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Starting the show off with some cool do-it-yourselfer sorta projects:
Diederik Meijer submitted the
The Silicon Graphics Refrigerator Project
(or: How To Turn a $175.000 High-End SGI Challenge DM Server into a Fridge).
Next up, mdaughtrey built a Mechanical Hit Counter
jrbx1 sent us a link to an in-dash Atari 2600. Even coolor is that the dash its in is attached to a 1978 volkswagon ;)
rednax sent us a review of a kit for adding neon to your PC. If you're not skilled enough to hack how it works, at least you can pretend you're cool and hack how it looks!
I
Nothing is more dangerous then
glewtion's link to a story about
a sculpture in england that that worries people since the heat it generates cook fry
a bird mid-air. Oh, and I lied: even more dangerous then art is
amasci's link to making pet ball-lightning. In
your microwave, duh.
If you've got some spare time,
MxTxL submitted something that we've been seeing more of, email games. This one is battlemail, which apparently is glorified addictive paper rock scissors.
f you were an Anime character, here's some helpful hints to keep in mind.
Hieronymus Coward sent us a bit about The Drew Carrey Show featuring a 2 minute segment based on the sims. I wonder if they will use the vibromatic bed, actually the next expansion comes out soon (today?) so I probably am gonna have
to resurrect my neighborhood sometime soon.
Thirsty?
Dipfan sent in a story about Coke wanting to put soda fountain style
coke in every house right next to the water dispenser.
Got Carbonated Milk?
Finally for a little random product plugging,
Rustin H. Wright found a place selling penguin crossing signs.
Finally,
anotherone noted that you can use Google in full swedish bork bork chef glory.
Who had the Vax Bar? (Score:1)
CmdrTaco goes bankrupt! (Score:1)
=>
Bankruptcy was beginning
00
00=>00
00
CmdrTaco: What happen ?
CowboyKneel: Somebody set up us the economy
CowboyKneel: We get financial report
CmdrTaco: What !
CowboyKneel: Main screen turn on
CmdrTaco: It's You !!
Creditor: How are you gentlemen !!
Creditor: All your linux server are belong to us
Creditor: You are on the way to chapter 11
CmdrTaco: What you say !!
Creditor: You have no chance to survive sell your stock
Creditor: HA HA HA HA
CowboyKneel: Taco!
CmdrTaco: Sell off every 'thing'
CmdrTaco: I know what I doing
CmdrTaco: Sell 'thing'
Oh yeah.. (Score:2)
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Carbonated Milk (Score:2)
Why are we giving up on this wonderful juice fresh from the cow's breasts? Are we on the way to consuming sythetic foods?
Physics in a Microwave Oven. (Score:5)
Physics in a Microwave Oven [ohio-state.edu]
Paper Rock Scissors (Score:4)
Back home, many an RPS legend has been born out of Roshambo Rampage.
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What I really want... (Score:5)
Have them get back to me when they can mix Bacardi in, too.
That carbonated milk.. (Score:1)
Coke (Score:1)
Challenged... (Score:1)
Oh, and the SGI servers are "Challenged" because they don't have graphics.
Grammar again... (Score:1)
Another shining example of what too much slashdot can do to a mind...
Re:Carbonated Milk (Score:3)
Whippets, anyone? (Score:1)
-perdida
Re:Carbonated Milk (Score:3)
References:
carbonated beverages linked to bone fractures in teenaged girls [ama-assn.org]
ditto [womenshealthchannel.com]
an article disputing the above [acsh.org]
Re:Coke (Score:2)
'Rat' not 'Trash' and 'Buy' not 'by' (Score:1)
--brian
C'mon everyone.... (Score:1)
on three...
one...
two....
Buckets,
pompomtom
Cooking terminology (Score:1)
Is this sort of like stir-frying?
Aladdin (Score:1)
Stupid Slashdot (Score:1)
Ooh, I like this! (Score:1)
Daft says: "Teenagers do like to sit down and chat about intelligent things and they need to have somewhere to do that, so it came from that idea.
Right, teenagers talking about intelligent things. Those brits sure are funny.
Mirror of the Mechanical Counter: (Score:4)
Re:Slashdotting .... (Score:1)
Re:'Rat' not 'Trash' and 'Buy' not 'by' (Score:1)
144k for slashdot viewers? (Score:3)
From that page: The video window is updated every 5 seconds so chances are you'll see more than one count if other people are connected. I don't know how many that'll be though since this server is only on a 144K DSL link (thanks Verizon...not).
Um..144K? Hmm, was putting this page on slashdot such a great idea?
Swedish Chef borkifier (Score:4)
Milk-soda?? Old news... (Score:1)
THE BIG ONE (Score:1)
I can't be karma whoring - I've already hit 50!
English Sculpture link (Score:4)
Re:Carbonated Milk (Score:3)
They're nothing new in the US either, although they've sort of died out with the soda fountain. Now, of course, I can't remember for certain what they were called (egg creams, I think) but I used to love a drink that was made of chocolate syrup + milk + club soda that this 50's style diner served when I was a kid.
Then again, we can't *really* expect marketdroids to come up with anything new, can we?
Cyclopatra
"We can't all, and some of us don't." -- Eeyore
Douglas Daft (Score:1)
His name is Douglas Daft.
Douglas... DAFT [everything2.com].
Heh.
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Mechanical Hit Counter (Score:1)
JNS
Mechanical hit counter? (Score:5)
Re:Whippets, anyone? (Score:1)
Neato.. (Score:4)
Beer Low Indicator Light? (Score:1)
>>>The LED's should have been labelled GNDN* but instead I tell people the red led starts flashing when the beer supply runs low.
Well, why didn't he rig up a sensor and make that happen? If you're going to use advanced technology, really use it!
hits (Score:1)
Re:THE BIG ONE (Score:1)
I can't be karma whoring - I've already hit 50!
Re:Coke (Score:1)
I think amway sells them.
Can I come over and show you?
slashdot sig (Score:1)
anyone take a look at today's fortune at the bottom of the page?
Re:What I really want... (Score:1)
Re:Who had the Vax Bar? (Score:3)
Re:Milk-soda?? Old news... (Score:1)
not to be confused with "Cow-piss", which is sold in you not so fine shops.
Re:hits (Score:1)
Carbonated Milk (Score:5)
plasmoid page without horrible flashing ad frame (Score:3)
Re:Physics in a Microwave Oven. (Score:3)
The Original Rice Computer (Score:1)
Image is everything...
lighten up (Score:1)
riff-raff-street-trash? (Score:1)
Re:That carbonated milk.. (Score:2)
y-fronts? oMan , uSuck?
Drew Carey is a sim (Score:1)
In eastern, it will probably at 9 EST, and mountain, 7, and pacific, 8, if i was to guess.
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Re:CmdrTaco goes bankrupt! (Score:1)
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Re:Carbonated Milk (Score:2)
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Poor mechanical web counter (Score:4)
First house fire caused by the
Dear sweet lord... (Score:2)
e-Moo - a drink for children of an Internet age - initially will be sold in three flavors: Orange Creamsicle, Bubble Gum and Chocolate Raspberry, which will marketed as an alternative for adults. In waiting, are Cookies and Cream and Fudge Brownie if e-Moo is successful.
Mother of all that's holy...I am going to have to walk past Buble Gum flavored Milk in the supermarket, and not retch. As if life wasn't challenging enough.
Also, it looks as if the adult flavor is Chocolate Raspberry. Words cannot express my utter revulsion at the concept. Maybe I'm not adult enough (I'm 25), or maybe by adult they mean every 13 year old who thinks they're an adult (hence I'm too adult).
Either way, I think I'll stick to Coke. At least that way I know I'm being unhealthy, and am not trying to fool myself.
Even cooler cases. (Score:1)
-Vess
Re:Whippets, anyone? (Score:1)
Counter Slashdotted but Creator in Good Humor (Score:4)
Geez -- seems pretty happy for a guy who now knows that he wont have internet access until sometime tomorrow.. =)
i guess i'm just not good with the 'funny' (Score:1)
Peace,
Amit
ICQ 77863057
"Coke space"? (Score:3)
Moderators: read the article before your greasy little trigger fingers mark this Off-Topic.
Carbonated Milk? (Score:4)
1. The Japanese have had carbonated milk drinks for some time. (And my, do they taste strange or what).
2. Carbonation creates carbolic acid. Mixed with a alkaline (which is what milk generally is), is going to create some very weird effects.
3. Saying that milk is outright 'good for you' is just plain irresponsible. Milk contains fat, cholesterol, and lactose, all of which are bad for you in sufficient enough quantities. (But see note below)
4. They're adding 'crystalline fructose', which is just another way of saying 'sugar' without saying 'Sugar'. Fructose is a simpler carbohydrate than sucrose (which is a fructose/glucose pair), and therefore even more easily absorbed by the digestive system, and turned into fat. We should be aiming for more comples carbohydrates, not simpler.
However:
1. It still sounds like a better drink than the soda-pop crap. But, if you want refreshment, drink water. We all need to drink more water. (Apols to those in Dallas, your water sucks, you might as well drink petrol
Re:Carbonated Milk (Score:1)
Re:1978 Volkswagen (Score:1)
And I doubt that Explorers, Bronco's, Expeditions, Range Rovers, Land Rovers, etc. etc. etc. get even near 30 mpg... at least, the expedition my boss had hovered around 14 miles per gallon...
"Coke space" (Score:1)
If teens go for the kind of stuff the coke folks are talking about, the human race is in worse shape than I was giving it credit for. A coke tap in the house is a horrible idea.
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"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house"
what! (Score:2)
Though I think that some other contries have a kind of carbonated milk allready. My old math teacher had some from some Asian country I think.(He spent more time talking about it then teaching us fucking bastered ruined my life but the milk and squid was good;)
-What? E-Moo is that some kinda mailing thing???
Carbonated Milk--Been there, done that. (Score:1)
Basically, what they did was get some powdered milk--you know, you have to add water to it to make it--and instead of using regular water, they used seltzer water. Apparently, the results were NASSSS TEEEEEEEEE, so be careful. Also, there was some question about whether the carbon dioxide would react with the milk and result in lumps of calcium carbonate; not sure what became of that, and I always hated chemistry anyway...
Re:Carbonated Milk (Score:1)
Re:Carbonated Milk (Score:1)
Penguin crossing... (Score:2)
-J
Re:Counter Slashdotted but Creator in Good Humor (Score:2)
Re:Carbonated Milk (Score:2)
echo $email | sed s/[A-Z]//g | rot13
Re:Carbonated Milk (Score:2)
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A bigger, better bird-fryer (Score:2)
I also used terminal emulation software on my HP48SX calculator to replace one of the terminals and enter a command to slew the telescope - hence I claim that the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory is the world's largest and most expensive peripheral to a pocket calculator.
(JCMT next door is bigger - 15m - but has a nifty shield to prevent the sunlight problem, so they get to observe during the day. It isn't just frying the focal point that is a problem - uneven heating warps the dish beyond the fraction of a millimeter tolerence required for using the telescope.)
MHC: wow. (Score:2)
Anyway, the MHC made it "hit home" for the first time how truly powerful Slashdot's influence really is. We all know that Slashdot readers can take down a webserver within minutes, but something about seeing the MHC go up 100 hits every five seconds at 12AM EST is really awe-inspiring.
They don't call it SlashDDoS for nothing. :-)
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Re:Thats one intense whipit. (Score:2)
Not Dead Yet... (Score:3)
For a truly strange twist on milk, try making Koumiss (aka kumis, kumiss, or koumis). The Mongols used to make it by filling an animal stomach or bladder with mare's milk, hanging it outside the tent, and allowing it to ferment for up to a month or so. You can make a safer approximation by taking a gallon of 1% pasteurized cow milk, adding a few drops of Lactaid to break down the lactose into something standard brewing yeast can actually convert to alcohol, and a pinch of brewing yeast, and letting it ferment for 2 days. It's not only alcoholic by that point, but also quite fizzy thanks to all the CO2 that's a by-product of the yeast's activities. The alcohol inhibits the milk from souring. It tastes...interesting. Just picture mixing one part Coors Original with two parts milk, and then dropping in an Alka Seltzer. Interesting taste, indeed.
Battlemail cheat (Score:2)
Download and compile this simple C program: bm.C [e.co.za].
Have fun kids!
Re:1978 Volkswagen (Score:2)
The 1978 VW probably gets better gas mileage than most new SUVs and if properly maintained, should pass inspections.
Some old cars can get good fuel economy. I was in Sam's Club the other day and for some reason a 'coffee-table' type book about cars of the 1970s caught my eye. It contained ads, magazine reviews, and other stuff for just about every model of car sold in the US during the 70s. While flipping through it, I came upon an ad for a Datsun B210 hatchback. It had an EPA highway rating of 40mpg. Thirty years later, there are only a few cars that can beat that. My Mistubishi econo box doesn't and most cars I've looked at (w/ the exception of VW diesels) average in the high 20s. Most SUV owners can probably only dream of getting 20mpg.
Re:Coke (Score:2)
Years ago, my college roommate went to the local Coca-Cola distributor and asked for a tap, a heat exchanger, and paid for a cylinder holding the syrup and one w/ the carbonated water. When he got back to the dorm, he drilled holes in his small refrigerator to pass the lines through, mounted the heat exchanger inside (in the freezer I think), and mounted the tap on the side. The fridge was right next to his recliner, so he could get refills of ice cold Dr. Pepper while watching his TV shows. When the cylinders ran out, he took them back to the distributor and paid for some new ones. I think he's still using it after about 10 years and he didn't have to pay for the tap or any of the other equipment. Just the cylinder refills.
The idea of having Coke on tap in the home just sounds like a more consumer friendly version of what my friend and unknown number of bars and restaurants have been doing for years.
Re:Whippets, anyone? (Score:4)
*slaps forehead*
You fools, this thing produces NO2! That is NOT the same thing as nitrous (N2O). Nasty stuff if you're thinking of inhaling it, and it certainly won't boost your car's performance either.
Not that I really think inhaling N2O for fun is really that bright an idea either, but good grief man..
Re:Dear sweet lord... (Score:2)
This stuff was *invented* for drinking while playing RPGs... preferably something like Human Occupied Landfill, Tales of the Floating Vagabond, Teenagers from Outer Space, etc. Here in South Florida, we get wierd Carribean drinks (we think things like Ginger Guava soda are normal), and we've already tried fermented Goats Milk (don't ask) during game night. That plus the occasional order from Japan (If memory serves me right, they already have Carbonated milk there).
Ye Ghods... Bubble Gum flavored Milk. If only it were caffenated...
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Evan
Re:Carbonated Milk (Score:2)
Milk or not milk? (Score:3)
Re:Mechanical hit counter? (Score:2)
Sky mirror = clean energy (Score:2)
2) How much energy does this collect/generate?
3) Can this be used to power a electricity-generating turbine?
4) If so, why are we even putzing around with solar cells?
Re:Dear sweet lord... (Score:2)
Try a high quality hot chocolate mixed with 2 oz. Chambord (raspberry liquor). That might change your mind.
Re:Coke (Score:2)
Coke Space (Score:2)
Clearly a place where you can buy hard drugs, tooth rotting soft drinks and small lumps of coal.
The sad thing is, teens are unsophisticated enough that they won't realise that this is marketing produced by exectly the older generation that it's pretending to rebel against.
And soda fountains in the house? Wow, the guy has reinvented Soda-Stream but with a water inlet on the side. I think you used to be able to get coke syrup for those as well.
Rich
*snicker*... (Score:2)
The Coke tap... hmm. First off, I'd buy one as long as I could have my choice of syrups (or perhaps make my own?). Second, carbonated water through pipes is a freakin' silly idea. That's why they have CO2 canisters.
The rest I haven't looked at yet.
Re:Not Dead Yet... (Score:2)
Milk, chocolate syrup, seltzer, and I believe ice. And I've never even been to Brooklyn...
/Brian
Re:"Coke space" (Score:2)
Now as to how Coke would expect it to be used, I have a *huge* problem with that...
/Brian
The Cray I already IS a beer cooler. (Score:2)
The engineers insist this was not deliberate.
The FE's really didn't care whether it was deliberate or not. But if it really WAS deliberate then it was very thoughtful of the engineers to build in such a moralle-booster for the field staff.
Sound Mirror (Score:2)
But it works for sound, too.
Story is there was a building in the industrial park near one of O'hare Airport's runways. The front door was in the middle of the symmetrical building. More than one person died of a "heart attack" at a particular spot on the runway.
Somebody got to thinking and realized that the front of the building was a parabola, pointed at the runway, and the magic spot on the sidewalk was the focus of the parabola. If you happened to be standing there when a jet on takeoff went by with engines at full thrust, all of the kilowatts of sound that hit the front of the building would be focused on you for an appreciable fraction of a second. Very much like being at the center of a bomb.
Oops!
Oops! Meant "sidewalk" (Score:2)
Oops. I meant "at a particular spot on the walkway to the building's door.
Re:Carbonated Milk (Score:2)
It is a very popular misconseption that milk is good for you. This is just bulshit and dairy farmers proapaganda. Go and ask a biochemist how hard it is to digest caseine for a human that is older then 16-18 months
Um... that's why Vitamin D is added? Hello? Get out in the Sun and get some D that way too.
If you don't believe me, you go ask a biochemist. Milk is very good for you and not just for the calcium. And No, I'm not a dairy farmer or a dairy farmer's propagandist.
re: Parabolic Mirror art (Score:2)
Solar Power Tower [sandia.gov]
While the website says that it is in use, the last few times I have driven by on (on my way to my parents house in Bako), it hasn't been exceptionally bright. I remember it in the late 80's, early 90's, the top of the tower looked like it was white hot (at the focus), and when they would move the mirrors away, above the tower, you could "see" a spot of "boiling" air - it looked like the wavyness you see rippling off a hot car, from the heat refraction, but hovering at a point in mid-air. Very impressive shit.
That's not all, though - want to build such a device yourself, for cooking perhaps? Check this [solarcooking.org]...
Still not enough? Want to build a "real" solar furnace?
Go here [eskimo.com]!
Have fun, and don't burn yourself!
Worldcom [worldcom.com] - Generation Duh!
More on the Solar Tower (Score:2)
DOEs Concentrating Solar Power Program [doe.gov]
More info on Solar 2 [sandia.gov]
Hmm, maybe it is still operating, and I haven't passed by on the right days?
Worldcom [worldcom.com] - Generation Duh!
Re:Carbonated Milk (Score:2)
and http://www.notmilk.com [notmilk.com]
Though personally I don't give a crap what you drink, I wish that the dairy board weren't so powerful as to get my tax money so that milk drinkers pay less for an animal product (which is more expensive per calorie to produce) while those of us who can't or choose not to (I'm one of the former) drink milk must pay more for substitutes.
And I wish that 'non-dairy' didn't involve caesin (as I'm violently allergic to it, but it can be added to all sorts of things, including lox, without being mentioned. why? because the dairy board sucks and told the FDA that it was better that way)
Re:Mechanical hit counter? (Score:2)
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... so who's pingflooding it?
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