My wife tells me I’m a dweeb. I think these are some of the neatest things I’ve ever laid eyes on. Here’s number 8.
[tags]Lego, Top 10, strange creations[/tags]
Category: Stuff I want
Company installs secret passageways in houses
To the bat cave, or something. I need to figure out where I can get one put in my house. (via boingboing)
Suspect wear
Goofy stuff makes me laugh some times. For example, check out this jacket – perfect for identifying yourself at the scene of a crime.
[tags]Suspect wear[/tags]
The TCP/IP guide
Sure, 1648 pages is a heck of a lot of reading, but I suspect “The TCP/IP Guide: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Internet Protocols Reference” will be considered the new must have networking book. Not that I’d give away my Douglas E. Comer or W. Richard Stevens networking books (The Protocols (TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1 is still great), but I’d like to have this alongside those. And O’Reilly books are always great.
[tags]TCP/IP, O’Reilly books[/tags]
MAKE blog link dump
So many interesting projects that I can’t write up an article for all of them. Check these out for some pretty neat projects.
- Web lectures on electronic circuits – A guide to simple and combinatorial circuits
- HOW TO – Make a copper pipe potato gun – Come on, who hasn’t wanted to build a potato gun. And this one is probably more durable and is certainly way cooler than those PVC guns you usually see
Nixie Tube collectors and designers – A Yahoo group dedicated to Nixie talk- Nintendo Entertainment Center PC case mod… – I really get in to computer case modding and stuffing PCs in unexpected cases. Here’s a PC fully packed into an old NES case. Pictures available, too.
- Open Circuits – electronics wiki – OK, some I’m a geek. I think electronics are cool. And check out the pretty pictures.
- The drawings of Leonardo da Vinci – A do-it-yourself inspiration.
- MAME cabinet on a budget – I want to make a full sized MAME cabinet some day (maybe like this one). For those interested in less time-consuming cabinets, here’s one for less time and money.
- HOW TO – Stack pennies – Useless, really, but kinda neat.
The digital hourglass – I want to build one of these some day. More information here.- Build a LED matrix clock – Something like the above, only a different layout.
- HOW TO – Powering Nixie Tubes… – probably useful information if you plan on visiting the Yahoo group mentioned above.
- DIY RFID-Zapper… – Come on, you know you are paranoid about getting tracked by those little RFID bugs. Now you can take them out.
Now that’s a lot of reading for you to catch up on. And me, too. I’m so far behind on my techie/geek reading.
[tags]MAKEzine, MAKEblog, MAKE, link dump[/tags]
Handy work gadget
I could really use one of these. I doubt they exist in real life, though (but I could be wrong – I haven’t checked). Click the comic for the full size image.
Yaxtrax walker
Today’s Cool Tool is the Yaxtrax Walker. A handy way to get better traction in that slick stuff we call ice and snow. These would have been handy to have around here a couple of weeks back when the ice/snow passed through Memphis. I didn’t take any falls, but still would have appreciated the additional sure-footedness these could have given.
[tags]Cool Tool, yaxtrax[/tags]
Classic Sierra games re-released
Headline stolen directly from Joystiq. I don’t have any more information than what is in the Joystiq article, but you can bet I’ll be watching for these. Full article follows. Hit the article for links to Amazon listings of these compilations.
Point and click adventure gamers rejoice! If you’ve been struggling to (legally) complete your collection of Sierra classics, Vivendi Universal is finally ready to give you just such a chance. They are releasing “compilations” of King’s Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest, and Leisure Suit Larry, available March 30th through Amazon, Target, and who knows where else.
There is almost no other information about the compilations, except that they run on Windows XP. Have they been ported or are they running through an emulation layer like Sarien? Does the compilation include all the games in the respective series? At $20 each, this could be a great way to build that collection. Then they’ll just need to release Gabriel Knight and Quest for Glory… then maybe LucasArts will get in on it…
[tags]Sierra, Retro gaming, Classic adventures[/tags]
Newsflash: Size matters – 19 inch laptops on the way
I just got a laptop with a 15.4″ display. I like it, but it’s not as nice as the 17″ display on my wife’s laptop. But both of these pale in comparison to the 19″ laptops which should be available sometime in the near future.
SavRow likes to refer to their computers as “bespoke technology,” which implies a certain degree of high-end customization. And, sure enough, the company’s computers tend to be fairly upscale models, with features targeting gamers. The company’s latest, the Axen X-1 laptop includes a mammoth 19-inch display, dual NVIDIA 7800 GTX Go GPUs, an AMD Turion at speeds of up to 2.2 GHz, dual-layer burner, 7200 RPM hard drive, and up to 2GB of RAM. Of course, you’ll pay over $4,000 for all that large-screen, desktop-level performance, and we doubt it’s very portable either. But, hey, we hear SavRow’s throwing in a second pair of pants with each purchase.
[tags]Laptop, 19″ laptop LCD[/tags]
NES alarm clock
This NES alarm clock has write-ups on a number of geek and techie sites. I saw it originally on joystiq. I wish I had time to try to build one.
[tags]NES, Alarm clock, Cool geek stuff[/tags]
The time, it goes on forever
I really want one of these. Wearing one would be another sure sign of my surpreme awesomeness. (originally from boingboing)
[tags]Watch, Geekiness, Infinity[/tags]
I heart Cory Doctorow pt. 2
Another excellent write-up by Cory. This one questions Google’s serving up video in a way more favorable to Hollywood instead of Google users. I haven’t finished reading this one, but I will when I get a little quiet time to focus on it.
With the introduction of its new copy-restriction video service, Google has diverged from its corporate ethos. For the first time in the company’s history, it has released a product that is designed to fill the needs of someone other than Google’s users.
Google Video is a new video-search and video-sales tool, through which users can download videos that have been uploaded by their creators or by others who have the rights to them, either because the videos are in the public domain, or because they are used in a way that satisfies the “fair use” defense in US copyright law.
[tags]Google video, Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing[/tags]