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Look! Bedroom Made to Look Like Mega Man 2 Level
via Unplugged by soniaz on June 05, 2008
Now you aren't a true gamer unless you've painstakingly turned your bedroom into a game level. Kid Overdrive, who plays covers of vintage Nintendo games, decorated his previous bedroom to look like the Bubbleman level in Mega Man 2. While it could have looked cheezoid, it's actually totally impressive and profesh looking. Power-up!What videogame would you like to live in? More photos...
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The battle for the future of the social web
via FactoryCity by Chris Messina on May 22, 2008
When I was younger, I used to bring over my Super Nintendo games to my friends’ houses and we’d play for hours… that is, if they had an SNS console. If, for some reason, my friend had a Sega system, my games were useless and we had to play something like Sewer Shark. Inevitably less fun was had.What us kids didn’t know at the time was that we were suffering from a platform war, that...
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LastGraph Visualizes Your Last.fm Habits [Last.fm]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on June 01, 2008
Need empirical proof that you're listening to the same old artists over and over on music discovery site Last.fm? LastGraph, a slick little API app coded by Andrew Godwin, takes your Last.fm username and models it into revealing timeline graphs. Check out your overall listening frequency, and a eye-popping multi-color artist history timeline. The big caveat is that LastGraph must, for now,...
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Shades Fine-Tunes Your Mac's Screen Brightness [Featured Mac Download]
via Lifehacker by (author unknown) on June 06, 2008
Shared by dknowles neat! Mac only: Free utility Shades adds finer screen brightness controls to your Mac than the defaults. Once you install the Shades Preference pane and turn it on, you can brighten or darken your screen across a much wider range than the Mac's built-in controls, and make your laptop in bed much more bearable to your sleepy significant other or the guy on the red-eye...
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Deluge Does Lightweight BitTorrent Across Platforms [Featured Download]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on June 02, 2008
Windows/Mac/Linux: Freeware application Deluge is a lightweight, cross-platform BitTorrent client. Aside from the standard BitTorrent functionality (you know, downloading), Deluge has a—dare I say—flood of great features for such a young client, including a web interface (like uTorrent and Transmission), full encryption, RSS support, and a plug-in system for adding even more functionality. In...
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Redacted CIA document about torture almost entirely blacked out
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on May 27, 2008
Mary Robinette Kowal says: On the ACLU's blog, they have a PDF of a CIA redacted document about the use of torture. The page is entirely blacked out except for the phrase, "These enhanced techniques include:" and then farther down the page, "waterboard."Link
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How the Browser Sees Google
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on May 25, 2008
“Reflow is the process by which the geometry of the layout engine’s formatting objects are computed,” Doug T. explains. Above Mozilla reflow visualization shows how the browser calculates the geometry of the Google Japan homepage, and Doug has more visualizations at his blog. [Via Reddit.][By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: How the Browser Sees Google | Comments][Advertisement] Google books at...
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NASA Phoenix Lander Finds Water On Mars! [Mars Phoenix Lander]
via Gizmodo by Jack Loftus on May 31, 2008
The landing thrusters aboard the Phoenix Mars Lander apparently did their job and them some. First, they successfully fired and gently deposited the multimillion dollar probe on the surface of the Red Planet. And then, by doing just that, they blew away three to six inches of Martian soil to reveal the shiny, slick face of what could be a large ice patch. Brendan Fraser's frozen caveman body...
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Geek Gang Signs Might Get You Shot In Compton [Geek Culture]
via Gizmodo by Elaine Chow on May 30, 2008
First came Pharrell's hip hop funk group N.E.R.D., then Chamillionaire's Ridin' (Dirty) was appropriated into White n' Nerdy, and now the disparate worlds of hip hop culture and geekdom have crossed once again, with this poster depicting geek gang signs!Macheads and Windows fanboys can now proclaim their love for their respective platforms through sign language... and oh damn! Is...
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Japan Dominates Masturbate-a-Thon: Gadgets Help Break 8 Hour 30 Minute Record (NSFW) [World Champions]
via Gizmodo by (author unknown) on May 29, 2008
Shared by dknowles Impressive. And gross. And weird. Par for the course for Japanese people, I suppose.Think you have what it takes to become a masturbating champion? Can you endure longer than 8 hours and 40 minutes? Because that is what it will take to beat the new record set by both Norihiro Taneichi and Masanobu Sato of Tokyo at this year's Masturbate-a-Thon in San Francisco. The two...
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