Halo 3: Rocket Deflected with a Grenade!

From Ownatron:






That... was pretty awesome.

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Link storm 2 September 14 2007

Chuck Taylor® All Star® Slip Orange Chuck Taylors

Reskay Modern Executive Furniture, Designer Mobile Pedestals, Home Office Some cool office furniture

aws - simple access to Amazon EC2 and S3 Amazon Web Services s3 simple tools. This is good stuff.

CCBill Businesscenter CC bill Credit Card processor.

Can Think's electric car revolutionize the auto industry? - August 1, 2007 Fjord?

Calvin College - News - Calvin Students Research Kent County Congregations Neat mini supercomputer.

daft_punk_-_interstella_5555.avi


Bravenet Media Network Advertising with Bravenet.

bblean


..:: NRB modular building specialists - Project Summaries, Commerical & Office ::.. NRB modular building specialists.

Link Storm 1 September 14 2007

Another storm of links! I'm cleaning out my URL folder.


100_6669 on Flickr - Photo Sharing! A cool house

Atlas Industries Nice desks from Atlas Industries

ARIN Fee Schedule

advertising Advertising your product on the side of a cool bike-car-thing

.::HyperDrive4::. Technical Information A RAM disk

:: Analyst Zone ::  Executive Assistance, a value delivery approach Executive Assistants


Amazon.com: Reviews for Eureka 71A Hand-Held Vacuum: Kitchen & Dining This is an amazing vacuum (I have one).

Detales » Blog Archive » NATIONWIDE CNN, YouTube debate “GOATSE’D!!!” CNN gets GOATSE'd (possibly NSFW)

Your Guide to Never Feeling Tired Again

Your Guide to Never Feeling Tired Again:

Every day, 2.2 million Americans complain of being tired. Most of us chalk it up to having too much to do and not enough time to do it in, especially during extra-busy periods. But often the true culprits are our everyday habits: what we eat, how we sleep, and how we cope emotionally. Read on for some simple, recharging changes that can help you tackle all of the energy stealers in your life.

Technorati Tags: health, wellness

How to make a million dollars

How to make a million dollars:

Far easier to make a thousand dollars from each of a thousand people, or even $10,000 from a hundred organizations. You can focus on a small hive of people, a group that talks to itself. You can push through a smaller dip and reach a level of recommendation and dominance that makes incremental sales far easier.

This is why I read Seth's blog. Not the only reason, but this is the core. He talks sense.

Technorati Tags: purplecow, sethgodin

Lead in paint prompts Thomas the Tank toy recall

CTV.ca | Lead in paint prompts Thomas the Tank toy recall:

A recall has been issued for Thomas the Tank Engine wooden railway toys in Canada and the United States. About 1.5 million of the toys are present in homes across the U.S. and an addition 325 thousand in homes worldwide, including Canada.

...

"Surface paints on the recalled products contain lead. Lead is toxic if ingested by young children and can cause adverse health effects," the CPSC said in a press release.

Please take a look and make sure your kids aren't playing with any of these, they're everywhere.

Technorati Tags: kids, safety, toys

livehttpheaders

This is a wicked cool debugging tool for Mozilla. If you're a sysadmin and you want to see what's going on under the hood while you make requests, you'll want to install this extention.

mozdev.org - livehttpheaders: index:

http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/

Technorati Tags: developer, firefox, mozilla, sysadmin

YouTube - Gnarls Barkley Crazy Theremin Jam

This video is an experiment to see how rapidly the theremin can be injected into the world's collective consciousness. It's amazing that not everyone knows what a theremin is. It was the first electronic musical instrument and it was invented in 1919. Are Cee-Lo and Danger Mouse from Gnarls Barkley really theremin players? There's only one way to find out!

Check it out.

Technorati Tags: music

A speedy and unfair comparison of OS X web browsers

Process			CPU%	Thread	Real Mem	Virt Mem	Messages

OmniWeb			0.00	14	26.17 MB	216.63 MB	5,947
Safari			0.70	6	16.85 MB	172.31 MB	4,128
Opera			0.80	7	31.90 MB	272.32 MB	6,078
firefox-bin		0.20	8	54.95 MB	220.68 MB	11,156

This is what the footprint of my various web browsers looks like when each is opened with one window rendering Google.

I'm using Safari and Opera as a team almost exclusively now. Opera for speed searches and reference, and Safari for pages with persistence and that have funky rendering. It's working out great, as I can drag links from one to the other effortlessly.

What I Do and Why Opera has such a large RAM footpront

I've turned off most scripting, cookies and other fluff like Flash in Opera, and it caches pages only to a 20MB chunk of RAM (no disk cache).

Since my Powerbook's 4200RPM disk is always chugging, this does seem to make a difference in responsiveness so I am glad to sacrifice the additional Real Memory for this speed boost.

Opera feels really responsive and has a lot of handy features (auto-reload, speed dial), so keeping a dozen windows open with forums and stuff doesn't chunk down my Powerbook like Firefox does, even with the RAM hit. Doing the same thing in Firefox not only eats up the RAM but the disk as well with Virtual Memory and Lord knows what else.

I have Opera's speed dial set up for discussion sites that I frequent. Most render pretty much flawlessly even with many standard browser features disabled.

Safari is my "Default browser" and it is configured to accept all cookies. I use this for all secure pages and Google Mail for example.

Interaction between Opera and Safari is as easy as dragging one link from Opera to Safari if I need to render something properly or if I have something to add to a forum conversation.


I am such a resource hog that Firefox was taking up too much of a RAM footprint (also mostly my fault because of extensions and just general fluff). Firefox is still a browser I open up to render the really finicky pages and I still actually prefer it over all, but it's too much of a hog on the PPC Mac platform.

Technorati Tags: Apple, Firefox, interface, Opera, osx, PowerBook, Safari

SCUD Vblog

Indy-comic booky-hit Scud the Disposable Assassin returns in an omnibus of all 20 issues plus the long-awaited finale.

Technorati Tags: comics

.:wayfar:.

.:wayfar:.

Midines is a hardware / cartridge interface (game) that enables MIDI control of the 8bit NES sound chip. Midines allows the 8bit NES to join the ranks along side other retro gear in the professional MIDI recording studio. NesFX is a retro graphic visualization that is seeded by the incoming MIDI sound data, and is included with Midines.

Version 1.1.0 features 256 samples (accessible in two keyboard banks) featuring TR707,TR808,TR909,LINN,Amen+other breaks, stabs, and essential chip battlz.

Technorati Tags: NES, Nintendo

SANS Internet Storm Center; Cooperative Network Security Community - Internet Security - isc

ISC posted a story about a possible new hole in PHP. Quick summary below, check out their site (and subscribe to their RSS because it's handy!) for links etc. SANS Internet Storm Center; Cooperative Network Security Community - Internet Security - isc:

More PHP Phun
Published: 2007-06-06,
Last Updated: 2007-06-06 03:20:41 UTC
by Chris Carboni (Version: 1)
Jack wrote in to tell us that US-CERT posted the following advisory:

US-CERT is aware of a publicly reported vulnerability in PHP. PHP version 5.2.3 may be vulnerable to an integer overflow within the chunk_split() function.

More information can be found in the following PHP Security Blog.

US-CERT will provide additional information as it becomes available.

Technorati Tags: hacking, php, security

Holy NOCs Batman!

Check out this link from The F-Secure anti-virus blog - On the road:

Today I've spent the day in business meetings at a large company headquartered in New Jersey. And these guys have the coolest NOC (network operations center) I've seen anywhere in the world.

Cool Business card Design (via Digg)

AMAZING Business card Design:

"Check out this lovely design for a business card that sprouts a miniature garden when you dip it in water. The result was a business card that worked like a miniature house-plant, growing alfalfa or cress when dipped in water."


Interesting.

Transmetropolitan OSX Icon

Quickie: I just created a Transmetropolitan Mac OS X icon based off of a wallpaper created by Jake Thuecks.

So there are levels of stacked copyright infringement here but I don't think anyone will mind. Jake's rendering of the Transient movement's logo is really good and made a perfect icon.




transmetropolitan.rsrc.zip
Click on the link above to download the icon.

Transmetropolitan at Wikipedia.

If you're new to Transmetropolitan, here is issue one direct from DC Comics! Awesome.

Also, how to create a Mac OS X icon from a PNG file.

[posted with ecto]

Technorati Tags: Apple, icons, macintosh, osx, tiger, transmetropolitan

Sticker'd Powerbook!

Cynthia:

dapito posted a photo:

Cynthia googling lyric of her fave songs

Technorati Tags: Apple, PowerBook

Keyboard in the concrete

Keyboard in the concrete:

arunstephens posted a photo:

It's an old-style keyboard with the function keys on the left.

Technorati Tags: hardware, art

Screenshot 03/16/2007 - Tracks + Geektool

Screenshot 03/16/2007 - Tracks + Geektool:

bwana posted a photo:

I'm loving Tracks. It's a great GTD tool that runs on ruby on rails. I set it up on my webhost and haven't looked back. Since it supports plain-text feeds, it made it painfully easy to implement geektool task lists on my desktop. Simply wonderful.

Nice... I'm not a huge fan of Ruby on Rails yet but I think it's mainly because I don't fully understand it. I'll get there, but as it stands I'm still stuck with PHP and Perl on the brain. This makes me want to fool around with it though.

Technorati Tags: gtd, programming, Rails, Ruby

WebObjects 4.0

WebObjects 4.0:

mysistersabarista posted a photo:

WebObjects is what I use day to day so this was a gem to find, what's amazing though is that it's unopened but this version I think was when it still cost around $50,000. I'm not sure what the belgium guys with the stand wanted for it, they know its free now right?

Woah. What really got my attention in this pic was the ISDN manager!

Technorati Tags: Apple

Just for looks.

This is the bag I have my eye on; X-Small Timbuk2 Courier, custom.









The old Timbuk2 for reference; Medium Courier.

Video: iPhone vs. Windows Mobile

For those who have wanted to know how Windows Mobile stacked up to the iPhone’s interface, check out this interesting comparison.

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Endless Amiga videos on YouTube

PJME has dug up some great videos on YouTube. Doing some more searching revealed a pretty decent archive!

Including the last day at the Commodore Amiga factory. Interesting stuff.

The New Amiga (1988) Part One | Part Two - Featuring F/A 18 Interceptor and ultimate synth-rock hair.

Amiga Demos and game footage! A Demo | Mercenary: The Second City | Swiv! | Awesome!

Technorati Tags: 80s, amiga

Remind Me

Technorati Tags: cool, music, video

A review of the 2007 Cannondale Bad Boy Ultra

[ News: April 23, 2009 - Here's a Long Haul update of the 2007 Cannondale Bad Boy Ultra.  Check it out to see how it held up! ]

I picked up my new bike on Friday, a few months earlier than I had actually planned. The 2007 Cannondale Bad Boy Ultra is, for me, the perfect compromise between a hard-core road bike and a somewhat liberal interpretation of a mountain bike.

Making up my mind...

My biking patterns have changed over the years from a lot of off-road and trail riding to inner-city exploration. I love the durability of the mountain bike format but I am constantly trying for more speed.

My Schwinn Moab 2 on the Kurt Kinetic trainer.

The bike I have been riding since 2K is a 1999Schwinn Moab 2 which has stood up to the test of time and my abuse amazingly well. It is my first serious bike but I have exclusively ridden a series of either mountain or BMX bikes since I was 10 years old. I'm not eager for a radical interface switch.

I liked the nimble feel of my mountain bike, and I love the speedy trigger shifters, so both of these features were a must. I also wanted thinner road slicks and a higher gear ratio for flat-out performance (since I have stopped climbing steep, slippery dirt trails for the most part, the granny gears on my Moab 2 are somewhat useless).

My choice was between the Bad Boy Disc and the Bad Boy Ultra; my argument for the Disc over the Ultra being price and that the HeadShok on the Ultra may dampen any power pedaling I might do.






Cannondale solved this one for me. On the Ultra you can lock out the HeadShok suspension, meaning you have the choice between a stiff ride on flat, smoother surfaces or front suspension for regular riding over the potholes and whatever garbage you may come across downtown.

That's really wicked. So now it's like I have two different bikes. The Cannondale site doesn't actually mention this! I was shown this awesome feature by my sales guy, Mike, at Dukes on Queen. If you're in Toronto and you need a bike, I highly recommend Dukes and I wouldn't be the only one to do so. They were professional and friendly; not something I'm used to at most specialty tech stores (think computer stores for example).

Another interesting feature is on the design of the shifters. They are standard trigger shifters, but you can also shift by pulling up and down on them. It's a bit hard to explain, but the closest I can come is calling them "3D" shifters.

The bike is pretty light. It's not the lightest by far, especially compared to some of the road-only models, but it's much lighter than my Moab 2 yet it feels like it offers the same durability. Riding this bike compared to my Moab 2 feels like I have lost substantial weight, but I'm not sure how much a more dramatic decrease in bike weight would help my riding style. That is a bit surprising, because going from the astounding weight of my Schwinn Frontier to the Schwinn Moab 2 felt like I had lost a passenger. Spending more for an even lighter bike in the same format would probably produce even less wow than that, so I am quite happy with the weight.

The pedals it came stocked with are Wellgo dual-function pedals, meaning they are standard vanilla bike pedals on one side, and clipless pedals on the other. I'll be using the clipless side mostly. I have no intention of locking this bike to a pole downtown to do some shopping, so I am considering changing out the pedals eventually to fully clipless.

The first ride...

I picked it up at lunch time on Friday, going up to Dukes to get them to fit it for me which they do at no extra cost. It's not just a matter of adjusting the seat; Mike put the Bad Boy on a trainer, and I had to ride it for 15 minutes as settings were tweaked. He also gave me some excellent tips on hand position and posture that I'm going to try and stick with while riding.

Improper riding attire.

After getting all of my ridiculous winter gear on I nervously walked it out of the store and on to the street. A new bike, in sub-zero temperatures, wearing giant robot gloves does not make for a confident first ride. Mounting it and pedaling off, it felt pretty familiar to me. Close enough to my current bike to be very comfortable, but it felt a lot more nimble and acceleration was effortless.

My ride to work from Dukes is about 10 minutes, it is close enough that you could walk there in 25 or so. An excellent length for a debut ride. My confidence increased as I found the feeling of how new and different this bike was quickly passing. I had been riding full tilt through traffic and I hadn't felt shaky or unsure once.

The stability and balance of this bike is surprising. When I was doing research on the Bad Boy, a few people had cited the length of the handle bars as a downside. They are long, but from my riding experience this adds to the feeling of balance. Nimble is the best one-word description of the Bad Boy. As I rode back to work my cornering felt sure, and the one quick u-turn I made (after a quick exploration of a street I hadn't noticed before) was totally effortless.

The dual disc brakes are still brand spanking new. They felt ok, but I really can't judge until I put some miles on them.

By the time I hit Liberty St. I was focused on just how damned cold it is in this country in February, so after that point I lost track of exactly how awesome my first ride was.

The day after...

No buyers remorse yet. I have been making adjustments to it today to get it to fit in millimeter by millimeter increments (so really I'm just fooling around with it).

Technorati Tags: badboy, bicycle, cannondale, environment

Will Ferrell Earth To America

Technorati Tags: environment, funny

It's raining baseballs!

Technorati Tags: weat

Super hot touch-screen

This is a pretty amazing demo vid of a giant touch-screen wall.




http://fastcompany.com/video/general/perceptivepixel.html

[posted with ecto]

Edit: Bonus - Ow My Head.

Technorati Tags: geek, hardware, interface

WiiSaber Makes your WiiMote into a Lightsaber

So Evan just got a Wii with accompanying Wiimote. We were wondering if the Bluetooth capabilities of the Wiimote would work with the Mac... well guess what...

Just grab your WiiMote, turn on your Mac's bluetooth, and run WiiSaber to link the two for a motion-sensor based Lightsaber sound effect battle royale.

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