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Sachs Report archive1.8
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ARCHIVE 2.7 UPDATED SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31, 23:42 EST, 2004





thebroken

Video Release 0003: how to crack WinXP passwords, mod an Xbox, PS2, and Gamecube, blow up your laptop, and survive prison

  • Via Tiff's Life


  • In this episode, in order of appearance:
  • Bootable Linux CD
  • Windows NT change password utility
  • Knoppix-Security Tools Distribution
  • L0phtCrack
  • Xbox-Scene
  • Xcommander
  • How to get EvolutionX
  • DMS 3 PS2 mod chip
  • "Secret Files" to hack the Gamecube
  • Defensive Thinking



  • Behind

    Driving cross-country
    in a convertible
    with a time-lapse camera

  • Via Kevin Rose



  • Coolestshop.com

    Buy more cool stuff

  • Via Coolhunting



  • Senao long range WiFi card

    All the better to steal your neighbors internet connection

  • Via Seattle Wireless
  • See also: Where Good Wi-Fi makes Good Neighbors



  • The Rise of North America’s Ethnoburbs

  • Via Agenda



  • The Ketchup Conundrum

    Crazy historian obsessed with condiments reveals the secret history of ketchup

  • Via Arts & Letters Daily



  • Stolen ideas and the story of Nikola Tesla

  • Via Metafilter



  • The only difference between work and play is a change of software

    Gaming helps stock traders score big-time

  • Via Kotaku
  • Artwork via Michael Bryan



  • The rise of the amateur professional

  • Via Agenda



  • The patent system needs an overhaul

  • Via Slashdot



  • Beginner's guide to synchronizing files and folders

  • Via OC Café



  • We Americans are in awe of your South Korean bandwidth




    Why the big airlines can't get off the ground




    The beginning of the end

    OPEC has lost control over oil prices. Fly while you can

  • Via Drudge Report



  • Anti-inflammatory cocktail helps to inhibit cancer cell proliferation

    Your research scientist wants more TNFα inhibitors




    Obey Giant: The Revolution

  • See also: Obeygiant.com



  • Rebelone X Delta - Cubex Pack

    You've been very good, buy yourself a Cubex Pack with a random colored T-shirt

  • Via Beinghunted



  • Agenda Breaking News is old and busted, Agenda LiveFeed blog is the new hotness

    Your favorite youth-culture-pop-trend marketing news in blog format

  • See also: Agenda Inc. Breaking News



  • The $200 Billion Colossus

    "When I say this is a profitable industry, I mean really profitable. It is difficult to conceive of how awash in money big pharma is."




    But Hey, DJ, Wait a Sec!

    What the Fuck Are "Party Records"?




    Preview of upcoming events: Grand Theft Auto San Andreas




    eMachineshop let's you roll your own prototype

    No Second Acts

    Update: It's a trap! You don't want to pay hundreds of dollars for 1 simple piece! eMachineshop is way to expensive. You are better off going to a local machine shop with a case of beer and piece of graph paper

  • eMachineshop



  • Mercora

    Legal online music sharing exploits a loophole in the DMCA

  • Via Bag and Baggage



  • Reading literature gives you a chance to undo all the crap you learned from your parents and teachers

    The Risk of Reading

  • Via Arts & Letters Daily



  • Is Craigslist a Google 2.0?

  • See also: The Craigslist Phenomenon


  • Sparklines

    Secretly, Edward Tufte kicks quantitative ass: chapter 8 of Beautiful Evidence

    Little graphics for displaying quantitative information

  • Via Monkeyfilter



  • Hot auctions or hot goods: what's up at eBay?

  • Via Agenda



  • YAT

    You're not sure why you need a compact multifunctional trailer, but you want it anyway

  • Via MoCoLoco
  • See also: Hello Kitty Airstream trailer



  • Rinspeed Splash

    Apparently, having a separate car and boat was too much hassle




    Kartvader

    Gokart kickin' it down the highway passing semi's

  • Via Fark



  • Found Item Clothing

    You've always wanted a T-shirt that says I Love Toxic Waste

  • Via Boing Boing



  • Ghetto Uprising

    Kicking pussy white blog ass

  • Via BLSA



  • Sony MDR-D66SL

    Most bad ass headphones

  • Via Audiocubes
  • See also: Head-Fi Forums



  • Memories of the Space Age

  • Via Sugar 'N Spicy



  • Americans go nuts for the Lotus Elise

  • Via Jalopnik



  • Cybiko

    Was expensive, now dirt cheap. Hand held computer plays games, e-mail, mp3s

  • Via Engadget
  • See also: Review of Cybiko Xtreme



  • Copper Storm/G4 CPU block

    New best water block from Little River Water Blocks

  • Little River Water Blocks



  • Three Notes and Runnin'

    Online protest. Use just 3 notes of the guitar riff from Funkadelic's "Get off Your Ass and Jam" to create a new infringing work

  • Via Screenhead



  • Supernova

    Best BitTorrent Tracker

    Download the latest movies, music, pr0n:

  • First, download Azureus, best BitTorrent client
  • Then download a .torrent file from Suprnova

    See Also:
  • Digital Distractions
  • Elite Torrents
  • Torrent Reactor



  • Online casinos are getting their asses kicked by bots

    Bonus: tips and tricks for cheating at online poker

  • Via Boing Boing
  • See also: Online Poker Review - Where to Play Poker Online



  • Player hater Judges rule against NWA

    Zero tolerance for song sampling




    When computer speakers and vinyl action figures collide

    Jason Siu Sound Speakers

  • Via Octopus Dropkick



  • A House Built With Steel

    Inspired young couple builds cool modern home out of polycarbonate, cork board, and corrugated steel for only $50,000

    Bonus: building a modern home will really piss off your repressive tradition-bound neighbors

  • Via Metafilter



  • Thermalright XP-120

    Most bad ass extreme air cooler yet

  • Available at FrozenCPU



  • Refill Mag

    One stop shopping for your pop culture




    Yuengling
    America's Oldest Brewery

    Best. Beer. Ever.




    Made to order

    How industrial design became a weekend hobby




    The irony of using Alienware computers for government flight and combat simulators




    "Oh, heavenly joy! Oh, fortunate day! Our wonderful technological masters, those geniuses of centralized planning, have deigned to bestow on the public the ability to move video files between 10 separate devices with the use of a registered dongle. What visionaries! What prophets, who can see what is appropriate use of technology and what is not!"

    FCC Bestows Its Blessing on Technological Innovation

  • Via Copyfight



  • Our brains in our laptop

  • Via Wired



  • Marc Newson's new cell phone and more cool prototypes

  • Via Engadget


  • All look same?

    Online test to see if you can tell the difference between Japanese, Korean, and Chinese

    Difficulty: Wu-Tang Clan impossible

  • Via Monkeyfilter



  • Dictionary of the History of Ideas

  • Via Metafilter



  • Sound-e-Motion

    Crazy overly designed speakers




    Total Recorder

    Streaming audio surrenders, information wants to be free

  • Via Engadget
  • See also: Streamripper



  • AIX Records DVD-Audio/Video Start Here disk

    High resolution audio disk for testing your sound system

  • Via MaximumPC



  • Rust Fetish

    Cool pictures of rust

  • Via Screenhead



  • Mediumfootwear

    Cool new sneakers

  • Via Cool Hunting



  • People are human-bacteria hybrids

  • Via Fark



  • How to build a DIY snap server

    Easiest way to turn any piece of shit computer into a kick ass personal file server. Set up your own private file sharing network

  • reByte
  • Via Extreme Tech Forum


  • See also:
  • Niveus Black Box Personal Server
  • Mirra Personal Server
  • WebDrive



  • Listen to your music while tearing up the slopes without freezing your ears off

  • Via Cool Hunting



  • Top 5 equations of all time




    Science culture

    Idiots continue to hold on to false assumptions despite failing miserably

    "Whereas the consequences of modern science and technology dominate our lives and thoughts, we have been slow to incorporate scientific concepts into our culture."

  • Via Ashley B



  • The only thing better than America's Army is an actual war with actual weapons

  • Via Agenda
  • See also: How to Promote a Video Game With Flair



  • New Swiftech MCRES-525 reservoir

    Best reservoir for your high pressure, high flow ultimate water cooling overclocked newbie fragging PC

  • Via [H]OCP



  • Rate my network diagram

  • Via Metafilter



  • Home Networking 101

  • Via [H]OCP



  • Rendezvous

    In 1976, Lelouch drove through Paris in a Ferrari 275 GTB at full throttle, barely avoiding pedestrians, blowing through blind intersections, and filmed the whole thing with a gyro stabilized camera strapped to the hood

  • See also: Lucas Brunelle "Drag Race NYC"
  • Via Ashley B



  • The Slacker's New Bible

  • Via Arts & Letters Daily



  • American construction workers "have garnered a reputation for overlooking gaping joints, sloppy measurements and obvious blemishes, and refusing to deviate from even the most outmoded standardized practices"

    Building a Bad Reputation: Sloppy American Construction




    BMI posts record revenue,
    despite music industry doom and gloom

    "If BMI is breaking its own profit records, and if BMI represents songwriters, performers, and composers, how can it be said that those same people are on the verge of economic disaster?"

  • Via [H]OCP



  • Pills to go

  • Via Boing Boing



  • Computer Key Rings

  • Via Engadget



  • Monolithic

    Gallery of cool graphic art




    The unexamined life isn't worth living

    Nokia Lifeblog, cell phone enabled weblogging
    (you can use it without a Nokia camera phone)




    Behold the God box

    If present trends continue, in 4 years the typical $100 hard drive will be 2 terabytes in size, and hold 60,000 CDs... Customers will be looking to buy entire genres of music, all the best folk music ever recorded say, or the entire EMI classical back catalog.

  • Via Monkeyfilter



  • Your DigiCam wants high capacity NiMH rechargeable AA cells

    Guide to the best high performance rechargeable batteries, scroll down for results


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