U.K. Hacker Gary McKinnon Plays the Asperger's Card (2)
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The hacker who vowed to "disrupt" the U.S. military loses his appeal to the European Court of Human Rights, and is expected to be extradited to the United States for trial. But his lawyer's hope his recent diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome will keep in him London.
Health: CalorieLab Counts the Calories of Popular Foods and Restaurants (41)
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Web site CalorieLab provides nutritional information for popular foods and restaurants to help you keep your diet on track. With over 70,000 foods and 500 restaurants in their database, there's a good chance that if you've eaten it, it's in there. If you're looking for that one healthy item on a restaurant's menu, CalorieLab provides full menu overviews along with more detailed nutritional information for each individual item. Keeping your choices healthy and counting calories ...
Capturing 3D surfaces with a flash camera (13)
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Capturing 3D surfaces with a flash camera via /. Comparing a flashlit photo with one taken in ambient light can reveal the texture of a surface, and could help develop more realistic computer games... The virtual worlds in computer games provide a realistic backdrop to the action. But step too close and the effect is lost – you'll see that textures and patterns are usually displayed on flat surfaces that look dull and artificial. A ...
Super-Highway of Tomorrow (1939) (3)
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While not spectacular to someone from 2008, this illustration of the "super-highway of tomorrow" was quite extraordinary to people attending the 1939 New York World's Fair. A concept drawing for the original Futurama, this image was found in the Official Guide Book to the 1939 World's Fair.Read more:Official Guide Book: 1939 World's Fair (1939)Dawn of a New Day (1939)Railroads on Parade (1939)Memory of 'Tomorrow' (New York Times, 1941)
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Aaron Jamison said:
Love this blog, really interesting snapshots of how people in the past viewed the future.
List of problems solved by MacGyver (10)
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List of problems solved by MacGyver only on Wikipedia of course via Kottke. MacGyver is in a room trying to get out, but sees the key in the other side of the locked door. He takes out a map, unfurls it and sticks it under the door. He then pushes the key out of the lock using his Swiss Army knife, which lands on the map. He then drags the map back under the door, ...
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Stolee said:
It is amazing what you can do with just a map.
Kinetic charger (6)
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CleanTechnica points us to M2E's kinetically-powered portable charger due to be released next summer. The kinetic energy system uses the Faraday Principle, which states that the movement of a conductor through a magnetic field produces voltage in the conductor proportional to the speed of movement. In this case, the conductor is a wire coil. The system uses a magnet that moves against the coil every time the charger moves, generating a charge that is captured ...
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Damon said:
It seems to me that such a device should have a plug socket, not prongs...
DHS contractor threatens woman with arrest for wearing "lesbian.com" tee on federal property (41)
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Security guards contracted by the DHS threw a woman out of a Social Security office in Van Nuys for wearing a t-shirt that read "lesbian.com." He claimed that "The Rules and Regulations Governing Conduct on Federal Property" gave him the right to throw her out for wearing a t-shirt with the word "lesbian" on it. As she headed for a line to pick up a Social Security card for her son, Gilbert was stopped by ...
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Eater said:
Huh? Wow.
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Maurice said:
wow, thank God the DHS is saving us from women wearing shirts with the word "lesbian" on it. I feel much safer!
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Jeremy Jarratt said:
This is a reminder to vote responsibly.
Ubiquity Prototype Offers a Natural Language Web Command Line [Featured Firefox Extension] (103)
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Firefox only: Mozilla Labs unveils the first prototype of a natural language web service connector called Ubiquity, a Firefox extension that adds a command panel to any web page. Ubiquity will look familiar to Quicksilver, Launchy, or Enso users: you invoke Ubiquity with a key combination and the text field drops down command suggestions as you type. Ubiquity's built-in command set consists of "user-centric mashups" that let you perform tasks using various web services in ...
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gautamg said:
going to try it out
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Matt said:
This is quite possibly the cleverest thing I've seen in a while. Ubiquity gives the web a command line for manipulating and aggregating data from various web services on the fly. Check out the video!
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yooper1019 said:
Wow! I REALLY hope this grows wings!! Very worth the 6 min vid!
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Derek said:
watch the video, it is worth it!
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Austin said:
Get this and try it, it's freaking amaaaazing
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alldrin said:
interesting
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Nihar said:
nice!!
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Bret said:
This will be an incredible tool as it is further developed.
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Ashwin said:
Ubiquity...
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catepol said:
da provare appena ho connessione stabile
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Charles said:
The main reason why more people haven't adopted command line shortcuts is because their brain doesn't move faster than their mouse (and a few page refreshes).
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Yojimbo said:
Vivement que ça se développe, ça, moi je dis.
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HacKnight said:
I started using this yesterday. It's quite useful, though only for a limited set of actions. I haven't dabbled in the dev side of things but as long as that's easy, I think this will take off.
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ixfx.dengmy said:
我没看懂
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tOMPSON said:
brilliant, that is the future
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iheartorcs said:
This is seriously cool if it works that well.
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dimhap said:
i've tried it last night. worth a try
thug - podictionary 842 (1)
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Apple sanctioned for misleading advertising ... again! (1)
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Apple has again run afoul of false advertising rules across the pond. The latest rap from Britain's Advertising Standards Authority regards its claim that "all of the web" is accessible from the iPhone. "They made a very general claim that you can see the internet in its entirety, and actually that's not quite true - so we've upheld [a complaint]," the ASA told the BBC, after ordering Apple to not run the ad again. Its ...
Tibet: "Beijing 10" return to USA; new Tibet docu "Leaving Fear Behind." (5)
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Image above: bloggers, artists, and pro-Tibet activists James Powderly, Tom Grant, Mike Liss, Jeremy Wells and John Watterberg arriving at LAX airport. They and others were held in jail in China for having participated in pro-Tibetan sovereignty demonstrations during the Olympics. More here. (via natdefreitas) Below, Leaving Fear Behind (in Tibetan: ‘Jigdrel’), a truly incredible documentary film shot by Dhondup Wangchen and other ethnic Tibetans from inside Tibet, about bringing Tibetan voices to the Beijing ...
Magnetic Fields guitar tablature (1)
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Stephen Merritt of The Magnetic Fields publishes guitar tablature with lyrics and chords for his songs. This kind of thing was almost non-existent in the days when CDs and vinyl records were synonymous with the music business. Back in the old days helping people to play the compositions for themselves was limited to helping aspiring guitar heroes to learn the guitar solos, or aspiring stars to emulate current stars. The stuff you learned was by ...
Robot guitar tuner (3)
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Huh, interesting page about "PLEK" a German designed robot guitar tuning system via Metafilter...PLEK is a unique computer controlled precision robot developed by the German company A+D Guitarrentechnologie GmbH in Berlin. The machine measures the neck, fretboard, and frets and finds differences within a thousand of a millimetre. These differences is then sanded off with tolerances within a hundred of a millimetre, all in one machine. A machine? Can a machine really adjust something as ...
Usniff Is Yet Another BitTorrent Aggregator [BitTorrent] (28)
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Web site Usniff is BitTorrent search aggregator that scours popular BitTorrent search engines like The Pirate Bay, Mininova, and IsoHunt, and aggregates the results into a powerful, attractive interface. Similar to other previously mentioned BitTorrent aggregators like PizzaTorrent and Speckly, Usniff can filter through search results to refine your search. The coolest thing Usniff has going for it is advanced search operators, like exclusion with the '-' (minus) operator. It also allows you to disable ...
