September 30, 2005

Van Morrison Contractual Obligation Tracks

WFMU's Beware of the Blog: Van Morrison's Contractual Obligation Album

31 songs cranked out in a single session to get the heck out of dodge ( or a record contract).

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September 27, 2005

Paper Museum

Paper Museum

Paper Museum is a japanese paper folding site. Very cool models here. Lots of models as well as boxes and greeting cards.

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Interesting words

Boing Boing: Interesting words from around the world

BoingBoing posts a link to an article about interesting words. THe german ones are my favorite. Only the Germans would have a word like Backpfeifengesicht: a face that cries out for a fist in it.

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Superhandz: Hand sports

Superhandz

Superhandz is a site dedicated to "Hand Sports". The describe this as pen spinning, cup stacking and card manipulation. A really neat site with some amazing videos of people performing these feats. Worth a peek.

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September 23, 2005

Homebrew Sentry Gun

Sentry Gun

This guys decription of his homebrew sentry gun like in Half-life. Pretty neat project.

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September 22, 2005

Find-A-Human

Find-A-Human -- IVR Phone S... - Approved

Shortcuts through companies IVR phones systems to talk to a human. Interesting.

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September 21, 2005

Open Source PBX based Super Answering Machine

How To: Asterisk Answering Machine : TomsNetworking :

How to make a industrial quality answering machine that can email you when you have VM. Sweet!

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Do it yourself site

Welcome to Instructables

This site is a place for people to share step-by-step exactly how to do all kinds of cool projects.

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Cool website graphical toys

eigelb.at - Paul Schmidinger - Screendesign and Webprogramming

This guy has a ton of cool graphical toys on his website. I especially love the Blackmail one. It makes something that looks like a ransom note.

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September 20, 2005

Alternative software for my OmniFi Car player

openfi - a better alternative

An alternate software option for my OmniFi car Mp3 player. I'm really looking forward to installing this since the stock software is no longer being updated and is a little buggy. This software is an open source project and is in continued development.

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September 19, 2005

Awesome custom furniture designer

Straight Line Designs - Unique Furniture - Vancouver, Canada

This guy make stuff right out of Dr. Suess. His designs are crazy but so cool. He has dressers that look like they were modelled out of playdough. The castle bed in the gallery is amazing.

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September 16, 2005

PSP ROM and emulator stuff

PSP Emulators and ISOs: Playing Games from Other Consoles and Backing up Your UMDs

All kinds of cool things to do with your PSP.

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September 14, 2005

HTPC solution roundup

www.eirikso.com » Blog Archive » HTPC Frontend roundup

One man's roundup of the solutins he has personally tried.

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World's lightest indoor RC airplane

Plantraco's RTF Butterfly - Fly in your Livingroom!

This is ultracool. I'd love to torment my cats with this. I would fly it all around my livingroom, watching them chase it. The sad part would be when they caught it and I was out $239 for a 10 minute cat toy.

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Old Radio shows available

OldRadioFun.com - Welcome

A site that provides old radio shows for download as MP3s. SciFi, Thriller, and Detective categorys.

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Google offers a blog search tool

John Battelle's Searchblog: Google To Launch Blog Search

John Battelle of Boing BOing fame reports that Google is offering a tool specifically for searching the blogosphere. Neat.

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September 13, 2005

Vintage Projects site

Vintage Projects, Plans

An archive of projects you can do yourself from vintage plans. Sweet!

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ubuntu linux distrubution

Announcing the Preview Release of Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger)

A cool linux distrubution. Need to burn myself a disc of this tocarry around in my cd case.

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September 09, 2005

Good Tips and Tricks for building paper models

Card Modeling FAQ: 3. How about tips on techniques?

This site has some excelent advice about building paper models like can be found on sites like Paper Forest.

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September 08, 2005

Excellent EFF explanation of DRM restrictions of some major online music retailers

EFF: The Customer Is Always Wrong: A User's Guide to DRM in Online Music

This stuff just cheezes me off.

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Cool Slide Lamp Project

ReadyMade: Feature - Slide Lamp

ReadyMade magazine has a project for turning old (or new) slides into a cool lampshade.

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September 07, 2005

PocketMod

PocketMod: The Free Disposable Personal Organizer

A website that helps you make a quick little pocket organizer.

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How to make Foam Latex puppets for stop animation

Animation Students! * Stop Motion Old Schoolers! * Puppet Enthusiasts! *

With the Do It Yourself! Foam Latex Puppetmaking 101DVD...

You CAN do it yourself!

A DVD that shows how to make foam latex puppets for use in stop animation. So cool! I mihgt need to add this to my findgift list.

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Great Howard Pyle Pirate Illustrations

Howard Pyle Illustrations - a photoset on Flickr

Some amazing illustrations of pirate scenes by Howard Pyle.

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Nice retro reference site

RATO RECORDS

Some great pinups and album covers and photos from the 50s, 60s and 70s. Check out the "Girls Party" on page 5 of the Color Portfolio Gallery. Lots of cool pictures.

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September 01, 2005

How to use googles SMTP server for any email address

MobileRead Networks - How to send e-mails from any address using Gmail's SMTP server

Instructions on how to add verified email adresses to your account and then use the Gmail SMTP to send from that email address. Very nice.

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