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Eletric kool-aid acid UFO terrorizes Poland

July 13, 2008 10:50am

not very british enough for my tastes

The Choprical Fish human-powered party bike

June 27, 2008 7:04pm

good grief sir! . In bizzaro world, hipsters shoot coke out of their noses.

Wall retaliates against vandal

June 10, 2008 6:40pm

~70 .takuan,
thats some one dimensional thinking right there

British Justice Minister Not Gay For Bridget

May 29, 2008 7:07pm

Ceci n'est pas une pipe, c'est une image d'un pénis!

BFF project: drawings of two friends as one person

May 27, 2008 9:56pm

looking over this again. I notice this is a very different kind of mixing, (i wont call it averaging anymore)
the strongest facial features of the two seem to have survived more or less intact.
therefore I suspect this character is only going to get uglier as the most extreme aspects of each face are preserved. I (wildly) guess this is a result of the way we are conditioned to recognize faces (which some people can't do btw)

anywhoo thanks once again and I will keep my eye on this very talented pig

HOWTO use TOR to enhance your privacy

May 27, 2008 9:08pm

@ snirkles

try enabling tor using the vidalia control panel, it should be in your taskbar :-)

BFF project: drawings of two friends as one person

May 27, 2008 6:40pm

there have been a number of different takes on this

this is the most thorough I have come across

http://www.faceresearch.org/demos/average

people are so pretty when mashed together

Old filmstrip: "Bicycle Safety"

May 27, 2008 6:34pm

please please Boingboing people, watch this

One Got Fat: Bicycle Safety (1963)

from the internet archives, its amazing in so many ways, thanks for reminding me of this.

HOWTO use TOR to enhance your privacy

May 27, 2008 6:16pm

@ Xohn. Yep i think thats the answer right there

also "this are"?
BB I know you have a preview for posts, I am stupid enough to need an edit also :-(

HOWTO use TOR to enhance your privacy

May 27, 2008 6:08pm

if you want to control which exit nodes tor uses you need to edit the torrc config file here.

start/all programs/vidalia/tor/

this are my config additions to enable only U.S. exitnodes

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StrictExitNodes 1
exitnodes desync, whistlersmother, lefkada, bettyboop, croeso, TorLuwakOrg, nixnix, inap1, redpineapple, cronic, sasquatch, slowturtle2, jalopy, BostonUcompsci, whistlersmother, PolynaTor, phobos, lostinthenoise, WeAreAHedge, tordienet

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the first line 'StrictExitNodes 1' forces tor to only use exitnode in the list provided
the lines below are the list of nodenames themselves seperated by commas

exitnode names can be found in
/vidalia control panel/view the network

they can be organised by country , throughput and iirc uptime

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Always assume your tor connection is being watched
do not leave personal information over an open connection (tor exit node|open wifi), do not use insecure mail apps ie GMAIL
as your name and pass can be revealed and abused

see the comments thread in the instructable !!

Flying penis disrupts Russian meeting

May 19, 2008 6:56pm

I would just like to note what an appropriate name rob has ,and thanks for sharing :-)

drag racing power tools is certainly old news, they now fly!

George Clooney in Men Who Stare At Goats movie

May 18, 2008 5:55pm

@18 takuan

i dunno, it seems likely rapid blinking would reduce the effects for the led based systems at least. the patent makes claims of incapacitating nausea at exposures of less than 1 second. although all videos i have seen of the device being tested refute this. supposedly the time it takes to make you unwell is effected by the focus of the beam/pattern across the persons field of vision. if I can get something working. i guess i will let you know. i think i will start by trying out the patterns and timings on a standard projector.

9 Common Idioms That Come from Technology

May 18, 2008 5:33pm

orig #18 here

mt head.. i wouldn't say it was a stretch at all... indeed that would be better applied to "rack your brains" another term with origins in rope and pulley tech. :-)

as painful as that could be i am only horsing around, i take your point and i see it.
as a plastic people we can pick up a rock and it becomes a tool. I would struggle to present that as a technology 'it is a rock', there is no art, no manufacture.
but as soon as old owen started to chip away at his rock to form an edge, and his tool remained a tool when it was put back on the floor. 'I' would say we had a technology.
i guess this depends on where you draw your lines, but just because a technology is simple by todays standards doesn't make it any less effective or any less of a technology. in fact, to further compound this pulley argument. the mechanism is just as essential in todays worlds of skyscrapers and supertankers as it has ever been, there simply is no alternative and there doesn't need to be. (apart from the arrest mechanism on aircraft carriers, that just strikes me as nutty).
we are unlikely to hear of pulleys in our minutely minded tech news, because the mechanism is ironically too complex for force amplification/redirection in mems devices.
just because its big doesn't mean its not clever.

George Clooney in Men Who Stare At Goats movie

May 17, 2008 5:21pm

wow.. thanks for the link to the documentary, i found the part about the weaponizing of the bookah(sp?) effect/flicker vertigo phenomenon interesting. especially because this doc is quite old and we now have the infamous puke ray/beam

http://www.rexresearch.com/rubtsov/rubtsov.htm

the patent for which can be found here btw on an appropriately goofy site, i have not tried to make my own yet but think i will :-)

sudo make me a cheezburger (LOLified iphone snap)

May 1, 2008 9:23pm

Dath mentions he uses linux therefore we can safely assume he knows what sudo and make are.

#make install
make: 34242-002 The error code from the last command is 1.
#cat -vET visacard.txt

Gabe (of "Gabe and Max") takes on YouTubeTards

May 1, 2008 8:24pm

oh wow! filtered? :), smart boingians

Gabe (of "Gabe and Max") takes on YouTubeTards

May 1, 2008 8:23pm

try these
ccn ****-****-****-****
exp **/**

sudo make me a cheezburger (LOLified iphone snap)

April 30, 2008 5:42pm

facepalm.jpg

Uno unicycle featured in this month's Motorcycle Mojo

April 26, 2008 11:26pm

I don't see this ending well.

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