First things first: Please welcome our new contributor Fabienne Serriere a.k.a. fbz. She’s going to be writing how-tos for both Engadget and here. You can see some of her work already: The synergy how-to last week, the simple and advanced pop port mod. I’m glad to have you aboard.

And now for something completely different:

Urine batteries [greg]

Bit-tech removes SLI and adds SLI? I don’t even understand you hardware junkies anymore. [thanks Geoff]

Duke students make a smart house. There’s a joke in there somewhere. [Tmac]

Darth Vader belt to keep your pants on

No, we aren’t going through a redesign

People have been asking about the $100 laptop. I don’t think anyone ever sent anything in. So here is a mini-ITX laptop[GRimo]. Not cheap, but if you are already inclined to build your own.

[syfenx]’s howtos
[brian]’s fm transmitter mods: Tunecast 2, Si-Link
Spot fake photos [anonymous]
Tech support woes: one, two [SOLARAEUS]
Ipod video, uh video [scott qualls]
Halo 2 CE [Voteccow], don’t ask me, I own a Playstation
Human Clock‘s Atari 2600 Webserver [anonymous]
[exparrot] and [tim] decided to take the OSX86 challenge
Change XP’s OEM info [garrett]
Thermosyphons [Paul]

We seem to be killing the guest map; I’m not really surprised. I’m reposting the link anyway. Just avoid clicking on that little blond, Cap’n Hack, she’ll definitely crash it.

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I was wrong. The skull and crossbones isn’t gaining new popularity. Josh Rubin is just obsessed. I do love my Kid Robot hoodie.

Here are some other IR cam links:
Nikon D70 [christofer flynn]
Polaroid PDC2010 [via]

Windows 95 and Linux on PSP via Bochs Thanks to [matan] for sending it directly to us, but it’s hard to scoop Engadget with one post a day.

Speaking of Engadget, if I buy a scribbler robot is it a tax writeoff?

Helium balloon aerial movies [anoymous](sic)

Build your own render farm This got lost in the shuffle yesterday.

Google maps hacking blog I’m sure this isn’t the only one out there. [anoymous]

[Derwin] removed the mushrooms from Supre Mario Brothers. See how hard withdrawl is.

The last issue of Phrack has been released. [a person]

Damn, I’ve been looking for that graffiti bot link forever.

The text editor poll is complete, have a look at the results.

Want to have a Hack-A-Day meetup in your area? First, let’s find out who lives near you by marking your location on the Hack-A-Day guest map. Make sure to throw in your contact info. [via Download Squad]

As usual, keep the links coming in.

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Make joke aobut Mr. Yuk; get a free logo from [mrdelayer]. [led_scorched] also thought it was a good idea.

Here is a good howto on OSX86 [via everywhere]

Japanese door that barely opens, check the video

MAKE:Blog‘s reverse case mod reminded me of this pic [jamie moffett] had sent in a while back

The DIrtY MIRT is definitely illegal now. I have all the parts, but I don’t even want to do the proof of concept anymore.

Build your own poodle [tim]

That’s all I’ve got for links; seriously start submitting.

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Keep the links coming in (Seriously, I’m hurtin’ here)

Looks like the skull and crossbones is the new pink. Maybe we should make our logo look like Mr. Yuk to stay ahead of the curve.

FedEx furniture was bouncing around the blogs a couple months ago. Apparantly the company doesn’t want to furnish your apartment. The correction at the end is kinda funny.

Have you checked out the BlackDog Linux usb computer. I think it would come in pretty handy for those of you headed back to school and their inadequate labs.

Last weekend some HAM enthusiasts tired for a WiFi long shot with a weather ballon. It didn’t work so well (they think it was swinging too much) but they’ll be trying again. Good luck! [ed3]

A DS homebrew contest held by the Neo Flash team recently concluded. You can download the thirty entries over at MaxConsole.

Ghetto UV reactive fan. [Neurolizer]

Do you think the feds picked up any new recruits at Defcon? [Bucky]

NetBSD toaster, Hack-A-Day stringer Richard saw it in person [via the Inquirer][jesse off]

If your state isn’t overcast like mine, make sure you catch the Perseids tonight.

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We like to giving credit for the links we use, so if you send in a link you found on another site make sure you tell us where. Of course if you submit something you find here to somewhere else, give us some credit. So, keep the links coming in.

[william] was blogging the 8th Annual International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition last weekend. You can find his coverage over at GoRobotics.net. LinuxDevices.com has a write up on “Best Newcomer”, the Mongoose, since the winner ran XP.

Talkin’ Kutztown
Screw camera
More info on Metros then you ever needed [via The Morning News]
OSX X86  Resources [via Digg]
DownloadSquad Linux World link roundup
[frank] has put up footage from the WiFi Shootout

Finally, from IpaqModder:

There are things in Ireland called net phones, They are found all over the world especially this model. It in Ireland is an eircom net phone, I found out the other day (by seeing an eircom technicians fat ass) there is a reset switch underneath. I pressed it with a key and indeed the box reset. But the best bit is by holding the q and the v key at startup it goes to admin mode, there is a setting in there to add websites to the free to view list, and one one of these in a payphone in dublin hackaday.com is free to view

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