Amazon Subscribe & Save
Has anyone tried Amazon’s Subscribe & Save program yet? The idea of getting a subscription of baby diapers sounds pretty appealing to me right now.
Bright Blinds
There’s nothing like a fake window to simulate the fact that you work/live in a windowless prison.
Oakley Lab Shows Off Sunglass Technology
I used to think Oakley sunglasses were “just another pair of plastic sunglasses.” I had no idea what kind of thought was put into the design of these glasses.
Check out this video.
I just couldn’t leave well enough alone. My attempt at Hacking my iPhone
I played around with my co-workers hacked iPhone and I just could not resist trying to hack my own.
Well I tried and I failed =(
I ran iBrickr last night and this is what happened. The following video is not mine, but my screen looks exactly like this…
Oh well, I’ll be up late trying to recover this thing.
Update:
Success!!!
Back to Factory Specs =D
Flatpack Mallet
Need to pack an emergency mallet for some odd reason?
Super Mario Bros. Theme in MIDI Art
If you’ve seen MIDI notation before, this shouldn’t be too far fetched. For the uninitiated, imagine the rolls in those old-time player pianos. What is amazing about this guy is that he actually added art in the MIDI notation.
His arrangements of the pieces are pretty awesome as well.
The SR-71 Blackbird
The SR-71 represented cutting-edge government technology back in the 1960s. Even today, its capabilities are nothing to scoff at (though I can only guess what the government is currently employing in the SR-71′s stead).
Here’s a great post of a memoir of an SR-71 pilot. Great stuff:
We trained for a year, flying out of Beale AFB in California, Kadena Airbase in Okinawa, and RAF Mildenhall in England. On a typical training mission, we would take off near Sacramento, refuel over Nevada, accelerate into Montana, obtain high Mach over Colorado, turn right over New Mexico, speed across the Los Angeles Basin, run up the West Coast, turn right at Seattle, then return to Beale.
Total flight time: two hours and 40 minutes.
One day, high above Arizona, we were monitoring the radio traffic of all the mortal airplanes below us. First, a Cessna pilot asked the air traffic controllers to check his ground speed. ‘Ninety knots,’
ATC replied. A twin Bonanza soon made the same request. ‘One-twenty on the ground,’ was the reply. To our surprise, a navy F-18 came over the radio with a ground speed check. I knew exactly what he was doing. Of course, he had a ground speed indicator in his cockpit, but he wanted to let all the bug-smashers in the valley know what real speed was. ‘Dusty 52, we show you at 620 on the ground,’ ATC responded.The situation was too ripe. I heard the click of Walter’s mike button in the rear seat. In his most innocent voice, Walter startled the controller by asking for a ground speed check from 81,000 feet, clearly above controlled airspace. In a cool, professional voice, the controller replied, ‘Aspen 20, I show you at 1,982 knots on the ground.’ We did not hear another transmission on that frequency all the way to the coast.
Products in Translation: English from Taiwan
More here, though that picture pretty well sums up what you’re going to find there.
Happy Turkey Day!
Healthy Picks
Got this one from Tye:
So I’m at the Ozzy/Rob Zombie concert at the O-rena (Oracle Arena, Oakland) last Sunday night and saw this. Stopped traffic to shoot the picture; nobody understood why at first until they examined my photographic object. Then a line formed with everyone pulling out their cameraphones to shoot it.
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