Posted in handy, mp3, science, solutions, weird, well you see officer, wtf on July 23, 2008 | No Comments »
In the news some time ago, ran a story regarding so-called anti-teenager devices that broadcasted an unceasing tone at a frequency audible only to people generally around 25-30 or younger. If such a tone were to be sounded in a classroom, for instance, the teacher would not realize it but the students would become agitated [...]
Posted in add to my list, handy, helpme, list me stuff, music, project300k, solutions, video, words, youtube, tagged youtube, olympics, beijing, artists, welcome to beijing, 2008, video, listings, by appearance, musicians, hotties, metafilter, project300k, music video, visual, description, timing on July 15, 2008 | No Comments »
It took a bit of doing, but I finally managed to hammer out what I *think* is a complete list of all of the musicians/singers that appear, in order, in the “Welcome to Beijing” music video that was presented as a 100-day countdown theme before the 2008 Olympics in China. I had originally seen [...]
Posted in handy, images, unlikely wallpaper on June 23, 2008 | No Comments »
I stumbled across an interesting site with a collection of images of sports stadiums across the globe, organized very keenly by seating size, as well as by country that you can click on a map to locate. It’s WorldStadiums.com and worth a peek at least.
Even more interesting was that they actually had listings [...]
Posted in General Stuff, advice, big freakin woop, handy, images, solutions, weird, words on June 3, 2008 | No Comments »
While I was away in Idaho this past weekend — visiting relatives for the wedding of one of my cousins, seeing my uncle finish Boise’s first Iron Man half-triathalon, watching coverage of McDonald’s fries inventor and resident potato billionaire JR Simplot’s televised funeral, and impressing the in-folk with my Scattergories rectal-extractive point-scoring techniques (”things found [...]
Posted in General Stuff, handy, news, newton, science, solutions, video, youtube on February 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My uncle, Steve Hodges, is a very successful electrical engineer and inventor who’s made a fair number of useful devices such as the fisherman’s Depth Finder and now builds cellular-based utility status-monitoring devices (M2MCommM). A while back he owned and headed a company called SynPet, that manufactured household robots by the name of Newton. [...]
Posted in handy, science, video, wiki-ref, youtube on February 29, 2008 | No Comments »
The description says “giant” bike, but to me that means something with giant wheels akin to one of those funky old “penny-farthing” things. Instead, I dub it the Tall Blue Ladder Bicycle, as driven by a dude with a very large Top Hat (as I don’t know any cowboy hat with a black top-hat / [...]
Posted in freebies, handy, heads up, life hacks, words on February 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There are at least five email addresses that you can send an attachment to, wait a few moments, and check your inbox again to receive an attached conversion of that file:
iPhone@pdfonline.com - (disregard the “iphone” part, it’s misleading) Attach any MS Word or MS Viso file that’s under 1mb, and you’ll get a response with [...]
