Wikipedia Can Be Unusual

So I'm slightly bored at work these days. But I've found an interesting list on Wikipedia, that lists the "most unusual wikipedia articles".

I still find it funny that there are wikipedia lists that list things about or contained in wikipedia itself. Maybe that's just me.

Enjoy

DIY 2G Shuffle Charger

Remember waaaaay back when I blogged about hacking together your own 2G iPod Shuffle dock?? Thursday November 09, 2006 to be exact.

Well here's a new hack to make your own 2G iPod Shuffle charger. You may be asking yourselves: "So what's the difference?". Well 1 connects your iPod to your computer, and the other just charges it. Ingenious right?

Hack it here

Also of note is that this is the first blog post to use the blogger labels. Its gonna be so fun going back and labeling all my 200+ posts.

Timbaland is an Unoriginal Dirty Thief

Most people enjoy the latest Timbalands beats, I for one have enjoyed listening to Justin Timberlake and Nelly Furtado's latest albums. If you couldn't guess, Timbaland produced tracks for both.
But now here's some controversy. Apparently the music to Nelly Furtado's "Do It" (featured on her most recent album "Loose") is a complete rip-off of an original composition created on Amiga and Commodore 64 chips/boards.
The worst thing is that Timbaland has not given the original artists their due credit. Tut tut.
Still this won't stop me listening to his beats.

Read the story here.

Check out the YTMND

7 Cool Things You Can Make With Paper

Well, I'm bored again (I hate Monday mornings).
I'm also a little disappionted that the Baltimore Ravens offense couldn't produce a win on Saturday against the Colts. Oh well, the defense did an awesome job by keeping the Colts out of the end zone, its just that the offense couldn't step up. There's always next season anyway.

So here's a little article on 7 'cool' things you can make with paper. Its pretty much your standard origami stuffm, but this comes with videos of course.

Check it out


Shout out to Digg for the link.

Sega vs. YTMND

So Sega Europe are being retarded. They have sent a letter to YTMND asking them to remove all Sega websites (Sonic to be precise), be removed.

They believe that they're customers are so retarded as to confuse the Sonic ytmnd's to as actual Sega press. Now there's been a Sega backlash from the YTMND community.

This all started from the Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon, which included a helpful public service announcement for kids about what to do if you get touched by someone somewhere you don't want to be touched.

Check out my favourite response YTMND about this situation (NSFW):
http://ytmndsega.ytmnsfw.com/.

Also my favourite YTMND of the Sonic announcement, featuring everyone's favourite tourettes guy:
http://sonictourettesguy.ytmnd.com/


If you've never been to YTMND, check out its Wikipedia entry, or just visit its website to see what its about. Then you will realise how stoopid Sega are sounding.

Check out the story from Joystiq

Wii is Exercise

If you've played a Wii (especially Wii Sports), you'll know what I'm talking about. Somehow playing Wii sports makes people act like total retards (I wish I had that photo of George bowling in the office).
Most notably Tennis and Boxing will tire the f*ck out of you. That is why The British Osteopathic Association is suggesting that you warm up and warm down after a hard Wii session. Because even though its a video game, the movements are actually a form of exercise. So as with all exercise, you must warm up and warm down.

Read the story here

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Progess Calculator

(That is one long-winded title....)
Well, seeing as I have a Wii and also The Legend of Zelda : Twilight Princess, this will be useful. Actually it will be useful to anyone with TLoZ:TW

Its basically a couple of questions that will reveal to you how far you have progressed in the game. Problem is you have to know stuff like how many hearts, heart pieces, golden bugs etc. that you have found.

Check it out: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Progess Calculator

Also try and guess how far I have progressed.....
Go on....
Guess...



6.371% (LOL I suck!!! Too much Madden 07)

Cool (but useless) Javascript

So, I'm not a big fan of javascript (mainly coz it takes me forever to do anything that isn't alert('test');).
Yeah, so what if I suck at javascript? There's probably someone out there who has written the exact function or .js file that you need. See here if you need scripts.

Anyways here's something cool to do with websites, then get bored after a couple of minutes then not do it ever again. Just follow these steps (I promise there is nothing malicious about this code):

1. Open a website that has some images.
2. Delete the address from the address bar.
3. Copy and paste this code into the address bar:

javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.images; DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i-DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style; DIS.position='absolute'; DIS.left=Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5; DIS.top=Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5}R++}setInterval('A()',5); void(0);

4. Press enter and enjoy.

Note: this works well on goolge image search, flickr, and amazon.

Thanks to digg for the heads up.

Also some guy on digg suggested to save the javascript as a bookmark (put the code in the address/location field). Then when you visit a webpage, load the bookmark to unleash the pain!!!!
Surely there's some security issue if you can just run js on a website from the address bar, kinda like SQL injection?

Stoopid Amounts of Hard Drive Storage

Well, I just bought me 2 320Gb SATA2 Western Digial hard drives. I couldn't be bothered to put them into a RAID as I'd lose 320Gbs of space.
But if I had these babies, I would have only needed 1 drive and not worry about RAID.

I won't spoil it by telling you how big these new HD's are but I'll tell you this, they are stoopidly massive!!!!

Fun with Chip & PIN Machines

So everyone is using Chip & PIN these day to pay for stuff (beats signing all those receipts). Well what if your bored at work and want to pass the time away?

Well, some clever spark has put Tetris on a Chip & PIN machine. YAY!!!!

But be warned that this is a Proof of Concept that people may be able to hack the consoles. Meaning that you could enter your card details and PIN into a 'hacked' machine. Credit Card theft is bound to rise if this is ever made public.......oops!

Time + Blueprints of the Eiffel Tower = ?

Say, remember that post about that guy who created a scale model of the U.S.S. Harry Truman in Lego?

Well someone just went one better (or worse) and made a scale replica of the Eiffel Tower with...........wait for it...........matchsticks!!!
There's even working lights!!!!

Waaay Too Much Time

Goats + Trees = ?

Well what the f**k do you think it equals??

Maybe it equals goats in trees.

These pic are weird as I could never imagine 1 goat in a tree let alone a bunch of them. Maybe there's like an annual goat Olympics and tree climbing is the only event, so they spend all year practicing to climb trees. Now that would be awesome.

Check 'em out here

Trebuchets Anyone?

A while ago, a couple of friends and I were discussing trebuchets. I don't remember how we got on the subject, but it was funny for a minute.

So look at what I found today....

How to make a Lego Trebuchet

could be fun for a couple of minutes. Maybe I'll make one and keep it on my desk....

seXbox 360 Mods

Ahhh, free online picture account thingys. Flickr is one of them. And someone on Flickr posted a wealth of pictures of Xbox 360 case mods.

Sadly he's only got the good ones. Not the "Worst Xbox 360 Halo 3 Mod Ever" (its backwards and on the bottom of the case BTW).

A History of Video Game Console in Pictures

Well finally, something fun to post (thank god for the Digg front page).

Here's a cool article that show the evolution of video game consoles, through pictures. It's not all chronologically accurate, and I'm sure they may have missed a few console, but still its pretty interesting considering the first console (the Magnavox Odyssey) was first commerically released in 1972. So there's 35 years of history!!!.

Read/View the Video Games Console Evolution.

GMail is Vulnerable

Well, the first official post of the New Year (2007, for those that missed it), and its not good news :(

Apparently there is a vulnerability in GMail that lets people view your contacts list. So when you log in to GMail, a javascript file is cached that allows malicious scripts to be run. So if your logged into your GMail account and browsing the web, a malicious script can be run that calls the 'google' function and can retrieve your contacts list.

So be careful when using your GMail folks. Hopefully this gets fixed soon.

Read more at Engadget and Tech Reads

Happy Holidays

So its been a while since my last post (December 14th to be precise). Its not my fault, I've been away from work for the past 2 weeks (that's where I read my RSS feeds and get stories to post), and also it is the Christmas season and everyone knows that news is always slow.

Strangely the people at Digg seem to find stories to post, no matter what time of year.

So, before the blog gets a kick start for the new year, here's a belated message from me....

Merry Christmas
and a
Happy New Year