Category Archives: Ridiculous

Bug dance

.. this is when you know you have been in the lab for too long. Full size photo here.

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ACME Spay & Neuter visits Anthrocon 2010

We visited Anthrocon 2010 to help raise awareness of the need to be spayed or neutered, which prevents unwanted offspring and leads a healthy lifestyle. We had a lot of fun handing out fliers and talking to people, and performed … Continue reading

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Ubuntu rocks so hard, it goes to 11

Well, it allows you to set the sound volume amplification at over 100%. Which is really handy when you are trying to listen to a quiet video on underpowered speakers. To get to this dialog, hit up System->Preferences->Sound.

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The “5 minute” agitator

This is why Arduino is awesome: 5 minutes, some junk, instant PCB etching agitator! Confused about whats going on here? Basically Matt Stultz, my fellow cohort at Hack Pittsburgh, was etching a custom PCB breakout board and got tired of … Continue reading

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In case of stairs, use fire (plus HOWTO)

Just a silly re-consideration of a sign my friend Nancy found. Hit the jump for a making-of…

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RSS Invaders: A novel approach to managing information overload in syndicated feed readers

At SIGBOVIK, the annual conference held in honor of Harry Q. Bovik, I presented the latest research by myself and my esteemed colleague Marty McGuire in the area of optimizing the way in which we consume content. The result, as … Continue reading

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Building a MidiVox

Collin sent me a pre-release sample of his MidiVox kit to try out, so I dutifully soldered it up, and then proceeded to have some fun with :-). It’s a cool little add-on shield for the Arduino, consisting of a … Continue reading

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