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OMFG this would be the greatest Katamari game ever made. Who knew an insurance commercial could be so fun.

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The british artist Banksy had a show in downtown LA this last weekend called Barely Legal. While it is getting a lot of press (at least locally), it's mostly dirty PETA hippies complaining that there's an elephant with paint on it. Luckily for those of us who couldn't make it to the show Supertouch has posted some photo's. Rumor has it that every piece sold opening night, and none of them for less than $100,000!

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The guys at Handsome Donkey are back with another short. This one is a love story of sorts, with a Handsome Donkey twist.

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Visor is a cool little OS X app that gives you a drop down terminal ala Quake.

Visor provides a systemwide terminal window accessible via a hotkey, much like the consoles found in games such as Quake. Visor requires elements of Quartz only found in 10.4. Visor is compatible with 10.4 and higher only.

If you use the terminal often, this is indispensable. Not only does it take on whatever color scheme you have set for your terminal, it supports Quartz animations in the background. You really have to try it to see how cool it is.

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Most people have no idea that 6 seconds of drumming from a 1969 B-side is the foundation for almost all modern Jungle and Drum & Bass music. Used in literally thousands of songs, from hip hop to electronica, and even in commercials, the drum break from The Winston's Amen Brother is the single most used sample of all time.

Sure the video is kind of long (at 18+ minutes) and all you ever see is a turntable, but it's quite informative for those who dont know the story. Once it's been pointed out, you will hear sample's of this song everywhere.

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This guy was selling a nice video camera used on Amazon and was being pestered by Nigerian 419 scammers. When they went to the extreme of faking Amazon purchase conformations he decided to get revenge. Instead of getting a Cannon GL2 in his scamming little hands, this Nigerian recieved a box of feces, and had to pay the FedEx bill to boot.

"A day or so after listing the GL2 I started receiving emails from interested parties. I was immediately suspicious when I received multiple inquiries wanting to pay for the GL2 via Bidpay and requesting that I ship the Canon GL2 to Nigeria. Each time I responded that the Canon GL2 had to be purchased via the amazon.com purchasing system and that I could ship the GL2 to Nigeria. I also would inform the prospective buyer that I would ship the GL2 as soon as I received confirmation from amazon.com confirming the sale of the GL2. Soon after responding I would receive another email  that looked as if it originated from amazon.com, I believe this is called phishing, stating that my camera had been sold and to ship it to some person in Nigeria. Whenever I receive a sale confirmation email from amazon.com I log into my account at amazon.com to verify the legitimacy of the email and each time the camera was still listed as not sold and there was not any money transfered into my amazon.com account. At this point I was certain that the confirmation emails from amazon.com were fraudulent and I was being scammed."

The above photo is from the always excellent 419Eater.

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Long promised but never delivered, Tivo is showing early test versions of TivoToGo for Mac OS X at CES. TivoToGo lets you download recordings from Tivo Series 2 and presumably the newly annouced series 3 to your Mac and from there move it to other media devices. Burn a DVD, put it on your PSP, or watch it on your iPod Video. The question is: "How long till this shows up on BitTorrent?"

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LivePlasma is a music suggestion (movies too) service with a twist. It makes stunning relational charts with a nice and simple (DHTML??) interface. It's still in beta but seems pretty funtional to me.

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Kazakhstan doesnt like Ali G, damn commies.

"Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry threatened legal action on Monday against comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, who wins laughs by portraying the central Asian state as a country populated by drunks who enjoy cow-punching as a sport.

Baron Cohen, who portrays a spoof Kazakh television presenter Borat in his "Da Ali G Show", has won fame ridiculing Kazakhstan, the world's ninth largest country yet still little known to many in the West."

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So I've been drinking (which I do a lot) and thinking (which I don't do nearly enough) and came up with something amazingly brilliant. But then I forgot it and scribbled down this instead. Like most of the women I sleep with, I am sure I'll regret this tomorrow.

Beer Container Protocol

Keg - Always the preferred container for Gods Gift. The man with a keg controls all. They can even be mobilized thanks to dollies and indentured servants. Bringing your keg out in public will attract moochers nine times out of ten, so be sure to bring lots of bear repellant.

Pitcher - If above mentioned indentured servant is otherwise occupied then this is your next best choice. Don't want to share your pitcher? Damn right you don't, and by drinking directly from the pitcher, no one but the drunkest slob will want to share your Saliva Pale Ale.

Pint Glass - Simple, elegant, and always there for you (unlike your girlfriend, who's always there for ME). In the Beer Protocol, the Pint Glass comes third.

Glass Bottle - Hey at least it's not a can!

Yard Glass - Frat boy novelty. If there's good beer in it, the second foot and a half will be warm and flat by the time you reach it. If there's bad beer in it, then I hope you trip and cut yourself on a yard of glass you schmuck

Beer Hat - Makes up for the use of cans by being considered formal-wear in Kentucky. Two beers at a time means you can get funk draster!

Beer Bong - That sixer of Naughty Ice that some loser brought over isn't gonna drink itself. MGD, Bud, PBR, or any other beer that is only valuable for the liquor content can quickly drown your troubles via a large funnel and 3 feet of smelly rubber tubing from Home Depot.

Beer Can - Consider this simply a momentary container before filling your beer bong. Canned beer tastes bad, is not a usable weapon, and despite what your gay uncle told you, it will not make you forget that time he touched your no-no spot.

Plastic Beer Bottle - What good is a beer container if you can hurt a Major League Baseball player with it?

Beer Goggles - Not a Beer container but something everyone should always be wary of. If she's talking to you and not trying to steal your wallet, then she's ugly.

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From Witz.org via BoingBoing. I dont care if it's real or fake, either way it's still funny.

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Arggggghhhh me matey, today be International Talk Like A Pirate Day. The holiest day of the year for Pastafarian's around the world.

So grab your wench, fight the scurvy, and raise your grog!

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P.S. - Yes I know the PirateBay Logo is for a totally different type of pirate but it's such a cool logo.

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A guy by the name of Mr. Spiv has released a PSP SDK for Mac OS X!

"Precompiled binaries of Oopo's GCC 4.0.1 toolchain dated 20050725 and PSPSDK revision 792 for Mac OSX. This time also PSPSDK doxygen docs are included. Download the dmg (46 megs). The toolchain and the sdk installs under /opt/local/pspdev/. Remember to set up your PATH environment variable to point to /opt/local/pspdev/bin and PSPDEV to /opt/local/pspdev and PSPSDK to /opt/local/pspdev/psp/sdk PSPSDK documentation is located at /opt/local/pspdev/psp/sdk/docs/html"

Why not give it a whirl?

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I dont drink much Jagermeister, but this dispenser is so cool I may just have to start. It holds 3 bottles and cools each shot down to 12 degrees before dispensing. Of course I want one.

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Looks like an astute observer at the E3 conference noticed that the xBox 360 M$ had on demo was sticking out of a large box, that was whirring like hell...

Said observer walked around to the back and found not 1, but 2 Apple PowerMac G5's running a dev system of the 360 backed up by a giant home fan to keep the cool.

ahhhhhh, Feel the love.

Thanks to Gizmodo for the story

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Hack-A-Day has a link to instructions on how to make a lockpick gun out of nothing more than an old hard drive and a used mouse. And since lockpicks are mechanically the same thing as a tattoo gun (although slower and with a different tip) I bet you could use this for homemade body art as well.

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Looks like Asahi has created the worlds coolest mini-fridge. This mini-fridge has a 12.1" screen mounted on the front and a built in DVD player. but of course there's a catch. According to Gizmodo it's not availble for purchase, only as a prize in a contest. Perfect for every dormroom, bedroom, bathroom, closet, or in my car. Imagine the drinking games one could play with a few friends.....

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Someone at the BBC is smoking a little too much ganja.

"BBC Three, one of the public broadcaster's digital TV channels, sent an e-mail to the Bob Marley Foundation saying it wanted to do a documentary about his hit song "No Woman No Cry".

It said the project would involve Marley -- who died of cancer in May 1981 at the age of 36 -- "spending one or two days with us", and that "it would only work with some participation from Bob Marley himself". "

Wow.

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One of my biggest pet-peeves on the internet is movies or trailers that are view only, and don't let you save them to your drive. There are almost always ways to trick your browser into downloading them, but they take a lot more effort than some cheesy trailer is usually worth. Enter iGetMovies (warning: french website). A free application made in Applescript studio, it copies the movie from quicktime's cache and saves it as a viewable quicktime movie on your desktop. This works for any quicktime movie in Safari or on the iTunes store.

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Rushing out to buy Chappelle Show Season 2 DVD today??? Don't bother, because it wont be there! The release has been pushed to May 24th. Industry people (this homeless guy I know who lives outside Paramount studios) blame it on the production delay of season 3 for Comedy Central.

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VW's new Golf GTi commercial is a must see. A video remix of Gene Kelly's Singing in the Rain breakdance edition.

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Those crafty Germans over at MacNews.de have gotten their sauerkraut soaked hands on some photos of the Mac Mini's logic board and processor. It's a fairly amazing piece of engineering.

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"Tibetan Buddhists believe that saying the mantra (prayer) Om Mani Padme Hum, invites the blessings of Chenrezig, the embodiment of compassion."

Bare with us here, there is a point!

"They also believe you can produce the same effect by spinning the written form of the mantra around in a prayer wheel (called "Mani wheels" by the Tibetans). The effect is said to be multiplied when more copies of the mantra are included, and spinning the Mani wheels faster increases the benefit as well."

Remember "Giiiive me the kniiife" from Eddie Murphy's The Golden Child?

"His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, has said that having the mantra on your computer works the same as a traditional Mani wheel. As the digital image spins around on your hard drive, it sends the peaceful prayer of compassion to all directions and purifies the area."

So just by downloading the above image to your iPod (or hard drive) you can bless it, and all that surrounds it.

All the Buddhist stuff in quotes came from here. Yes, this was sort-of mentioned on slashdot ages ago, but putting it on your iPod is my “spin” on things.

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MoshDaddy pointed out this really cool and trippy interactive flash movie. It's the work of a couple different artists, all intertwined on a loop that you can endlessly zoom in and out on. Since that description does it absolutely no justice just go check it out. It would make a killer Mac OS X screensaver.

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If Crucial get's their way, your PC will soon be sucking on a pacifier and waving glowsticks like a madman. They have added blinking LED's to some of their ram chips.

"Ballistix Tracer memory features two rows of eight "chasing" red and green LEDs atop the module, indicating memory activity by circulating at varying speeds. A custom-designed circuit relays bus activity to the LEDs, allowing them to accurately reflect usage of each memory module. In addition, eight blue ground effects LEDs emit a constant glow near the pins. "

The chips are on black PCB's and have black heat spreaders.

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Solving the age old problem of keeping beer cold on a hot day, Øyvind Arnesen built himself a portable peltier beer cooler. Battery, or power-over-ethernet powered, this cup keeps a glass of Guinness at about 7°C.

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Dear Red States,

Thanks a million!
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Courtesy Renegade Rice Cracker

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Some French university students made some really fun stop motion video's. There's not a whole lot of them, and they are pretty short so check them out. Found the link via boingboing.

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Joystiq has a wonderfull article up today. Step by step instructions on using the RetroZone kit mentioned here last week, to convert an original NES controller to work on a modern USB computer (or MAME box). Lot's of pretty photo's and simple to read these are the easiest instructions I have found.

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According to 1up.com, Brian De Palma's classic film Scarface is coming to console video game systems next fall via Vivendi Universal. The game will be third person and the story is by David McKenna (writer of Blow and American History X). No word yet if Pacino will be doing the voice-overs or what consoles it will run on.

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The always excellent Engadget has a great write-up on how to turn your iPod into a universal remote using the following:
"* iPod (doesn’t matter which one, we used our mini)
* PC or Mac with sound recording software (we used a PC with SoundForge)
* A Pocket PC (any Pocket PC 2002 / 2003 should work, we used a Toshiba and an iPaq)
* Griffin’s Total Remote Software and IR device"

Sure, you could just buy a Pronto Neo and have better controls and a better interface, but then you wouldn't look like a total moron pointing your MP3 player at your TV.

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The one and only Pussy Snorkel has to be the greatest advancement in sexual aid devices since the Baby Jesus Butt Plug:

"The Pussy Snorkel allows a man to continue breathing while performing oral sex on a woman in a spa, bathtub or even a bowl of green Jell-O. Insert the breathing apparatus into your nostrils, rub the clitoral stimulator against your favorite coral reef and start with the tongue action. With the Pussy Snorkel, any man can be a dive master."

Become a cunalingus master without the asphyxiating side effects for only $12.99 and be sure to grab the glow in the dark version, you don't want to go spelunking without a light-source.

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Apple Insider has published detailed illustrations of the liquid cooling system used in Apple's new G5. It looks very similar to the liquid cooling system developed by MIT students (who were sponsored by Apple) if you ask me. Keep in mind this entire system is enclosed in the heatsink.

I cant help but wonder how long untill someone tries to open their heatsink and destroys their new G5. Or some tech at CompUSA who cant even spell Macintosh wants to change out someones radiator fluid for them, only after Pep-Boys refills their car's blinker fluid of course.

"1. G5 processor at point of contact to the heatsink.
2. G5 processor card from IBM
3. Heatsink (also referred to as a 'waterblock')
4. Cooling fluid output from the radiator to the pump
5. Liquid cooling system pump
6. Pump power cable (usually connected to the main logic board, but repositioned in the above diagram)
7. Cooling fluid radiator input from the G5 processor
8. Radiant grille
9. Airflow direction "

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A chipped Xbox is useless unless you use Xbox Media Center, but the only Xbox Media Server for mac is xBmsx. xBmsx isnt bad, but it's nothing special either (I am not complaining, I am happy it works and is free) and is missing many features found on the PC server software. Luckily, MacOSxHints has step-by-step directions on setting up both the SMB shares on your Mac and editing the .ini file for the Xbox. Now maybe you can do something besides pirate games, you can pirate movies and music too.

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"Apple today unveiled AirPort Express, which it says is "the world's first 802.11g mobile base station that can be plugged directly into the wall for wireless Internet connections and USB printing, or thrown into a laptop bag to bring wireless freedom to hotel rooms with broadband connections." Airport Express also features analog and digital audio outputs that can be connected to a stereo and AirTunes music networking software which works seamlessly with iTunes, giving users a simple and inexpensive way to wirelessly stream iTunes music on their Mac or PC to any room in the house." AirPort Express features a single piece ultra- compact design weighing just 6.7 ounces, and will be available to Mac and PC users starting in July for $130'

I stole the above text straight from MacNN so any mistakes are entirely their fault. Needless to say we want one.

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A few days ago we mentioned Xlink Kia was coming to the Mac but they still haven’t given a release date (they also refuse to even confirm that it's being worked on in their forums).
Thanks to Aquaduct 2 we dont really have to care:

"* The power to play some Xbox Halo online. Lots and lots of Halo. And 45+ other System Link games too.
* The ability to register an XBConnect Tag and log in to the XBConnect server, where you'll find lots of Windows users who also want to play some Halo. You can use an existing Tag if you have one.
* An Aqua-beautiful browser to list games. Lots and lots of games.
* Live sorting and searching tools to manipulate the games list. 'Cause it's so full.
* A little yellow Connect button, to join in on those games.
* A chat interface, for both the XBConnect chat rooms and your own Aquaduct channel.
* A slightly buggy buddy list to help organize your posse.
* A mostly-complete step-by-step guide to using Aquaduct.
* Stuff I have forgotten Aquaduct does. "

Hosting doesn’t work yet and I wouldn’t try it over an airport network quite yet. But it works extremely well, especially for a beta.

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Gizmodo points out this killer $1000 Panasonic Vacuum tube car stereo. It plays back Mp3's from CD-R's, and how sweet are those analog gauges!!! Too bad it's only available in this ugly gold color, and only in Japan unless you go through an importer.

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Milkdrop has long been thought of as the best music visualizer on windows, and until now has never been available to mac or linux users. Enter Project M.

"projectM is basically a re-implementation of Milkdrop under Linux/SDL/OpenGL/XMMS. projectM already does some things Milkdrop does not (like infinite custom shapes/waves). projectM uses no platform-specific code outside of the xmms interface."

Don't rush to grab it yet though, the mac version has not been released yet. According to their site it will be available soon (a couple days most likely).

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Cult of Mac reports on a new Japanese accessory to turn your beautiful G4 cube into an ugly diakon grater and spend $300 in the process! Why????????

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iTunes 4.5 breaks all of the old tools for both decrypting encrypted AAC files and for downloading shared songs over the network. This guy not only figured out the entire authentication process but has written an application/library for playing back iTunes music in other programs besides iTunes or over a network. His whole site makes for an interesting read.

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Business as we know it in the San Bernardino Valley is at a standstill. Warehouses, couches, and sleazy motels all over Van Nuys and Chatsworth will be empty and KY-less for the next 60 days as the porn industry has put a voluntary stop to all productions. Darren James, has been tested HIV positive. He reportedly got it riding bareback in Brazil. Some news agencies are reporting that another actor has tested positive as well, but no name has been released. The 1200 regular actors and actresses are tested about every 3 to 4 weeks, and not a single HIV case has been found since 1999.

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Moshdaddy sent us this. Dont know who made it, dont care.

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As if you needed another way to waste time at work!
Chris Hilgert, creator of Penguin Smack and Orca Slap, brings us his 3rd game Seal Bounce. Orca's are gone from this one, but helpful seals are there to lend a fin.

There is also now a "Boss button", press B and the game window turns into a pie chart. I haven't seen this in a game since my SE/30.

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MacTheRipper is a new and free (GPL) DVD extractor for Mac OS X.

"MacTheRipper removes CSS encryption, Macrovision protection, and sets the disc's region code to '0' for region-free by default, and is capable of removing RCE region protection as well, making an unrestricted copy of any DVD movie you own. It doesn't rely on the DVD drive to get the CSS decryption keys, so that means that you do not need to play the DVD with DVD Player in order to rip it to your hard drive unprotected."

I have yet to try it, but having alternatives to DVDBackup and OSEx can only be a good thing. This isn't a compressor/re-encoder so movies larger than 4.3gb still need to go through DVD2One or an equivalent.

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Posted by BlackFly at 11:32 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

This really cool flash clock is handwritten and each digit gets hand erased each time. I really want this as a screensaver!

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Yup, Besk one is a siiiiick puppy - he's not content with his new Scion xB just the way it is, so he's modding the hell out of it - and his current project is to install what ammounts to a PowerBook G4 500Mhz 512mb ram 80gb drive, Airport, Bluetooth and GPS connected to a 7" Touchscreen monitor in his dash.

Ya, i know what you're thinking... "Man this Besk one guy is out of his mind, there's just no reason for that". But there is my friends! the reason is I'm a siiiick bastard and having iTunes, Internet access, Bluetooth sync'ing with my phone, DVD's, DIVX, MPG's, AVI's and GPS Satalite Navigation is PIIIIIMPY!

Have a peep at the new Touchscreen hooked up to my G4 Tower for testing:

CapsGetPeeled.com will have a special area dedicated to the design and installation of Besk's new Mac in the Box as i get going with the project, check back for more details!

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Norman Cook, a.k.a. the Brighton Butcher, a.k.a. Fatboy Slim, has released a set of Garage Band Loops called Skip to my loops.

"An essential collection from one of the UK's most successful dance remixers. A massive collection of superb loops, ranging from 84 bpm to obscenely fast. Plus some extra samples including FX, Guitar, Reggae, Flute, and many more. The more you use it, the more you like it. One of our most popular CDs ever! "

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Rumors are spreading around the net that the source code to Windows 2000 and Windows NT has been leaked on the net! So far there is no proof or confirmation from anyone and even the things mentioned in the articles sound pretty shady, but if it's true we can surely expect a deluge of viruses and trojans for the millions of windows users out there. Suckers!

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Attention lazy taggers, your dream has come true! Hektor is a computer controlled spray-can that writes or draws anything you tell it to. The site is pretty empty but has a great movie of it in action and a PDF explaining alot of how they built it.

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Every time I take a vacation something goes wrong. This year I was in the Bahamas celebrating Junkanoo (like Carnival or Mardi Gras for the islands) 24 hours of drinking, debauchery, and general Westside representation.

In case you can't tell, our host was hacked over christmas.
The hackers deleted every site on the host's servers and even somehow got to all of their backups. The last backup I made was 10/12/03 (doh!) and as you can see things are still pretty broken. The only good news is that it gave me the opportunity to upgrade to MoveableType 2.65 which fixes some bugs and adds a couple new features. We will not let the eastside bring us down. This year will be bigger and better than anything seen here before (like that will be hard =).

You can do your part by simply holding it up for the true Westsiders, keepin it real, and sending news tips and stories to BlackFly@capsgetpeeled.com. Lets start 2004 off with a bang bang bang!

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Gizmodo found one of the coolest "Case-Mods" we have ever seen. The Bass Station is a Ghettoblaster/Wifi Basestation/WebServer/Audio Streamer/FileServer all in the case of a portable 80's stereo. This is hardcore Westside representation at it's finest.
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When we say "fo Life" we mean it.
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These silkscreen luxury CD-R's from LuckyDisc and 5inch.com are sweet. LuckyDisc only offers 3 designs but they are all pretty cool. 5inch.com offers 53 designs of all different styles and color.
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I love reading Craigslist. I'm not looking to buy anything or trying to find a new job, I just love how cracked out some of the people are. Among the loads of mentally unbalanced postings I found 2 gems that are the best of the bunch.
The Rules for shopping at Costco
and
Kevin's Guide to Los Angeles
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I just received a friendly email letting me know that the Burton iPod AMP Backpack should be announced at the upcoming MacWorld Expo Paris. Anyone wanna lend me $200?
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I could easily play with this for hours.
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According to Peter's MacCentral article, the US Navy is buying 260 Apple xServe's running Yellow Dog Linux. The xServe's are to be installed in the Navy's fleet of submarines for realtime sonar image processing and some Unreal Tournament 2k3.
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Are you under 60 inches tall and horny as all hell?? Then Brooke Hunter wants you crawling up her leg and joining her gangbang! The only thing better than a midget getting it on is a whole gang of midgets gettin it on. It's like the Wizard Of Oz on Ecstasy.
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The iPod has finally become a true status symbol for the "bling" generation. Both Mary J. Blige/Method Man's and Snoop Dog/50 cent's new videos start out with close-up's of 3g iPods. Someone at Apple is getting a raise right thur.
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The Self Design iPod Body Masks from TechReactions.com allow you to customize the whole look of your iPod and offer a little scratch protection. You design all your own graphics and print them out on the "special" film yourself. If someone with some design talent wants to make me a CapsGetPeeled iPod mask I will buy one for them and one for myself. The template is here.
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Today marks the 74th anniversary of 7-11. To celebrate, they are giving away free slurpee's and some even have free food! I pass by 6 different 7-11's on my way to work so this morning I went to 3 of them and got my slurp on. I think I will hit up all six on my ride home.

Pee South
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Ever write a nasty letter to a company whose products you truly didn't like? I'll bet it wasn't as funny as this one written to Carb Solutions about their "Taste Sensations".
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Those insane germans at LuminousDisk.com must have LOVED the 80's.


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WWDC is about 12 hours away and the anticipation to see what the G5 is gonna look like is killing me. If no g5 comes out, or it doesn't live up the the "specs" posted below a TON of people are gonna get pissed. No matter what happens tomorrow expect Apple's stock to drop, as it does any time the company does anything. All we can do is wait and drink. And drink I will!
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Too busy playing Unreal Tournament 2003. You should be too.

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As promised yesteraday, the Mac Tech Demo of Neverwinter Nights is available here, and here. What we really need is a BitTorrent mirror for this 240mb monstrosity.
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Double your pleasure, Double your size!! Wrigley Gum has recieved a patent for Viagra Gum. Now Big Red will give you a "big red".

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Somebody is sooooo getting fired in Ohio today.... A local CBS affiliate was in the middle of airing family prime-time programing and cut to a stunning clip of their local news anchor-woman flashing all of Ohio what we hear may be the new state bird. She wasn't repping for the Westside, but it's a gangster move nonetheless!

video is here.

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Unxmaal notes a Netcraft article saying that www.Army.mil has switched to Mac OS X. They switched to Webstar under Mac OS 9 in 1999 after suffering serious attacks on their web servers. The article also point out that Apple has switched their Knowledge Base servers over to Solaris.

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A friend found a Motorola Marco on ebay! This VERY VERY rare PDA was first used internally at all Motorola Facilities starting in 1992. It had Radio Frequency wireless, some early cell phone tech wireless, as well as an IR and DB-15 Port. It runs the newton OS and as far as I can remember was basically a newton with a bigger screen, weighs 2 POUNDS, and the wireless stuff. As a side note, many people have figured out how to get Newton's with PC card slots on 802.11 networks.
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Gentoo, the new "in" Linux distro, loves us Mac people.

Monday they released Gentoo Live PPC CD - a bootable Linux CD that should work on most modern macs. It features:
*Custom PPC kernel (2.4.21-r1) with G4 AltiVec support
*Latest Mac-On-Linux emulator (run MacOS X in a window)
*Gentoo Compressed Loop 2GB live filesystem
*Xfree 4.3 (DRM) with either Gnome2.2.1/Metacity/Openbox or KDE3.1.2
and more

Then yesterday they announced Mac OS X support for Portage. Portage is a package manager/installer (think Fink) and that means more free software for Mac OS X.

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In a move that I think isn't good for anyone, Palm has announced it's intentions to acquire Handspring. Palm has been struggling for years and this looks like a last ditch effort. The only hope I see for them at this point is if Sony buys out the Palm OS for exclusive use in the Clie's, but I doubt that will happen due to Sony's new love for Symbian. Handspring made some great products, and Windows CE blows, but lets face it, NOTHING will ever be as cool as Newton was.

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I pre-ordered Unreal Tournament 2003 from MacSoft today. Ryan Gordan has worked his ass off on what appears to be a wonderfull port (Over 6 million changes to the PC code). He is also doing the mac port of America's Army the free UT 2k3 based Realism Shooter. Support Ryan and MacSoft and buy the damn game.

In other mac game news, Postal 2 is coming to the mac. I LOVED Postal 1. Epsecially with the add-on packs. This new one uses an Unreal engine and so it actually looks decent.

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My dog Cassius was put to sleep today. She had a heart defect that we just discovered 2 weeks ago. She was very young and the sweetest dog you ever met. There will probably be no other posts today as I am pretty depressed.
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CapsGetPeeled is back and now on professionally run servers! It took a lot of work over these last 14 days and it's by no means done. If you notice any issues or problems please email me. Represent for the Westside
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Well I move in about 6 hours! That unfortunately means this server is gonna be down for a little while. Go watch The Animatrix until we return.
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The condo is mine. I own a home! It's amazing and I couldn't be happier. Halfie played sherpa with me and we hauled a ton of boxes over already. My real move-in wont be until saturday though. iBucka has a truck but his boyfriend made him come home so he couldn't help. But we did well considering all we had was a Honda Accord (with no !@#$%^ing radio), and a VW Passat.

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Games Are Fun is reporting that Sony has announced a portable game console. Next to no specs and no photos, but it says it's going to be 16:9 widescreen (480 x 272) and backlit, uses MPEG4 for video, and 1.8gb cartridges that sound like MiniDisc to me.
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Poet, visionary, and legend Bob Marley succumbed to cancer 22 years ago today. His actions and lyrics are just as important to todays youth as it ever was. In memory, I ask that everyone lights up a spliff and play any Bob Marley song. This true-to-the-heart Cap Peeler will never be forgotten.
"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds."
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Happy mothers day! Everyone call your mom and tell her how wonderful she is, and let her know I'll be over around 8 for my usual...

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I found a gem on Corey Tamas' blog, but since he's too cool for MT no trackback for him. Someone found a video of a fat kid playing with a broomstick that on it's own is damn funny. But the re-edit almost made me fall over it's so funny. Waxy.org has more info.
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P.s. sorry but they are in Windows Media only. Mac OS X users can just use VLC

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Besk one is kicking off a new Drum and Bass monthly with the one and only DJ Blame!!! going off deep in westside on the 17th of May, if you are in L.A. make sure to come by and represent to the fullest, or don't and know that you are the whackest of the whack!

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Tomorrow I get the keys to my first home. I am more excited than I have ever been. I spent most of today looking for couches. I really wanted a reclining one but can't afford it. I think I'm getting this one but I'm not crazy about the color. It doesn't bother me, but black is so much better looking. Shopping sucks and I have no ability to match colors.

Brian helped me fix the sidebar text to be readable, now I have to convince him to fix the rest of this place. I added a BlogSnob and BlogHop section. For some reason my BlogShares Listing is very messed up. It sees only one incoming link when I know of at least 4, and only sees 3 outgoing links. My blogroll has like 20 sites in it! The oddest part is it sees one site in my blogroll and nothing else.
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I have been playing The Getaway for about two weeks now, and just passed the mansion with the lasers. "Why haven't you finished it?" you ask? Cause I DIDN'T READ THE FUCKING MANUAL. The game has no "training" mode or level so I just jumped in and figured it out by playing. I can't remember any time in my gaming history (easily 400 games) that I have missed out on MAJOR features of game-play due to not reading the manual, but now it's happened.

It turns out there is an Auto-Aim that is meant to be the primary attack but only works when enemies are around, so when you hide in an empty room to learn the controls, it does nothing so you assume it's unused.

And this one bothers me a lot. The game has no health or ammo gauges, and no health to pickup anywhere. I assumed that this meant there was no healing, boy was I wrong. Apparently leaning against walls heals you. Yes, LEANING heals you! WHAT THE FUCK!@#$% I want those magical morphine walls in my new condo!

Speaking of the condo, I get my keys on monday. I am so god damn excited I can't believe it. My first home, it's a ton of responsibility but will absolutely change my life for the better. I still have no roommate and can't afford to be without one. I put an ad in the Loyola-Marymount student paper since it's walking distance to the campus but only got 3 phone calls. First one didn't return my calls. Second forgot to leave his phone number in the message and didn't show up on my caller ID. Number 3 only wanted a summer place, and I don't want to go through this again in 3 months. Also I still haven't figured out hosting, I absolutely cannot get a static IP in the new place and cannot afford any kind of hosting. A few people have emailed me links to their favorite hosts (thanks) but I still cant swing it. Fear not, my dear readers, CapsGetPeeled will never die. The power of the Westside compels it.
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Blogshares went live today (everything up till now was a beta test). Blogshares is a fantasy stock market based on Blog's and how many sites link to them. CapsGetPeeled is listed here please buy shares. Lots of em. If you run a blog I am down to trade some linkage action. Drop me a line

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the World as a Blog is a world-map that shows blog posts live as they happen. It's based on the lattitude and longitude in a sites meta-data so only about 10% of blogs show up but this could end up being huge.
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iBucka's grandma represents for the Westside

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CapsGetPeeled.com is moving around May 10th and will experience some downtime. The server is hosted off my home DSL line and in order to be deeper immersed in the glory of the Westside, I am moving as west as it gets. Unfortunately the new location cannot get DSL and I don't know if the cable provider offers static IP's. I cant really afford professional hosting (even though my traffic is tiny) and half the fun of this site is hosting it myself. So I have to figure something out. Ideas and donations are appreciated.

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CapsGetPeeled.com now sports a new front page. Nothing earth-shattering, and it's still ugly as sin since Brian is too busy to represent for the westside. Now that we are over 2000 hits (63k pageviews!) it was time for a change. 15 people subscribe to CGP through bloglet, and 5 people own fake stock thanks to blogshares. A lot of people also use the RSS feed but please turn the refresh rate on your RSS reader to something in the hourly and not minute!
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According to this post (2nd from the bottom) the developers of DVD2one are looking into making a version for Mac OS X. For those of you who don't know what DVD2one is, It converts DVD9 (dual layer/larger than 4.7gb) to DVD5 (DVD-R/RW). It keeps menus, chapter marks, and subtitles. But the amazing part is that it takes less than an hour! The reason for it's speed is that it cheats, instead of re-encoding the video it deletes parts of the GOP. I have never personally seen a DVD made with DVD2one so i cannot say anything about it's quality, but LOTS of people buy this app so it cant be too bad. Oh wait, lot's of people buy windows too.
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:::UPDATE::: Later in the thread the same DVD2one employee says they have purchased a PowerMac G4 to give it a go. As they have no mac experience this is in no ways a guarantee we will see a mac version, but now there is a very very good chance.

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Fark points out that the US military is using it's secret weapon! Optimus Prime has been sent to Iraq to help fight the war. NO, we are not kidding. Some military guy actually changed his name to Optimus Prime. From the article:
"I got a letter from a general at the Pentagon when the name change went through and he says it was great to have the employ of the commander of the Autobots in the National Guard."
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If you have ever visited the US Government's Ready.gov you know that those lame emergency signs could mean anything. Here's a great interpretation.
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XLR8YourMac has a link to a schweet iBook mod. But what's even more fun is reading the Babelfish translation. Engrish, mac mods, and representing for the westside. This is what life is all about.
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The sweater man, Mister Rogers, has died. No more trips on the choo-choo to the puppet palace. My fondest memories of his show were the break-dancing episodes and the trip to the Crayola factory, seeing all those crayons was like seeing Valhalla to a 6 year old. It's not a beautiful day in the neighborhood.

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While we're on the subject of clothes, British scientists have found a way to make clothes with embedded scents! From the site:

"The technology, called Sensory Perception Technologies (SPT), will allow firms to weave particles of moisturisers, deodorants, fragrances and even anti-tobacco agents into fabrics."

So next time you smell the homeless guy sleeping behind your garage, don't tell him to shower, after all his clothes might have been made to smell like shit.
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iScrobbler has been released to the public. The iTunes based AudioScrobbler client works very well and looks slick. Here a description stolen straight from the homepage:

"iScrobbler is an application for Mac OS X that creates a simple menu extra that submits your "currently playing" info from iTunes to AudioScrobbler. AudioScrobbler is a project similar to the CDNow project that suggests music you might like based on what other people's interests. The difference is that while CDNow makes suggestions based on what people buy, AudioScrobbler makes suggestions based on what people are actually listening to. Also, AudioScrobbler is a non-commercial project. AudioScrobbler submissions are also possible through a plugin for Winamp2, and XMMS."

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This is just wrong in so many ways.

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GamerAnger 3.2 has been released and along with it a Premium service has been announced. $50 gets you a whole bunch of chat features that are pretty useless and I am still going to buy it. The app has been 100% free since it's inception and the premium service allows it to stay that way for everyone who chooses not to pay, and thats a good thing. Evill has to pay for servers and bandwidth, not to mention pay his own bills and feed his massive Guinness habit.

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Apple brings the Duece-Duece
First they give us a new Safari , and then Mac OS X 10.2.4. Stupid update moves and replaces your httpd.conf (Apache Config). If they can write an OS I don't see why they cant figure how to add a line to an existing text file.


Movable Type hits 2.6
The software that runs this blog (and like a million others) MovableType has been updated to version 2.6. There is also a Pro version ($) that might be useful to blogs that actually have readers (unlike here). I have updated this site to the new version, and to my amazement (and I'm sure yours as well) I don't think I screwed anything up. If you find any broken links or errors please let me know.


Kismac 0.03c
Everyones favorite wireless scanner Kismac has gotten a big update.


Forty-Two 1.5
The best DVD ripper/encoder for OS X has been updated to 1.5, check out the Forty-Two website for details and downloads.

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I have hacked together a cheesy Konfabulator widget to grab RSS feeds from this blog and place them on your desktop. Or grab RSS from anywhere else. I stole the code and 99% of the graphics. Give it a try.

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Arlo Rose, one of the two developers that brought us Kaleidoscope for Mac OS 9, has a new product coming out. Konfabulator, set to be released tomorrow, looks pretty amazing.

According to MacOSZone
"Konfabulator is a JavaScript runtime engine for Mac OS X that lets you run little files called Widgets that can do pretty much whatever you want them to. Widgets can be alarm clocks, calculators, can tell you your AirPort signal strength, will fetch the latest stock quotes for your preferred symbols, and even give your current local weather."

Wow! Could this be the next Watson-like "Killer App", or will it be a poor cry for help like Sherlock 3?
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Noticed this gem on another blog. A japanese scientist claims to have invented an "Invisibility Cloak". Is it just me or does it look like he has a white jacket and a projector or what?

"The photograph was taken through a viewfinder that uses a combination of moving images taken behind the wearer to give a transparent effect."

Huh? So it's only sort-of invisible for cameras?
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Forty-Two has been updated again. Check out the site for details.

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I'd like to ask our readers to take a moment from representing for the westiside, and Rep for the Spaceshuttle Columbia. This is truely a sad thing. Peace be with them.
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Former DJ Guy Oldhams will be playing Spundae at Circus Nightclub on Feb 8th, if anyone would like to come along then please let me know I will sort out the guest list, come along and see how this former DJ can still spins the tunes!! See the flyer at the link above, it's at the Circus Nightclub on Santa Monica Blvd, or see flyer for actual address. Will be playing between 9PM-4AM so come early.

Hope to see you there.

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Saw this damn funny video about the real state of the union.

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Caps Get Peeled is now being listed on weblogs.com and blo.gs

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