“Linux car” first to crash at Indianapolis 500

So because of the efforts of the Tux 500 campaign, so the car got the Tux logo on it. unfortunately it crash early during the race on Sunday causing it to finish dead last. After all that, it funny and sad at the same time.

LG’s Washing Machine Has an iPod Dock

Ok so this has to be the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen. This is all part of LG’s new “Home appliance with MP3 player” idea. It has a Ipod/Zune doc, for the mp3 device, and has speakers. To their quality I’m sure their decent, but not the best. Also it appears to have a networking adapter and a USB slot.
The only use I could see thi for would be the public washers, since sometimes people stand there. I couldn’t see any practical use for this at home.
A Washing Machine with Mp3 player by LG [Unwiredview]

Myspace blocked from Apple stores

You’ve seen them, at the library or in the computer lab, spending hours checking Myspace, and now they’ve invaded the Apple stores. It’s gotten so bad that people just walk into the Apple stores to check their Myspace. So now in the stores they have blocked Myspace, which to me is funny because I’m sure their are some people who will try to go to myspace now just to spite Apple. I think this is a good move by Apple, cause I bet these people don’t buy anything.
Think Secret [via Crave]

Hacker Hijacks Netscape Domains – Forwards All Netscape Domains to Digg

So apparently some person decided to make the Netscape homepage forward to Digg. For people who are having trouble with this Netscape claims to be working on it, they might have even fixed it by now, but in case they haven’t heres the link to check your mail. http://mail.netscape.com

Zombies invade Apple store

So apparently some people dressed like zombies, and then stormed a Mac store in San Fransisco. I think this is just hilarious but it has started the flame war between Mac and windows users. So make whatever you want to make out of it, just remember that being in Texas I miss all the cool stuff.

Read – CNET story
Read – SF Zombie mob manifesto

Hands-On With Now You Can Find It Locator (Verdict: Never Misplace Anything Again)

-from Gizmodo

I misplace stuff. A lot. The concept of putting my keys, wallet and cellphone in one set place when I get home is foreign to me (possibly because there’s no set place to put it). But with the New You Can Find It Locator from Skymall, it’s no longer a problem.

Seriously, now that we have this, we can throw our crap all over the apartment and still be able to find it.

Now You Can Find It

The NYCFIL comes with a remote and eight keychain tags that you can attach to all your stuff. The keychains work great for your keys, scissors, cameras or anything that’s big enough (relatively, with respect to the keychain) and has something to hook on to. Unfortunately stuff like cellphones wouldn’t work, because it’d make the cellphone huge and there’s nowhere to clip it to. But it also comes with adhesives so you can stick the locators on stuff like your TV remotes (or anything that has a flat surface).

The set also comes with a bunch of stickers to stick on the eight buttons on the remote so you can color coordinate your stuff. There’s enough to cover most of the gadgets in your house, and you in the case where you have eight sets of keys, there are even blank ones so you can write your own.

The locator remote itself runs on two AAA batteries (not included) and has a range of about 10-20 feet. Why am I telling you this? Because you can’t just stand in one place in the house, press the corresponding button, and expect to hear the sound. You’ll have to actually walk around the house and press the button every so often to locate your stuff.

In our tests, the 80% of the locators beeped on the first try, and 100% of them beeped by the second try. With regular usage, the locator units last about a year. It would suck if you couldn’t find something because the beeper was out of juice, so you’ll want to make sure to keep these things with fresh batteries.

And if you’re worried about misplacing the remote itself, there’s a magnetic wall mount that will make the remote beep unless it’s placed back on the mount.

Although it’s a little pricey at $49.95, the fact that I’ll never have to search for more than five seconds for our keys, remotes, cameras, tools and other knickknacks makes this a winner in my book. Time is money, and my time is apparently worth $49.95. – Jason Chen

Product Page [Skymall]

Keyboard waffle iron cooks up your favorite peripheral

-from engadget

While you may lobby that nothing’s sweeter than an automated waffle maker, Chris Dimino just might counter that. This design guru has apparently concocted a retro inspired, and ever-so-slightly altered kitchen appliance that cooks waffle that are a bit wider and more familiar than usual. This piece of cookware sports an integrated stand for holding four jars of syrup, and the iron itself presses a nifty keyboard each and every time — caps lock key and all. Of course, we don’t expect retailers to start stocking these things anytime soon, but if you’re serious about your words waffles-per-minute, we’re sure Chris could make arrangements.

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Make your own tank in Crackdown!

Now how’s this for kick ass, just another reason why Crackdown rocks. Seems a few guys went ahead and figured out how to create their own tank in Crackdown.

It also marks the second time in a week that a video we’ve posted has included the A-Team theme, but you can never have enough A-Team.

World Record Transfer Speed Set: 25.6TB per Second

Holy crap. The world record for fastest data transfer was just broken by Alcatel/Lucent, as they were able to transfer 25.6 terabits of data in one second over a single fiber strand. Well, that certainly puts my DSL line to shame.

Of course, this insanity isn’t about to be hooked up to your house anytime soon, but just knowing that they’ve figured out how to do it means that eventually, at some point, people will probably have speeds similar to this when they connect to the Internet. Hell, even 1/10th of that speed would be totally bananas overkill. But I’d take it, oh yes, I would take it. –Adam Frucci

Cartoon Laws Of Physics

-from Internet Phunk
just something funny I found on Digg
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Cartoon Laws Of Physics
Cartoon Law I
Any body suspended in space will remain in space until made aware of its situation.

Daffy Duck steps off a cliff, expecting further pastureland. He loiters in midair, soliloquizing flippantly, until he chances to look down. At this point, the familiar principle of 32 feet per second takes over.

Cartoon Law II
Any body in motion will tend to remain in motion until solid matter intervenes suddenly.

Whether shot from a cannon or in hot pursuit on foot, cartoon characters are so absolute in their momentum that only a telephone pole or an outsize boulder retards their forward motion absolutely. Sir Isaac Newton called this sudden termination of motion the stooge’s surcease.

Cartoon Law III
Any body passing through solid matter will leave a perforation conforming to its perimeter.

Also called the silhouette of passage, this phenomenon is the speciality of victims of directed-pressure explosions and of reckless cowards who are so eager to escape that they exit directly through the wall of a house, leaving a cookie-cutout-perfect hole. The threat of skunks or matrimony often catalyzes this reaction.

Cartoon Law IV
The time required for an object to fall twenty stories is greater than or equal to the time it takes for whoever knocked it off the ledge to spiral down twenty flights to attempt to capture it unbroken.

Such an object is inevitably priceless, the attempt to capture it inevitably unsuccessful.

Cartoon Law V
All principles of gravity are negated by fear.

Psychic forces are sufficient in most bodies for a shock to propel them directly away from the earth’s surface. A spooky noise or an adversary’s signature sound will induce motion upward, usually to the cradle of a chandelier, a treetop, or the crest of a flagpole. The feet of a character who is running or the wheels of a speeding auto need never touch the ground, especially when in flight.

Cartoon Law VI
As speed increases, objects can be in several places at once.

This is particularly true of tooth-and-claw fights, in which a character’s head may be glimpsed emerging from the cloud of altercation at several places simultaneously. This effect is common as well among bodies that are spinning or being throttled. A `wacky’ character has the option of self- replication only at manic high speeds and may ricochet off walls to achieve the velocity required.

Cartoon Law VII
Certain bodies can pass through solid walls painted to resemble tunnel entrances; others cannot.

This trompe l’oeil inconsistency has baffled generations, but at least it is known that whoever paints an entrance on a wall’s surface to trick an opponent will be unable to pursue him into this theoretical space. The painter is flattened against the wall when he attempts to follow into the painting.

This is ultimately a problem of art, not of science.

Cartoon Law VIII
Any violent rearrangement of feline matter is impermanent.

Cartoon cats possess even more deaths than the traditional nine lives might comfortably afford. They can be decimated, spliced, splayed, accordion-pleated, spindled, or disassembled, but they cannot be destroyed. After a few moments of blinking self pity, they reinflate, elongate, snap back, or solidify.

Corollary: A cat will assume the shape of its container.

Cartoon Law IX
Everything falls faster than an anvil.

Cartoon Law X
For every vengeance there is an equal and opposite revengeance.

This is the one law of animated cartoon motion that also applies to the physical world at large. For that reason, we need the relief of watching it happen to a duck instead.

Cartoon Law Amendment A
A sharp object will always propel a character upward.

When poked (usually in the buttocks) with a sharp object (usually a pin), a character will defy gravity by shooting straight up, with great velocity.

Cartoon Law Amendment B
The laws of object permanence are nullified for “cool” characters.

Characters who are intended to be “cool” can make previously nonexistent objects appear from behind their backs at will. For instance, the Road Runner can materialize signs to express himself without speaking.

Cartoon Law Amendment C
Explosive weapons cannot cause fatal injuries.

They merely turn characters temporarily black and smoky.

Cartoon Law Amendment D
Gravity is transmitted by slow-moving waves of large wavelengths.

Their operation can be witnessed by observing the behavior of a canine suspended over a large vertical drop. Its feet will begin to fall first, causing its legs to stretch. As the wave reaches its torso, that part will begin to fall, causing the neck to stretch. As the head begins to fall, tension is released and the canine will resume its regular proportions until such time as it strikes the ground.

Cartoon Law Amendment E
Dynamite is spontaneously generated in “C-spaces” (spaces in which cartoon laws hold).

The process is analogous to steady-state theories of the universe which postulated that the tensions involved in maintaining a space would cause the creation of hydrogen from nothing. Dynamite quanta are quite large (stick sized) and unstable (lit). Such quanta are attracted to psychic forces generated by feelings of distress in “cool” characters (see Amendment B, which may be a special case of this law), who are able to use said quanta to their advantage. One may imagine C-spaces where all matter and energy result from primal masses of dynamite exploding. A big bang indeed