www.stumbleupon.com/
looks like it could be fun but it might put Neil, Adam
and Jon out of work.
E
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any physicists in the house care to explain this?
www.waynesthisandthat.com/projects.htm
[via hack-a-day]
via hack-a-day
Experiment #5. For my next experiment, I made sure to check the toll
booth sign, which reads “$1.00 COINS ONLY NO BILLS PENNIES OR
CANADIAN COINS.” (With all that toll money, you’d think they could
afford some punctuation.) Fortunately, the sign makes no mention of
other foreign coins, which is the loophole I used for my next
experiment. I consulted an online currency calculator to get up-to-
the-minute exchange rates, then tossed in the following coins:
1 Indian Rupee ($0.02 U.S.)
15 Thai Baht ($0.36 U.S.)
11 Singapore cents ($0.06 U.S.)
1 Finnish Marka and 200 Italian Lira (no longer used, since the Euro
came to town)
That only added up to 44 cents, so I threw in a couple of Chuck E.
Cheese tokens as well.
When I went through this time, I heard the toll booth operator shout
something that sounded like, “WALP!” I had been trying my little
experiments at the same toll booth, so maybe he recognized my car, or
maybe he was choking on a thick slice of ham. I didn’t stick around
to find out
This has *got* to be a good forum to be asking the question…
I’ve got myself an EyeTV from Elgato. Very happy with it. Only
problem is I have to hook up my laptop to my TV to actually watch
things I’ve recorded. Fine in the flat right now, but with a new
house imminent (less than a month to go!) and a (secret) geek-fund
set aside for all things nerdy and techy, I’m looking to setup a
Media Centre that solves this problem properly, ie. cool technology
solution to my media-whore lifestyle.
Basically, I want to:
* Watch my EyeTV recorded TV without having to hook up my laptop. A
Mac Mini is an option, but I don’t want external hard disks and
goodness knows what else there.
* Listen to music in any room I choose to put speakers in, from my
MP3 collection on my iMac
* Do to DVD’s what I’m doing to CD’s, ie. confining them to cardboard
box filing system in the roof (yes, I even buy albums from iTunes
these days as well, can’t be arsed with pieces of plastic anymore)
* Watch said DVD’s wherever I want
Anybody got any thoughts, comment, opinions on a Mac based Media
Centre? Ok, so even Windows folk should contribute, it’s just it
won’t necessarily work as well for me, but it may certainly interest
others… Solutions are solutions after all.
I’m thinking that the EyeHome could be quite cool. It streams EyeTV,
Movies, MP3’s and Pics over the wireless network to the receiver(s)
hooked up to TV’s.
There’s also the AirPort Extreme - which enables finer grained
streaming, but from one host.
Then there’s uPnP AV (Universal Plug and Play, Audio Visual), which
means folks like Netgear are making boxes to play back content served
by a uPnP server (which Elgato have as EyeConnect).
So - what to do??? I’m thinking Apple are absolutely bound to get
into this game in some (hopefully) solid fashion in the not-too-
distant future (that’s what many thought the Mac Mini was going to be
in the early days of the rumours), so don’t want to spend an absolute
fortune I feel locked-in by merit of expenditure…
r.
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Richard Leyton - richard@leyton.org
www.leyton.org
Hi folks.
I stupidly decided to instal Tiger today, thinking it would just be a
quick upgrade. Yeah, I was dumb and probably deserved what I got,
nevertheless, any help would be appreciated.
You see I’ve lost ALL of my mail. Yes, all of it. Sort of. The
messages are still on the machine, and I can open the individual
message files on from the messages folder, but the mailboxes in Mail
just aren’t working. Including for new messages.
any ideas?
yours in desperation,
Talia
If you’ve not seen this:
www.apple.com/ipodnano/ads/480.html
Then you may not enjoy this quite as much…:
www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2680559?htv=12&htv=12
r.
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Richard Leyton - richard@leyton.org
www.leyton.org
Guardian Review of Guy Richie’s new film:
“That’s Revolver. Watching it, you could hear the scraping of the
bottom of the Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.”
How long do you think the reviewer has been holding on to that
phrase, waiting for an opportunity to use it?
Pete
David Mery is a London geek who was going down into the tube one night in July when he was arrested on suspicion of terrorism. He was held, his flat was searched, his computers and phones were confiscated, his data was copied, and his photo, DNA and fingerprints were taken.
He was released the next day, but his computers were not returned, nor was his record expunged.
Mery’s “crime” was carrying a “bulky” backpack (e.g., a laptop bag), wearing an “unseasonably warm” coat (it was one of the coldest July days on record), and “avoiding the police” (he was looking at an SMS on his phone when he went through the turnstiles and so didn’t make eye-contact with the officers there).
There is not one single piece of evidence to suggest that Mery is a terrorist, and yet the tools of his livelihood and all his personal data are now squirreled away in a police evidence locker — the police haven’t even given him an inventory or receipt for all the goods they stole.
we are all terrorists now…
nasty. be careful out there kids…
gizmonaut.net/bits/suspect.html
[via boingboing]
this is pretty slick.
a music recommendation service, which creates a radio station ‘to
your taste’
via boingboing:
Saw this, thought of Jon:
images.ucomics.com/comics/rl/2005/rl050917.gif
r.
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Richard Leyton - richard@leyton.org
www.leyton.org
ever wondered what happens when you chuck a load of sodium into a lake?
wonder no more…
number one, in an irregular series:
x700.putfile.com/videos/25407304975.mp3
download, enjoy, it’s from the ‘inventor of rockabilly’ hasil adkins,
and is guaranteed to make
you smile, or your money back…
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