In an endeavor that I’m sure will make many a geek salivate with pure lust, this guy has built a 5 terrabyte media server for his home setup; “I built a 5-terabyte media server with 20 250GB hard drives–it uses a pair of 500-watt power supplies and has 12 fans running full blast to keep [...]
Entries from March 22nd, 2006
Dude Builds Ultimate Home Theatre
March 22nd, 2006 · No Comments · Mobiles & Gadgets, Movies
Some guy who obviously has a lot of free time and a lot of money to spend has built the ultimate Home Theatre: The theater is 16′ tall at the front (slab to concrete ceiling), and 11 1/2′ tall at the back. About 21′ wide and 29′ long. This was an addition to the house [...]
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Cool Lego Aircraft Carrier
March 18th, 2006 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff
Just a quick blurb on some cool pics of a huge Lego aircraft carrier that someone’s built. Check it out!
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Dutch Immigration Officials Go Too Far
March 16th, 2006 · No Comments · Freedom & Democracy, Humor
In a comical yet absurd article, yahoo sheds some information on the latest the bright minds at the dutch goverment have to offer to curb immigration and get new applicants to fit in: The camera focuses on two gay men kissing in a park. Later, a topless woman emerges from the sea and walks onto [...]
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India To Have Massive Power Problems
March 15th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Business, Globalization & Debt
The good old BBC has an eye opening piece on India’s current electricity predicament: Slum dwellers’ unofficial hook-ups are the most visible sign of India’s power theft crisis, but there are yet bigger problems dogging the country’s energy sector. Meter tampering by middle class households seeking to pay less than they should costs still more, [...]
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The Pirate Bay Is Here To Stay
March 14th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Bittorrent, Warez
Wired has a well written article on how The Pirate Bay is gaining notereity in Sweden and with international anti piracy organizations: Last month, the Motion Picture Association of America announced one of its boldest sorties yet against online piracy: a barrage of seven federal lawsuits against some of the highest-profile BitTorrent sites, Usenet hosts [...]
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Cool New Building Projects in Dubai Showcased
March 4th, 2006 · No Comments · Business, Middle East
Businessweek online has made a nice showcase of the cream of the current building projects in Dubai: A building boom in the emirate has led to a whole host of chart breakers, in categories including highest apartment, biggest mall, and one of the world’s most unique resorts Dubai has been grabbing headlines lately — for [...]
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Desert Bus, Most Boring Game Ever Made?
March 3rd, 2006 · No Comments · Humor, Video Games
After 11 years of waiting, here it is. The most boring game ever for the Sega: Desert bus is probably one of the best games ever. Unfortunately the game was never released, until now. 11 years after the planned release date Waxy is hosting a torrent for this mythical game. The game is part of [...]
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It’s Official, Oil Peak Has Been Reached!
March 2nd, 2006 · No Comments · Business, Middle East
The oil drum has written an (as ever) intelligent piece on why oil production is peaking now: This post is for the benefit of those readers whose friends or relatives just spat out their coffee over their morning New York Times in surprise that oil is starting to run out and nobody warned them before [...]
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BBC Sets It Right With Bittorrent
March 2nd, 2006 · No Comments · Bittorrent
After quite a bit of negative feedback after a recent episode of Newsnight, the BBC has written a piece setting the record straight: Now we’ve got that out the way, let us ask you a question. Why is it that every time the media starts to talk about the internet they feel compelled to bang [...]
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