Saturday, April 01, 2006
April Fools!
Its that magical day. A rubber spider vendor's wet dream my friends. We here at SBJ News have put together a list of the top April Fool's Day pranks this year.
Also, here's a site that features the "Ten Best Internet Spoofs."
Some are real, some are not...its like trying to spot a fake boob in Times Square. Good luck!
Also, here's a site that features the "Ten Best Internet Spoofs."
Some are real, some are not...its like trying to spot a fake boob in Times Square. Good luck!
Homestar has flipped his lid
Man's head sliced off by Helicopter Propeller.
A Malaysian man's head was sliced off by the helicopter propeller as he was about to board it. This raised 2 questions: How tall was this guy? How close did Richard Nixon's melon come to being sliced off by Marine 1 on the day of his resignation?
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Yahoo Buys Digg and All of Web 2.0!
In-Sleep Advertising
New World's Hottest Chilli
New chilli pepper is almost twice as hot as a habanero chilli. It is so hot you need gloves to use it.
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MOTOSENSOR, stop walking into stuff while texting on your cellphone!
It's a Motorola site dedicated to their new software MOTOSENSOR. Cool concept but is it for real? I guess not, never the less check it out, MOTOSENSOR
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MOTOSENSOR, stop walking into stuff while texting on your cellphone!
It's a Motorola site dedicated to their new software MOTOSENSOR. Cool concept but is it for real? I guess not, never the less check it out, MOTOSENSOR
read more | digg story
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MOTOSENSOR, stop walking into stuff while texting on your cellphone!
It's a Motorola site dedicated to their new software MOTOSENSOR. Cool concept but is it for real? I guess not, never the less check it out, MOTOSENSOR
read more | digg story
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Teleportation Takes Quantum Leap Forward
Simpsons Movie Coming July 27th, 2007
List of the April Fools Jokes for 2006
Wikipedia has a list of all of the big pranks that have happened. The list is growing fast, enjoy the hilarity.
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Overview of the ten major Linux distributions
A review of the 10 major Linux distributions out there, giving the pros and cons of each and every one of them...
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Google Earth April Fools Joke
The folks at Google Earth have added some "visitors" as an April Fools Joke. Check it out before they decide to leave...
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Friday, March 31, 2006
AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant"
AT&T COO said that increased bandwidth was no longer of great importance to consumers because the current backbone can't support it anyway. Uhhhh, YES IT IS IMPORTANT! This is completely assinine. Big bussiness is muscling its way into the government again...or did it ever stop? Expect more on this here at SBJ News soon. Until then, read up on AT&T.
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How to convert an NES cartridge to a hard-drive
This how-to details a simple and lovely mod that converts a Nintendo Entertainment System cartridge into a bus-powered USB 2.0 2.5" hard-drive enclosure.
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iPod Shuffle NES controller mod
"Dave Sonnenshein is a legit wunderkind." Dave and technicolorcaverly came up with a cool mod, merging two of the geeks most beloved technologies together, the iPod and Console controller.
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Thursday, March 30, 2006
Device warns you if you're boring or irritating
A DEVICE that can pick up on people's emotions is being developed to help people with autism relate to those around them. It will alert its autistic user if the person they are talking to starts showing signs of getting bored or annoyed.
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HOW TO - Set Up Your Own Personal Wikipedia
Gina writes: "The software that runs Wikipedia, called MediaWiki, is freely available for anyone to install. Today we�ll set up MediaWiki on your Windows PC and get started with a video demonstration on how to add, edit and compare page revisions in your new, local personalpedia."
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Print from your laptop to your wall using a can of spraypaint and string
This is the coolest thing ever! Two electronics engineering students in Zurich made this simple but intriguing way of printing from their tiny laptop to a wall of just about any size using a can of spray paint, some string, and two tiny motors. It's hypnotic to watch!
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The Top 10 weirdest keyboards ever
Keyboards come in many shapes - from the simplest computer grey $9.99 standard 102-key keyboard to variants that seem to come straight out of a Star Trek episode. Here�s a top 10 list of some really cool keyboards.
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Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Beware! Google may delete your Gmail account
Do you use Gmail as your primary email account? If so, you may want to take a closer look at Google's terms of service policy.
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Funny moments in games...
While not too many of these games are well-known, there's certainly a plethora of funny Engrish and other screenshots from games.
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DRM is Killing Music T-Shirt
Spread the word (or state the obvious?) for only $8.
The same wonderful folk who gave us the Creative Commies parody t-shirt form last year make yesterdays BoingBoing featured send-up wearable.
The source art is freely available from the page to do with as you wish. - is it evil to think "
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The same wonderful folk who gave us the Creative Commies parody t-shirt form last year make yesterdays BoingBoing featured send-up wearable.
The source art is freely available from the page to do with as you wish. - is it evil to think "
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MacBook Pro running Windows XP Geekbenched
Geek Patrol started receiving Geekbench results from MacBooks running Windows XP. Rather than let them go to waste, here is a Geekbench comparison of a MacBook Pro running Windows XP and Mac OS X.
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Your Xbox Birth Certificate
Built entirely in flash, this application gives you information about your xbox based on your serial number. Where it was made, when it was made, and most importantly for people looking for mod chips, what version your xbox is.
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Germans Now Face Two Years In Jail For P2P File Sharing
Germans risk two years in prison if they illegally download films and music for private use under a new law agreed yesterday. Anybody who downloads films for commercial use could be jailed for up to five years.
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Paypal Mobile Launches - And Its Awesome (via Techcrunch)
No more stopping at ATMs for your friend to give you back that $20 he just borrowed. And no more waiting for change at a restaurant when you're paying on a credit card and your friend wants to give you cash. And ... just read and start using this.
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Cassini's View of Jupiter's South Pole!
Cassini took many photographs of Jupiter on the way to Saturn, including this unusual montage of its southern pole. This photograph was made up of 36 separate images, stitched together on computer.
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Google patents free Wi-Fi
The search-engine giant has developed and patented three technologies for offering wireless Internet access, and advertising, free of charge.
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Installing Windows 1.0 circa 1985
64GB USB 2.0 flash drive. Yes, flash.
Insanely huge storage for a flash drive that size. Yes, it is 6-4, sixty four, gigabytes, of flash memory. This dwarfs many hard disk based portable usb drives as well, and at a fraction of the size. Imagine a 60 gigs flash based iPod..
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Eclipse: Picture of Moon's Shadow on Earth As Seen From the Space Station
The shadow of the moon falls on Earth as seen from the International Space Station, 230 miles above the planet, during a total solar eclipse at about 4:50 a.m. EST March 29.
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Radioshack game contains Commodore 64 on a single chip and is hackable
This website is devoted to the Hummer off-road racing game currently being sold by Radio Shack. Inside, it contains the Commodore 64 DTV chip, designed by Jeri Ellsworth. This chip is, in essence, and entire Commodore 64 reduced down to a single chip.
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Confirmed: Revolution games under $50, USB ports used for storage
Nintendo has confirmed with CNN Money, that Revolution titles will be priced under $50, and that the 2 USB ports can be used to expand the system's 512MB internal flash memory, so be ready to download those virtual console games with no worries! (reported by IGN)
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