Decoding the information on your MagStrip
http://stripesnoop.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html
Stripe Snoop is a suite of research tools that captures, modifies, validates, generates, analyzes, and shares data from magstripe cards. The data is captured through different hardware interfaces (or stdin), the contents decoded into the correct character set, and then a CDDB-like database attempts to figure out what the contents mean.
Gmail’s most needed feature… GTRAY
Well I have had a GMAIL account for several months now, and to be honest it wasn't very useful. I had no way of knowing when I got email to it, and honestly it had issues with cookies and trust. I find the who interface a bit different than most. But I have now found a unique tool that may change my view of gmail. Its called GTRAY. Gtray sits in my toolbar, and changes from a G to a M when i have mail. Its configured to check every 30 minutes. I can just click on the icon, and it pops open a new page for me to read my mail, then shut it back down.
Check out the guys web site. http://torrez.us/gtray
Vending Machines for EVERYTHING
Good link from Gabe's site...
PhotoMann recently decided to 'collect' images of unique vending machines found in Japan. They are everywhere. Estimates suggest there are 5.6 million vending machines which works out to be one for every 20 people in Japan. Sales from vending machines in 2000 totaled $56 billion! The most common are drink and cigarette machines followed by machines with pornography. All of the images in this section are taken with a Nikon Coolpix 5000. Below is a sampling of the machines to be found.
http://www.photomann.com/japan/machines/
Some pictures without having to link... the porn pictures were pretty boring, so the beer ones take the cake as coolest... and the custom condom dispenser.
Free Exchange Spam Filtering – IMF
In the continued war against spam, and spyware, I am providing a collection of links to Microsofts free IMF
Deploying IMF from Windows.NET magazine
Despite its shortcomings... IMF is free
Article on the Exchange Blog about IMF
What Type of Social Entity are You?
Category VI - The Strange
Attractor
Though you're not quite sure why, people are drawn
to you like moths to a flame. You really
are too cool for words.
What Type of Social Entity are You?
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What is your Pirate Name
Your pirate name is:
Dirty Morty Rackham
You're the pirate everyone else wants to throw in the ocean -- not to get rid of you, you understand; just to get rid of the smell. You have the good fortune of having a good name, since Rackham (pronounced RACKem, not rack-ham) is one of the coolest sounding surnames for a pirate. Arr!
Independent Game Award Winner – GISH
http://www.chroniclogic.com/index.htm?gish.htm
I found this interesting new game called Gish, its a little tricky to learn how to move around in the game, but once you get the hang of it. Its little puzzles and tricks to move around become quite fun.
Here is what the publisher says about it...
Gish isn't your average hero, in fact he's not your average anything.. see Gish is a ball of tar. A Sunday stroll with his lady friend Brea goes awry when a shadowy figure emerges from an open man hole and pulls Brea into the ground below. Following Brea's calls for help Gish suddenly finds himself in the subterranean sewers of Dross, a long forgotten city filled with twisting corridors, evil traps and some of the most demented creatures imaginable.
With his gelatinous structure as his only means of defense Gish must follow the echoing cries of his damsel in distress deep into the earth bellow. What freakish creatures dwell in this subterranean land? Who is Brea's captor? And just how far down does the rabbit hole go?
Life isn't easy when you're a 12 pound ball of tar...
Immediately after ordering Gish you will be sent a keycode and download instructions!
Gish features includes:
- Dynamic Physics and Real-time Lighting
- Destructible environment
- Over 30 Story levels
- Over 20 Collection levels
- 3 unique VS. mode levels
- Many hidden "secrets"
- Over 10 different types of Enemies
Several "Super Secret" Levels
Glowing Popsicles
For my next pre-party I think these will be cool... then everyone can have little raver sticks after eating their popsicles...
Luau Party 2004
OK, I still need to post some of my pictures... and movies from the Luau Party 2004 at Meiko and Phill's. The fire spinners were cool, the awsome music, and the way naughty tatoo contest.
I need to get pictures from Karly and Kevin...
Labyrinth of Jareth 2004
I didn't goto this party, but there are several pictures from the crowd that did. 🙂