“MacBook Air first to fall in hacking contest vs Vista and Linux“

Ah-hhhahhahahahhahhaha hhahaaahha ahahahahah!

[breathes]

Ahhahhahha!

That’s made my afternoon, that has.

[ Yeah, I know, it's a browser exploit, no big deal. But it'll rankle smug Macvangelists the world over. Glee! ]

Yet more pre-emptive posts of pictures from Second Life - you lucky people!

This rather unassuming flatbed truck has special powers thanks to the 1337 sk1llz of its creator, the one and only Facemelt Loon, who you can see in the driving seat:

It may not be apparent, but we’re parked in a skybox about 700 metres above the surface of the Wastelands, there - Loon hacked the car script so it can go places that cars normally should not be able to go. Shortly after this image was taken, we performed an experiment with SL gravity.

Then there was demolition derby that crashed the sim, but we don’t talk about that …

It has been pointed out to me that my feeds are not showing complete posts; this is not intentional on my part, but apparently is intentional on the part of the Wordpress development people.

I have unearthed a hack that should put things back to the (very satisfactory) way they were before, but I’ll have to wait until I get home to actually sort it out. In the meantime, thanks for your patience; regular service will be resumed as soon as is practicably possible.

It’s not just computers that people hack, mod and generally screw around with - musical instruments are fair game, too. Continue reading “Guitar corner: make your own pickups from junk”