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ARCHIVE 2.4 UPDATED SUNDAY, APRIL 25, 19:45 EST, 2004





Ultraviolet Mix

New live Xynth mix from VJ Eniac and DJ p1LL.
Bonus: includes girls dancing naked and scenes from Death Race 2000

  • via VJ Eniac



  • With interns, you get what you pay for

  • via Metafilter



  • Are Americans becoming second-class consumers?

    The U.S. is getting fucked when it comes to consumer electornics

  • Artwork via Frog Design
  • via Gizmodo



  • Tetra Vaal

    What if we could build a system to help police developing nations?

  • via Embassy Visual Effects
  • via Gadget Madness



  • Sushi's little secret: Fresh from the deep freeze

  • via Grow-a-Brain



  • Stream Ripper kicks RIAA and DMCA ass

    Free software that lets you download streaming audio from Shoutcast or Live 365, then burn it to a CD, that way you can listen to it while you are commuting or whatever. Requires WinAmp. Enjoy it while you can

  • via SourceForge



  • Green and White

    Using white shingles and light colored asphalt could easily cut down energy use in cities and save a ton of money

  • via Boing Boing



  • BeS Systems Ruggedized Mini-PC

  • via Panbo



  • SphereXP

    Very cool must have experimental 3D desktop replacement. Now you have a good reason to get a 30" widescreen LCD monitor

  • SphereXP fan site
  • via Shell City



  • A-POC seamless clothing
    Issey Miyake sees the future of fashion




    How rich bastards rip off taxpayers for millions of dollars
    Confessions of a National Flood Insurance welfare queen

  • via Metafilter



  • What fucked version of Hello Kitty are you?
    (ignore the Bit #)

  • Also the Hello Kitty stress test
  • Stress test via J-Walk



  • The Human Factor
    How much is your life worth?

  • via Arts & Letters Daily



  • iTunes is the RIAA's little bitch

    Use one of these online music stores instead




    Give credit where credit is due

    Grow-A-Brain
    An excellent weblog




    Transmission of viruses from monkeys to humans is a regular occurrence

    New monkey virus jumps to humans

  • Artwork via Dragon Debris



  • The Vice Guide to Canada




    You're so tired of listening to the same old MP3s on your commute, try digital audio books for a change

  • VJ Eniac recommends: "The Fabric of the Cosmos (Unabridged)" to set you straight on String Theory and the Theory Of Everything (TOE)



  • Secret agent acrylic briefcase PC

  • via Gizmodo



  • Immune cells grown in a dish

    Your research scientist wants T-cells

  • Artwork via Huran Yahya



  • Tek Panel 300 widescreen PC

    Why? Because it has a huge ass high resolution 30" LCD screen




    MoCoLoco
    Modern design and architecture




    Quiet is in the details

  • via SilentPC review



  • Gallery of gadget models

  • via I4U



  • Stealth surfer
    Furtive surfer find a way to keep their travels secret

  • Ghostzilla: personal favorite stealth web browser



  • Good Vibrations
    Antique vibrator museum




    New TiVo software for your PC

  • via Slashdot



  • Color Scheme

    Easy tool for picking colors that go together
    Still no cure for the color blind

  • via Metafilter


  • The Hamilton Demo-6

    A space age retro modern cool household general purpose blender/death ray assembly with attitude

  • via Brotron Labs



  • New corporate tax bill caters to special interests

    The $5 billion dollar tax cut "has risen to a new level of sleaze."




    How to overclock your nVidia video card with CoolBits




    Ungrateful Dead
    Embalming the hated




    Old Tin Can

    Crazy soul man vocals, loopy guitar playing and twisted old fashioned animation

  • via Candlebone
  • via Metafilter



  • Renegade mag has vice grip on hip

    The cult appeal of Vice magazine

  • via Agenda



  • Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved:
    A chemical love story

  • via Metafilter



  • The real estate bubble and why prices for piece of shit homes are out of control

    There Goes the Neighborhood
    Why home prices are about to plummet--and take the recovery with them

  • Record 75 million Americans are pretending they own their own homes
  • All about the Federal Reserve
  • via Metafilter



  • 60% of U.S. corporations didn't pay any federal taxes from 1996 through 2000




    How to manually change the Windows XP boot logo

  • via [H]OCP
  • Artwork via ThemeXP



  • DVD+R v. DVD-R

    "What is it about electrical engineers? These guys just can't get along. A group of them brings a wonderful new technology to market, and another equally brilliant group creates another way of doing the same thing."

    "Once again, the engineers have come up with two incompatible ways of recording data."

    The stage is set for another format fight




    Coffee and Cigarettes

    With Robert Benigno, Steve Buscemi, Steve Wright, Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, Meg White, Jack White, and Bill Murray




    World War II is old and busted, video games based on the Vietnam War are the new hotness

  • Official site Battlefield Vietnam (BF1942 expansion pack), good clean fun


  • Official site Vietcong, personal favorite, very intense, bloody



  • Porn Safari

    Not safe for work or fat hairy vacationers

  • via Zed Nelson
  • via Ashley B



  • Saturated with detail
    High resolution photos from the war in Iraq




    In Japan it's OK to use silly cartoon characters to explain technical manuals, while in the US and Europe silly cartoon characters make manuals seem silly

    Read the fucking story, then RTFM




    Inventor of blue LEDs awarded $189 million




    Pseudoscience-in-Psych

    "Exploring (and exposing) the fads, myths, and hype that are all-too-common in the mental health industry"




    ATI All-In-Wonder 9600 XT

    Damn good video card that also turns your PC into a TiVo




    The Nippit 3000

    A cell phone chip that can kill sperm cells. A bizarre form of birth control, "It's remarkably specific to a guy's little wigglers"

    The brave new world of cell phone add-ons




    Wonderfarms

    Japanese dolls, kind of like Cabbage Patch Dolls, except they looks like mutant plushies with an untreated infection




    Consciousness
    The major unsolved problem in biology

  • via Arts & Letters Daily



  • Wu-Tang Clan - Long Story short





    The influential think tank behind welfare reform, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank reports that harsh intellectual property law will hinder economic growth

    The Center for economic Development's report on Intellectual Property




    Monkeyfilter
    Like Metafilter but different

  • via Things



  • Donkey Konga
    Crazy clapping Japanese family not included




    Your next cell phone will be a white Infobar

  • via I4U


  • A Scientific Approach to Understanding My Girlfriend's Role in the Overall Degradation of My Life's Quality




    Dead Batteries

    Punk AA batteries

  • via Boing Boing



  • The internet Juke Box

    iTunes is old and busted, streaming audio is the new hotness

  • via Slate



  • Pink girly electronic stuff

  • via Shiny Shiny



  • New Sony MDR-G64SL 2004 headphones

  • via Audiocubes



  • Killer Staph Aureus is hitting the streets

    Drug-defying strains of the bacteria have moved way beyond the hospitals




    Imon

    Universal remote control for your PC




    Stealth collection of office furniture

    Whether you want to be a secret agent or just look like one

  • via MoCoLoco



  • Affirmative action doesn't work

    Affirmative action around the world, an empirical study

  • via Arts & Letters Daily
  • Artwork and history of affirmative action via NCUSD203



  • Alien Hominid

    Best damn new old school hand drawn side scroller video game ever

  • Play Alien Hominid here



  • "We don't need our families any longer"

    You're educated, confident and have money, what you need is a place to drink coffee and gossip with your friends

  • via Arts & Letters Daily
  • Artwork via 1-42



  • Zalman Reserator

    Crazy simple brilliant silent water-cooling




    I Am Not A Geek shows how to crash (tweak for high performance) your computer with regedit changes

    "There's a LOT of potential damage that can be done with this article"

    Windows XP performance tweaking guide

  • via [H]OCP



  • Bohlken Bai LCD monitors




    404|v.7

    Experiments in electronic art.
    Check out the real time effects using a webcam in Light-Tracking and the webcam with microphone in Sonia-Ripples

  • via Db-Db



  • Synergy

    Don't get a KVM switch unless you have to, they are a pain in the ass with all the damn cables all over the place. Save your money, buy a second monitor and use Synergy to control both computers with one mouse and keyboard. Bonus: having two monitors looks hardcore




    How stare decisis subverts the law




    Online porn often leads high-tech way




    Griffin PowerMate




    Kick ass PC case handles from MNPCTECH




    Teach yourself programming in 10 years

  • via Memepool



  • Once again, everything you know about particle physics is wrong




    Spanking the sushi

    From an August 2003 program guide for the Japanese adult-entertainment channel Paradise TV





    "It's time to figure out what the solutions are, rather than just focusing on problems"

    "When you've got over 6 billion people, you can't just say we'll let nature do its thing. We have no choice but to garden - why don't we do it better? Why don't we do it more efficiently?"

    Three decades ago, Patrick Moore helped found Greenpeace. Today he promotes nuclear energy and genetically modified foods - and swears he's still fighting to save the planet.

  • See also: Saving the Planet With Plastics and Pesticides



  • Corporate secrets beware
    Nokia Spy cell phone




    The Early Office Museum

  • via J-Walk



  • The mechanic can see your Ferrari now


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