October 30, 2009

Call recording of ordering the Shake Weight over the phone

This odd workout device, the Shake Weight, has made the rounds around the internet now but if you haven't seen it, watch the YouTube video above.

The Shake Weight has been ridiculed for it's "motions" and the positions the models in the video hold them in. Just yesterday though, my sister forwarded me an audio clip of one of her coworkers ordering this on the phone over their break, and he describes it in such a way that is so blunt that it's downright hilarious.

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October 28, 2009

Ah Windows 95, this brings me back

Was trying to install it in a VM but then failed as the CD wasn't bootable (that was first implemented in win98se). To get 95 to install, I'd need to find an image of the bootable floppy which has been difficult to find.

October 25, 2009

The people behind CSI need to spend a day with Photoshop and experience the limitations of zooming in

The worst part is when people who've never worked with imaging software think this is possible and ask me to 'enhance' a picture for them.

October 24, 2009

Found this english worksheet I did when I was in grade 2

I wonder what my teacher thought when she was marking it

October 23, 2009

Trying out facebook on the xbox 360

I got the invite this morning to preview the new xbox live dashboard and as promised, you can access facebook after the update. I'm pretty excited about the feature that allows you to easily view photos on facebook as a slideshow. Granted the quality is not that great, but it's pretty cool to view your friends' photos on the big screen. Now if they would only integrate flickr like this, that would be sweet.

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October 23, 2009

MBED Microcontroller, The Coolest Thing I've Seen Today

via mbed.org

MBED is a microcontroller that was designed for quick prototyping. As you see in the video, Steve, one of the beta testers of the mbed managed to hack a billy bass.

If you click through, you'll find a variation on this experiment where Steve managed to get the Billy Bass to read out twitter mentions for its twitter account via a webserver and an ethernet connection (no computer!).

There's already some resources being shared and you can program it using C++. The other cool thing is that it's just $60 if you preorder. I own one of these Billy Bass things and I'd love to hack around with it over Christmas break.