`I did a measurement of everything in my bedroom, and put them into Illustrator to get an idea of how much space I had to work with. I wanted to accomplish a few goals:
+ Hold 3 monitors on a shelf, as big as 21 inches each.
+ Support the weight of three 21 in monitors.
+ Hold a Home Theater Receiver, DVD player, and at least 2 other components (Laserdisc, VCR, PS2, N64 etc) under the shelf.
+ Hold a Mini-Fridge.
+ Hold my printer.
+ Hold at least 3 systems, possibly in rackmount cases.
+ Have enough desk space to rest a book or 3-ring binder.
+ Have enough space to rest my arms when using the keyboard (I HATE keyboard trays).
+ Space to mount 2 UPS units.
+ Fit within the 70 inches available in the corner of my room.
+ Efficiently utilize as much wood as possible while cutting down on waste.
+ Perhaps most important, it has to be easily disassembled since I am moving in a few months’
`Welcome to my compressed air engine page! Below you’ll find information about the V-twin and radial air engines that I designed and constructed. If you have questions about any of my projects feel free to e-mail me at the link below.’
`Brown University’s library boasts an unusual anatomy book. Tanned and polished to a smooth golden brown, its cover looks and feels no different from any other fine leather.
But here’s its secret: the book is bound in human skin.
A number of prestigious libraries — including Harvard University’s — have such books in their collections. While the idea of making leather from human skin seems bizarre and cruel today, it was not uncommon in centuries past, said Laura Hartman, a rare book cataloger at the National Library of Medicine in Maryland and author of a paper on the subject.’
`Coffee is vanishing from Venezuelan stores as producers protest price controls that they say are strangling profits — no laughing matter in a country where drinking the bitter brew is not simply a habit but a culture.
Troops and inspectors have begun raiding inventories held by private companies in an effort to ease the scarcity, authorities said Wednesday. [..]
National Guard troops have seized about 330 tons of coffee stored by wholesalers in Yaguara and Guacara, near the capital Caracas, and more raids were planned, said Gen. Marcos Rojas Figueroa.
“That coffee is going to be sold … at the established price,” he said.’
`When a girl gets off the bed after intercourse and the guy puts his index and middle finger into her vagina and thumb into the anus and pulls her back to the bed.
When i got done with tito’s mom i through her back onto the bed with a new jersey meat hook.‘
`People usually look at me strangely when they find out that I have a barfbag collection, even after I assure them that I only collect unused ones. I started this collection at the beginning of my freshman year when I flew into Boston from Denver on United. This historic barfbag is included below. Since then, I’ve taken a barfbag practically everytime I fly. I was afraid at first, sneaking them into my carry-on luggage during take-offs or landings, but now I steal them with pride.’
`A 1.5m crocodile was found in a Northern Territory family’s backyard spa just hours after a woman had used it.
Rangers were called to a rural property at Bees Creek, about 30km south of Darwin, to remove the salt water crocodile that had sneaked into the spa during the night.
Long-term Territory croc catcher Tom Nichols said the woman, aged in her late 50s, was very lucky she didn’t run into the reptile.
“Had she have jumped into the spa without seeing the croc it could have been very nasty,” Mr Nichols said.’
`I’m a sucker for a bizarre cover, a great cheesecake cover or something that just plain is so cool that you know you’ll never see it again. I have to snap these up. Partly because I want to archive as many of these kinds of covers as I can, before they disappear forever. They don’t make ’em anymore, you know. The other reason is that these big 12″ X 12″ pieces of art really are just that — art.
It’s a crying shame that those little CD covers will never have this kind of impact.
In the back of my mind, I’d someday like to put out a coffee table-style book of the greatest and strangest LP covers that ever were. But that’s probably where the idea for such a book will stay — in the back of my mind! So, why not post some of my favorites here on the internet?? [..]’
`An Egyptian cleric’s controversial fatwa claiming that nudity during sexual intercourse invalidates a marriage has uncovered a rift among Islamic scholars.
According to the religious edict issued by Rashad Hassan Khalil, a former dean of Al-Azhar University’s faculty of Sharia (or Islamic law), “being completely naked during the act of coitus annuls the marriage”.’
`New details have emerged of how the growing number of prisoners on hunger strike at Guantánamo Bay are being tied down and force-fed through tubes pushed down their nasal passages into their stomachs to keep them alive.
They routinely experience bleeding and nausea, according to a sworn statement by the camp’s chief doctor, seen by The Observer. [..]
It is painful, Edmonson admits. Although ‘non-narcotic pain relievers such as ibuprofen are usually sufficient, sometimes stronger drugs,’ including opiates such as morphine, have had to be administered.
Thick, 4.8mm diameter tubes tried previously to allow quicker feeding, so permitting guards to keep prisoners in their cells for more hours each day, have been abandoned, the affidavit says. The new 3mm tubes are ‘soft and flexible’.’
`Jesus was almost certainly a cannabis user and an early proponent of the medicinal properties of the drug, according to a study of scriptural texts published this month. The study suggests that Jesus and his disciples used the drug to carry out miraculous healings.
The anointing oil used by Jesus and his disciples contained an ingredient called kaneh-bosem which has since been identified as cannabis extract, according to an article by Chris Bennett in the drugs magazine, High Times, entitled Was Jesus a Stoner? The incense used by Jesus in ceremonies also contained a cannabis extract, suggests Mr Bennett, who quotes scholars to back his claims.’
`A mouse got its revenge against a homeowner who tried to dispose of it in a pile of burning leaves. The blazing creature ran back to the man’s house and set it on fire.
Luciano Mares, 81, of Fort Sumner said he caught the mouse inside his house and wanted to get rid of it.
“I had some leaves burning outside, so I threw it in the fire, and the mouse was on fire and ran back at the house,” Mares said from a motel room Saturday.’
`This is by far the best deal you will find for these fake lottery tickets! Just put one of these lottery tickets in a birthday card and let the fun begin! When the person scratches off the section instead of winning they get cursed out!! What a nasty prank! These fake lotto tickets are top quality and will look and feel like the real thing! They will never know it’s fake! Tickets will come in 4 assorted styles as picture above shows. All tickets will have different nasty curse phrases so please adults only!’
This are kinda cool, in a way. Scratchies usually have pictures of fruit or something under the silver stuff, not phrases like “Eat Shit And Die!”. 🙂
`The following is a step by step demonstration of what happens during an autopsy procedure.
Warning: some people might find this section disturbing. It contains detailed information about what happens in an autopsy.’
It’s not particularly disturbing or detailed, actually. But still, they probably have to give a warning because people are stupid cunts looking for any reason to sue someone.
`For years adorers of powerful graphics boards wished that they could only replace graphics chip and memory on their adapters without dumping the whole product. MicroStar International (MSI), a leading maker of computer components, showcased at Consumer Electronics Show a graphics card that may make dreams of some enthusiasts come true.
Microstar shows off its Geminium-Go! graphics card featuring two Mobile PCI Express Module (MXM) modules that employ a pair of Nvidia GeForce Go 6600 processors along with 512MB of memory in total. The graphics processing units (GPUs) work in multi-GPU SLI mode, thus, the graphics board achieves performance similar to the GeForce 6800 graphics cards. In case a proper power supply circuitries are employed, even two MXM modules with products like GeForce Go 7800 GTX may be installed for ultimate performance.’
`Claimed to be the first tornado ever photographed. It was taken in 1884 by F. N. Robinson of Howard, Dakota Territory. Direct link this time.’
via Digg.
Finally, some hard evidence.
`From an unknown aircraft waiting in a very long takeoff queue: “I’m f…ing bored!” Ground Traffic Control: “Last aircraft transmitting, identify yourself immediately!” Unknown aircraft: “I said I was f…ing bored, not f…ing stupid!” [..]
Allegedly the German air controllers at Frankfurt Airport are renowned as a short-tempered lot. They, it is alleged, not only expect one to know one’s gate parking location, but how to get there without any assistance from them. So it was with some amusement that we (a Pan Am 747) listened to the following exchange between Frankfurt ground control and a British Airways 747, call sign Speedbird 206. Speedbird 206: “Frankfurt, Speedbird 206 clear of active runway.” Ground: “Speedbird 206. Taxi to gate Alpha One-Seven.” The BA 747 pulled onto the main taxiway and slowed to a stop. Ground: “Speedbird, do you not know where you are going?” Speedbird 206: “Stand by, Ground, I’m looking up our gate location now.” Ground (with quite arrogant impatience): “Speedbird 206, have you not been to Frankfurt before?” Speedbird 206 (coolly): “Yes, twice in 1944, but it was dark,…… and I didn’t land.”‘
`”The next day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry:
“And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if perhaps he might find any thing on it: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.
“And Jesus answered and said to it, No man eat fruit of you hereafter forever. And his disciples heard it. –Mark 11:12-14′
If you don’t know what this is about, have a look at God Hates Fags.
`I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I have been known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat retention. I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees, I write award-winning operas, I manage time efficiently. Occasionally, I tread water for three days in a row.
I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute Brownies in twenty minutes. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru.’
`One of the frustrating things about websites that use Flash video is that they rarely provide links to let you download the video files for offline viewing or transcoding/syncing to portable devices like the Sony PSP, video iPod, or Creative Zen Vision.
Case and point: Google Video and YouTube. Neither of these websites allow you to download the video files. This type of lock-down is soooo Web 1.0.
I decided to dive into Greasemonkey and create a couple scripts to expose download links on Google Video and YouTube webpages [..]’
`Mr. Hofmann will turn 100 on Wednesday, a milestone to be marked by a symposium in nearby Basel on the chemical compound that he discovered and that famously unlocked the Blakean doors of perception, altering consciousnesses around the world. As the years accumulate behind him, Mr. Hofmann’s conversation turns ever more insistently around one theme: man’s oneness with nature and the dangers of an increasing inattention to that fact.
“It’s very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature,” he said, listing to the right in a green armchair that looked out over frost-dusted fields and snow-laced trees. A glass pitcher held a bouquet of roses on the coffee table before him. “In the big cities, there are people who have never seen living nature, all things are products of humans,” he said. “The bigger the town, the less they see and understand nature.” And, yes, he said, LSD, which he calls his “problem child,” could help reconnect people to the universe.
Rounding a century, Mr. Hofmann is physically reduced but mentally clear. He is prone to digressions, ambling with pleasure through memories of his boyhood, but his bright eyes flash with the recollection of a mystical experience he had on a forest path more than 90 years ago in the hills above Baden, Switzerland. The experience left him longing for a similar glimpse of what he calls “a miraculous, powerful, unfathomable reality.”‘
I assumed he’d died years ago.
It looks like those very cool keyboards with OLED arrays in each of the keys are going to be released next month. 1st of February this site claims.
I want one. They’re probably going to be way more expensive than I can afford tho, for a few months [or years] atleast.
So, start clicking on some of the Google ads so I can get a shiny new keyboard, fuckers. 🙂
Update to Strutting onto the keyboard catwalk.
`The table seats eight people and is powered by a 400cc Honda motorcycle motor which Mr Macdonald said could easily get the table clipping along at 100km/h.
The gears are located on a foot rail and the handle bars sit under the table-top – requiring a bit of steering skill as the driver sits facing forward as the table moves sideways. The wheels are similar to those on a ride-on lawn mower. [..]
Police were called to Orewa last Friday to reports of the motorised picnic table doing “wheelstands” in a local reserve.
“This is probably a first,” said Inspector Les Paterson.
Mr Macdonald, who also brought the world the motorised bar stool, said some friends were doing a few skids on the reserve and police were called.
“They were cool about it and said ‘don’t be stupid and have a good time’.”‘
`The picoPSU, by MiniBox, is barely the size of an ATX connector. It’s 120W, and has a couple of molex connectors and a floppy connector, as well as an input jack for mains power.
It’s designed for use in embedded systems where space is at a premium. It’s 100% silent, has a lack of messy cables and provides enough power to keep a Pentium M or Via C3 processor juiced up, depending on the other peripherals in the system.’
`Pupils at a school in Stockholm got a shock this Christmas when they burst in on a soft-porn photoshoot – in the school gym.
The girls’ basketball team was confronted by a heavily made-up woman wearing only a thong, a short camisole and high heels, and smoking a cigarette.
“Get out of here – we’re busy,” she shrieked at the children, according to tabloid Expressen. [..]
“The idea was to create a kind-of cheerleader atmosphere,” FHM editor Tobias Wickström told Aftonbladet. [..]
The school is carrying out an investigation into what happened, and headteacher Ingela Fondin refused to comment, but Wickström said he didn’t understand what the fuss was all about, adding that the pictures looked “fantastic”.’
`Michael Jackson is being sued for unpaid bills by the veterinarian who tends to the pop star’s exotic animals at his Neverland ranch, which the singer has not occupied since being acquitted of child molestation charges last June. [..]
Martin Dinnes, owner of Dinnes Memorial Veterinary Hospital, alleges that Jackson owes $91,602 in veterinary bills. Dinnes helped the singer acquire animals for his zoo including flamingoes, giraffes, elephants and orangutans, said his lawyer, Brenton Horner.’
`The classic home computer and gaming brand Commodore is back, in the guise of a handheld device sporting downloadable arcade games.
Image The much-traveled brand is now owned by Commodore International Corporation (formerly Yeahronimo). The company has used CES to detail its new product; the Commodore Combo.
The device is being offered with five 8-bit games included, and another 90 or so available for online downloadable purchase. It comes with a 20GB hard drive running Windows CE, and offers GPS functionality.’
`Americans bought an estimated $125 billion worth of consumer electronics — computers, monitors, cell phones, televisions — this past year. With hundreds of millions of them becoming obsolete every year in this country, what happens to all the stuff we don’t want any more? [..]
The average computer monitor contains more than five pounds of lead. Computers can also contain mercury and cadmium. When you multiply that by the millions of outdated computers and monitors, you’ve got lots of toxins that you don’t want to put back into the earth.
It’s environmentally unsafe for individuals to just throw out computers and monitors, but federal law prohibits businesses from doing it.
Businesses usually pay electronic recyclers to haul away the old equipment and pull it apart, and if it’s done right, pretty much everything can be reused.
Unfortunately, it’s not always done right. That’s dirty little secret No. 2: Some recyclers may not be recycling everything. Actually, some experts say most recyclers aren’t recycling everything.’
`An intrepid British oarsman’s bid to row round Antarctica ended after just 30 kilometres (20 miles) when he unexpectedly collided with the Falkland Islands, British newspapers reported.
Colin Yeates was attempting to make history with the first solo unsupported rowing circumnagivation, expected to last 10 and a half months and cover 21,630-kilometres.
However, the “personal quest” to “push the boundaries of what is believed possible” hit the rocks after just 30 miles.
After four years of careful preparation, the 47-year-old father of seven fulfilled his prediction that his journey would “begin and end in the Falkland Islands”.’
