Thursday, September 28, 2006
Sunday, September 24, 2006
Awesome Photoshop Painting Skills
This is actually a tutorial but it's great to check out, just to see the painting. It's worth the 20 seconds it takes to check it out!
read more | digg story
Saturday, September 23, 2006
BMW's hydrogen hybrid.
The car will be able to burn hydrogen fuel in an internal combustion engine, as opposed to using it to power a fuel cell. This allows the car to produce plenty of horsepower. For now they will only make 100 of them, but unlike their previous prototypes they could mass produce this engine if there is a demand for it.
read more | digg story
Friday, September 22, 2006
Violet Blue's "Open Source Sex." SF Chronicle column debut
Violet Blue today made her debut as the SF Chronicle's newest columnist. The first edition of her weekly online column about the erotic underpinnings of San Francisco city culture, "Violet Blue: Open Source Sex," is now live: This week, she reports on an underground sex club. Way to Violet!!
read more | digg story
Monday, September 18, 2006
See Images From Nearby Wifi Traffic!
Driftnet is a program which listens to network traffic and picks out images from TCP streams it observes. Fun to run on a host which sees lots of web traffic.
read more | digg story
Thursday, September 14, 2006
A new way to test your bandwidth (and it looks pretty cool too!)
The site allows you to select servers to ping from around the country on an interactive map and graphically displays connections as they travel with varying speeds along the way. It also lets you store results of tests for your computer and sort them by date, time, speed and distance.
read more | digg story
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
People for the Peoplemover: Bring the Peoplemover back to Disneyland!
A fan site dedicated to the long-lost Peoplemover attraction from Disneyland's Tomorrowland. Includes photos, information, and a petition requesting the return of the attraction... these people really like the Peoplemover!
read more | digg story
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Use Gmail Generate Unlimited E-mail Addresses
Gmail has an interesting quirk where you can add a plus sign (+) after your Gmail address, and it'll still get to your inbox. It's called plus-addressing, and it essentially gives you an unlimited number of e-mail addresses to play with. Here's how it works: say your address is pinkyrocks@gmail.com, and you want to automatically label all work e-ma
read more | digg story