Sunday, August 13, 2006

404: The Tubes have been clogged

The page you are looking for is temporarily unavailable. Someone has put into the tubes enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

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Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Extreme Office Prank: Office Constructed of Cardboard

"A few of us at work have been pranked one too many times by a certain coworker by the name of Mike. He was out of town for a few days and we had some extra cardboard laying around. This is what happens when you push creative IT workers too far! Enjoy your new office Mike!"

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Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Specify the caller ID and Setup a scary-as-hell phone call for a friend.

Give this program a time & number to call, specify text, and even what the caller ID should read. Hit enter, dust off hands, go enjoy a cookie and wait for your friend to be terrified as "The Government" calls and tells him he's a suspected terrorist.

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Sunday, August 06, 2006

Simple Key Mod Makes Most All Current Locks Obsolete

The most fundamental security device in the world has been hacked in a way so simply and quickly, this could be considered the biggest hack in history.

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VIDEO - Travis Pastrana Double Backflip X-Games XII

Travis pastrana is the First Person to ever Land the Double Backflip in x games competition....

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Friday, August 04, 2006

Linux Gaming: Planeshift MMORPG Releases 3.0.15!

Planeshift released its latest client of the free online MMORPG in July. This is one of my favorite games at the moment. The development team for Planeshift really stress role-playing and it is evident in the gameplay.


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Free Medical Records Management software that really works

Portland, Oregon-based technology company OpenSourcery is rapidly gaining substantial recognition for its quality open source development work. On August 15, 2006 OpenSourcery will unveil its eleMental Clinic 3.4, a free medical records management system, to an international audience at Linux World.

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Building a Desktop Firewall

Everyone knows that you should be behind a firewall whenever you go online. However, not everyone knows that it's easy to create a personal firewall for a FreeBSD (or PC-BSD or DesktopBSD) system. This article shows how even a casual home user can get a firewall up and running in about ten minutes.

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Linux Command Line Cheatsheet

A list of linux commands for common operations including: file searching, networking, directory navagation, etc.

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BusinessWeek DIGGS Cover Boy Kevin Rose - Millionaire! Valley Boy!

August 14 BusinessWeek. The cover blurb reads: How This Kid Made $60 Million In 18 Months. Digg.com's KEVIN ROSE leads a new brat pack of Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs. -- The writers grant Kevin rock star status. Oh, yes, they talk about other young web luminaries as well.

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Messy network pics: be glad your network doesn't look like this

I'd hate to be the guy made to do some of these cleanups.

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Letterman does the Diet Coke+Mentos Trick!!!

David Letterman actually performs the Diet Coke+Mentos trick on TV!! He gets some pretty good explosions!

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Thursday, August 03, 2006

How To Steal a Laptop from Store and Walk Out with It

The pink panther music was a nice touch.

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"what the f***?!?"

check out this hilarious, albeit terrifying clip of a missile launch. priceless commentary.

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Wednesday, August 02, 2006

THE worst educational recruitment video ever!

From Boing Boing: "Unfortunately, this is not a joke...and this is not an old video. Appalachian State University put out this video last year and it instantly became a viral hit amongst the educational community. It's probably THE worst educational recruitment video ever and possibly one of the worst songs ever recorded."

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3 out of 4 women now prefer a plasma tv to a diamond... THANK YOU GOD

i think 100 out of 100 men agree with this

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Lego Mindstorms NXT Launches Today!

On Aug 1, 2006, the next generation of Lego Mindstorms is now available for sale in North America. Mindstorms NXT is a robotics toolset that allows you to build and program robots for various purposes. It combines the power of the Lego technic building system and an all new intuitive software environment powered by National Instruments LabVIEW.

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Tired of prying eyes at work?

My boss recently decided that we'd be more productive if we adopted an open floor plan, which includes having all monitors facing outwards so he can keep a constant eye on what we're working on. In order to continue reading digg in peace, I whipped up a little proxy app which I thought some of you might find useful. - Dunners

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Amazing basketball shot

This kid couldn't be luckier. Turned a horrible attempt into one of the best shots I've ever seen!

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