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The UberTap is bound to change the world (of college keggers)! With the Ubertap, you can laugh at the sad frat boys next door and their antiquated "hand-pump" and single hose dispenser because you my friend, you have THREE. The foot pedal pump means you never even have to break a sweat while filling endless dixie cups of PBR and Naughty Ice.

" What used to require expensive CO2 systems or tedious manual hand-pumping has now been replaced by a foot pump. This allows the user “handsfree” pressurization of the keg. By merging a brass and stainless steel coupling system with a stainless steel tri-splitter, Uber technology has created the toughest and most efficient beer dispensing device on the market today. A securely engineered seal and the seamless integration of the shaft with the tri-splitter allows the Uber tap to create the most efficient flow with the least amount of disturbance to the beer as it moves from the keg to the faucets. This system decreases wait time of users by allowing for swifter pumping and filling at the keg.

Features:
• Foot Pump replaces the less efficient traditional hand pump
• Tri-splitter to allow dispensation from three hoses at once
• Best engineered fit of any system available
• Seamless integration for least disturbance of beer as it moves through system"

And when the sun comes up, and your tired of puking beer, thats when you break out The Ultimate Cocktail! This ingenious device combines with the Ubertap to form VOLTRON the perfect party drink dispenser.

"In pursuit of perfection Uber tap engineers synchronized innovation and performance to create the final stage in the evolution of the punch bowl. With so many other choice beverages to dispense, beer is now just one of many tapped by a picnic pump. By linking a keg tap to the Ultimate Cocktail, party throwers can now eliminate the all too common mess, sticky floor, and drunken beverage contamination, while providing their guests with a signature cocktail for any event.

Turn any drink into a tapped beverage. Just pour in your drink, tap, and serve. Using advanced technology and functionality, the Ultimate Cocktail consists of a pressurized bottle with a screw top keg valve making for a miniature, reusable, plastic keg for drinks ranging from sports quenchers to Jungle Juice.

Features:
• Connects to your UberTap™
• Unique Design allows you to pressurize and tap any beverage
• Available in 5, 15, & 30 liter units
• Available for A, D, G, S, & U UberTap™ systems"

I may have to replace my work coffee mug with one of these badboys.

-CGP fo Life-

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Do you have a spoiled kid and an extra $18,000? Or maybe you have a pirate obsession and need a place to hide from your wife? Well then Costco has your answer.

"Each tree house is built in two main pieces: the playhouse and the log. The log is a real, old fallen tree that we hollow out using a chainsaw! To get into the playhouse, simply enter the door in the hollow log, climb up the ladder in the center of the log and pull yourself through the trap door in the floor of the playhouse. Kids or no kids, this tree house is an incredible addition to any landscape!

Every tree house is a unique creation. That's because no two logs are exactly alike. Although they each differ, they're all extraordinary! Skallywag Sloop tree houses are about 14’ tall at the roof peak, and 20’ tall at the top of the flag. The average log is about 4' in diameter. It's a snug fit, but a large adult can easily climb inside and stand straight up with room to spare."

When I was a kid, I was lucky to get an eyepatch, let-alone a kisk-ass pirateship treehouse thats worth more than my car.

-CGP fo Life-

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If your like me, your easily entertained by blinking lights, and semi-obsessed with iTunes visuals.
Well some guy named Stefan is too, so he wrote an iTunes plug-in that makes your backlit keyboard react to the music.

Backlight Visualizer for iTunes on MacOS X After seeing info on hacking the keyboard backlight of newer Apple portables and someone posting a CPU meter using the backlight, I decided that it would be time to put this into an iTunes plugin.

new and improved: now it can optionally blink the screen's backlight! Use at your own risk.

-CGP fo Life-

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This how-to is my favorite kind of hack. They show you how to make a copy of a record (thats right VINYL baby) with some basic hardware store items. Silicon for the (reusable) base mold and some liquid plastic for the new record. It doesnt damage the original at all. You can only copy one side, and I am sure the mold would only last a few copies, but it's so simple even small children and stoners could do it.

-CGP fo Life-

Technorati Tags: mold, hardware store, liquid plastic, stoners, cgp, hack, silicon, new record

Technorati Tags: hardware store, mold, technorati, liquid plastic, stoners, cgp, hack, silicon, new record

Posted by BlackFly at 8:12 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

For the past year both comments and trackbacks have been turned off here to avoid dealing with all the spam, but now that Akismet is available for MovableType and there's a fix for MT-BlackList comments and trackbacks are back on (for now at least).
Have fun!

-CGP fo Life-

Technorati Tags: cgp, blacklist, spam, fun

Technorati Tags: blacklist spam, cgp, fun, technorati

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Your a drunken middle-aged Swedish executive from the now defunct Gizmondo, with a million dollar Enzo Ferrari, and a German friend named Dietrich. So what do you do when someone with a half-million dollar MacLaren Mercedes SLR challenges you to a race? You let Deitrich crash it into a pole going 120mph on Pacific Coast Highway of course! And here's a video of the aftermath.

-CGP fo Life-

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The Pirate Bay is auctioning off a single shirt and a night of drinking for a ridiculous amount of money. From the auction:

"The Pirate Bay is the worlds largest bittorrent tracker. It also has one of the world's most obnoxious, retarded yet pleasant crews behind it. You probably know who we are since you found this auction.
Since we have a lot of bandwidth usage and low salaries for working on our site, we've decided to sell a one of a kind t-shirt.
Yes, you heard us. We're selling out a really nice t-shirt. The t-shirt (as pictured below) is a an original copy of the original itself.

Anyhow, if you win this auction you will receive the "honor" of paying your own fare to Stockholm, Sweden, and pay for all your own expenses (i.e. hotel, food, 1337, whatever you're into). You will also get to treat the seller to a nice dinner in town with pleasant conversations about happy times and joy-joy feelings. And yeah, we need something to wash down the food with as well.

So, who will you be able to hang with? All of the crew basically. Anakata, Tiamo, and the non-mentionable behind the scenes-people. We're about 4-5 people that you are interested in meeting and showing of your precious new t-shirt to.

The pick-up date and size will be negotiated with the buyer."

As of this writing the auction is almost at $4,000.

-CGP fo Life-

Posted by BlackFly at 10:47 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Tickr for Flickr is a really nice and simple Flickr desktop ticker. Type in a tag, pick an image size and screen location, and watch the pictures scroll. Under the hood are tons of little features that make this one elegant application.

"But you probably want to know a little more about the images you're seeing, so you can point to them with your mouse and see the title the photographer gave the image, the tags which people have given the image, and the original image's size in pixels. If you double-click the image, its flickr page will open in your web browser.

tickr's contextual menu deserves a little discussion. By right- or Control-clicking on an image, you can bring up a contextual menu from which you can pause and resume the tickrshow, open the image's flickr page (same as a double-click), open a larger version of the image, or open the photographer's photostream page. All of these options will open a new window in your favorite web browser. You can also copy a link to the image's flickr page (great for showing your friends an image in Newspeak!) or copy the image itself to the clipboard. If you save the image to your Pictures folder, they'll be saved in a subfolder called tickr Downloads."

-CGP fo Life-

Posted by BlackFly at 9:11 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

MoshDaddy pointed out The Party Party to us last week.
Amazingly good remixes of songs like Imagine and Sunday Bloody Sunday using nothing but soundbites from our fearful leader.

-CGP fo Life-

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NowThatsFuckedUp has gotten their grubby little hands on some camera-phone pic's stolen from the always ass-tacular Vida Guerra. You may recognize this large-and-in-charge rump from The Chappelle Show or FHM. That pirate treasure is so sweet it would make Sir Mix-A-Lot cry.

-CGP fo Life-

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"Cannabis, opium poppies, magic mushrooms and coca - the source of cocaine - all feature at the centuries-old Alnwick Garden."

The Duchess of Northumberland's Poison Garden is now open, and although visitors will be escorted by marshals during their visit, I cant imagine any of it staying put too long.....

-CGP fo Life-

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MocoLoco has a link to this really trippy sculpture. It appears to be a tower of some kind of liquid, with some controllable air-bubble makers in the bottom. Be sure to check out the low quality, and badly edited video.

-CGP fo Life-

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I�m sure your all aware my birthday is about 2 weeks away, and rather than allow you to waste time wondering what to buy me, I decided to make a recommendation. For just $190,000 you can get me 1 of 20 2005 Nismo Skyline GT-R R34 V Spec V Tuned pimpmobiles. Sell your kidney, take out a loan, I don�t care, but you'd better show up February 4th with my new silver Skyline.

-CGP fo Life-

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James Clar made this flexible LED material.

"A flexible LED display developed to be imbedded on a dress for the Milan Triennial 2005."

Check out the movie of this stuff in action!

-CGP fo Life-

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Dont forget the homeless during the holidays! (Stolen from here).

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Found on Flickr. I have soo many Mac Plus's and SE's sitting around. Maybe I can build a ragga ghetto blaster.

-CGP fo Life-

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How do they collect on the fine?

(From BoingBoing)
-CGP fo Life-

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Grab GetTunes before Apple's legal team does!

"getTunes is a Mac version of myTunes, a small application that allows users to download music from local Rendezvous-shared iTunes music libraries (instead of streaming the songs). Don't steal music."

Enjoy
-CGP fo Life-

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The guys from CKY are chumps.
Andy Tyler strapped a JET ENGINE to his shopping cart. The homebuilt gas and liquid fuel pulse jet gets about 1112� F, so I guess the 35 year old has no plans to see 36.

-CGP fo Life-

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Think Secret has a sneak preview of Delicious Library 3. There are thousands of DVD/Book/CD catalogers for Mac OS X, and even a few that can look up the titles and pictures via the ISBN number. But how many can scan the ISBN through an iSight video camera? The interface looks sweet as well.

-KRS Juan-

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Hooters and the San Remo Hotel have partnered to create The Hooters Hotel and Casino. Can someone please build a Mag-Lev train from LA to Vegas so I can just start sleeping there? The hotel and casino will stay open during the conversion.

-CGP fo Life-

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2 frat brothers from Cleveland are saving the world....from warm beer! They have invented an electric blanket that wraps around a keg of beer and chills it anywhere you can plug it in. As soon as these hit the market I'm picking one up, the keg under my bed keeps getting warm by 10am.

-CGP fo Life-

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Introducing the world's first luxury Amphibious Motor Coach. For all those who dare to ask: Will it sink or will it float? Here is ther answer you have been waiting for. Just in case you wanted to make that trip across country but you didnt want to take the long way around, here is the answer to your prayers. For $850,000 to a cool $1.2M (fully loaded with all the bling bling plasma TV's and such) you too can say fuckit and just plow through whatever wimpy body of water that may stand in the way of you and your next NRA meeting.

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The german news site MacNews.de is reporting a way to use iMovie to strip the FairPlay DRM from protected iTunes Music Store songs. Since I dont read german, and am too lazy for Babelfish, here's a quote from MacNN:

"Apple's iMovie can be used to strip the FairPlay digital rights management protection (DRM) on iTunes songs, according to a report by German news site Macnews.de. The site reports that Apple's own video tool can be used to create unprotected song files that be played on any computer without recompression, circumventing iTunes' DRM protection. iMovie users can use the "Share" feature of iMovie to export any imported (protected) song from the iTunes Music Store. The exported songs can either be stored in the un-protected AAC file format (used by Apple at the iTMS) or in the raw WAV file format; both of these formats are supported by iTunes."

Will Apple sue themselves for DMCA violations??

-CGP fo Life-

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Ever wondered what the out-takes of a Winnebago commercial would be like if the host was having a mental breakdown and swearing more in 2 minutes than the entire movie Pulp Fiction? Well here is a video of that exact situation.

-CGP fo Life-

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Thanks to this nameless gentleman and his numerous years of schooling in the renowned Cohasset Elementary / Middle / High School System...

We now have proof that if you drive a HUGE gas guzzling truck that can tow 6 boats, and airplane and has "GOT A HEMI!"...

... then you are a big, huge, hairy, PUSSY!!

peep the proof:

in other news, if you drive a smallish box shaped car...like a Scion xB - then you have a HUGE penis, and all the ladies love you proper - suckah!

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Sega has a history of doing dumb things, a many many year long history. According to this gamespot article they are looking at fixing that history. Hailed by many to be the best controller ever, they will be releasing a USB version of the Sega Saturn controller! Not only does the press release mention full mac support, but the promo image has an iBook in it! Coming to Japan July 23rd for about $29, no word if it will hit stateside.

-CGP fo Life-

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Apple's WorldWide Developer Conference 2004 kicked off today with a keynote from Steve that previewed many of the new features of Mac OS 10.4 a.k.a. Tiger.

Apple has covered WWDC in giant posters that talk smack about Microsoft stealing OS ideas from Apple including "Redmond, Start your photocopiers". Normally, I am all for this sort of jab, except when at the same event you also tout two huge new Tiger features that were flat out stolen from shareware developers!!

Spotlight -"Find anything, anywhere on your computer in no time flat". Gee that sounds and act's exactly like BlackTree's Quicksilver.

Dashboard -"Open fast access JavaScript widgets with a press of a button". Hrmmm that�s exactly how I would describe Konfabulator.

Then there's Automator which is pretty similar to QuicKeys and 100 other scripting suites.
And don't forget that Safari now does RSS feeds, a la NetNewsWire.

Did apple forget the whole Sherlock/Watson scandal????? Apple stole all the ideas behind Watson to make Sherlock 3, and it sucked. It still sucks, but Watson suffered for a while and now after a year of no updates, Karelia is selling it off.

Is Steve sitting in his door and windowless house planning the death for every loved Mac shareware application?

-CGP fo Life-

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In the two years CapsGetPeeled has existed, I always figured at least one of our 8 readers had a job. Turns out I was right. Not only is PJ Connolly gainfully employed, but he/she writes for Infoworld! Better yet, PJ managed to find an excuse to link to our much ignored G5 spoofs in the middle of a real and serious news article!
Today Infoworld, tomorrow WORLD DOMINATION (ok maybe not tomorrow, I'm busy, but hopefully I'll get to it sometime next week). Thanks for the shout-out PJ, keep on reppin for the Westside.

-CGP fo Life-

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Everyone who owns a TapWave Zodiac most likely knows that if you plug it into your computer to sync with the USB cable, your Zodiac will not charge unless you also plug in the power adapter as well. So far no 3rd party companies have solved this problem, so the guys over at HandHeld Gamer came up with this very simple (if you can solder) hack to make your stock sync cable trickle charge your Zodiac. Just be sure not to plug in a modded sync cable along with the power adapter or you will invoke the devil.

-CGP fo Life-

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BikesAgainstBush made something �ber-cool. They hooked up an Apple 15" TiBook to an array of spray paint cans attached to the back of a bicycle. Using a bluetooth phone, messages sent to the TiBook are printed in a dot matrix fashion by the spray-paint bicycle.
Here is the bike in action.
I wanna see "Bush is a Tool" sprayed on every corner in every city.

-CGP fo Life-

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MacTheRipper has been updated all the way to version 2!

If you didnt already know:
"MacTheRipper is a freeware DVD ripper (extractor) for Mac OS X. It is dependent upon the open-sourced GPL libdvdread and libdvdcss libraries. We also use the GPL 'tocgen' program in certain modes, which is a part of the 'dvdauthor' project. This product is made to backup DVDs you have legally purchased for personal use."

As for what has been updated:
"* Completely rewritten in Objective-C Cocoa to behave more like a Mac application
* New PGC mode for improved title and chapter extractions
* UOP disabling
* ForceRead mode for extracting damaged discs
* File size calculation in the various extraction modes
* DVD-ROM content extraction
* Compiled with GCC 3.3 for improved performance
* Countless bugfixes and performance enhancements
* Improved compatibility with a wider range of DVDs
* New and improved interface with innumerable enhancements "

Looks like they have been busy! UOPs are those stupid blocks that keep you from skipping the FBI warning and commercials on DVD's. It's about time we had something to get rid of those.

-CGP fo Life-

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Tryst is a free and open-source Rendezvous movie streamer. Now you can share your porn over your LAN just like iTunes does with your music!

-CGP Fo Life-

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More proof that some people have far too much free time on their hands, someone has recreated the Delorean from the Back to the Future movies and is selling it on ebay. From the auction:

"You never will again in this accurate recreation of the DeLorean Time Machine made famous in the Back to the Future movie series. This recreation was painstakingly researched for nearly 5 years before construction. Dozens of original photographs, details, and interviews with the original vehicle builders and collectors were compiled to make sure no detail was left un-accounted for. All of the interior and exterior Time Machine components were made to last, but at the same time not damage the integrity of the original vehicle. From custom fabricated aluminum work, to vac-formed plastic, and cast resin - this vehicle faithfully and accurately recreates the look and feel of the original movie car. Stainless steel body panels, grey leather interior, 5-speed manual transmission, V-6 engine with Bosch Fuel injection. Motion picture parts replicated through archival photos and extensive research; working interior and exterior lighting system including the "Flux Capacitor", "Time Circuits" and exterior "Flux Dispersion Banding""

-CGP fo Life-

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The TailViper is a small device that goes on your skateboard and makes crazy sparks when it comes in contact with rough surfaces. How long till someone grinds through a gas station and blows themselves up?

-CGP fo Life-

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Playfair is a free open-source app to strip the FairPlay protection from AAC files purchased from the iTunes Store. It must be run first on the computer the music is authorized for, and then must be transfered to a PC or iPod but the results are DRM-less AAC music. The project was hosted by SourceForge.net until Apple sent them a cease and disist, the new server is somewhere in India.

-CGP fo Life-

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Antivirus company Intego has issued a Press Release regarding the first trojan horse that affects Mac OS X:

"The Trojan horse's code is encapsulated in the ID3 tag of an MP3 (digital music) file. This code is in reality a hidden application that can run on any Macintosh computer running Mac OS X.

This Trojan horse has the potential to do any of the following:
- Delete all of a user's personal files
- Send an e-mail message containing a copy of itself to other users
- Infect other MP3, JPEG, GIF or QuickTime files"

Maybe switchers will feel more at home now.
-CGP fo Life-

Posted by at 11:40 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

It's about �20,000, and only available in Japan, but who has 2 days to let the sun charge their iPod besides the dirty hippies following Phish?

-CGP fo Life-

Posted by BlackFly at 10:41 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

The father of RSS has proposed that RSS and Atom combine into a single format controlled by IETF. RSS and Atom feeds provide a way for websites to syndicate content from other websites, as well as allowing tons of other uses (RSS readers, stock tickers, ect. ect.). Atom (formerly Echo and a whole bunch of other names) was originally created due to many peoples feeling that RSS's creator was too controlling.

Sam Ruby, creator of Atom, said "As long as it's under the IETF, it's fine," said Ruby. "The IETF has a good history of dealing with personality disputes of all types, and I imagine we'll work through them.".

-CGP fo Life-

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Do you own a Nokia phone and constantly lie to people about your whereabouts? With SounderCover you can let the background noise lie for you. Missed your child�s birthday? You were stuck behind a "Circus Parade"! Couldn't make that court appearance for that restraining order against you? Your at "the dentist" of course!

I'll buy it when they include "caught in a drive-by", "Compton swap-meet", and "drugged and left for dead in Mexico".

-CGP fo Life-

Posted by BlackFly at 10:56 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Boinx MiracleSight is an OS X screensaver that uses your DV camera (iSight) as a motion sensor and draws bubbles on a mirror image of what it sees. No wait, don�t stop reading!!!!! It's actually really cool if your Mac is in an active environment with backround music. Everyone looks like they are in a live 1980's music video!

-CGP fo Life-

Posted by BlackFly at 10:09 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

When they are not busy making broken mars rovers, NASA is spending millions of our tax dollars to pop water balloons in a zero gravity environment. The website has a few very cool videos and some sort of explanation that I didn't bother to read.

-CGP fo Life-

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Originally started by the Beastie Boys, and former home of Luscious Jackson, Atari Teenage Riot, Ben Lee, Sean Lennon, Bis, Buffalo Daughter and Money Mark. GrandRoyal Records is bankrupt and up for bids.

Assets include: "Various master recordings, license agreements, recording agreements and misc. contracts available."

Bidding starts at just $10,000 (US) which is damned cheap for an already established record label. Just BUY US LOTS OF GOOGLE STOCK* and we'll be happy to pick it up.

-CGP fo Life-

*This post was edited on 10/03/05 - My JOKE about clicking our ads to make us enough money to buy Grand Royal was deamed unfunny by the Google Adsense gestapo crew.

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Dissapointed with your Dr. Bott ExtendAIR's abysmal range? The folks at QuickerTek have a hack for you. With a little soldering "You should see a dramatic improvement in your Antenna performance" according to their website.

-CGP fo Life-

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