Greasy PC

Want maximum cooling for your PC?

Want a totally silent PC?

Answer: Why not submerge it in oil !

From Tomshardware (with great pictures too)

Dousing Your Athlon FX-55 With Eight Gallons Of Cooking Oil?

Common sense dictates that submerging your high-end PC in cooking oil is not a good idea. But, of course, engineering feats and science breakthroughs were made possible by those who dared to explore the realms of the non-conventional. Members of the Munich-based THG lab are only too happy to confirm this fact. And not only did we find that our AMD Athlon FX-55 and GeForce 6800 Ultra equipped system didn't short out when we filled the sealed shut PC case with cooking oil - but the non-conductive properties of the liquid coupled created a totally cool and quiet high-end PC, devoid of the noise pollution of fans. The PC case - or should we say tank - also offered a new and novel way to display and show off your PC components.

!SR

Electric Toothbrush Lockpick

Fed up brushing your teeth with the same old toothbrush?

Why not turn it into a lockpick?

From inventgeek.

While there is a decade or more of heated debates on the topic of humanity and honesty, it is with the fore mentioned biases that we are doing this project. I have been actively interested in locksmithing and more over lock picking for several years. Any time a new gadget comes out that speeds up the ability to pick a lock it is often extremely overpriced. One of these types of tools is the vibrating lockpick. 60-120 bucks for a vibrating lockpick was a bit ridiculous in my opinion, so I decided to come up with a cheep way of making a good vibrating lock pick. For about 9.00 and a half hour we have produced a comparable lockpick to the most expensive commercial ones.

!SR

Quote of the week

From wafflemovies :

Yours, Mine and Ours is so bad you might not legally be allowed to call it a movie.

!SR

Playlist for 2006

Tammy Lee - I'm Alive. Funky soully stuff to get up to. From the Inner Ear Detour. Listen here. Leave it playing for more funky stuff.!

Juana Molina - Tres Cosas - electronic ambient sublime. From Dan Mackta playlist. Start here and scroll Realplayer along to 2:25:04 into the show.

Broadcast - Corporeal. More beautiful female lyrical smoothiness with a dash of loopy electronica for good measure. It really is very good. From Charlies playlist listen to it here.

Robert Wyatt - At Last I am Free. More floaty spacedness. I think this is a cover but can't remember. From Scott Williams playlist. Listen to it here and again scroll along the time bar, this one starts at 2:18:35

Rolling Stones - 2,000 Light Years. An oldie but a goodie. From Fabio's playlist, listen to it here and scroll to 57 minutes or so in.

Alexander Skip Spence - War in Peace - Absolutely incredible song, sung at a frequency inaudible to normal human hearing, must be derranged to assimilate waveform. From Mitas playlist, listen to it here

Lyrics Born - Do that there - Bit of hip-hop to pick things up. This is a way better tune than the original. Deserves to be ten or twenty minutes long! From the Push Bin playlist, Listen here

Beth Orton and Terry Callier - Dolphins - This cover song turned me back on to Beth Orton, I had forgotten how good the Best Bit EP was. From the Rix playlist, listen to it here. Also stay listening for the Neil Young track that follows.

Devandra Banhart - Cripple Crow - Kinda folky - countryish, with a bit of a Freudian undertone (or is that just me?), nice song tho. From Irene Trudel's playlist, (would I like her if I met her?) listen to it here.

Television Personalities - I hope he's everything that you wanted me to be. Best title of these selections so far, I used to listen to the TVP, when I was young and had more hair, on Peter Easton's Beat Patrol. Anyways, this track's from the Push Bin (again) playlist, listen to it here.


!SR