“Kyle Downes of the aptly named “Ultra Awesome” blog built this genius coffee table that’s an enormous, working NES controller! It opens to reveal storage space for tons of game-carts.”
“Granted, the Hell’s Illusion Mini PC is a mod that only a lifetime Fangoria
subscriber could love. Luckily, I am that subscriber. Who needs a Mac
Mini when you can drive your home media center with a computer powered
by the frickin’ Lament Configuration? Utterly ridiculous, but I don’t care. Truly, a computer for explorers in the further regions of experience… demons to some, angels to others, Vista users to all. Jesus wept.”
The Hell’s Illusion PC [Techeblog]
“It’s one thing to use a real live stompbox to activate Overdrive; it’s another to hack up your Rock Band
kick pedal to enable that sweet, sweet double bass action that Lars
Ulrich, Joey Jordison and the rest of the crew (read: you) just have to
have. As you’d expect, there’s a bit more to it than just adding in a
splitter, but if you’re not frightened by circuitry diagrams and having
to ask the hobby store guy for a 5-volt power supply, you’ll be more
than fine. Check out the video demonstration after the jump, and tap
the read link for the full list of instructions.”
[Via MAKE]
“I love these light-fixtures made from obsolete CRTs from Technoscrap (whose site, unfortunately, has no way to directly link to them, hence the link to Make).
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Is Kyle Bean’s
laptop design our age’s equivalent of a pistol hidden in a bible? The
answer is “No,” but I still prefer the idea of it being a violence
facilitator for literary ninjas, rather than yet another comment on the
changing nature of media in an increasingly virtual world.
Next: in the thick of battle, the villain springs onto a table to
grab what briefly appears to be an ornamental wall-mounted axe, but
finds himself wielding a slimline iPod dock.”
The Future of Books [Yanko]
“ArsWindows Live Hotmail’s Anti-CAPTCHA automatic bot, which
hooks itself into Internet Explorer on a victim’s machine, has a
success rate of about 10-15 percent. That means that it takes up to one
minute for a single bot to create a new account.In one day, the bot can amass at least 1,440 accounts. And that’s
just one bot. This same bot can then send spam to multiple e-mail
addresses (using both CC and BCC lists) continuously, switching between
accounts (both in the from: and to: fields) in order to lower the
chance of being spotted.
Meanwhile, it takes me, an actual human being, upwards of ten
minutes to analyze and cypto-decipher the average CAPTCHA, all the
while screaming “What kind of moon-man frickin’ Cylon do you have to be
to read this thing?”
But, really, what’s the alternative here? On my other blog, we weed
out spam with a simple text question system (ex: “What is the color of
the yellow snow?”) but I don’t doubt that this utterly simple scheme
would quickly fall apart if spammers were actually trying to dissect
it. How do you suss out a human with 100% infallibility?”
Gone in 60 seconds: Spambot cracks Live Hotmail CAPTCHA [Ars Technica]
“Rewind back to late 2006. The PS3 was launching alongside the Wii and
geeky editors like ourselves were having a field day. We’d already
managed to convince our good pal Ben Heck to build another Xbox 360 laptop and the Wii Laptop,
so it was only a matter of time before we started brainstorming on how
the hell we could possibly fit a PS3 into a “portable” enclosure.
That’s the part where Ben stepped up his game and worked his magic –
on and off for almost a year and a half — to build… the PS3 Laptop!
The essential specs:
You want this one of a kind piece of kit for your very own, PlayStation
fanboys? You got it. We’re auctioning this thing for charity real soon,
so watch out for details (we’ll also have some video of the PS3 Laptop
in action on the site tomorrow). And, naturally, big ups to our pal Ben Heck for the long hours and love he put into this thing. The man is truly a hero of ours, so be sure to hit up his site to check out his other projects, as well as the other instructional stuff he’s done here on Engadget.”
“Future generations will most likely divide the timeline of history at
this point: when Quake 3 achieved motion-sensing, wireless network play
on two iPod touches. Just think, less than a year ago we were
salivating (or at least mildly enthused) at the prospect of rocking Doom on this thing, and now Quake 3 Arena is yours for the taking — or at least will be once we get any sort of hard info on this app.”
[Via PMP Today]
ZDNet: “SlySoft, the makers of AnyDVD HD, have released an updated version of
the copy-protection removal tool which allows Blu-ray owners to back up
their discs.”
Gotta love these guys….
“This is just getting silly, don’t you think? The iPhone Dev Team has
once again proven their totally gnarly talents by freeing up the latest
firmware before it’s even the latest firmware. Apple, here’s
our suggestion — just let people do what they want with your devices,
since they’re clearly going to do it anyway. That way, instead of
making enemies, you’re making lifelong buddies. Reasonable, right?
Steve, give us a call, we’re more than happy to riff on some ideas for
playing nice with the end-user.
Update: Dev chat room chatter claims that the 2.0 is now fully unlocked as well.”
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