“For every month of preparation time that you did not have before recording an event add three months of work afterwards”. That might be a rule of thumb. Well, we had five days after spontaneously deciding to stand in and record SIGINT 2009. Due to the short preparation and setup time audio distortions occurred. If it would only have been for the notorious 50Hz/60Hz hum. Fortunately we were able to restore anything. Unfortunately this had to be done by hand.

But now the recordings have finally materialized! While most of the lectures were held in german there is also some english material available. The encoded SIGINT Video and Audio Recordings can be directly retrieved from ftp.ccc.de. Most people might prefer streaming video via media.ccc.de. We recorded in 720×576 DV, Stereo. The encoding was done in H.264 with AAC in an MP4 container. Read More »

$40 ARM7 Prototyping Board

http://hackaday.com/2009/09/10/low-cost-arm7-prototyping/

http://www.fullspectrumengineering.com/pcbinkjet.html

1. Die drei ??? 
2. Die Drei Fragezeichen 
3. Kraftwerk 
4. Amon Tobin 
5. Abwärts 

http://content.lib.washington.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=%2Fhegg&CISOPTR=540&DMSCALE=100&DMWIDTH=802&DMHEIGHT=549.28645833333&DMMODE=viewer&DMFULL=1&DMX=0&DMY=0&DMTEXT=&DMTHUMB=0&REC=4&DMROTATE=0&x=60&y=403

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I don’t know how one goes about finding these things, but someone noticed a weird source code for this page. It’s a very basic, unspectacular catalog page for Fujinon Binoculars. But take a look at the source code.

This screenshot is but a tiny part of the madness. Keep scrolling down the code for the full effect. I’ll wait. Apparently, the designer cares very deeply about the 8 point font. It was funny enough to get posted to b3ta and even made the weekly newsletter. Lots of folks laughed at it because it seemed so pointless. But that’s just the beginning of the story.

Which doesn’t mean anything in itself, but take a look at the Google Earth view from Fujinon’s headquarters as you look toward Mount Fuji, as Read More »

http://www.zahnarzt-dr-mueller.com/PDF/eBook%20Wegweiser-Abmahnung.pdf

Three little Guinea pigs escape their owner and make a bolt for freedom in Central Park, New York City, before being found and placed back in their little plastic house
via Urban animals: unexpected animal visitors to the world's urban jungles - Telegraph

How a sewing machine works

1. The Prodigy 
2. Die drei ??? 
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via Haptik's Cube by Threeheadedmonkey on flickr.

Rubik's Cube with black custom milled PVC-plates. Can easily be solved in total darkness :) There are mainly 3 symbols used: Square, Frame and Cross, which reappear also rotated by 45° on the opposite side of the cube. This allows the user to keep just 3 patterns in mind with 1 parameter each, but the patterns are clearly distinguishable. 

• Analog photo, scanned by Fuji SLP800
• Camera: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD. SLP800

• Camera: Sony Ericsson W880i
• Exposure: 1/100 s, Mode: Auto, F2.8

• Analog photo, scanned by Fuji SLP800
• Camera: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD. SLP800

• Analog photo, scanned by Fuji SLP800
• Camera: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD. SLP800