Hax0ring the H0use
Yes, As mentioned on Jenn’s site, I’ve been doing a LOT of work around the house lately. In addition to the things she’s mentioned, I’ve also drywalled a wall, replaced the lights in the center room and kitchen, and thats just for starters. I’m in the mood to replace the outside ones, since they’re just nice light sockets with bare bulbs. I’m thinking of something copper or brass. Although black might be nice, very antique… I think I might wait for Jenn on this one, shes the only one whose opinion I trust more then mine 😉
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If You’re Into Colors Check Out Kuler
Everyone needs more Kuler. There a lot of color pickers out there…and I generally like all of them…but Kuler takes things a step further by making a community of color and color themes. Of course it’s tied with their products but that doesn’t distract from the usefulness of this free online application. It is also a beautifully designed website both in form and function.
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Bumper crop
Climate change fruitful for fungi: more than one third of the species recorded have started to fruit twice per year.
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Kickstart a heart
I was trained to do CPR with a 15:1 compression to rescue-breath ratio. This is no longer recommended. In fact, for just-collapsed people, a recent study shows performing CPR without any-rescue breathing is better: although some think the type of collapse is important. Learn how to do CPR near you: any valid attempt at resuscitation is better than none. You could save a life.
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Highly Sensitive People
Are you a Highly Sensitive Person? This trait is inherited by 15 to 20% of the population, and seems to be present in all higher animals. Being an HSP means your nervous system is more sensitive to subtleties. Your sight, hearing, and sense of smell are not necessarily keener, But your brain processes information and reflects on it more deeply. Being an HSP also means, necessarily, that you are more easily overstimulated, stressed out, overwhelmed. This trait has been mislabeled as shyness (not an inherited trait), introversion (30% of HSPs are actually extraverts), inhibitedness, fearfulness, and the like. HSPs can be these, but none of these are the fundamental trait they have inherited. Check out the latest research.
There’s a Yahoo Group and a newsletter if you’re really interested.
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Pop culture watercolor prints for cheap
Etsy user elloh‘s work is pretty unique. Featuring prints of her watercolor work for fairly low prices, her paintings focus on pop culture. There are moments from Office Space, Little Miss Sunshine, and Bob Ross immortalized in her art. But the cream of the crop is her series of portraits from The Office. Kevin, Creed, and Stanley are my faves and she even includes the UK version players as well.
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Things computers can only do in movies
The Programming Blog’s list of things that computers can do in movies is like a requirements document for a Movie OS (there’s almost certainly a Linux out there that has been engineered to act like a Movie OS already). Many movies — even contemporary movies — treat computers as plot devices, allowing them to do things that everyone in the theater knows is impossible. This is likewise true of other machines, of course. Think of all the cars that do impossibly things in pictures, but usually when a car leaps over a drawbridge, turns on a dime, and then reverses at 90mph, it’s meant to be a moment of extraordinary accomplishment. On the other hand, when a computer beeps every time you press a key, that’s just meant to be normal operations.
24. Most computers, no matter how small, have reality-defying three-dimensional active animation, photo-realistic graphics capabilities.
25. Laptops always have amazing real-time video phone capabilities and performance similar to a CRAY Supercomputer.
26. Whenever a character looks at a monitor, the image is so bright that it projects itself onto their face. (See “Alien” or “2001″)
27. Searches on the internet will always return what you are looking for no matter how vague your keywords are. (See “Mission Impossible”, Tom Cruise searches with keywords like “file” and “computer” and 3 results are returned.)
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Bookcase with built-in seat
The CAVE is a bookcase that integrates a reading seat and LED lamp. The price is a staggering 8,000 Euros (US $10,728). Less expensive are the CAVE_kid’s and CAVE_pet’s, although the latter doesn’t have the LED lamp.
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The shoulders of a radiophonic giant.
Create Digital Music has two pieces on the making of Doctor Who’s theme song. The second is an introduction to Delia Derbyshire, who is considered to be the "woman behind the men" behind the notability of the song. She pioneered techniques of synthesizing sounds, sampling and looping in the sixties. One WFMU blogger waxes on about Delia, who "was an inspiring collaborator" working behind the scenes of the BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop. BBC Four produced a documentary about the workshop called Alchemists of Sound which aired in 2005, ten years after the workshop closed due to budget cuts.
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‘The new Doctor… He’s so young!’
Doctor Who fun and games. While you wait for Series 3 to start – and toss and turn wondering who the next Doctor will be – blow a little bit of time with K-9, the Daleks and the Slitheen.
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Doctor Who meets the Beatles, 1965
The Beatles had a guest appearance on Doctor Who in 1965 — singing “Ticket to Ride.” Afterwards, a traveler from the future remarks that she’s heard of the Beatles, having visited their memorial in Liverpool, but that she didn’t realize that the Beatles also performed “classical music.” This is black-and-white Doctor Who comedy gold.
The original recording of that particular Beatles performance has been lost along with a lot of the BBC library which was tragically thrown out in a great video tape purge in the 1970s. That Doctor Who footage is now the only visual record of that performance.
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Woman falls six stories into pile of crap
A woman in Nanjing, China fell off a sixth floor balcony and survived thanks to a pile of poop on the ground below. From Sky News:
“She landed in a 20cm thick heap of excrement,” the Kuaibao tabloid newspaper gleefully reported.
“Workers happened to be emptying the building’s septic tank, which had not been tended for a long time, and had regularly blocked sewage pipes.
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Cookie Millennium Falcon
Pastry chef Damien Hurst Blair Fukumura made this Millennium Falcon cookie — it’s a very exacting replica, though it wants for a little cookie Chewbacca.
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Tub sofa
Flavour Design transforms antique clawfoot tubs into sofas. Their site says that the tubs start at $4800 but that this one is $2900. Not sure what that’s about.
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Google’s driving direx from New York to Dublin, Ireland
Awesome: ask Google Maps for driving directions from New York to Dublin, Ireland and they’ll give them to you, including this step, “Swim across the Atlantic Ocean 3,462 mi.” Weirdly, they instruct you to swim to France, drive the Chunnel to England, then take a ferry back to Ireland. Surely there’s a more efficient totally impossible route?
Of course, you’d have to swim about 4.9mph for 29 continuous days to achieve this time. Considering that the worlds fastest swimming records (in a 50-meter race) are just over 5mph… your mileage may vary.
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JFK Re-Reloaded
Anyone remember the short-lived FPS game JFK:Reloaded? It caused quite a stir when it was released a little over two years ago. Since then, the game’s development company discontinued the game and JFK:Reloaded is now considered abandonware. The full version can be downloaded here and a site dedicated to the game is located here.
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The Flying Crowbar
“We were tickling the dragon’s tail all the way.” The true story of the nuclear ramjet missile and the hypersonic nightmare that nearly was.
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Hotmail users deemed too dumb for employment at firm
A guy, who works in the department of a Human Resources consultancy company, says they made a selection process in which, among other things, they asked for a person with ample experience in using the internet (navigation, searches, formats…).
They received 50 candidacies, from which 30 came from Hotmail-directions, all of them erased as they entered.
The reason: You can’t pretend being an internet expert and use a Hotmail account at the same time.
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Tattoo of text under peeling skin
This dude’s tattoo makes it look as if he’s got a bunch of handwriting under his skin.
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Reverse video of accidents happening
Here’s a video of mishaps, presented in reverse, turning tragedy into comedy.
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No means maybe
Three Strikes is a TV pilot from the writers of Frasier, Larry Sanders and King of the Hill and executive produced by Jon Stewart for Comedy Central. It was turned down by the network but like Nobody’s Watching the makers have turned to YouTube to revive its chances [Parts 1, 2, 3].
RobDurdle.com 
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