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Uranium Ore
July 22, 2010 – 11:23 am | No Comment
Uranium Ore

We are always in compliance with Section 13 from part 40 of the NRC Nuclear Regulatory Commission rules and regulations and Postal Service regulations specified in 49 CFR 173.421 for activity limits of low level …

What He Said
July 22, 2010 – 11:01 am | One Comment
What He Said

OK, this guy deserves more than just a link, I am dedicating a whole post. heh. (Like that is supposed to reflect how cool I am and suggest some sort of level of importance coming …

Devote your life to replicating a lightsaber
August 27, 2010 – 11:00 am | No Comment
Devote your life to replicating a lightsaber

Life-sized Star Wars replica props, it’s one way to keep the ladies away. But if you’re going to make them, you should do it right. [Bradley W. Lewis] spent some serious time getting this [Obi-Wan Kenobi] lightsaber right . The seven-page build log provides plenty of eye-…

So you want to make a Command Line Interface
August 26, 2010 – 3:29 pm | No Comment
So you want to make a Command Line Interface

[Keba] not only asked Answeres.HackaDay.com , but also sent us an email as follows. “Can you make a basic guide to designing a good Command Line User Interface?” Wouldn’t you know the luck, I’m currently working on a Command Line type interface for a project of…

Hacking a code-protected hard disk
August 26, 2010 – 12:56 pm | No Comment
Hacking a code-protected hard disk

Our friend [Sprite_TM] took a look at the security of a code-protected hard disk . The iStorage diskGenie is an encrypted USB hard drive that has a keypad for passcode entry. After cracking it open he found that the chip handling the keypad is a PIC 16F883 microcontroller. He poked and prodded at the…

Grown Up Geeks – Cool Tattoo
July 17, 2010 – 7:49 pm | No Comment
Grown Up Geeks – Cool Tattoo

OK, had to add this to my collection. Pretty cool tattoo, I mean, hell, if not just for the obvious advertising. Maybe it’s time I get GeekyBitch tattooed somewhere.
Check them out here: grownupgeek.com
Nice …

Foul-mouthed game will get you in trouble
January 25, 2010 – 3:00 pm | No Comment
Foul-mouthed game will get you in trouble

[Fridgehead] modified his Simon Says game to include a dirty word for each lighted button . This is a real good way to teach kids to swear and to get child protective services to pay you a visit all at the same time. The hardware has been modified to use an Arduino in tandem …

Things that kill you, hacked for clean energy
January 25, 2010 – 2:00 pm | No Comment
Things that kill you, hacked for clean energy

Tobacco and E coli can wreak havoc on your body causing serious damage if not death. Some researchers from the University of California at Berkley have found a way to take these potentially dangerous organisms and make them do our bidding. By genetically engineering a virus they have shown that the…

Geek Tattoos
August 19, 2009 – 9:34 am | 2 Comments
Geek Tattoos

OK, friend sent me a link to this tattoo, and I started searching. Wow, didn’t realize the wave of geek tats out there. So, I decided to start a collection here of all the cool …

ROFL – Never scam hackers
August 4, 2009 – 6:03 pm | 3 Comments
ROFL – Never scam hackers

You have to be kidding me?? Right? No, seriously. Right?

Some idiot attempted to scam people at a Hackers Meet- up, AKA Defcon. Mind-boggling.

403 – Forbidden
June 23, 2009 – 4:44 am | 2 Comments
403 – Forbidden

(P.S. No, this is NOT a pic of me. But it is a pic of my new spiffy undies.)
OK, they rock. They fall inline with my spiffy weird comment undies,  like “Weapon of Mass Seduction” …

iPhoney
June 20, 2009 – 5:22 pm | 9 Comments
iPhoney

OK, I am a geek just as much as the next, and I love getting new technology. But, I also have some common sense about what I purchase, in that, it has to serve a …