Archive for the 'Fun' Category
Humor: The smallest car of the world
We normally don’t watch car magazines on TV – with one or two exceptions. And our most favorite still is UK’s Top-Gear.
As we’re traveling quite a bit we often end up watching it online. So there is one of their very best just made available online – Jeremy doing a review of a “really” small car.
Well the smallest car of the world (according to the Guinness book of records) to be more precise. And watch what he does with it:
First he carries the car into the office…
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Gadgets: A Tee that shows where you can connect
This T-Shirt will show you if you can connect to a wireless network without checking on your computer. The animated display on the front of the tee detects 802.11b or 802.11g signals and displays the strength to yourself and everyone around you. The glowing bars on the front of the shirt dynamically change as the surrounding wi-fi signal strength fluctuates…
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DIY: Geek Jack-o’-Lantern
Getting ready for Halloween? Have a look at Wired’s “Geek Jack-o’-Lantern” gallery and contest for some great ideas and a link to a How-To tutorial.
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Video: P-Funk documentary
When you like funk, this one hour documentary on George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic is a must.
… What’s your funk aptitude, bobba?
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Fun: The HP Printer Hack finds new friends
Just wait a little while and then tell it to some other people – Works with jokes and seemingly still on “Digg.com”.
This time its the good old prank to change the display message on HP (and other printers) with a little program. But script kiddies wake up – no perl needed to do this as mentioned in the “latest version” of this joke. There is since long a “small .Net application” around that does the job even with a configuration window for your message…
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Earthrace – the last run on its 2007 record attempt (Part 1)
There was a lot of press coverage lately on the “Earthrace” attempt to break the world record of circumnavigation for power boats with a bio-diesel boat.
It happens to be that we have (together with another company) sponsored their last leg on their attempt to break the world record. And we have just learn that “Richard Branson” now is considering to “sponsor another attempt” for the world record next year, so we thought we might still share some of our impressions and images of our time on-board during the run from Egypt to Spain…
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