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Friday Afternoon Web Roundup
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Friday, 24-February-2006 13:24:55 (GMT +10) - by Lowgoz
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Seeing that most of us lurk in the shadows, Everett Bradford's home made nightvision rig may be a worthy investment. Boasting a bank of infra red LED's and mounted on a headlamp rig, its the ultimate geek accessory.
The Biosub project is coming along well. For those who are unfamiliar, Lloyd Godson plans to create a self supported underwater habitat that will be launched in August, and should support life unassisted while they live underwater at a disused quarry site down near Canberra. I would get quite bored down there, don't know about those guys.
Brendon from Hack-a-day managed to make a working mouse out of one of those old Nintendo power gloves. Apparently it works quite well.
Here's a good idea for the large amount of Mac users that are out there: set up a periodic that checks for a file on a webserver called youve_been_stolen. Your PowerBook’s periodic gets that URL and, if found, runs a script that runs rm -rf against all your personal data, removing it before the thief has access to it.
Lifehacker has a guide to removing warts with duct tape. Sounds really cool and fun.
For those people out there that still play single player games: Download Poke. Poke allows you to cheat in almost every single player game that has been made. It basically works by allowing you to edit the values that the game stores in your memory, giving you complete control over the game. If that's not your cup of tea and you are more of a creative person, then why don't you try cloning yourself with the help of photoshop?
Finally, for those people who get Techtv (Im still livid at foxtel for replacing it with Crime television), make sure you keep an eye out for david thorpe (Something Awful writer) going head to head with Ebaum from Ebaums world. David has been on the show before, and it made quite good viewing to say the least.
TechTv approached Something Awful and Ebaums World following an ongoing spat regarding Ebaums World allegedly stealing content from websites and passing it off as his own
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