MAKE: wabbit Ikea HHGTTG hacker

A simple Ikea cardboard box, a towel and ready.

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back …

I‘ ve been away from my blog and my computer in general for a while in my own time. Renovating an appartment does that to you. But now it is nearing completion.
Some of it is really worthwhile, some of it are small details. Anyhow, I hope to increase my postcount a bit more from now [...]

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working out

It started out like this:

and then the first cracks in the plaster appeared:

soon it looked like this:

and then the ceiling turned out to contain also some cracks:

Some rewiring of the electrics:

some more rewiring needed:

and this was the magic box …

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chrome!

Chrome it is!
I just downloaded it and tried to run it with this disappointing message:
The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005). Click on OK to terminate the application.
Some googling around brought me to this blog that had all links neatly ordered.
Seems the problem exists for users of Symantec Endpoint Protection (aptly abbreviated SEP).
Even without this [...]

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a Fieldguide to Firefox 3

Now we have Firefox 3, there is an urgent need for a fieldguide.
And whoops … there it is …

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housewife

After I decided, yesterday evening, to re-arrange my interior a bit I got to cleaning first this morning. After a few minutes of using my vacuum cleaner, I smelled that familiar “burnt-electro-motor-smell”. The ozone alike odour convinced me not to use the by now 20 years old machine anymore.
So off to the shop.
After staring for [...]

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steampunk laptop

By now it is probably all over the internet, but this one is one of the most stunning steampunk mods. Executed and documented by Datamancer. Notice also the clockwork on the lid.
For those interested, you can find more info on his site (which is down at the moment, I assume due to overload)

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Boing Boing TV

As of today you can also enjoy Boing Boing in online TV format. They promise us small TV chunks every workday. First one can be found here.

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neighbours

This weekend the neighbourhood got together and had an event. The street being closed off, provided a nice stretch for a number of activities like garage sales, juggling for kids, an inflatable castle and much more. Later in the afternoon the neighbours popped by to offer a glass of champaign to celebrate their marriage and [...]

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fist of fury

This is way over the top!
(via endgadget)

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One Fine Day

In 1988 the canadian band Nomeansno released a 12” EP titled “The Day Everything Became Nothing”. The B-side features two songs that run one into another nearly smoothly. “Brother Rat” is a song about brothers going out together ending in one knifing the other. “What Slayde Says” follows along the same line, where Slayde represents [...]

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twohundred

Two hundred posts so far. Which is an average of a little less than one per day.
I would have never imagined doing this in the first place and pertaining this in the second place, but here I am.
Although lately I found it a bit hard to focus and get some decent content together, I still [...]

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my precioussss

B1 EF 53 A0 4F A4 31 03 D3 1F 29 BA E9 9C D0 EC

Issss MINE !!!!
Following the ridiculous claiming of a 128 bit integer by the AAC-LA (the guys behind the new HD-DVD copy-”protection” system) and the consecutive takedown notices, Freedom To Tinker launched an initiative :
Under the same umbrella of the [...]

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MAKE your own photo

Amazing… the way he really “makes” his own pictures. Edwin Zwakman literally makes them, including the very subject of the photograph.
(via MAKE)

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nopgear ?

It’s up to you to decide.

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