Category Archives: Useless
How to deal with data loss
I bought my friend a 1 terabyte external hard drive for Christmas so he could back up all his stuff. I invited him over last week so I could get some of his files off the hard drive.
Before I copied it however, I was going to remove all the .DS files from his file system [...]
best elevator music ever…
Thanks for the link Karim
A little perspective for Monday morning
As another week of hard work rolls around, I thought it might be appropriate to put things in perspective with a little game. Enjoy!
Thanks but no thanks
http://www.rxlist.com/chantix-drug.htm
How many Gigs of data do geeks consume in a day?
Apparently, the average American consumes about 34 gigs of data in a day, or 3.6 zettabytes for the entire U.S. Here’s the breakdown from DownloadSquad.com:
But I second the question that they pose at the end of their article: how many gigs of data do geeks consume? Maybe somebody can figure this data out by reading [...]
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Microsoft at CES… I knew something was missing…
If you’re like me, you’re excited about CES but don’t have the bank to buy a ticket. Instead, you’re watching the Engadget Live blog feed and getting the updates every 15 seconds – in picture and text form.
While watching this, I also noticed this hilarious post by kyleve on Twitter:
“I knew something was missing. But [...]
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Hacking a parking meter
http://google.com
A cool iPhone 3G S design
This is a well done design idea for the iPhone 3G that was released well before the announcement that the externals of the iPhone were not going to have any design refresh. I really Apple would have done something different to make the iPhone 3G S stand out, but maybe they’re holding off an external [...]
Get a LoD of this: Flutebox and Beardyman
I’m impressed. Specifically at 4:25 to 5:00 and 14:20 to 15:20 (or somewhere around there).
He thought he liked the iPhone, but…
… he actually loves it.
MacBook modding
Useless but awesome: [via SmokingApples]
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Sign hackers strike Bellevue, Washington
Earlier this week I posted a picture of a road sign that had been hacked to show the text “ZOMBIES AHEAD.” Clicking the picture took you to the Jalopnik web site where they’ve posted a tutorial on hacking the signs. Funny that today I see it in the news, not more than 20 minutes [...]
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Wait… what is the point of this?
It’s amazing the sort of topics that get people’s attention now-a-days… The topic here is “Videogame characters that are probably delicious“. The author, Jim Sterling, actually went through the time to pick characters that were not obvious food choices (like Dizzy the egg), and post what they probably taste like and how to cook them.
Warning: [...]
Happy Friday! Here are a couple funny videos I saw this week