Hack: wget - unix style

Source: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/top/geek-to-live--mastering-wget-161202.php

"First, create a text file called mp3_sites.txt, and list URLs of your favorite sources of music online one per line (like http://del.icio.us/tag/system:filetype:mp3 or stereogum.com). Be sure to check out my previous feature on how to find free music on the web for more ideas.

Then use the following Wget command to go out and fetch those MP3's:

wget -r -l1 -H -t1 -nd -N -np -A.mp3 -erobots=off -i mp3_sites.txt
That Wget recipe recursively downloads only MP3 files linked from the sites listed in mp3_sites.txt that are newer than any you've already downloaded. There are a few other specifications in there - like to not create a new directory for every music file, to ignore robots.txt and to not crawl up to the parent directory of a link. Jeff breaks it all down in his original post.

The great thing about this technique is that once this command is scheduled, you get an ever-rotating jukebox of new music Wget fetches for you while you sleep. With a good set of trusted sources, you'll never have to go looking for new music again - Wget will do all the work for you."

How To: Make a M80

Source: http://www.i-hacked.com/content/view/13/48/

Here are your materials:
1-3/4" Tubes & Plugs (3/4" ID, 1/8" Wall, 1-3/4" Long)
Flash Powder
"Visco" Safety Fuse (Available at local gun stores, miliary surplus stores, and online)

Pretty much self explantatory afterward.

Interesting: Demographics for websites

Source: http://adlab.microsoft.com/DPUI/DPUI.aspx

You can use adCenter technology to predict a customer’s age,
gender, and other demographic information according to his or her
online behavior—that is, from search queries and webpage views.

So you enter a website and get back predicted demographics. So on this blog, I get .55 males, .45 females, about 47% of my visitors are 24 and under, mostly under 18. Hmmm, am I that kid-ish?

Interesting, if you look up google, you get 1.0 females, 0.0 males.

Interesting: Fake ID Generator

Source: http://dev.allredtech.com/fakename/

Interesting, this thing makes a fake first and last name with an address, phone number, maiden name, and birthday. Here is an example of one:

Horacio Mcalister
772 Ash Street
Pacifica, CA 94044

Phone: 650-355-6003
Mother's maiden name: Fiducia
Birthday: February 5, 1981

Interesting: Make Notepad confuse...

Source: http://www.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?aid=117870&c=1

This is interesting, notepad has trouble with this.

Here's how to do it:
1. Open up Notepad (not Wordpad, not Word or any other word processor)
2. Type in this sentence exactly (without quotes): "this app can break"
3. Save the file to your hard drive.
4. Close Notepad
5. Open the saved file by double clicking it.

I guess some people also get simplified chinese characters instead of blocks.

To geeky for me: Ethernet cuff links.

Source: http://geektechnique.org/projectlab/651/geek-chique-how-to-make-cuff-links

Well, I guess if it's an emergency, I might do it.

WTF: House rejects Net neutrality rules

source: http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6081882.html
Just another reason to hade republicans. I hope this gets past some how, it would suck to pay just to access free websites like google.com.

Interesting: Making of Halo 3

Should be nice to see, on XBox 360 graphics. I just have to get one. :(

Interesting: 50-State Economic Freedom Ranking

Source: http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2006/05/50state_economi.html

So California, and New York are at the bottom, while Colorado is at the top. The thing is, California and New York are a better market place. I don't know if this actually has any weight on how a state is sucessful in economics. Personally, I think economic people are usually idiots who don't know shit, and are clueless about their jobs. Anyway, when it comes to economics, I would say I kinda take the side of the republicans, a little. Free open markets are great in spawning sucess, as long as there are guildlines to protect the workers, which isn't a republican thing. I, however, totally disagree with government interfering to much into business. In other work, I don't like when the gov't pays Fortune 500 companies, with large tax breaks and incentives. Heck, if most people didn't have to pay any taxes, we would be all happier also. My question is though, if these companies do collect taxes, but don't pay them back to the state and/or country, then don't we, the people, deserve to get our money back?

Funny: Hate to read this resume

Source: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006-05/20/content_595970.htm

Student drafts 100-page resume(China Daily)Updated: 2006-05-20 11:29

A student from the University of Yangzhou has spent 100 days producing a 100,000-word resume, Yangtze Evening News reported.
Duan started writing the resume in January and spent two or three hours every day on it till late April. The resume included Duan's work and study experiences during the past four years, as well as his personal opinions on society and life.
Duan was confident that his 100-page resume would attract human resources managers' interest.