Loads of stuff to be found on these two websites.

  

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All these hardware hackers out there making useful things out of junk, who do they think they are with their smartly finished boxes and "shop-bought" looks? Looking for REAL ghetto technology? Go here

Under Construction banners on unfinished websites. Bad. Click here for more...

Well, here's a nice alternative for you. It made Zesty laugh so hard she nearly fell off the sofa.

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I live in Luton. I chose to live here, and I quite like it here. This year, some book by some guy (I won't mention its name. Or his) announced that Luton was the worst place in Britain. Well, this Channel4 program has just announced that, according to crime, education and health statistics, it's actually the London Borough of Hackney. Not Luton. Luton isn't even in the top 10.

Luton rocks. Where else in the world could my girlfriend blag herself a disused factory for her own theatre projects?

Speaking of which, I'll have Zesty's site up and running in a week or two, and you'll be able to read all about Zesticity (Zesty's theatre company), Zest City (Zesty's factory) and all the madness that occurs around them both. In the meantime, feel free to check out Zesty's blogs. The links are over on the right in my "Fave Blogs" section.

If you want any more info about Zesticity, feel free to send an email.

Sheer genius spotted at Kevin Kelly's Street Use

Can I just announce that I am proud to be one of the few bloggers NOT to be posting a link to the first four minutes of Sacha Baron Cohen's new film. If you want to see it, find it yourself.

If that's the view from the International Space Station, then strap a rocket to my back and call me an astronaut, coz I wanna go there!

From Warren Ellis Dot Com via ETTF.net

Yup, another bunch of "hardware hackers". These guys are responsible for the last two halloween pumpkin projects featured at MAKEzine and other places. I found their link at BoingBoing. Now you too can check out their stuff here

This is a pic of a RC boat, modded for a MagnetoHydroDynamic propulsion system. You know, like the caterpillar drive out of "Hunt for Red October"? It's cool.

I know its not a "cool site" link.

In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded. The rest is, quite literally history.

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In the beginning, there was the animal.

On the first day, the animal saw the world and was happy.

On the second day, the animal saw itself and was happy.

The animal sought to understand the world and itself and so, on the third day, the animal created the Word, and with it the potential to name the Earth and all of the things which grow on its face and swim in its seas and fly in its skies, and the Sun and the moon and the heavens and all of the stars which shine from above. The animal looked upon the world and, knowing what it was called, was happy.

The animal began to understand that it was of the world, and that it too should have a name and so, on the fourth day, the first man was created.

On the fifth day, Man looked upon the world and was afraid. He saw that he could not control it, and that it was empty of purpose and reason and so he took the fabric of understanding and intellect and fashioned it in his own image and placed it out of reach in the heavens and called it God. He called it God in as many languages as he had, and worshipped it in as many ways. Man felt alone and threatened in a world he did not understand, and so worshipped the God he had made and sought its advice and guidance. Man had given life to God, who had in turn given man the rules to live by and to worry not about the world.

On the sixth day, Man looked upon the world and understood and he was happy. He had no further need for the God he had created and he cast him out and instead chose to live the right way of his own free will. Not because God had commanded him to, but because he chose to. Because it was the right way.

On the seventh day? Who knows? Maybe he'll rest. Maybe Man will have acheived the status of God by then.

This is my slightly tongue-in-cheek rundown on the history of man (up until the end of the fifth day) and what could possibly be our future on days six and seven.

If you are at all offended by this, then you are either very unsure of your own faith, or you've completely misunderstood what I've said. I suggest a course of leeches.

Just checked out Ben Heckendorn's site. Put simply, aside from being into film (watching, making and supporting indipendent films, it would seem), he hacks games systems. He's turned an XBox 360 into a water-cooled laptop, made a PS2 into a (admittedly somewhat bulky) handheld, built arcade machines, written a book etc. etc. 

...There's a way. Some people will always find a way to transport their stuff from A to B. These people are Lords of the Logistic

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It's been lurking on the internet since 1994. Push it. 
It doesn't do anything

Rejected Names for Pope Benedict XVI

11. Pope Jesus II
10. Pope Benny
9. Pope Rageous sponsored by Mountain Dew
8. Pope xXx
7. Pope.tmp
6. Pope Muhammed I
5. Pope Inquisition II
4. Pope Position LXIX
3. Pope Doggy Dog
2. Pope John Paul George and Ringo
1. Pope Cracker CCLXII

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Yup, another mad one. I'm in that kind of mood today where nothing much seems to make any sense to me, so I'm revelling in the surreal. At FlyPower there full instructions on how to harness the humble housefly to power tiny model airplanes.

On the subject of things not making sense, has anyone caught any of the [adult swim] animations on bravo lately? It's a whole lot of different cartoons for grown ups. Some of them seem a little familiar, but they are NOT the ones from your childhood! They're all pretty mad and pointless, but generally easy to follow and quite funny. One I saw last night though - Perfect Hair Forever - was COMPLETELY MENTAL! I've never seem ANYTHING that's made less sense. If you get the chance to see it, do so. Did I mention that it was completely mental? It is. Completely.

And utterly.

Apparently it's called the Pumgo Land Surfer. I believe I will file it under the category "completely and utterly mental" 

What? You think it looks quite cool? Can I just say very high center of gravity! Doesn't look like it would turn too well either. Of course then there's the twisted ankle you're going to get every time you dismount. Need I go on?

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Making Light Go Backward.

(photo credit: University of Rochester)

Robert Boyd of University of Rochester, New York, and colleagues had accomplished something very strange: they managed to send light backwards! In the past few years, scientists have found ways to make light go both faster and slower than its usual speed limit, but now researchers at the University of Rochester have published a paper today in Science on how they’ve gone one step further: pushing light into reverse. As if to defy common sense, the backward-moving pulse of light travels faster than light. "It’s weird stuff," says Boyd. "We sent a pulse through an optical fiber, and before its peak even entered the fiber, it was exiting the other end. Through experiments we were able to see that the pulse inside the fiber was actually moving backward, linking the input and output pulses."

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