Toys & Tech
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Google Chrome Easter Eggs
Well, just one Easter egg, actually, but other related pages. For the Easter Egg, just type about:internets in the address bar of Chrome and hit Enter. (BTW does anyone else remember when this was just the coolest screensaver around and how hard it taxed even those Pentium Pro systems?) Other about pages: about:memory about:stats about:network about:internets about:histograms about:dns about:cache about:crash about:plugins about:version (via)
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Google Chrome Plug-in Crash
This is what happens when the Flash plug-in crashes in Chrome: I like it so much I think I’ll start using it as my avatar for everything.
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Chromatic
Currently testing out Google’s new browser (the rollout is Windows-only for now). It seems pretty cool, but the absolute coolest thing so far has been the comic strip documentation. Google quote: “We realized that the Web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser.” So far I’m digging the fact that they ripped a little bit of goodness from each existing browsing platform – I immediately appreciated Opera’s Speeddial function. It apparently uses Safari rendering. There’s a lot of rough edges and missing essentials, but it’s a solid first release… And most importantly it’s SUPER FAST. UPDATE: The…
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New Toy – 19xx Yamaha Chappy
This is an original ad for my new (old) toy, a Yamaha Chappy most probably made in the seventies, imported from Japan into Thailand. Actually, it has all the signs of having been stolen at some point, and it wouldn’t surprise me if that’s how it got to Thailand. I bought it off my boss who apparently bought it right after it was brought over. She let me have it for just about $100 US (3500 Baht). w00t! Engine size: 50 cc Top speed: 35 kph on installed speedometer, reading at over 40 on the much newer scooter riding along side during test run This thing really puts a smile…
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A couple tech links
These are really good: Our Electric Future by Andy Grove (of Intel fame) A Trio of Videos of Neal Stephenson Talking About SF
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Crude/Elegant S-Video connector hack for solving B&W output on Nvidia graphic cards
The title basically sums it up. I think it’s really stupid that Nvidia hasn’t fixed the TV output issues for several years, through tens of driver upgrades. Anyway, I tore my hair out screwing around with the Nvidia Control Panel after upgrading to the newest GeForce drivers (175.16) completely killed my TV output. Downgrading to version 169.21 drivers restored output, but it was – you guessed it! – frustratingly devoid of any color. I tried so many things to fix this, I don’t even want to remember it, so to make a long story short, if you have similar problems, try the hack described on these pages: nVidia Graphics Card…
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Hiropro Gear Update
This is a quick update to my post from a few years ago, entitled, Stephenson as Prophet. A company called Dainese (apparently not Italian for “Die Chinese”) has developed a working prototype for an inflatable collar airbag system for motorcycles. You can see the video here: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mo9Vlt5tGwY
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Goodbye PHS
It seems that DoCoMo killed off the Personal Handyphone System service last week (Slashdot JP link). The PHS phones were attractive when we were students (specifically around 1995) because of the lower handset prices. Not being able to use one while traveling over 20kph (or was it 25?), however, was the main deal breaker. I remember when the newer generation phones with multiple antennas came out specifically to deal with this problem, but by then everyone who already had a cellular wasn’t about to switch. As this guy says, there was a lot of potential in the system that was never realized, but hey, the road to Nashville is lined…
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15 Months no BT
Bittorrent, I’m back. I know you missed me. But Demonoid’s gone! NOOOOOO! I was one of the few users to upload half a terabyte; I was going to use that ratio for the betterment of my arcane software collection! Oh, well. It would take fifty years to download half a T on this connection, anyway.
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RE: MT4 Captcha System
It sucks.
