Longline Tool

Make mosaics from the Long Line Flickr group pool.

Private Eye Covers

For the uneducated, Private Eye is a British news satire magazine. You can see all the covers going back all the way to page 94.
(via boingboing)

IBM T40 video drivers

I wrestle frequently with the video drivers for the T40 and persuading them to work with a 1600x1200 DVI display. Version 6.14.10.6476 supported this, unlike previous versions, but the latest, 6.14.10.6497, does not. So it's time to use:
these drivers
modified
with this.
Guess what? It worked, and now I have driver 6.14.10.6512.

Unobtrusive Javascript

A nice tutorial about the separation of Church and State markup, style and behavior.

Caller ID spoofing

For a few years I've told people not to believe what their caller ID boxes tell them. Last year a friend had her new credit card stolen from the mail, and activated from her own home phone number, or so the CC company thought.

Well, now you can make your own fake caller ID calls, for $0.05 per minute.

Bay Area Mash Up Scene

An interview with Party Ben provides a handy list of places to look for the latest stuff:

"There's Adrian and Mysterious D, the SF Weekly-award nominated DJs who started Club Bootie, and who make mash-ups as well--plus Adrian leads "Smash-Up Derby", the all-mash-up live band. DJ Earworm is the real artist of the scene, making epic, complex mash-ups out of four or five songs, and using some serious software and technology to really push boundaries. Appropriately, he's been featured at gigs at the SF Museum Of Modern Art. DJ Tripp out of Santa Cruz is incredibly prolific and attentive to new music, and is usually the first one out with a mash-up of a new song. Matt Hite runs a website called www.beatmixed.com that is a clearinghouse for all things remix-oriented, plus makes some mash-ups himself. Local synth-pop musician Tristan Shout has taken his signature techno style to his Kraftwerk and Moby-sampling mash-ups, and DJ Mei-Lwun has brought a crowd-pleasing attitude to his hugely popular mash-ups like Lynyrd Skynyrd vs. Nelly. DJ Jay-R spins at the Castro club The Cafe, and many of his bootlegs aim towards the campy side."

And don't forget Get Your Bootleg On.

knockoff*project

Album covers that are knock-offs of other album covers. A wonder to behold.

Generate texty images

Try typoGenerator and Church Sign Generator.

How To Handle A Knife

In the kitchen, not on the street. Don't run with scissors.

Want to be scared?

Find out how many sex offenders live near you. Then look at the list and see how many are in violation of their registration requirements. Yikes.

California Coastal Records Project

Images from the whole length of the coastline, in high resolution. EXIF data, too.

Honda Parts

Includes instructions for installing things, in case you want to hook up your iPod or something.

Google Is Now A Domain Registrar

I wonder if I can buy domains from them.

Dave M's pictures

On pbase, and on flickr.

b00mb0x

They should fix that RSS feed.

High voltage fun with other people's junk

Build plasma globes, spud guns, and even a night vision scope.

Addictive Game

Stick to wheels, fly off, and don't forget gravity.

Ninja Wizards

WifiGraph

I need to mess with my code.

Give me a W. Give me a Z. Give me a C. What have you got? Crap.

From a handy thread from last year.
Use news article for XP SP2.
For older OSes and CE, read about WZCSetInterface and its brethren.
Need a picture? Try this.
Hmm, sounds like we have more undocumented Windows calls on our hands. And wasn't WMI supposed to let us do all this?

How to get the weather

Now you don't have to use SOAP. You can just use a plain old HTTP call. You still get XML back, though.

Handy tool for HTTP monitoring

The dubiously named assniffer is rather useful for debugging your HTTP applications.

everythingispossible.com : Invert : PH Corporation

I wonder how long it will be until this site is shut down.

Potter Potter Potter

Another clone of The Badger
(via delicious)

Cookies and Brownies

Only the military could come up with a recipe, no, specification, that is 26 pages long.
(via This is Broken)

WebCams

More webcams than you've ever seen, probably.

Ludicrous Scenario Survival Handbook

This is the best b3ta post I've seen in a long time.

PortSwigger - Burp

A collection of handy tools for diagnosing web applications.

Want to drive an SUV?

Long, but worth reading, and could save your life.

Dog flinging game

Sam's Laser FAQ

Camera Mail

Cute project. See the insides of the USPS. Cynical prediction: USPS terrorist fears cause camera mail to be shut down.

Yikes

AnimalCam, with sound. I woke the poodle.

what time can do to the crazed kid

New decorations for your office wall, methinks.
(Tootsie rolls, Lays, Coke, My Little Pony, Slipper, coat hanger, basket, Rubbermaid boxes, and lots of wiring help too)

Automatic image stitching

Panorama stitching with no user input whatsoever (other than selecting the files), which is As It Should Be.

Girerd Family Home Page

My good friend Rich was diagnosed with bad bad cancer last week. The family is keeping the web site updated with news.

DR3I presented by the Andkon Arcade

Friday gamefulflashness.

Project C-90

Every cassette tape ever manufactured, as far as I can tell. All of my old friends are there.

Google Print Search

Search just Print, rather than having to get it via main search.

Converting between Signal Strength and RSSI

How handy.

Book-A-Minute

If you don't have time to read, try this. I read "The Hobbit" plus all three volumes of Lord Of The Rings in less than a minute and a half!

802.11b 300mW High Power Wireless PC Card - Prism 2.5

Someone showed me one of these. 300mW transmit, and -96dBm receive sensitivity. Nice!

Build your own 2.4Ghz 15dbi Yagi

The time has come for me to build another antenna. Maybe this one.
Handy things I might do before building it: optimize it or just analyze it.

SFO Near Live Flight Tracks

Been around a while, but still cool.

Fathers, lock up your daughters

The car every 5-year old girl wants their dad to have. Scary.

EVC4 SP3 linker settings bug

If you get the following error with a freshly created project...
corelibc.lib(pegwmain.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _WinMain referenced in function _WinMainCRTStartup
Then you can fix it by changing your project's linker settings.
Project / Settings / Link / Entry-point symbol should be wWinMainCRTStartup, not WinMainCRTStartup. Remember all PPC apps are supposed to be Unicode, so you need the Unicode entry point.

Trycktill.com | Unlock your mobile phone for free!

That is, as long as it's not my phone, which is made by some other manufacturer.

The Hercules System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture Emulator

Though I dated my wife via an IM-like system on an IBM 3084Q, I don't think I will be running this emulator.

Froogle Shopping List

Just in time for Christmas, Froogle now has wish lists, so now I can tell you what stuff I want that isn't available on Amazon.

oqo

I just played with one of these. Now I know what I need for Christmas.

Dolphins save swimmers from shark

Look at it from the dolphin's point of view. Which would you prefer: a feeding frenzy, or peace among mammalian species?

American Social Hygiene Posters

More Photoshop fodder.

CNN.com - Pacman breaks out of the arcade - Nov 16, 2004

Bluetooth + GPS + inertia sensors + augmented reality? Where do I sign up?

Back in 80-column land

If you use Visual Studio .NET and would like a to see where 80-column land ends, just put this in a .REG file:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00



[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\7.1\Text Editor]

"Guides"="RGB(192, 192, 192) 80"

Hopkin Explained

Hopkin was not lost by a 5-year old boy. The story is tragic. Now let's drop this meme, shall we?

Friday Flashfulness

Many wonderfiul games.
(via waxy)

Toxics Hot Spots [Santa Clara County]

Navigate the toxic waste left behind by high tech companies.

Best. Strongbad. Evarrr.

RoboDump 1.0

"RoboDump is a robot. Sort of. And it poops. Sort of. Forever. A horrible, never-ending bowel movement complete with straining grunts, horrific gas, splashes, and pee sounds."
I'm impressed.

Whitespace programming language

While it is a joke, the programs and interpreters are real. Just try it. Coming soon: the International Obfuscated Whitespace Code Contest.

Ewrt

Ewrt is the firmware of choice for the WRT54G(v2). It has everything Linksys forgot to put in: NoCat, Wondershaper, Dropbear SSHD, and more.
Next, get all the SSH keys figured out.

P.S. I'll find my frog

BooTleg

Now that is a lot of bootlegs.

Illegal to be Homeless

Apparently it's illegal to be homeless in many places.

Snapshots

More potatshopping fodder. Look out for it on one of B3ta, Fark or Something Awful.

Friday Flashfulness

Easy, until level 12 (password: ppdryarea)

Kim Jong Il (the illmatic)'s Journal

This nearly made me reverse-snort my coffee.

Homeopathy: The Ultimate Fake

Don't be fooled into paying for a tiny share in the $20M duck.

CNN.com Election 2004 - U.S. President

Those results, as they come in, with Flashful goodness.

The Gallery of Stick-Figure Warning Signs

Ouch!

An Introduction to Cluster Ballooning

Lawn chairs? No. Proper harnesses, please.

Milner's Descriptive Atlas, 1850

Nice old maps at decent resolution.

Best Photos of 2004

Who am I to disagree? These photos rock.

Just put your lips together, and blow

Google Answers: whistling

Get your MP3 fix

MP3 4U has only free and legal stuff.
Meanwhile, AllOfMP3 has non-free stuff cheap.

TV-B-Gone: status report

The good news: Web site back up, finally.
The bad news: All out of stock, not taking orders yet.

Your Friday joke roundup

Including the gem

A woman gets on a bus with her baby. The bus driver says: “That's the ugliest baby that I've ever seen.” The woman goes to the rear of the bus and sits down, fuming. She says to a man next to her: “That driver just insulted me!” The man says: “You go right up there and tell him off – go ahead, I'll hold your monkey for you.”

Sparklines

From the wild world of Edward Tufte.

Dyslexic Phishing

Today I got this rather amusing attempt at a phishing email. It, ah, speaks for itself. Use "view source" to be further amused.

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Not only is it illegible, the URL features a triple Google redirect to nowhere at all.

Webnote - an online tool for taking notes

More collaborative editing online, but with XSS vulnerabilities added!

Skinning Gmail with a Custom Stylesheet

Presumably this could be adapted to any other web site you care about. Mmm, Slashdot.

City of Palo Alto: Creek Monitor

I blogged it last year, and now that the rains are upon us I'll blog it again.

Just Letters

Flash app of the week.

Winning the Oil Endgame

I just heard a talk from this guy. Fascinating.

I love machine translation

Tacos Al Pastor. Note the sixth ingredient. Don't try this in your kitchen, kids.

Subdivide your sphere

The Hierarchical Triangular Mesh has some handy properties, methinks.

Advanced debugging tips and stuff you never knew about the "Find" combo box

Wooo. This week's other hot Windows tip is that you can press Ctrl+C in a MessageBox dialog to copy all the text to the clipboard. The question remains: why didn't I already know this?

WhatTheFont

I've used Identifont for a while, but this kicks Identifont's rear.

Another reason to buy "The Sims"

Games don't make people violent. Violent people make people violent. Or something.

Dad's home!

For your Monday Flash viewing pleasure.

Sueo's graduation party

Sueo's graduation party
Originally uploaded by mariusm.

Dell power adapter recall

The affected adapters were shipped with Latitude, Inspiron and Precision M40 notebooks 9/1998-2/2002.

1. Part number is 09364U, 04983D or 07832D
2. Manufacturer is Delta Electronics (mine is Astec China - yay, I'm not affected!)
   

Party Ben's Sixx Mixx

More available at his web site. They are all rather cool in various ways, and if you're within range of Live105 then you can catch the new ones on Fridays, 6-630pm...
(Thanks, Boom Selection via DJ French Bloke)

Cute Java Zipcode Thing

Now in MP2 format

But where's episode 3? (Episode 1 was also here)
Update: There are torrents, but they don't work for me :(
Further update: Episode 3 is here but called episode 2.

ASCII Generator

In case you need to generate huge ASCII text.

Bushism DVD Promo video

ROFL.

Drive from LA to NY in 4 minutes

Slow download, but definitely worth watching.

The Household Cyclopedia

Or, "how to kill yourself, your pets and your friends, using heavy metals and other dubious remedies". Watch out for horses with farcy, glanders, spavins, wind-galls, cribbiting, and other disorders. Dog got mange? Mercurial ointment. Distemper? Try opium. I find it odd that females have their own class of diseases, yet males do not. Don't try this at home, kids.

Recipe 23021 --- Beaver in Sour Cream

Tasty? I doubt it.

How To Write Unmaintainable Code

New code style guidelines for the masses: the naming part is particularly entertaining.

Use accented characters on variable names. E.g.

typedef struct { int i; } ínt;

where the second ínt's í is actually i-acute. With only a simple text editor, it's nearly impossible to distinguish the slant of the accent mark.