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ARCHIVE 2.2 UPDATED SUNDAY, JANUARY 25, 23:19 EST, 2004





The Tyranny of Copyright




Preview of upcoming events: Hellboy the movie




The Money Masters

Long economic conspiracy documentary tracing the history of the Federal Reserve, international bankers, and how they came to control the government

Another conspiracy theory for your collection

  • via Metafilter



  • PPARd

    Burn fat without exercise

    A cellular receptor in muscles known as peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor delta, when chemically activated, induces fat consumption in muscle tissue




    Resident Evil: Apocalypse

    Super virus infected zombie-slaying fun

  • Also Dawn of the Dead: more good clean zombie-slaying fun



  • Miss a payment and your car won't start




    Inhabited Information Spaces:
    Living With Your Data

    Explorations in visualizing data in 3D space

  • via Things



  • Scientist invents robot scientist to conduct functional genomics research

  • Stu Schreiber says "Yeah right... whatever"
    (half way down the article)



  • Gaussboys

    Buy some neodymium super magnets, fun for the whole family

  • via Metafilter



  • Virtual laser keyboard

    The future is now

  • via J-Walk



  • Strip till you drop

    "Dear Santa, All I want for Xmas this year is a new bicycle, my very own pony and a stripper pole for the rec room.
    Thanks, Santa! Luv, Amber Anykid U.S.A.
    P.S. Strawberry Shortcake thongs make rad stocking stuffers! "




    The ultimate party-mobile




    Pictures at the Hotel Armageddon

    The Germans turned a former Nazi underground V-2 production facility into a huge ass nuclear shelter, a secret underground superfortress complete with minimalist retro-modern furniture

  • Slideshow: Inside a nuclear bunker


  • via Metafilter



  • Altium RS8

    "There are the dream to make it by aluminum, and the dream to be made by aluminum. WiNDy's dreams are here in the ALTIUM."

    Aluminum mid-tower case, the sides and top are a fine mesh like a Mac G5, apparently made by insane Japanese craftsmen obsessed with aluminum

    and



    The Prism II

    "Here we , SOLDAM, present great manufacturing of PRISM II, acclaimed by New York Times, and let you feel the WiNDy with PRISM II."

  • Details of the PRISM II



  • Dub Magazine

    Pimp rides and the automotive lifestyle




    Stupidity ought to be cured




    Tokyo at night when the streets are empty

  • More pictures of Tokyo here
  • via Shinsato


  • via Metafilter



  • Young-Hae Chan Heavy Industries presents:
    "Samsung means to come"




    The good, bad and ugly of America's celeb obsession

  • via Agenda



  • Fax--the technology that refuses to die

  • via Gizmodo



  • Starlight information visualization technologies

  • More computer programs for social network analysis



  • Ashley Wood, graphic artist

  • via Dublog



  • The Navis game deck

  • via [H]OCP



  • Ben Fry and the visualization of information

    "There is a space of highly complex systems for which we lack deep understanding because few techniques exist for visualization of data whose structure and content are undergoing continuos change."

  • Visualization of SNPs
  • Genome valence



  • Girls on top giving guys rough ride

    Japan's women have cast off their reputation for being demure little wallflowers and are taking the upper hand when it comes to matters carnal




    ARS Electronica 2003

    Computer based art




    U.S. women outnumber men in higher paying, white collar managerial and professional occupations




    Zazoo condoms don't cause screaming

    Too funny must see




    New Swiftech peltier cooler for graphic cards

  • via [H]OCP



  • Teleflip
    Send text messages to a friend's phone by e-mail

  • via J-walk



  • Lunch at Noon

    Lunch is important and these recipes look so damn good

  • via Bifurcated Rivets



  • The rich are also happier




    The Iter Reactor

    World's first fusion reactor held up because the U.S. doesn't like France




    eSnipe

    Secret weapon in the online auction wars. eSnipe will automatically place your bid on eBay at the last possible second



    Touching the Void

    1. Convince your friend to go on a high-altitude mountaineering expedition

    2. Cut the rope your friend is hanging from

    3. Make a totally kick ass documentary about it




    The real reason we are going back to the moon: Helium-3

  • via Metafilter



  • "Things my girlfriend and I have argued about
    "




    New video games exercise more than thumbs

    "Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix... is a video game so unlike any other it deserves to be called something entirely different."

  • The Video-Game Workout



  • Raiding the 20th Century--History of the cut up (50mb)

    Link is broken

    Check bit torrent or kazaa for the file

  • via Metafilter



  • Separate but equal?

    Distinguished African American Student award still accepting applications, white South Africans need not apply



    Beautiful Stories For Ugly Children:
    A Cotton Candy Autopsy

    The life and times of sick and twisted clowns

  • via Boing Boing



  • John McEnroe gets his own talk show



    The Outback is now a "truck"

    Subaru takes advantage of the Light Truck Loophole to get around EPA fuel standards




    Cool custom aluminum PC case

  • via [H]OCP



  • Are you using anything?

    RISUG
    Reversible Inhibition of Sperm Under Guidance

    "A simple injection that can make the recipient infertile for six to 15 years, depending on the user's needs. It's non-hormonal, so there's no worry about weight gain, mood swings, losing libido or long-term effects such as cancer, blood clots or high blood pressure. Early testing shows it's reversible, if conception is desired. The most controversial aspect of this birth control? It's for men. "




    Players putting in real work, the new Jimmie Hatz, official condom of Hip-Hop

  • Jimmie Hatz official site



  • TweakHound's super Windows XP tweaking guide

  • via [H]OCP



  • 2004 Shelby Cobra concept

    Please God, don't let Detroit fuck up this design like all the rest




    Mp3int.com
    Free MP3 downloads

    'cause the other 99% of nations still allow file sharing




    EMP-Z

    One of the smallest and lightest MP3 players

  • via AshleyB



  • Generation E.A.: Ethnically Ambiguous




    Die broke

    "You are not a corporation - you are a human being. Your money shouldn't outlive you. You should exit life as you came into it: penniless. Your assets are resources to be used, for your own benefit and for the benefit of those you love. Every dollar that's left in your bank account after you die is a dollar you wasted. Use your resources to help people now when you know they need it, when it will do the most good, rather than hoping they'll be helped when you're dead. The last check you write should be to your undertaker… and it should bounce."

  • via Cool Tools



  • Criticism of cultural icons is not a crime




    Arrested Development

    Adults who oppose sex ed, condoms, and the morning-after pill are really sicko perverts obsessed with sex




    Todd Oldham La-Z-Boy Collection
    Spring 2004




    Action at a distance surrenders

    The speed of gravity is the same as the speed of light




    Crazy whack MC battle kung-fu video

    The Chemical Brothers 'Get Yourself High'




    The science of naming drugs




    eVidence on eBay

    Who would have thought lawyers bid on eBay for evidence to use in trials




    Teenagers rejoice as pull and pray replaced with non-prescription morning-after pill




    Virtual property rights

    Gamer wins back virtual booty in court battle




    ±0

    Minimalist Japanese design

  • via db-db



  • Yamaha Motor Papercraft
    Cool paper motorcycle models you can print out and make yourself.

    If you are an engineer , this would be a great way to look busy while you fuck off at work

  • via Boing Boing



  • Your research scientist wants a TNFa/IL-2 combination therapy

    Domantis dual-purpose bispecific antibodies... each chain of the antibody can recognize a different target




    World of Pin-Ups

    Not safe for work

  • via Sugar'n Spicy



  • Don't listen to your science teacher:

    The second law of thermodynamics has been proven false (on a subatomic scale)




    Playing Mogul

    Video games are where movies were in the 1930's — on the verge of becoming the popular entertainment — and Bruno Bonnell of Atari could be the biggest player




    1993 Doom comic book

  • via Boing Boing



  • What a Crappy Present

  • via J-walk


  • RNAi

    One of the ten emerging technologies that will change your world




    Viagra's Wild Side




    Anti-American/anti-vaccine nexus confirmed

    The leaders of northern Nigeria, which accounts for half of all polio cases in the world, insist oral vaccination is part of a secret US plan against Africa

  • via Black Triangle



  • The Weeblomatic Mixer

  • via Bifurcated Rivets



  • R 20th Century Design: mid-century modern design furniture

  • via Things



  • Terraserver

    Cool things you can do with the internet: act out scenes from the Bourne Identity

    Scalable 1 meter resolution aerial maps for any address




    Jeff Soto
    When a crazy artist and an obsession with cacti collide

  • via Web Zen



  • The political spectrum is not one-dimensional

    Online exam to figure out where you stand




    Red wine pill on the way




    Federal district court finds that the 2nd amendment does not give you the right to bear arms




    Mod your old stereo into a multimedia PC

  • via [H]OCP



  • Print 'em

    Japanese graphic poster art

    (click on the designer names under Creators List)

  • via db-db



  • The Millercrossing

    "Hey, back off the fuckin' threads, Miller! Grabbing at me like some glammed-out, Quaalude chomping slut from Plato's Retreat won't make you any funnier now that you're older and more washed up than Nick Nolte's character at the end of Affliction"

    Dennis Miller is visited by his younger self, to see where it all went so wrong

  • via Black Table



  • Black Triangle

    Covering the pharmaceutical industry and drug safety




    Exotic PCs




    Child's Play

    Guess who's going to pay off President Bush's $1 trillion deficit?

  • via Bush in 30 Seconds
  • via Metafilter



  • What's right with Japan

  • via Agenda



  • Aliens cause global warming

  • via Arts & Letters Daily



  • Drum Machine

  • via Metafilter



  • 10 ads America won't see

  • via [H]OCP



  • Don't copy that floppy

    Long forgotten anti-piracy campaign




    Gallery of before/after photoshopped images used for magazines and advertisements




    Meet the new extended family

  • Soulmate or no mate



  • Ugg boots are all the rage

  • Update: Ugg boots may be yanked from store shelves due to copyright dispute


  • via Agenda



  • The Bubble of American Supremacy




    Remember: acting crazy is part of U.S. foreign policy




    In-wheel engine improves fuel efficiency by 50%

  • via Metafilter




  • Electric motors on each wheel are also used in the KAZ - Keio Advanced Zero-Emmision Vehicle, the ugliest electric limo ever




    Also, in related news, the Plasmatron Bus, cuts emissions of NOx from diesel engines by 90%




    Bollywood and Kazaa in a deal to distribute movies online

    India's film makers are offering Internet movie downloads on Kazaa in a move that could lower costs and boost revenues for Bollywood, the world's most prolific film production center.




    The Hubble telescope is old and busted. The Spitzer telescope is the brand spanking new hotness.
    Cool animation spotlighting the difference between how a galaxy looks with visible light (the Hubble) and with infrared (Spitzer)

  • More animation from the Spitzer

  • via VJ Eniac



  • Secret Weapons Over Normandy

    WWII dogfighting game that isn't a ridiculously complicated flight sim




    Strained Silicon

    Intel reveals the secret technique they use to increase the speed of their processors




    The Intrinsa 'sex patch' will be the female version of Viagra

    Now entering final drug trials




    Mobile phones - are almost as useful to the police as fingerprints or DNA.



    Geek tattoos

  • via Boing Boing


  • If you have more than one computer, get a KVM switch

    Tom's Hardware guide to KVM Switches


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