Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
A guy named Nat Gertler discovered that the images on Amazon could be manipulated by feeding their servers parameters in the images URL. He’s put together a nice little FAQ on what does what. This is definitely going to go into the ‘to be used for evil’ category.
[via presurfer]
Now, this could be used for things like R/C airplanes, model rockets, and just to have in your backpack in case your buddy makes an ass of himself while your out drinking. Its got a 300K pixel CMOS sensor and 2MB of built in memory but you can stick a 64 MB SD/MMC card in it. It can only do 20 min of 20 fps video at 320×240 but if you want better quality at a lower frame rate (12fps) you can shoot at 640×480. Ok, it’s not going to replace your camcorder but you have to admit, it darn small. Looks cool!
[via red ferret]
These creations are just too sweet.
Issuing forth from the fetid and possibly incriminating imagination of Weta Workshop designer Greg Broadmore come RAYGUNS: Dr, Grordborts Infallible Aether Oscillators! … Bespangled in fine detail and with various (most likely quite dangerous) moving parts, these wave weapons of yesteryear are the perfect ornament for a gentleman’s study or a deterring centerpiece for a lady’s powder room or chiffonier…
Seeing these works of art makes me want to pick up my razor knife and tube bender and have a go at making something like this. I used to make toy guns along time ago. They were never as sophisticated as these but they were fun to build.
[via boingboing]
I love this site, mostly because it give you ideas. Yeah, those can be dangerous can’t they? You just can’t let your toaster toast toast, it has to tell time, read the news for you and suggest what tie to wear to work. Ok, that’s a bit extreme but its not beyond what you can find on this information packed site
If your like me you have way too many files on way too many hard drives. One way to help this is to have a network attached storage (NAS). Yeah, you could just stuff a bunch of hard drives in a beige box of death and load up XP. A few network shares later and you have a NAS. You could do that, sure, if you wanted to take the easy way out. But I can tell you want to live a little, be on the edge. Yeah… The Edge. It’s where the alpha nerds meet for a midnight snack of Jolt Cola and double stuffed pizza before going back to their tricked out 733t hax0r boxes. It’s where you want to be. Building your own NAS out of the cast offs from the junk bin of a local thrift store will get you closer to that edge.
So gather up your hard drives, your mother boards, your USB key drives (you want all the IDE channels open for drives man!) and grab a copy of FreeNAS (just about the coolest software for this sort of thing) and go to town. I’m working on consolidating my collection of hard drives (everything from 20GB to 120GB) into a big pile of storage that is at least running in RAID 1. RAID 5 is my goal but that’s only if the hardware gods smile upon me.
Like me, soon you will be on the Edge.
Wow… I think now have enough reading for the next ten years. Science buffs gather ’round, the library is now open! Plant alkaloids, organic reactions, aluminium and its alloys, its some good stuff!