Author: jason
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I’ve been had!
Turns out that fella who used X10 gear to let web users turn his christmas lights on and off was just pulling our collective leg, here’s the skinny. An interesting read, how clever and elaborate his hoax was. Have to admit, he had me going!
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CNY Heatwave
The thermometer in my car reported 24 degrees (fahrenheit) this morning. After the last few days of subzero temps (-7F and -3F at the same time the last two days), I was about ready to lose my winter coat and open up the sunroof. Sigh, only 4 more months of winter to go, and the…
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Free Google/Firefox Plug
Was watching Law & Order: Criminal Intent on Saturday night, Detective Alex Eames strolls over to a PC and googled some random factoid in the Mozilla Firefox browser. True to TV silliness, she typed in google.com and entered a query instread of using the built in google search. Hehe, I’m such a nerd. Ironically, the…
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Comfortably Numb, disco style?
Thanks to Jay for passing on info to the Scissor Sisters’ cover of Pink Floyd‘s Comfortably Numb performance on Saturday Night Live. Very trippy.
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Pogo Sticks go High Tech!
Saw the Flybar Model 1200 on amazon.com; the pogo stick, evolved. So what’s so special about this $299 toy? Thrusters! Activate all 12 of the independent rubber thrusters and you’re capable of rebounding with 1200 pounds of force! They claim its enough to get a 170 pound person 5 feet off the ground. That’s pretty…
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PS2 Portable Now!
This crafty fellow put together his own Sony Playstation 2 portable using the guts of a one of the new low profile PS2 consoles, a PSONE LCD screen, and portable DVD player battery. It also has one major perk over the real Playstation Portable (coming soon from Sony), in that it plays PS2 software; the…
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A Quiet PC for DVR
Hush Technologies specializes in fanless PC designs for noise conscious applications like living room PVRs. Their latest effort looks pretty sweet. Unfortunately, at about $2500, I’ll be sticking to my plan of building my own open source based PVR on an old Dell box using MythTV.
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Next Time I’m Rich…
Here are some awesome (both in terms of beauty and expense) prints of Pink Floyd artwork at RockOptic (like the name!) On their site they also have some background stuff on the artist who does Pink Floyd’s memorable album covers, Storm Thorgerson. A new random factoid for me was he also did the Peter Gabriel’s…
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Festerhead Radio
Stumbled on the Festerhead online radio station this morning. Was looking for some good Hawaiian music (missing Maui, sniff…) Usually I tune into Hawaiian 105, which I listened to alot when tooling around Maui. But some reason their crappy streaming applet cuts out continually on my internet connection at work (but works fine from Road…
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Happy Halloween: 1upkin
For all you Super Mario Brothers fans out there, here’s a step by step guide for carving your own 1up mushroom on a pumpkin: http://infinitesnake.com/1upkin.php Where do these people find the time?