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Entries for September, 2007

Generate your own Ransom Note

The Ransom Note Generator will generate a patch-word ransom note based on the text you input.  It even provides a yellow/legal pad or plain white type of paper to generate it on.
Very useful for the high tech kidnapper.

Massive Holes in the ground

There are holes in the earth, and then there are holes in the earth.

That’s the Bingham Canyon mine In Utah, it’s 0.75 miles deep, 2.5 miles wide, and has been in continuous use since 1863

The Mirny Diamon mine in Siberia is 1200 meters wide, and 525 meters deep

0.25 miles wide, and 145 meters deep, the [...]

Turn on Holographic Display

Using a mirror spinning at a few thousand rpms, resechers have created a holographic display.
Here is a video explaining how it works:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/v/FF1vFTQOWN4[/video]
Very cool first-gen technology, can’t wait till it gets to full room sized versions like in Star Trek

Google Billboards?

Google has never been one to advertise any of their products in any form of traditional sense. The only places I’ve ever seen Google products being advertised is on Adsense ads, and they own that, so it’s free for them.
The fact that they have never advertised, but spread via word of mouth and became [...]

PVC Sniper Rifle

That my friend is a PVC 25mm Pneumatic Sniper Rifle.  Yes, PVC, yes Pneumatic.  It is a good instructable, nicely done project, and something i really, really want to make.

Yes, it does have a scope.  I cannot begin to say how much i want to make this.
 
Best part of the whole instructable is when the [...]

Google Presentations

Google Presentations is Live! The third (and final?) part to Google’s Doc’s and Spreadsheets software suite is now officially here, and they did manage to get it out before the summer is over like they promised!

I made a presentation showing what I thought of it Watch The Presentation
You can follow this link, and edit [...]

For Sale on eBay: Belgium

Belgium up for sale on eBay. Opening bid was € 1, now you can get yourself a country for € 10 million.
I will totally buy it, and begin my plans for global domination, hahah!
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Compatitive Ads

I wonder how much Google paid for those listings?  More importantly, I wonder how much longer they will stay there before Yahoo! pulls them?

Book note

From now on, every book i sell via Amazon will include a hand drawn image like the one above.

Paper beats everything

This really is true, Paper sucks.