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New mashup Web site reveals the hole story behind Japan’s manhole covers / Ittemia（イッテミア）å‰ç·š While not the oddest fetish in Japan by a long way, there are some who travel the length of Japan enticed by the prospect of a compellingly designed manhole. But while even the most ardent manhole cover buffs come up against […]
I couldn’t find a lot of information about this mod but it’s pretty cool looking so I’m covering it anyway. From what I could gather this was a joint effort by some people around Europe, and sold by eBay member “puike” of the UK. It’s an AMD based PC built inside of an old Russian […]
Nikropht writes in – We received a few HTC ExtUSB connectors from PodGizmo. The first thing we thought of, was making the T-Mobile G1 send the audio to an iPod Speaker set we have. There is a sea of iPod accessories, so naturally the dock connector has a well known pinout. Figuring out the pinout […]
These lovely images were created with PSCombine, a random image combiner program. From the site: I’ve written a program that randomly selects photos from my collection and then combines them with a random opacity and blending mode. Generally, I generate 5,000 random combinations then manually sort though them and select my favorites. About 1 in […]
NYTimes Op-Ed Columnist Thomas Friedman – Time to Reboot America… …we’ve fallen into a trend of diverting and rewarding the best of our collective I.Q. to people doing financial engineering rather than real engineering. These rocket scientists and engineers were designing complex financial instruments to make money out of money — rather than designing cars, […]
OK technically the creator “Sheyr” calls it the FuG-01/ET but regardless, it’s a really sweet looking stock case mod based off the classic game Castle Wolfenstein (which I remember playing WAY WAY back on my Atari 800) For more pics and details check the story below. Besides the side-mounted telephone one of the most striking […]
Route-me is an Open Source (BSD license) mapping library for the iPhone. It’s written in native Objective C and can use the OpenStreetMap data layer, among others. If you’re an iPhone developer, this gives you an easy way to add high-quality mapping functionality, similar to that of the built in Google Maps client, to your […]
