy or How to Become a Cult Leader” (2000). It may be fun, but this is no comedy, it’s more like a documentary. Cults thrive on our vulnerabilities, and a good demonstration of just how vulnerable we all are was given in a series of experiments conducted by social psychologist Solomon Asch in the 1950s.
Today I went to visit the Euromast in Rotterdam and made a couple of foto’s from the skyline. I used hugin to stitch them together. And here is the result:
Oh wow, the wonders of youtube. dEUS brought out a new album, so I thought maybe they already posted a video. And then I stumble upon this one: Koen Wauters and Tom Barman (both from Belgium) performing the song Belgie by the Dutch band ‘Het Goede Doel’.
Some guy built a Panzer for around 10.000 US dollars (currently around 6400 Euro). It is only half the size of the real one, but it could be your first step in concurring the world.
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