Saturday, April 29, 2006
Etch-a-Sketch with a mental disorder
Holopin: The future of pinball games?
The story of the end of Williams Electronic Games: come up with something new, or see the world's largest pinball manufacturer be shut down forever.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Microsoft Purchases Evil From Satan
"We've been after Satan for some time," said CEO Steve Ballmer. "Negotiations were tough, but I think both Microsoft and the Prince of Darkness are happy with this deal." Fun!
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Green Tea Extract Shows Positive Signs For People With Blood Cancer
A decline in cancerous cells in the bodies of those with blood cancer was observed after a certain period of time. Three-quarters of the patients taking the green tea extract expressed enhanced response to treatment and one had an improved white blood cell count.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
How to Break WEP Encryption
Breaking any encryption involves knowing a few things. First, you have to know that there is an encryption scheme. Secondly, you must know how encryption works
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Bush Administration Invokes "State Secrets" In Suit Against NSA!
The Bush administration formally said Friday that it will try to halt a lawsuit that accuses AT&T of helping the National Security Agency spy on Americans illegally!
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
"The One On The Right Is Handling Stolen Goods"
This page is dedicated to those old-school anti-piracy ads and posters, remember? Really quite amusing some of them, check it out.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Simple hack to disable USB drives in XP - Perfect for public machines
A simple hack to disable all access to USB drives on XP, without disabling USB mice, or keyboards.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Guy tracks own flight by watching changes in plane's internet routing
"I just saw my plane cross the mid-Atlantic, not by looking out the window, but by watching routing updates cascade across the Internet. I'm writing from a Lufthansa jet right now, travelling from Munich to Boston."
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
April Fools Hack - The Singing Keyboard
The concept is simple: Take the sound element from a musical greeting card and connect it to the caps lock LED on the victim's keyboard. Every time the caps lock is pressed, the music plays. This is a great sleeping prank�it might be found on the first day, or weeks from implementation. (also a great to do to people who the ABUSE cAPs LoCks KEY)
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Share Wifi With Your Neighbor So You Can Both Surf Twice As Fast
"researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign want you and your neighbors to get together and share your WiFi signal in a method that supposedly delivers better performance to each individual user."
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Real people react to Wii
Joystiq recently called people up asking for their blind opinion about the Nintendo Wii, without knowing what the product was beforehand. Not one of the respondants guessed that it was a gaming product
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
List of hacking applications that run on USB flash drive
Security applications such as namp and ethereal are appearing that run straight from a thumb drive and packet capture, detection and injection tools no longer require the installation of WinPCap or other third-party packet capture drivers.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
The Devil's Music
What's the link between the theme tune to the Simpsons, Black Sabbath, and West Side Story? They all use the Devil's Interval, a musical phenomenon suppressed by the Church in the Middle Ages.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Friday, April 28, 2006
RIAA, MPAA alert 40 university presidents in 25 states of LAN piracy
While the majority of illegal copying and distribution of music and movies occurs over the public Internet on peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing systems, students at colleges and universities have been increasingly using programs to engage in such activity on campus LANs without using the broader public Internet.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Best Google Maps picture Ever? Amazing image of Eiffel Tower!!
Digg.com, Theinquirer.net : Gutter-dwelling Liberal Attack Sites
"Digg.com is a popular place for Internet-mobs to meet; You can think of this as the online equivalent of soccer-hooliganism; a barbaric practice that still remains popular in much of Europe. Users of this site take turns voting on which site they will hack next."
Well if Digg is the place for hackers to pick a target, I belive Diggers have found a new one. Hit this bitch.
read more | digg story
Well if Digg is the place for hackers to pick a target, I belive Diggers have found a new one. Hit this bitch.
read more | digg story
The worlds largest hamburger
It's Official: 1 Billion Words registered for the English Language
A massive language research database responsible for bringing words such as "podcast" and "celebutante" to the pages of the Oxford dictionaries has officially hit a total of 1 billion words, researchers said Wednesday
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Introducing...the Compact Disc!
You've heard stereo before, but never like this. From a 1983 Sears Catalog advertising a $589 CD player.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Marijuana is medically useful, whether politicians like it or not
In reality, cannabis has been with humanity for thousands of years and is considered by many governments (notably America's) to be a dangerous drug without utility. Any suggestion that the plant might be medically useful is politically controversial, whatever the science says.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Musicians unite against suing fans
Several Grammy Award winning artists are fighting against suing fans and digital locks on music. They want their voice to be heard, not record labels with only cash in mind.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
MPAA Screwing The Wrong Guy - One Who Won't Be Extorted
The MPAA has been offering people to settle for a few grand (and many took the bait) but they now chose the wrong guy to mess with; one who sticks to his principles and who has a lot of money to cover the legal fees to fight these lying morons. Interesting case to follow!
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Thursday, April 27, 2006
RIAA, MPAA alert 40 university presidents in 25 states of LAN piracy
While the majority of illegal copying and distribution of music and movies occurs over the public Internet on peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing systems, students at colleges and universities have been increasingly using programs to engage in such activity on campus LANs without using the broader public Internet.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Six simple steps to get a lover, whether you are a guy or girl. "Throw a grapefruit at their head" not among them.
LONELY guys and girls should follow SIX simple steps to land a lover, scientists revealed yesterday. The fool-proof plan, worked out by US psychologists, goes like this...
read more
read more
City Pages' listing of meth as "Best Cheap Thrill" angers some.
Minneapolis paper compiles annual Best Of The Twin Cities issue, names crystal meth "best cheap thrill." Hilarity ensues.
read more
read more
Exxon's profits rise from "extreme" to "ludicrous."
Exxon Mobil Corp., the world's biggest oil company, said first-quarter net income climbed to $8.4 billion from $7.86 billion as increasing global energy demand lifted prices. A good read for those of us that still think that its those "damn towel-heads" that are responsible for the price at the pumps.
read more
read more
Video: Bullets Piercing Objects in Slow-Mo
The video version of that "apple being shot by a bullet" picture seen in so many middle school science textbooks. Bullets piercing various objects including apples, bananas, and a water bottle. Very cool stuff!
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Judge in Da Vinci Code case embeds secret message in ruling.
Fascinating story about how the actual transcript of the case rulings contains a secret puzzle.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
World's Last Ninja Offers Final Advice:'Be Able to Kill Your Students'
Chilling words from a shockingly fit 76-year-old man who bills himself as the world's last ninja and stocks his training chamber with weapons such as throwing stars and nunchucks.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
ZDTV/ TechTV/ G4TechTV Video Collection
Be sure to tell your friends. It's huge, 43.8GB! It contains over 300 videos of various TechTV/G4TechTV (You need a Bittorrent client to download this file) Please help because we need more seeders.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Nintendo Wii Q & A With PR Manager Matt Atwood
Today Nintendo announced that they have replaced the codename for their upcoming console from The Nintendo Revolution to Wii. We still scratched our head, so we spoke with Nintendo of America's Public Relations Manager Matt Atwood to get Nintendo's explanation of what the name was really about.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Amateur Hacks Into US Military Computers Looking for UFO and Aliens Truth
An amateur exposed security flaws in US governmental computers to unlock the truth about UFO's and aliens. Sure sounds like they exist. Now he's going to jail or worse.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Vampire Freaks and 12yr and her 23bf Kill her family
A 12 year college Senior and does not want to graduate
JohnnyLechner was waiting tables, working on his senior thesis, recording his 5th cd, beginning his first of two books, preparing a graduation speech, and partying with his friends when he decided he really did not want to graduate after 11 years of college. It is now year 12 and the plot has thickened in an unimaginable way...
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
How to dump Windows' piracy 'spyware'
Man, I couldn't believe it was Microsoft who finally got my system infested with spyware! An unkillable process? Popup windows? A prompt you have to click at logon? My GOD!!! But it's ok. You CAN get rid of it:
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Chupacabra in Russia - Proof
For the first time in history, the mysterious Puerto-Rican Chupacabra vampire has been spotted in Russia.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
IE7 For XP Beta 2: Has Firefox Met Its Match?
The new public release of Internet Explorer Beta 2 is, according to Microsoft, more stable and ready to be used. But is it ready to go up against Firefox?
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Live re-enactment of Super Mario Bros.!!
These guys at Gordon College really put some time into making a real life version of everyone's favorite video game. You have to just see this one.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Actor Profile: Billy West
Did you know the guy who does Bugs Bunny's voice also does Stimpy's (Ren & Stimpy), Fry's (Futurama), Doug's (Doug), among many other notable and famous cartoon characters?
He's pretty amazing individual and this is a nice short, interesting read about him.
read more | digg story
He's pretty amazing individual and this is a nice short, interesting read about him.
read more | digg story
Mac and XP Bundles now being sold
Nobody really expected the release of Boot Camp allowing many of the different Intel Mac models to now run Windows XP, but now the software is being bundled with the hardware at MacMall...check it out...hell really has frozen over!
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
New Layout
Hey all, and welcome to the NEW SBJ News! The name has been changed to DUMBvorak Uncensored (dumbvorak.org). Why? Do I have some sort of unadulterated hatred toward famed tech analyst John C. Dvorak? Do I deem his constant mentioning of HIS blog (dvorak.org/blog) on T.W.I.T. to be detrimental to society? Am I simply sick of the fact that Dvorak gets "no spam at all" while I still get tons of messages a day from some Swahili princess asking for my help?
The answers to all these are nope! I just simply thought it was a fun name, and my friends agreed it'd be a nice use of $8.00 to register the domain. Besides, something tells me the Cranky Geek would feel the same way.
The answers to all these are nope! I just simply thought it was a fun name, and my friends agreed it'd be a nice use of $8.00 to register the domain. Besides, something tells me the Cranky Geek would feel the same way.
Piracy worse than child pornography
THE NEW look Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) seems to be giving the world an unusual moral code.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Microsoft Scanning your computer for piracy
The Washington Post is reporting that a recent update by Microsoft is now scanning people's machines to see if they have valid license, and reporting back to Microsoft, all without user intervention.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
'Fans who share music aren't thieves'
Important musicians such as Barenaked Ladies and Avril Lavigne have formed the Canadian Music Creators Coalition to among other things, support fans being sued by the Big Four Organized Music cartel. In their first white paper, the artists say, "Fans who share music are not thieves or pirates. Sharing music has been happening for decades."
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Abbey Road Webcam - Try to catch people imitating the famous Beatles pose.
This is a cool little webcam at Abbey Road in London. During the day time there are so many people!
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Monday, April 24, 2006
Build Your Very Own Golf Ball Cannon.
The Golf ball was engineered to fly far distances through regular air. The dimples surrounding the Golf ball are the key to distance and accuracy. Golf balls are cheap and can be purchased in bulk from used golf ball dealers. They make the perfect projectile.
EDIT: If you're getting a 404...
Paste the site URL (http://www.plans-kits.com/project2.html) into the search box at google.com
Press Search
Then click on "Show Google's cache of www.plans-kits.com/project2.html"
read more | digg story
EDIT: If you're getting a 404...
Paste the site URL (http://www.plans-kits.com/project2.html) into the search box at google.com
Press Search
Then click on "Show Google's cache of www.plans-kits.com/project2.html"
read more | digg story
RIAA/MPAA to get thier wishes from Congress: More DMCA restrictions
For the last few years, a coalition of technology companies, academics and computer programmers has been trying to persuade Congress to scale back the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Now Congress is preparing to do precisely the opposite.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Play Nintendo DS against a Sony PSP! (Screenshots Included)
Someone on the DSWifi forums has created a homebrew app that will allow a person to play a game using a Nintendo DS against a person with a Sony PSP (or other way around).This allows 2 people to play against each other using the Wi-fi capabilities for both handhelds! It's only the beginning... Screenshots included.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Prices of GAS acrossed the USA. Color coded MAP. Ver Cool
See where the gas prices are cheap in your area.
See what the prices are acrossed the lands ...
read more | digg story
See what the prices are acrossed the lands ...
read more | digg story