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The site is all screwed up right now, I know. All of the plugins are disabled, and the configuration is all screwed up, but at least pages are loading again. Our web host installed phpsuexec on the server without telling anybody, which apparently breaks every single piece of code known to man. […]

For months, I’ve been bitching about how netflix doesn’t provide any sort of shuffle feature. I have almost 200 movies in my queue, most of which were added during drunken clickfests through suggested similar movies and stuff with the same actors. This really sucks, because I tend to get 14 movies in a […]

Hitachi Maxell has a new optical storage technology: a sort of floppy disc. The idea is basically that it’s a super thin high capacity CD. This allows them to put a bunch of the the little guys in a cartridge for massively large storage in a small space.
My idea is that you put […]

I’ve just set up Akismet, a SPAM filter for WordPress comments. I was getting hundreds of those annoying bastards a day, so I had mostly disabled comments last month. I’m turning them back on to give things a try with Akismet for a bit, so feel free to comment again. In fact, […]

I think I’ve finally found a way to add gunfighting to PLUNDERDOME: The pink teddy bear gun (thanks Engadget). I would have to imagine these could be easily modified to fire other types of plush doom, as well.
I wonder how reusable they are? For that matter, it can’t be terribly difficult to build […]

DCRP has reviewed my ideal camera, the Canon PowerShot S3 IS. This thing meets every single one of my big features:

It takes AA Batteries, no $75 battery packs you have to buy for the privelege of not being able to find batteries when it dies and there’s no camera shop around.
It’s Canon, I’m […]

SolLight’s LightCap, a solar powered LED water bottle seems like just about the ideal playa solution. It’s a 32oz water bottle with a solar panel on top of the lid, and LEDs beneath it.
Carry two of these with you and it’s a liter of water, which is just about right for an outing, or […]

It looks like Philips has developed a uniquely awesome woodstove for poor and rural communities. It’s basically a simple wood burning stove, but there’s an electric generator that turns the heat into electricity to spin a small fan. This fan then controls the burn for massively increased efficiency which saves wood and […]

CNET is showing off HP Labs’ LCD touch-coffee-table prototype, which is cute but impractical. The idea is that you’ve got this giant LCD touch screen where you can load up a game of Monopoly with the tykes. Let’s say it’s a small coffee table, around the size of a 30-inch Cinema display. […]

Rob Carlson and I got into a discussion the other day about the practicality of having illuminated street signs at night. I said it’s something that we’ll see in the next 5-10 years because of the increasing practicality of solar power for low-energy applications. He disagreed.
Thanks to a recent breakthrough in Spray-On Solar-Power […]