Category: Cool

I’ve lasted a whole 5.6 seconds. Man, I suck. Link via Waxy’s Links.

It’s in the 212 (Manhattan) area code, but 867-5309 is for sale.

Upside down calculator spelling, from Chugnutt. He even links to some calculator haikus.

Paddle Juggling — a game that’s a pain in the butt with a touch pad, but still horribly addicting and fun.

You probably heard about Pepsi’s promotion to put codes under it’s caps for free songs on iTunes (they had a commercial during the Super Bowl). But what if you have no use for those codes? Like I, for example, aren’t that into music that I need to get stuff off iTunes. So what to do? Recycle the codes for good use:When you submit a winning Pepsi code to the Tune Recycler, we’ll redeem it for music from honest, independent labels. There are a few great independent labels in the iTunes store that give their musicians up to 40-50 cents, right from the first sale. When you use the Tune Recycler, you know that no money is going to support price fixing, payola, or lawsuits against families with children–and most importantly, the money goes to a musician. That way, you don’t have to sign up with iTunes to get one song, but you can still put that cap to use.

I know I’ll be sending my codes there. iTunes is a slick service, but I really have no reason/need to fund the pockets of the major labels — I’d rather it go to an independent, and that’s where this will be going.

This is the simplest thing I’ve ever seen. Upload an image, it turns it into a FavIcon that you can use on your Web site. I have one for this site that you may or not be able to see that I created a while back, but I have a feeling I’ll be using this site in the future.

In the name of science (actually, there was some good data that came out of this), Japanese researchers dropped 320,000 balls down a steep ramp, with a pile of videos. Thanks Waxy’s Links (they posted it a while ago, and I’m just now getting around to it).

In Cambodia, WiFi-equipped motorcyclists pull up to schools, download all the email, drive to the next village, and dump off copies of locally-destined mail, picking up that community’s load and delivering it along to the next town.

It is a digital pony express: five Motomen ride their routes five days a week, downloading and uploading e-mail. The system, developed by a Boston company, First Mile Solutions, uses a receiver box powered by the motorcycle’s battery. The driver need only roll slowly past the school to download all the village’s outgoing e-mail and deliver incoming e-mail. The school’s computer system and antenna are powered by solar panels. Newly collected data is stored for the day in a computer strapped to the back of the motorcycle. At dusk, the motorcycles converge on the provincial capital, Ban Lung, where an advanced school is equipped with a satellite dish, allowing a bulk e-mail exchange with the outside world.

Full Story via BoingBoing.

But a royal-pain in the ass. I lasted a whole seven seconds. From b3ta.

Living on your own for the first time? Here’s a handy guide for the idiot cooks out there.