Thursday, December 30, 2004
BBC NEWS | Technology | Fast moving phone viruses appear
Rockstar Classics - Free Downloads
Boing Boing: Go-faster tweak for Firefox
Boing Boing: Cory responds to Wired Editor on DRM
Boing Boing: Cory responds to Wired Editor on DRM
Excellent article - really clear on why any sort of DRM is BAD.
Follow-up to the above - Boing Boing: Cory sets DRM strawmen ablaze
Another follow-up with ref to BBC article - Boing Boing: Debunking a DRM press-release
And more - Boing Boing: You're a sucker if you believe no-DRM, no-release threats from Hollywood
Excellent article - really clear on why any sort of DRM is BAD.
Follow-up to the above - Boing Boing: Cory sets DRM strawmen ablaze
Another follow-up with ref to BBC article - Boing Boing: Debunking a DRM press-release
And more - Boing Boing: You're a sucker if you believe no-DRM, no-release threats from Hollywood
The Mother of All CPU Charts
From 'Tom's Hardware Guide'
Section = Processors
The Mother of All CPU Charts
Part 1 - From 1995 To 2005: 111 CPUs From 100 MHz To 3800 MHz
Part 2 - AMD Processors From March 1994 To December 2004
Section = Processors
The Mother of All CPU Charts
Part 1 - From 1995 To 2005: 111 CPUs From 100 MHz To 3800 MHz
Part 2 - AMD Processors From March 1994 To December 2004
Wednesday, December 29, 2004
J-Walk Blog:? Generate Fake IDs
J-Walk Blog:? Generate Fake IDs: "Create your very own fake ID: Ausweis-Generator! The site is in German, but even I could figure it out."
Fimoculous.com: LISTS
LISTS - a massive set of links to all sorts of lists - those end-of-year things.
How to fix Mom's computer [Scribbling.net]
How to fix Mom's computer [Scribbling.net]
Quite a useful site which details very carefully the steps taken to clean up and protect "Mom's" computer.
Some good advice that could be followed by others.
Quite a useful site which details very carefully the steps taken to clean up and protect "Mom's" computer.
Some good advice that could be followed by others.
Blogthings - What Kind of Intelligence Do You Have?
Blogthings - What Kind of Intelligence Do You Have? - can make a difference to the way you learn stuff.
Monday, December 27, 2004
Microprocessor History
Slashdot | Great Moments in Microprocessor History - good link to microprocessor history - detailed and informative. Covers very large range of CPUs.
Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present - even more detailed and less Intel-bias than previous one.
Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present - even more detailed and less Intel-bias than previous one.
Boing Boing: Themepark maps from history
If you like that sort of thing then ..... Boing Boing: Themepark maps from history
Slashdot | Homemade Hypercube Case
Slashdot | Homemade Hypercube Case - links to greatly detailed description/pics of building this fantastic-looking case.
Sunday, December 26, 2004
PhysOrg: The Physics of Santa Claus
Build Your Own Apollo Guidance Computer
Slashdot | Build Your Own Apollo Guidance Computer
Boing Boing: HOWTO build an Apollo Guidance Computer
Boing Boing: HOWTO build an Apollo Guidance Computer
Saturday, December 25, 2004
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Music | Zeppelin classic tops rock poll
Friday, December 24, 2004
TV Cream's Top 100 Toys
TV Cream's Top 100 Toys - 10 pages or so of great (read - nostalgia) toys.
J-Walk Blog:? Excel Mouse Chart
J-Walk Blog:? Excel Mouse Chart:Did you know that Excel can create a Mouse Chart?
Quite neat, basically simple - and animated.
Slashdot | RFID Cards to Include Tin Foil Hats?
Slashdot | RFID Cards to Include Tin Foil Hats? - actually more about USA passports.
Link to article online newspaper article - privacy gets some thought at last.
Link to article online newspaper article - privacy gets some thought at last.
External TV Tuners / PVR Devices: 3-way shootout @ TechSpot
Thursday, December 23, 2004
BBC NEWS | Health | Toys have lasting impact on brain
Tuesday, December 21, 2004
Slashdot | New Calendar Proposal
Monday, December 20, 2004
Vid?o - Lego Thriller (Parodie Clip de Michael Jackson)
Vid?o - Lego Thriller (Parodie Clip de Michael Jackson)
Direct link to a page that opens a wmv file with LEGO movie parody of MJ's famous vid.
Direct link to a page that opens a wmv file with LEGO movie parody of MJ's famous vid.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Poles play with GameBoy 'blip-pop'
BBC NEWS | Technology | Poles play with GameBoy 'blip-pop'
Good link to their site with mp3 downloadables.
Good link to their site with mp3 downloadables.
Boing Boing: Video store agreement claims your soul
Boing Boing: Video store agreement claims your soul - link to rather neat video store till receipt with some "small print" that assumes no-one will read it - must see.
Sunday, December 19, 2004
BBC NEWS | Business | 'Chip and pin' security warning
Friday, December 17, 2004
BBC NEWS | Technology | Fast lifts rise into record books
learn web standards :: css guide - contents
Thursday, December 16, 2004
Lego bricks meet logic chips
Wednesday, December 15, 2004
Boing Boing: Moblog.co.uk crash: it's only a flesh wound!
Samsung launches tiny memory card for mobiles | CNET News.com
Desktop search new target for viruses? | CNET News.com
Tuesday, December 14, 2004
Boing Boing: Japanese band uses old 8-bit Nintendo to make music
Boing Boing: HOWTO make your PC more secure, by Bruce Schneier
Monday, December 13, 2004
errorwear: embrace your computer problems
TheOpenCD v2 out
TheOpenCD - version 2 is out.
BT debuts sound and light interface | The Register
Aspect and Subject Oriented programming: Why Microsoft can Blow-Off with C#?
Aspect and Subject Oriented programming: Why Microsoft can Blow-Off with C#?
Great - this article explains why only programming languages invented by men with beards will be successful.
Great - this article explains why only programming languages invented by men with beards will be successful.
Mockery, calumny and scorn: these are the weapons to fight zealots
Times Online - Mockery, calumny and scorn: these are the weapons to fight zealots
- article by Matthew Parris.
Excellent argument against Section 10 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill 2005 (I assume if it goes through). Loads of quotes from (the great) of past and present that demonstrate the absurdity of this Bill.
- article by Matthew Parris.
Excellent argument against Section 10 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill 2005 (I assume if it goes through). Loads of quotes from (the great) of past and present that demonstrate the absurdity of this Bill.
Sunday, December 12, 2004
Boing Boing: Bodies proportional to motor and sensory brain regions
Boing Boing: Kids' forensic facial reconstruction kit
Boing Boing: Kids' forensic facial reconstruction kitThe Discovery Channel has released a CSI-branded "facial reconstruction kit" toy so that kids can play forensic scientist, reconstructing notional corpse faces. Cory says, "Man, I wish I'd had one of these as a kid." Link
Boing Boing: Unlock your car by knocking a secret code on the window
Boing Boing: Unlock your car by knocking a secret code on the window
Unlock your car by knocking a secret code on the window
The Knock-In Lock is a car add-on that unlocks your doors if you knock the correct combination of a five-to-twelve-digit knock code. It's intended for use in the event that you lock yourself out of your car:
Unlock your car by knocking a secret code on the window
The Knock-In Lock is a car add-on that unlocks your doors if you knock the correct combination of a five-to-twelve-digit knock code. It's intended for use in the event that you lock yourself out of your car:
- Estimated that nearly 1 million lockouts happen every year in Australia alone
- Highly secure, user defined, five to twelve digit AUDIBLE KNOCK code
- Shuts down for an hour with three wrong attempts
- Easily installed onto your existing central locking by auto electricians or car alarm installer with no drilling required
- No waiting around for hours for road rescue
- Avoid damage to your vehicle whilst breaking in to retreive keys
- 2 Year Manuacturers defects Warranty
- Extremely convenient to have even if you never get locked out
- Buy it NOW! Before You Desperately Need a Knock-In-Key!......
Slashdot | PSP Opened up and Exposed
Saturday, December 11, 2004
Slashdot | Man Builds 7 foot Grandfather Clock from Lego
Friday, December 10, 2004
The Register upgrades RSS feeds | The Register
Slashdot | New Global Directory of OpenPGP Keys
Boing Boing: Eyeballing airport traffic at SFO, JFK, LAX
Boing Boing: Eyeballing airport traffic at SFO, JFK, LAX
These websites could sure come in handy during the holiday travel season. This java-based web app (Link) allows you to observe the movement of flights and air traffic patterns in the Bay Area, surrounding SFO airport. Watch animated simulations of flight tracks taken from actual radar data, with about a 10 minute lag time. The site also includes links to other airports such as LAX and JFK. Here are sites for more airports - Link.
These websites could sure come in handy during the holiday travel season. This java-based web app (Link) allows you to observe the movement of flights and air traffic patterns in the Bay Area, surrounding SFO airport. Watch animated simulations of flight tracks taken from actual radar data, with about a 10 minute lag time. The site also includes links to other airports such as LAX and JFK. Here are sites for more airports - Link.
Boing Boing: Homemade film camera kicks gigapixel ass
Boing Boing: Homemade film camera kicks gigapixel ass - neat one about analogue camera/inventor with amazing picture detail, follow boin-boing comments too.
Boing Boing: Road rage cards
Boing Boing: Road rage cards - and other things that annoy like mobilephone users who talk loudly.
Wednesday, December 08, 2004
Music thing: Are White Synthesizers cooler than Black Synthesizers?*
J-Walk Blog:? Virtual Drum Machines
J-Walk Blog:? Virtual Drum Machines
"Joseph Rivers created a bunch of virtual drum machines to play with."
"Joseph Rivers created a bunch of virtual drum machines to play with."
Tuesday, December 07, 2004
J-Walk Blog:? Plain English Awards
J-Walk Blog:? Plain English Awards
The Plain English Campaign presents its annual awards.
Each year, we present awards for clear -- and baffling -- use of English. The 2004 awards will take place on Monday 6 December (Plain English Day).
Donald Rumsfeld was a winner last year, with this statement:
'Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know.'
The Plain English Campaign presents its annual awards.
Each year, we present awards for clear -- and baffling -- use of English. The 2004 awards will take place on Monday 6 December (Plain English Day).
Donald Rumsfeld was a winner last year, with this statement:
'Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know.'
Monday, December 06, 2004
PureJPEG - Filter Unnecessary JPEG Data
PureJPEG - free command line util to remove META data from JPEGs.
Sunday, December 05, 2004
The Institute of Internet History - www.ioih.org
The Observer | Comment | Marking your card
The Observer | Comment | Marking your card - kiss goodbye to your freedom of ID cards become reality.
Saturday, December 04, 2004
Boing Boing: Eavesdropping on CRTs
Boing Boing: Eavesdropping on CRTs
"This scientific paper was published two years ago, but I missed it. It may be an oldie, but it's a goodie. Computer scientist Markus Kuhn demonstrated a way to read CRT computer monitors at a distance using a photosensor, even if you're not facing the screen" - Link
"This scientific paper was published two years ago, but I missed it. It may be an oldie, but it's a goodie. Computer scientist Markus Kuhn demonstrated a way to read CRT computer monitors at a distance using a photosensor, even if you're not facing the screen" - Link
J-Walk Blog:? Beer Logos
Boing Boing: Old computer equipment comes with cigarette lighter and ashtray
Friday, December 03, 2004
Ballooning into the Sky
More processors in a car than in Space Ship One
MSN Spaces debuts - some articles
Slashdot | Liquid Lenses For Camera Phones
Slashdot | Digital Clock Without Electricity or Moving Parts
Thursday, December 02, 2004
Boing Boing: Corgi Toys art gallery
Wednesday, December 01, 2004
12 sided calendar
12 sided calendar - how to make them - created pdf files too.
Boing Boing: Victorian Fax
"WebFX" - The Web Graphics Tool
"WebFX" - The Web Graphics Tool - excellent site which takes URL of an image and then applies one of a range of effects.
Like Photoshop or Paintshop effects - but on the web. Copy results for use.
Like Photoshop or Paintshop effects - but on the web. Copy results for use.
