October 24, 2003

Poor Domain Name Choice

I don't think they spent enough time considering the the domain name whorepresents.com!

Not about gifts to prostitutes...

Posted by Steve at 10:28 AM

IP Block Hijacking

Beware you hijackers of IP blocks that don't belong to you!

They're on to you!

Posted by Steve at 09:28 AM

Artificial Landscape..

You should look at this tool for computer generating landscape... trees, grass.

There's even a downloadable demo (but you need a newer video card)..

There are movies on the site.

Posted by Steve at 09:18 AM

Java or C++

Can you identify the source of this function?

Posted by Steve at 09:05 AM

October 23, 2003

Ray Guns RSN!

We are going to make us all wear our aluminum foil hats and uniforms to defeat the evil alien invaders using their solid state lasers ray guns!

Posted by Steve at 04:03 PM

October 21, 2003

Book - The Art of UNIX Programming

Eric Raymond's new book "The Art of UNIX Programming" is out and the full text is available on-line in HTML format.

Posted by Steve at 02:35 PM

Java Preferences API

Useful API introduced in Java 1.4 for handling simple objects!

Posted by Steve at 02:30 PM

J2EE Security Tutorial

If you're interested in finding out more about the J2EE security model then you'll want to read this article!

Posted by Steve at 02:28 PM

Linux vs *BSD Benchmarks

You might be interested in seeing how the various *BSD (Open,Free,Net) match up with Linux (2.4, 2.6).

The Linux 2.6 kernel seemed to be the favorite -- mainly because he didn't know how to configure the kernel....

Posted by Steve at 01:42 PM

NEW Lost in Space TV Series

For you Lost in Space fans the series is coming back to the WB!

Posted by Steve at 01:37 PM

October 20, 2003

Carbon Nanotubes

A good article on the state of Carbon Nanotube possibilities!

Posted by Steve at 10:24 AM

Rox Sox Fun!

Ouch!

Somebody not happy here!

I did like the reason it was withdrawn from the auction...

Posted by Steve at 10:12 AM

Meet the Meat Network!

A new 10MB wireless network that doesn't use radio waves - it uses human bodies...

Posted by Steve at 09:44 AM

New Security Scanning Chair

This new device sounds interesting...

but, it leaves more questions than answers...

What will the guards do for fun?

How EXACTLY does it work?

Posted by Steve at 09:31 AM

October 17, 2003

Interesting Play on Image Analysis

An interesting article covering a novel set of specialized Image analysis processors!

Posted by Steve at 02:12 PM

Matrix Reloaded Trailers!

FYI

New Matrix Reloaded Trailer!

Posted by Steve at 09:25 AM

Fart Tax?

Oh my an I in trouble if this ever passes!

Posted by Steve at 08:52 AM

Pinocchio Missing Parts?

Anyone seen Pinocchio lately?

He may be missing some vital parts!

;-}

Posted by Steve at 08:50 AM

October 16, 2003

DVD/DVR w/removable HD

Here we go!

A DVD/DVR that has a removeable hard drive tray!

Now if you upsize how do you copy your old stuff over... hmmm..

Posted by Steve at 12:30 PM

New Jeep!

Here's the new Jeep model that you've been waiting for!

I'm still trying to track down what the option numbers are for the rotors!

Posted by Steve at 12:18 PM

Thinking Bomb Shelter?

Here's an interesting article about bomb shelters...

Posted by Steve at 11:56 AM

Sharp and Smooth Business Move!

WOW!

Buy Network Solutions for $20B in 2000 and sell it in 2003 for $100M!

... nothing like a top notch management team now is there? ;-}

Posted by Steve at 11:07 AM

October 15, 2003

Upgrading to 19" LCD?

If you're thinking of upgrading (or just bought one and want to see how it compares) you should go and look at this review of 11 different models!

Posted by Steve at 03:57 PM

Become the Bionic Man!

We should all get one of these outfits to wear around...

Definitely high on the "take me to your leader" list!

Posted by Steve at 03:53 PM

October 14, 2003

Unicode Primer

A bloody marvelous tutorial on Unicode!

If you want to do I18N software then this is a must read!

Posted by Steve at 07:58 PM

Own Yer Own STng Apartment

An apartment for sale on eBay that is fully outfitted to look like the Enterprise on STng!

Voice activated lights!

Scary, just Scary!

Posted by Steve at 11:09 AM

Tabbed Interface on IE

If you've ever been interested in having a tabbed interface when using Internet Exploder you might be interested in CrazyBrowser!

I haven't tried it yet, but I will..

Posted by Steve at 11:05 AM

The Challenge!

Anyone up for a six pound hamburger?

arf!

Posted by Steve at 11:02 AM

World Sunlight Map

A very cool picture showing dawn/dusk and where sunlight currently is on the planet!

Posted by Steve at 11:00 AM

Dr. Evil Soundboard!

Somebody has clipped the sayings from Dr Evil...

Zip it!

Posted by Steve at 10:58 AM

October 13, 2003

Eat & Breath FIRE!

Admit it, you've all wanted to be able to eat and breath fire!

Now there are written instructions!

Posted by Steve at 04:45 PM

Pong Lovers

If you like pong you'll LOVE this one!

Posted by Steve at 04:22 PM

Bio Motion

A cool bio-motion walking simulator.

If you're interested in that then you'll want to see the rest of the site.

Posted by Steve at 04:17 PM

Life's Little Lessons

There are a lot of important things to remember and ponder in this article!

Posted by Steve at 01:23 PM

Scary on many levels...

The contents of this page is just disturbing on so many, many levels...

Posted by Steve at 12:59 PM

IMAX version of Matrix Revolutions Due SOON!

The IMAX version of Matrix Revolutions is due out on Nov 5th!

... nowhere close though...

Posted by Steve at 12:48 PM

Ford to Compete with Ferrari!

The new Ford GT at $150K is looking to pick up some folks who are looking for a new Ferrari 360 Modena or Lamborghini Gallardo.

The real "Zoom Zoom"!

Posted by Steve at 12:31 PM

UltraSparc IV is announced!

The new UltraSparc IV doubles the speed of it's predecessor!

Posted by Steve at 12:23 PM

Glass Eye on ebay..

Strange story to go with it... but it rings true!

started at $20, now $108.49... and still 2 days to go..!

now let's see... what parts have I got to sell.... ;-}

Posted by Steve at 12:07 PM

Driving Too Fast?

Guess he's driving fast enough!

Posted by Steve at 12:01 PM

October 11, 2003

They Know What They're Doing.

Profit is porking to the software industry what it did to the steel industry.


Gotta love it! Labor costs driving the jobs overseas. And these are the same geniuses who bid the labor costs up so high doing stupid projects. and they've all still got their jobs.

No shit!

Posted by Steve at 08:42 PM

Tapping Fiber

It IS possible to tap fiber and read everything!

Posted by Steve at 08:35 PM

multiple monitors..

Another set of cool monitor technology...

Size your own!

Posted by Steve at 08:12 PM

October 10, 2003

Be Identified by How you TYPE!

Just what the world needs!

Software that can identify you by your individual, distinct typing style!

Yikes..

I can see it now...

Joe: "I wrote the paper."

Prof: "no, that was written by, let's see, Sue"

Joe: "no, I wrote it she just typed it in for me.."

Prof: "yeah, right"

Posted by Steve at 12:09 PM

INGRES Soon to be 30!

Wow!

Hard to believe that INGRES will be thirty years old next year!

Posted by Steve at 12:02 PM

UAV News!

Article from Berkeley on some work they're doing with Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs).

Some cool stuff in there on what they're doing with navigation and terrain detection!

Posted by Steve at 11:59 AM

Laser Powered Aircraft

Gets it's power from a ground based laser...

It's just a model..

Posted by Steve at 09:13 AM

I need more snow!

If we got a little more snow I might have to build one of these!

Anyone volunteer to be the first passenger?

Anyone read swedish?

Posted by Steve at 08:56 AM

My Kind of Organization!

We all should have membership cards to this organization!

Make sure you read the history!

Posted by Steve at 08:48 AM

October 09, 2003

Halloween Reciipes

It's that time again afterall...

Posted by Steve at 02:55 PM

Know Your Friends

It always helps to know who you can trust out there!

Hopefully someone took pictures!

Posted by Steve at 02:46 PM

Sex is good for EVERYTHING!

What all us guys have known!

Sex is good for everything from weightloss, reduced risk of heart disease, pain relief, reduced depression and even your teeth!

Posted by Steve at 08:34 AM

North Korean anti-American Propaganda

Stole the Olympic Gold medal?

Posted by Steve at 08:25 AM

October 08, 2003

Biotech News

Here's an article on the latest bio-engineering craze -- glowing fish for your aquarium...

other bio-feats are mentioned too!

Posted by Steve at 01:25 PM

Impressive Showing!

Did anyone else notice that Gary Coleman posted a respectable 8th out of 135 candidates in yesterday's election?

... and the porn star came in 10th!

Bravo I say!

Posted by Steve at 01:13 PM

Lunar Lander Flash Game

Oh sorry, they call it "Asteroid Lander"..

I remember doing this in assembly on a minicomputer using KSR-33...

Posted by Steve at 09:41 AM

Creative 404 Page

Now here's an attention getting 404 page!

Posted by Steve at 09:35 AM

October 07, 2003

Smaller and Bigger Hard Drives

WOW!

A 1" HDD that fits in a CompactFlash slot and has 4.8 GB!

Posted by Steve at 07:59 PM

Addictive Little Game

This one can make you think...

Posted by Steve at 09:22 AM

Male Contraceptives

They've got a new male contraceptive out that was 100% effective during trials...

Reversible too...

I don't even want to contemplate how the trial was conducted..

Posted by Steve at 09:07 AM

Multiformat DVD Recorders

For those of you interested here is a review of 5 different DVD records that can record in different formats.

The VCR's day is done... guess the VHS vs BetaMax debate is finally over! ;-}

Posted by Steve at 09:04 AM

Googling Morons..

There's just something fundamentally wrong with the results of this Google image search...

(you might not want to look too close ;-)

Posted by Steve at 08:57 AM

Software Jobs in India

Looks like there are lots of programming jobs in India!

and we could make $550 a month...

oh, wait, they won't let the white devils in to work, only to hire Indians..

Posted by Steve at 08:52 AM

Great practical jokes!

An amazing job!

Inspirational!

Posted by Steve at 08:37 AM

October 06, 2003

Need a New Holster?

Need a new place to park your Walther PPK?

Just be real, real careful! ;-}

Posted by Steve at 03:36 PM

All Occasion Wrapping Paper

Tired of having to keep lots of different wrapping paper around?

WELL... get some of this and you'll have all that you need!

Posted by Steve at 03:03 PM

October 03, 2003

Bowling Ball Mortar

Anybody want to help build one of these?

Posted by Steve at 11:15 PM

Cool Computer Case

Gotta have one of these...

Posted by Steve at 11:06 PM

Solar Power for Less

Cross your fingers!

They say they've got new solar cells that produce electricity for 20 times less cost than current cells.

Posted by Steve at 10:44 PM

Another Asteroid Near Miss

We'd all better get out the old Asteroids games and start practicing!

An asteroid the size of a small house came withing 50K miles!

Tikes!

Posted by Steve at 09:16 AM

Stupid Cat Tricks

Quite entertaining set of clips!

Posted by Steve at 09:11 AM

Hubble Pix

Incredible pictures!

Posted by Steve at 09:04 AM

Beer Saves Lives

What can I say..

Beer helped save someone's life!

Posted by Steve at 08:59 AM

New Contact Lense Designs

Way cool sets of contact lenses!

Especially since Halloween is just around the corner!

Posted by Steve at 08:57 AM

Proximity Computing

New technology from Sun that may eliminate circuit boards!

Allows chips to just be placed up against each other...

Way cool possibilities.

Posted by Steve at 08:55 AM

Trusted Computing

Interesting analysis of the Trusted Computing Group, aka M$/Intel/AMD trusted computing initiative...

Posted by Steve at 08:52 AM

Prison Tattoos

If you'd like to see some Russian prison tattoos then here is the place for you!

Posted by Steve at 08:45 AM

4 U Yahtzee Lovers

If you like to play yahtzee you might like this page!

Posted by Steve at 08:42 AM

the Fine Art of Piercing..

This takes tongue piercing to a new level!

It must make it tough to chew though...

Posted by Steve at 08:37 AM

Good Drugs!

New drugs in the pipeline that cause faster healing with less scaring!

Posted by Steve at 08:35 AM

theWheel

This is pretty slick!

A wheel where the drive component is in the wheel!

Generator when slowing down.

Amazing weight capacities.

Posted by Steve at 08:29 AM

October 02, 2003

Links of Interest!

Bring on the Genetically Engineered food!

dancing lessons?

Wrong, wrong, wrong!

Free ipod!

Set up your own media center.

Get a keyboard with a fingerprint scanner.

A call for fluffers.... sort of... Couldn't make myself go past the home page...

For you LotR fans..

Sun doomed? ouch!

Posted by Steve at 11:58 AM