Rube Goldberg Machine - Turn On A Radio

My younger brother, Cory, filmed a Rube Goldberg machine that he built for a grade 6 project. At his request, I’m posting it here for others to enjoy.

Great job, I look forward to seeing more videos from you.

October 26th, 2007 Life, Videos 0 Comment

I’d Rather Die Than Accept Your Fortune Cookie Request, Thanks Though.

Third party Facebook apps are one of the many great features of the site. They are also the worst. There are plenty of great apps that can do useful things like show your latest photos from your Flickr feed, or stories from your Digg feed. There are apps to help you organize your life so that you can be more efficient. If you can think of it, there’s probably an app for it. The problem is there are thousands of useless apps that make your Facebook profile seem a little bit more like Myspace.

I am guilty of having one of these useless apps I must confess, but LOLCats have a special place in my heart. I have no problems with having one or two of these “bad” apps since they are somewhat comical. But when you have the Vampire, Zombie, and WereWolf all installed to your profile for example, it just looks like utter shit. Each of these apps are absolutely useless and only annoy your friends when you request that they join you in destroying their own profiles. When I have to scroll up and down the page 5 times just to find your wall, there’s a problem.

In closing, use Facebook apps sparingly and responsibly. If you develop these crap apps, give it a rest. Please.

October 24th, 2007 Life, Tech 0 Comment

OiNK.cd Shut Down by British and Dutch Police

The popular private music torrent tracker OiNK.cd has been shut down by British and Dutch police yesterday. A 24-year-old IT worker from Middlesbrough was arrested on Tuesday morning.

Within a few hours of a popular pre-release track being posted on the OiNK site, hundreds of copies can be found.

Though it is sad to see this site go, it’s almost guaranteed that there will be more than one to take its place.

External Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/7057812.stm

October 23rd, 2007 Tech 0 Comment

Overdrive

Here’s a couple episodes of my attempt at some sort of IPTV show.

It’s not top notch, but I think the content is decent. Overtime I think it the quality of the episodes will get better, but only time will tell. Any thoughts or comments are appreciated.

October 22nd, 2007 Life, Videos 0 Comment

Find Downloadable Music For Free

The site Audio Raider uses Google search features to find folders of music around the internet. Naturally, “it’s not to be used for copyrighted content”.

Under no circumstances is this site to be used to download copyrighted content. All results are pulled directly from Google. None of the files in the results are hosted on this server.

Out of the searches I did, my success rate was rather high. I was unable to find music of some of the local bands I am fan of, but thats somewhat expected. Overall its a great tool.

October 12th, 2007 Tech 0 Comment