captin nod: Plungercam 2: cheaper and more predictable :)
august 2009 by McChris
These are instructions for building a DIY tilt-shift lens.
photography
DIY
hack
howto
august 2009 by McChris
CHDK Wiki
april 2008 by McChris
CHDK is hacked firmware for Canon digital cameras that expand the cameras' range of features.
photography
hack
opensource
april 2008 by McChris
Bicycle Hacker: Welcome Bicycle Hackers!
march 2008 by McChris
Here's a wiki that allows cyclists to create pages describing bicycle hacking projects.
wiki
cycling
hack
transportation
march 2008 by McChris
Bike Snob NYC: Apoca-Watch Update: Retirees on Tall Bikes
january 2008 by McChris
Ever reliable, the bike snob mocks photos of Lance Armstrong riding a hacked-together tall bike at what appears to be art gallery Okay Mountain.
austin
cycling
humor
hack
january 2008 by McChris
Load OSX 10.5 Leopard on the eeePC
november 2007 by McChris
This is so geeky I'm a little scared.
hack
OSX
linux
gadget
november 2007 by McChris
HistoryWired: Nose Cone, Pigeon-Guided Missile
february 2007 by McChris
BF Skinner invented crowdsourcing in 1944.
crowdsourcing
hack
history
weird
weirdscience
february 2007 by McChris
Gear Factor: Hack Gawker With Your Own Message!
december 2006 by McChris
A web-based form that allows you to exploit a hole in the Gawker CMS and create your own posts.
hack
blog
cruel
december 2006 by McChris
Screen Spanning Doctor
october 2006 by McChris
Oh, how I wish someone had told me about this utility before. It uncripples the GPU on consumer-grade Apple hardware, allowing you span the screen across multiple displays and crank up the resolution beyond 1024x768.
useful
OSX
hack
october 2006 by McChris
Starbucks Gossip: A reader asks: "Is it fair for a customer to order a 'ghetto-latte'?"
september 2006 by McChris
Starbucks customers have found inventive ways to trim the prices of their beverages. I do, however, find the use of "ghetto" in this context very loaded and problematic.
starbucks
coffee
hack
race
september 2006 by McChris
Vanity Fair: Help the Warmongers Help Themselves
september 2006 by McChris
A gag cover to put on issues of conservative opinion journal The Weekly Standard. It's interesting to see a mainstream publication engage in culture-jamming like this.
prank
hack
media
politics
magazine
september 2006 by McChris
Hacking Hezbollah
august 2006 by McChris
"Last Sunday, the IDF's Intelligence unit managed to hack into Hezbollah's Al-Manar television station and several Hezbollah websites."
TV
war
hack
august 2006 by McChris
How About Shaming Telcos Into Remaining Neutral?
august 2006 by McChris
A new technology enables users to test the relative neutrality of an ISP, opening the possibility of shaming telcos into operating neutral networks.
networkneutrality
hack
telecom
activism
august 2006 by McChris
Kurt Cobain's Suicide Letter vs. Google AdSense
june 2006 by McChris
Cory Arcangel has created a page with Kurt Cobain's suicide note embedded with Google AdSense ads to see what the contextual algorithm will drop in the text. I had to whitelist AdSense in my Adblock extension for it to work.
music
punk
google
hack
advertising
art
humor
june 2006 by McChris
'Circuit Bending' Lets Old Toys Play Tunes - Yahoo! News
april 2006 by McChris
Mainstream media coverage of the circuit-bending phenomenon.
geek
music
DIY
hack
april 2006 by McChris
Greasemonkey compiler
april 2006 by McChris
Converts Greasemonkey user scripts into Firefox extensions.
ajax
browser
DIY
firefox
hack
useful
greasemonkey
april 2006 by McChris
iScroll2: Two-Finger-Scrolling for iBooks
april 2006 by McChris
Don pointed me to this little utility that allows you to scroll with old-school Mac track pads.
useful
opensource
hack
OSX
april 2006 by McChris
MAKE: Blog: HOW TO - Make LED Throwies
april 2006 by McChris
This has been posted everywhere, but making LED Throwies seems like a good time.
streetart
geek
DIY
hack
toys
april 2006 by McChris
AlterNet: Roomba Cockfight
april 2006 by McChris
Analee Newitz discusses hacking Roombas for "cockfighting." I'm not sure if the last graf is pure humor or if she did want to make the point that many companies do regard hardware hacking as dangerous.
hack
power
humor
copyright
april 2006 by McChris
Scanner Photography
january 2006 by McChris
Modifying flatbed scanners for large-format photography.
art
photography
DIY
hack
january 2006 by McChris
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