Category: Fun Stuff

And if I were to do that, I’d build my own:

Free TiVo: Build a Better DVR out of an Old PC

Thanks to Geek Goes Meow for the link.

From the latest issue of Wired:

Shockingly Small Change
It unleashes 10,000 megawatts of instantaneous energy …. [Inventor] Basura … usually focuses all that juice on a US quarter. When he does, the coin doesn’t melt or vaporize. Instead, with an ear-shattering crack, its molecules rearrange and nuzzle closer, shrinking the coin’s circumference to that of a dime.

You New Yorkers might also be interested in this one: Destination: Manhattan, 1609

…the last resort of a grad student who doesn’t much like his design class.

Wil Wheaton turned me on to Overheard in NY:

A large bearded black man is holding a big white sign that reads: NINJAS KILLED MY FAMILY. I NEED $$ TO LEARN KUNG-FU AND GET REVENGE.

Drunk yuppie: Ha, ha. So dude, are you really going to become a ninja?! Ha, ha!
Black guy: Nah, man. This is just for humor. This ain’t for real.

–Broadway & 76th

Overheard by: M-Co

I don’t think these are the same guy.