Gadgetopia

Phil Torrone has done some unusual technical stunts in the past, but I think he may have set some kind of geek world record with this one. The Search Engine Belt Buckle is a PDA which shows 24 hours of all the bizarre and banal things people are looking for ...

Phillip Torrone has launched what's sure to become my new favorite blog: hack a day. If you've never heard of him, Phillip is responsible for all sorts of crazy stunts, like war-kayaking (instead of wardriving), turning iPods into TV remote, the search engine belt buckle. Hack-a-day promises to be lots ...

Slut-o-meter Google promiscuity calculator: A somewhat brilliant application of Google. [...] the Google Slut-o-Meter determines what an online trollop you are based on the number of Google search results for your name with SafeSearch enabled compared to the number of unsafe results. So if you have no nude pictures on ...

I've been reading a lot lately about the rise and fall of ArsDigita. This company grew from five people in the late nineties to 240 people in five offices doing $20 million in revenue by 2001. They did high-end Web development, and open-sourced the ArsDigita Community System (www.openacs.org). Somewhere along ...

Anyone an expert on the WinXP file system?: Phillip Greenspun proposes using the Windows file system as a database for organizing pictures, instead of some complicated structure that depends on other software. I'm thinking of writing a tutorial on how to use the Windows XP file system as a photo ...