K-Mart's own brand of bacon looks to be a bit on the streaky side, even if you like crispy bacon. I don't know which part of the pig they cut this from, but I'm guessing it's somewhere near the arse.

[Via: The Consumerist]

The eCigarette is an electronic cigarette that provides nicotine and replicates the action of smoking without giving you cancer and croaky voicebox.It even provides vapour to exhale.

Reuters [Via: Sci-Fi.com]

I haven't had much tome to post recently, because most of my time has been taken up with developing LiveZeit, an online organizer. It's similar to google calendar, only better.

LiveZeit offers loads of features, including recurring events, multiple users, your own subdomain, themes, AJAX and much more. I'm looking for testers at the moment, so if you're looking for an online task manager and you want to contribute, please sign up at the link below.

LiveZeit Homepage (Signup)

Chester’s one of the cities being considered to be the center of the new version of Monopoly, die for release next year. With a bit of luck, my street will be one of the properties and my house will suddenly double in price!

Vote for Chester

Found this on BoingBoing. I’m not sure whether Octopi are like worms in that if you chop one in half, both halves will carry on living or whether these tentacles are just nerves.

Via: BoingBoing

If you ever need to pass a non-existent subdomain as an argument to another script, you’ll need this:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.izeit\.nu$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^\.]+)\.izeit\.nu$
RewriteRule (.*) /home/hjennerway/izeit.nu/hosted/current/index.php?cal=%1

I used it for my LiveZeit project, which is a hosted version of iZeit. It takes a subdomain, then passes it to index.php as a GET variable. So if you go to blah.izeit.nu, you're really seeing izeit.nu/hosted/current/index.php?cal=blah. First you need to set up Wildcard DNS with your host so that every subdomain resolves to the same IP as the www subdomain, then add the lines above to a .htaccess file. The first line tells Apache to ignore the www domain, the second tells it to only look for subdomains without dots in them, then the third transparently redirects the subdomain to a script on your server. Then you can use PHP to take the query string from $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], explode it, and use it to set GET variables.

$qstring = explode("&",substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],strpos("?",$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])+1));
foreach($qstring as $gvar) {
  list($k,$v) = explode("=",$gvar);
  $_GET[$k] = $v;
}

These seem to sell out within a few days of coming into stock. This time though, I managed to grab one. There are still a few left at the moment, but they'll probably be sold out again in a few days, so buy one quick!

Buy one at Threadless

I always thought batch scripts were only really useful in linux. I didn't realise windows supported the FOR command. This quick tutorial from Daily Cup of Tech shows you how to recursively search all subdirectories for a particular type of file, then perform an action on every file found.

<strong>for /R %1 in (*.zip) do unzip "%1"</strong>
 
for - indicates that we are going to be using the for command
/R - recursively searches all sub-directories within the active directory.
%1 - the variable that will contain the filename that is found. This can be any number but it is case sensitive. If you want to use the for command in a batch file, you will need to use %% (e.g. %%z) instead of just %.
in (*.zip) - the search pattern that will be found. The portion in parenthesis uses the same wildcard scheme as the dir command.
do - indicates that the string following is the command that should be executed on each file found
unzip “%1” - the command that is executed for each file. The %1 portion is replaced by the name of the file found. So, for example, if the file found was archive.zip, the command that would be executed would be unzip "archive.zip".

DailyCupOfTech

Why is it that MySpace is such a breeding ground for Emos and idiots with nothing better to do? I have a friend, let's call her Jo. Jo spends hours in front of her computer, but instead of doing something productive with her time like learning a language or making wallpapers in Photoshop, she arses around on Myspace. That's fine, if Jo wants to waste her time 'networking' on MySpace that's her problem, but what makes her think she can lecture ME about HTML.

Just a tip Jo, if you don't know what HTML stands for, you probably shouldn't be giving tips about how to nest tags correctly so the damn page validates! For starters, you need a closing tag for every tag you open. You can't just open paragraph after paragraph to put blank lines between sections of text with such a blatant disregard for valid HTML! Secondly, if you want that picture of you dressed as a hooker for Red Nose Day to actually show up on your page, you need to actually upload it. Dragging the picture from your desktop and dropping it on a text box just won't do.

I know everyone has to start somewhere, but I really hope I wasn't such an arsehole when I was a newbie.

Today's my 19th, and that's what was waiting for me in my inbox this morning. One more year of being a teenager, then I'm officially middle aged.

Two Atlanta men survived an attempt to kill themselves on Friday by cutting off their arms with a circular saw, according to Atlanta Police Major Lane Hagin.

The men managed to sever three of their arms about six inches above the wrist, he said.

The two men — aged 40 and 41 — left a suicide note saying they were committing suicide because their business had failed and they had been diagnosed with HIV. The manager who read the note called police who found the two men in their apartment with “a lot of blood,”.

I can think of less agonising ways to top yourself.

Source: Foxnews

Lots has happened in the last six months. I've gone from working part time in a DIY store to University, looked around for another job and eventually ended up back at the same DIY store. I went to Uni to do German and Russian, but after a few weeks I already knew I didn't want to work with languages at the end of the course, so I was only doing it to say "I have a degree" when I got a job. I carried on with it for three months until Christmas, then decided it wasn't for me and to go for Computer Science. I don't know why I wanted to do a languages course in the first place to be honest, I got a 486 when I was 9 and I've always been into programming. I couldn't pick the Computer Science course up after four months, so I had to re-apply to start in September 2007. Since there's not a lot else to do when you're not in full time education, I started looking for a job in the middle of January. After applying to every cafe and retail store I could find, I eventually got an interview and an offer from Subway.

I thought it would be great - making sandwiches and serving coffee in a laid back cafe all day, but the reality was nothing like that. Even though I didn't think so when I left, compared to Subway, my first job was pretty damn good. For an 8 hour shift in Subway, you get half an hour unpaid break compared to half an hour paid and another hour unpaid in the DIY store. The pay's better, the holidays are better and working in a sandwich shop means you can't enjoy a sub because you're eating it for dinner every day.

So I'm here six months after starting Uni, having had a bad experience at Uni due to the people I got thrown in with, four grand in debt having to wait another six months to start University again. Ah well, the money I make working the next six months should just about cover the cost of going in the first place…

Breath Capture sells a range of glass tubes, and make necklaces, earrings and other jewellery which can hold the breath of a loved one. Why you’d want to store someone's breath in a tube is a damn good question… creepy.

Breath Capture [Via: UneasySilence]

I've covered remote virtual desktops in the past, but another one has sprung up and looks alot more promising. DesktopTwo is a desktop which runs in your web browser. The whole interface is coded in Flash, and it offers some interesting features. 1GB of free storage, an RSS reader and an impressive flash implementation of OpenOffice. It’s still in beta at the moment, but it’s free to sign up.

DesktopTwo [Via: Hongkiat]

I've been having problems with my Inspiron overheating lately, so I might give this a go . Pat Dori, a disgruntled customer who phoned Dell 19 times eventually decided to take the company to court for 'failing to adequately address the problem'. He had the legal papers delivered to a Dell kiosk in a shopping centre, and not surprisingly, no one from Dell turned up in court. Mr. Dori won the case by default, and won $3000 and a ruling allowing the repo depot to close the kiosk and seize everything there if the judgement wasn't paid. Dell decided to settle out of court.

Via : Engadget