after a heavy night of drinking, we’re back with hackaday links! this time, we bothered to go out and pick up some brand new ones from the store. they’re plump and fresh and ready for reading!

the poor man’s xbox live [andrew]

if you’re really desperate, go for the homemade bat detector [jock]

creating art with sand has gone to a new level. i wish i had seen this last night (yeah it’s that cool)
[yo_tyler]

a very nice automated bartender! from a student no less! nice work [nick]
the dish network busts out GNU source code. have at it.
10 year nuclear battery – nuff said.

ooh. noise shirts with wireless audio monitoring. machine washable!

i’ve started work on the podcast! send material in through the “Tips” form we have at http://www.hackaday.com/tips

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oh man. i can’t even begin how lazy this afternoon is looking. because today is my birthday, i decided everything (except you guys) on my schedule can go to hell until tomorrow. i woke up at 11am and havent left the couch since. so therefore, you guys are getting it good today.

as for wednesday’s lazy afternoon, you guys seem to love the idea of a podcast! so next week, we’ll have ourselves a podcast :)

if you’re graduating soon, take after this guy and shock the world. [adam]
i can’t believe it. he made a plotter out of an old dot matrix printer [Eduardo]
wireless pda-esque gameboy sp cart. nuff said. [matticus66]

i don’t know how these dual-emails (it’s a gmail thing) are coming in. but i got 2 links in this one:
stop ashlee (I laughed)..dunno how that got in the same email as crystalzilla. very interesting.

das laser snooper. [ian]
be careful hacking your ipods, okay?

make your own soda fountain (psh)

also, for any content related to podcasts such as: questions, comments, hacks, interviews, etc, leave them here.

as for your easy to do hack for the afternoon? you should know. bake me a cake damnit and mark it with a V. just make sure it’s on par with the myst island cake

Make a hackaday cake of some sort and I swear I’ll totally hook you up with a prize.

Making a birthday cake by

I’m happy and unhappy.
I’m happy with the fact that you guys have been commenting and you seem to really like the idea of a podcast. Woohoo. So keep commenting!

I’m unhappy with Firefox. Yes, the same Firefox that has more security holes than an anime character has spikes in it’s hair (goto flash site). I’m mad because Firefox has the lousiest support for flash on the mac. Period. I just had a wonderful hackaday links done, then sure enough, a flash site loads, takes control, and you have to force quit firefox. So psh. Use Safari RSS.

Therefore. Understand. You people seriously rock.
Here’s good links. Tasty, good, and fun.

The guy who hacked Cisco and stole their source code for IoS got busted.

Gotta love chess. Especially those nice looking glass ones that glow toxic green. [Chris]
Transmit audio through the frickin’ laser beam
This is a nice tidbit sent in. Check out how to record phone conversations from your phone to the pc. Hmmm

good news. lazy afternoons will continue in full effect. so that means more hacks, more fun, more nuttiness. now, usually on lazy afternoons i’m asking you guys something. so let’s get right to it:

how do you beautiful readers feel about podcasting hackaday? we’d take Q&A, discuss subjects, talk about new hacks, interviews, news, etc. I feel like it could be a lot of fun and we could have a lot of interactivity with you the readers and it’d be a lot of fun. so. be sure to comment and let me know what you think about that. because that’s even MORE hackaday fun comin atcha.

so let me know. please! comment, e-mail, carbomb me with fireworks spelling out “YES!”

oh man. let’s start off with this. we got outselves a mirror…made out of wood thanks [yamana]

it doesn’t stop there. check it out, it’s another alternative fuel method. through carbon and fusion reactions and other half-life-esque stuff (no seriously, check out the “fuel”) I love it! Looks dangerous but whateverrrr. thanks [eric]

and yeah, there’s more cooling mods out there. [activitie]
Look! [Zsk009] made a hackaday firefox search plugin! thanks!

the mac mini just got better, bigger, stronger (I love saying that)

now, of course we need an EZ to do hack right for you all right? well yesterday i wrote up a short HOWTO for engadget showing all the DS (or GBA SP) lovers out there how to make a very simple external  battery pack (and yes, it’s small and looks nice). the pack isn’t for another 8 hours of gaming, but rather as a backup battery. if your DS is about to die and you have another level to go before you beat your game, then this is what will save you from a mid-life crisis because you couldn’t get all the stars in your rehashed copy of super mario 64 (oooh, below the belt).

HOW-TO: quickly whip up an external Nintendo DS/SP battery pack

allright, the afternoon is young. im lazy. i’m going to eat some pizza and pass out…but in my slumber, i hope you all think about the podcast and respond with feedback on the idea of having one. you guys could really send in some great questions and what not so have at it. comment away.

until friday which is my birthday so send me gifts this has been a hackaday lazy afternoon

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mmmm links. tasty, fresh, links from the “webnet” as i like to call it. we’ve got some good ones today and I also want to ask you to pay close attention to tomorrow’s lazy afternoon post as we’re going to be asking you readers something important. we appreciate it.

vegetable oil for cooling? we roll with mineral oil here fool. [JB]

[weirdguy0101] gives us two tasty links to choose from (hot or mild baby):
–use just about any hard drive in your PS2
–then use your ps2 as an ftp server (if you’re that desperate)

if you’re using the smoothwall firewall, add some LEDs to it to pimp it out. [anona-dork]

gameboy emulation on the psp is now possible (to an extent)
us gov. confirms they were  compromised (read: 0wn3d) by some hacker last year
firefox still full of holes and what not
a must have for the frequent modder

don’t forget, you can still cop an xbox by hacking iis 6 at http://www.hackiis6.com/
oh yeah. sorry we forgot to mention that PSP’s UMD format got cracked

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oh my gosh, look what we have here: some links. bet you guys didn’t see that coming did you?

now aside from cnet stealing certain ideas from around here, they’re also reporting that pgp has announced full hard-drive encryption. thus making it harder for hackers to get in.

and as for copy protection required by federal law? pshhh, forget it. Them 0, Us 1.
the uk is on the right path, how long until we catch on?

laser keyboards are up there with the piano necktie [zinquaff]
a $14 steadicam? you can’t beat that when you DIY [john]
tell your pc to take a chill pill using dry ice
violins, speakers, and sounds oh my

two things left. one is important, the other is really important.
important: lego jewelry is available…do you dare make your own?
really important: next time we have ourselves a lazy afternoon (read: wednesday), the senate will be voting for the real id bill. this isn’t good (despite it’s flashy graphics and sim-card-esque features) because freedoms are limited (once again), so check this out: unreal id

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