links for 2011-01-04
Pinboard – antisocial bookmarking like delicious but private (tags: private del.icio.us tools tagging social bookmarks)
Pinboard – antisocial bookmarking like delicious but private (tags: private del.icio.us tools tagging social bookmarks)
Nils Völker – Media Art and Design – One Hundred and Eight One Hundred and Eight is an interactive wall-mounted Installation mainly made out of ordinary garbage bags. Controlled by a microcontroller each of them is selectively inflated and deflated in turn by two cooling fans. Although each plastic bag is mounted stationary the sequences [...]
Booklet – jQuery Plugin Booklet is a jQuery tool for displaying content on the web in a flipbook layout. It was built using the jQuery library. Licensed under both MIT and GPL licenses. (tags: jquery books)
Scuttle | Download Scuttle software for free at SourceForge.net Web-based social bookmarking system. Allows multiple users to store, share and tag their favourite links online. (tags: opensource del.icio.us software bookmarks php)
Zombie survival roguelike – Boing Boing Rogue Survivor combines two things I know many of you love: roguelike computer games and the minutiae of surviving the zombie armageddon. Indiegames has a good feature series up on its development. (tags: zombie games game windows indie)
Clarkesworld Magazine – Online Science Fiction and Fantasy : The Things by Peter Watts its "john carpenter's the thing" from the perspective of "the thing" (tags: fiction free books sci-fi horror) The Linear RPG by =GirlFlash on deviantART An intersting flash base way of telling a story. (tags: flash games game funny rpg store)
Arduino Wireless Transmission APC220 PC Kits – $30.64 : Open Source Store Electronic Arduino Wholesale, Wireless Motor Sensor Robot Parts Free Shipping Arduino Wireless Transmission APC220 PC Kits is used to connect with PC. (tags: arduino RF radio) The Simpsons Archive: Foods in "The Simpsons" Someone created a list of all the food consumed on [...]
Do It Yourself Steadicam Using a Chicken Last week we shared the awesome fact that chickens have image stabilized heads. If you’ve been wondering about it, it’s actually called the vestibulo-ocular reflex. Naturally (and… nerdily?) people started suggesting that someone should try making a steadicam using a chicken. Well, YouTube user Destin actually went ahead [...]
deep darc » Hacking Christmas Lights I went to Costco the other day with my wife to pick up some Christmas lights. While there, I found the most awesome christmas lights ever: the GE Color Effects G-35. (tags: hacking diy rgb projects)
Head JS :: The only script in your HEAD The HEAD section is the worst place to load scripts. It's painfully slow. The more and the bigger the worse it gets. Move the scrips to the end of the page and you cannot use HTML5 and CSS3 safely or you run into dependency problems. Enter [...]
WordPress 3 Tutorials | Creating and Editing Custom Themes (tags: custom webdev wordpress wp tutorial video)
Learning math by ignoring your teacher and doodling – Boing Boing (tags: drawing education interesting math reference)
Seven Replica Rayguns Made from Recycled Materials | 1-800-Recycling Could there be a more awesome way to recycle than building your own steampunk and sci-fi rayguns? Here are seven of the best (tags: rayguns sci-fic) Recycling and Green Living Blog | 1-800-Recycling 1-800-Recycling.com is a dynamic recycling and green living-focused website that makes recycling, conserving, [...]
RGB LED Strip tutorial We love some good LED blinking as much as the next person but after years of LED-soldering we need something cooler to get us excited. Sure there are RGB LEDs and those are fun too but what comes after that? Well, we have the answer: LED Strips! These are flexible circuit [...]
Paint Moss Graffiti – Step-by-Step Guides for Offbeat DIY Projects – Popular Mechanics One of the book's hidden gems, this guide shows how to paint moss onto a wall and cultivate it, like a paint-on Chia Pet. (tags: graffiti diy)
Adding Binary Numbers A key requirement of digital computers is the ability to use logical functions to perform arithmetic operations. The basis of this is addition; if we can add two binary numbers, we can just as easily subtract them, or get a little fancier and perform multiplication and division. How, then, do we add [...]
Pangolin – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A pangolin (pronounced /ˈpæŋɡəlɪn/), also scaly anteater or Tenggiling, is a mammal of the order Pholidota. There is only one extant family (Manidae) and one genus (Manis) of pangolins, comprising eight species. There are also a number of extinct taxa. Pangolins have large keratin scales covering their skin and [...]
Masters of Science Fiction – Home (tags: tv) Pontypool (2008) A psychological thriller in which a deadly virus infects a small Ontario town. (tags: canada film horror imdb movie movies zombie zombies)
Eating Raoul – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Eating Raoul is a 1982 black comedy about a married couple living in Hollywood who resort to killing swingers for their money. It was directed by Paul Bartel and written by Bartel and Richard Blackburn. The writers also commissioned a single-issue comic book based on the movie for [...]
Tamir Gal | SharpPcap SharpPcap is a packet capture framework for the .NET environment, based on the famous WinPcap component. The purpose of this library is to provide an API for capturing, injecting, analyzing and building packets using any .NET language such as C# and VB.NET. The following list illustrates the features currently supported by [...]