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Get Vista's Best Features in XP
Still a user of XP? Yeah, me too. But just because you don't have Microsoft Vista installed as your OS doesn't mean that you have to do without some of its cool features. Lifehacker has a guide that shows you how to obtain the best of both worlds by getting Vista's best features in XP.
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What's On The Inside of Electronic Stuffed Animals?
Designer Matt Kirkland got curious and wanted to see what lurked inside of electronic stuffed animals and toys. After removing the fur, padding, and stuffing, he found that the innards ranged from simple voiceboxes to fairly-intricate robots.
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The Billy Letters - Thirty-Something Man Poses As Ten-Year-Old And Writes To Convicted Killers And Other Celebrities
Back in the late 1990s, then-unemployed Bill Geerhart had a ingenious idea - he would pose as a 10-year-old boy and write to both the infamous and the famous. He requested from convicted killers such as Charles Manson, Richard Ramirez, and the Unabomber advice on whether or not he should stay in school. He asked Larry Flynt, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Alan Greenspan, and others for photos and a variety of questions, all from the viewpoint of young Billy. Most responded back, and the results are never less than entertaining. Courtesy of Radar Magazine, here are The Billy Letters.(Read More)
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Fake Skylights and Windows
Want a skylight or window in your office that gives a picturesque view 24 hours a day, 365 days a year? The Sky factory is a company that specializes in lighting that creates photographic illusions of real skies and landscapes. The realiistic-looking image tiles are backlit by fluorescent or LED lighting.
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How To Build A Chile Mister
Instructables has a short piece on how to build a spice mister - which is basically a small spray pump bottle filled with hot sauce. Less potent than a typical pepper spray that you would use for self defense or crowd control, this ingenious little bottle is for quickly applying hot chile pepper sauce or even capsaicin extract to a large area when cooking or eating.
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Never Neglect Good Design
Are you ignoring one of the principal components of any successful product, service, or application? I'm talking about good design. The following is a brief introduction on recognizing bad design is and what to do to test for it... (Read More)Permalink
Jeff Goldblum Apple Ad at Half Speed
Here's an Apple ad starring Jeff Goldblum from a few years back that has been slowed down to 1/2 it's original speed. It makes him sound like he's drunk as a skunk.(Read More)
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Guy Dresses Like DJ to Get Into Clubs for Free
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What Does the Black Sabbath Song Have to Do With Marvel's Iron Man?
Most movie buffs have seen the various trailers for the new Iron Man film, which will be released in a little over a week from this writing. The usage of the Black Sabbath song "Iron Man" in the trailers has had me thinking, does the hard rock masterpiece have anything to do with Marvel's metal-clad hero? It's certainly not a "chicken or the egg" case, as comic book aficionados know that the superhero came first. But was the tune influenced at all by the character? Josh Glenn has offered an in-depth study of the mystery surrounding the song's subject matter. (Read More)Permalink
Using the Err Object to Trap Errors in Classic ASP
It's inevitable that you'll generate an error or two (or three, or four...) when you code in Classic ASP. I'll show you how to trap errors and use them to your advantage.(Read More)
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