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A hobbyist builds robotic paintball guns… below is a demo. He plans to sell them soon.

Some enterprising and masochistic teens hacked a laser etching machine to brand themselves with high detail art. More info

On the eve of the Firefox 3 release it’s only appropriate to view the kick-ass documentary Code Rush, which follows the burnout pace of a Silicon Valley superstar company on the verge of bankruptcy… and the beginnings of the open source Firefox codebase. Not available anywhere else, so see it now!

Via Waxy

One fan’s no-fi remix of the Radiohead song “Nude”, using ancient computer hardware hacked to generate the sounds. An amazing labor of love!

The hardware in question, according to the Youtube page:

Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Guitars (rhythm & lead)
Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer - Drums
HP Scanjet 3c - Bass Guitar
Hard Drive array - Act as a collection of bad speakers - Vocals & FX

Neat idea- the plans are available from this website.

This certainly makes the game easier…

An excellent documentary on Peak Oil, and the transformations society will make to overcome it.