Meet the Disintegrator: 24 barrels of rubber band minigun!

The 24-barrel, tripod-mountable monster you see above, lovingly known as the Disintegrator, was rather amazingly hand-carved and assembled by Anthony Smith of the UK, who spent four months on the ambitious build. Unlike your dinky little six-shooter, this model boasts a 288-band capacity and 40-round-per-second firing capability.



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25 MXC Painful Eliminations

Human Stop Motion TETRIS

VoIP For iPod Touch is Here

The Touchmods team have released version 1.0 of SIP-VoIP for the iPod Touch. This hack will allow the Touch to make phone calls over its WiFi connection. Although named version 1.0, it is most certainly still a beta, and will take some special magic on your part to get things going.


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Bullet proof your server #2 - SSH

Five easy steps you can take to improve the security of your OpenSSH server setup. Details key-based logins, disabling unneeded options and more.

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4 Free File Shredders to Make Deleted Data Unrecoverable

If you want to completely wipe out personal information, and keep yourself safe, you need to take certain measures, like installing “data shredding” software. They are programs that are capable of rewriting your selected files multiple times with a random series of binary data, thus obliterating them beyond recognition.

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Wii homebrew apps now possible

A few days ago at the 24th Chaos Communication Congress a Wii hack was demonstrated that allows arbitrary software to run on the Wii console. Previously, the console was only available via the Gamecube emulation mode. This new hack will allow folks to write homebrew software that can take advantage of the Wii's full capabilities.



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5 Packs to Transform Windows to other OS

It’s a new year, why not give your years old XP operating system a new look? If you’re bored of having to look at the same kind of icons and eyecandy everytime, you can download and install these free transformation packs, and transform XP to look like any other OS.

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Eavesdropping on Bluetooth headsets with Linux

Few users realize that Bluetooth headsets can be exploited granting a remote attacker the ability to record and inject audio through the headset while the device is not in an active call. SANS Institute author and senior instructor Joshua Wright demonstrates.



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Linux: Clean Duplicate Files with FSlint

We all eventually accumulate "lint" on our computers whether it's in the form of empty directories, duplicate files, or temporary files. FSlint (Linux only) serves as a virtual lint trap that lets you remove specific types of lint to keep our Linux installation humming along.

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Make Huge, High-Quality Photo Mosaics in Linux

The fsckin w/ linux blog points Linux users to a really cool tool that creates detailed (and extremely huge) photo mosaics out of your own pictures. All that's required is a folder full of pictures, a free command line tool named metapixel and, well, enough memory to process and open the output picture

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The Best Fingerboard Movie

Hacker Uses Sony PlayStation 3 to Crack Passwords

"Nick Breese, a senior security consultant at Auckland-based Security-assessment.com, has come up with a way to drastically increase the processing capability of cracking passwords, using a PS3."

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Rock Band vs. Guitar Hero Compatibility : What Game is Right For You?

Rock Band and Guitar Hero III are both some completely awesome music games and they offer some great choices for gamers but there is some serious confusion about the guitar controllers out there. What should you choose? Read up and decide ...

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A Big List of Sites That Teach You How To Do Stuff

The web can help you learn how to do just about anything you can imagine. Read/WriteWeb compiled a list of some of the best tutorial sites out there, most of them including video or other rich media instruction.

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The ultimate iPod anti-theft device -- Hide it in a Zune!

Welcome to the Anti-Social. Protect your iPod or iPhone from theft and still enjoy using it in public. Put it in a Hide-a-Pod anti-theft case, made out of a real Zune. Well, at least some Apple fanboys have a sense of humor. Or is this for real?

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Guitar Hero III featured on Will It Blend

Where will it stop, Tom? When will you and the other mad scientists at Blendtec draw the line between the advancement of science and the study of the dark appliance arts? Liquifying a bundle of glowsticks is one thing, but putting an X-plorer guitar (from one of the rip-off Wal-Mart Guitar Hero III bundles) on frappé is a horse of a twisted. . .


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Linux and eyecandy on VERY old computer

Linux Xubuntu and Compiz-fusion on a 7 year old computer.



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Rock the Halo theme free for Guitar Hero III

Like the Pilgrims and Native Americans breaking bread together, Microsoft and Activision are giving Xbox 360 owners something to truly be thankful for tomorrow: the Halo theme (MJOLNIR Mix edition, featuring fretwork by none other than Steve Vai) is coming to Guitar Hero III.



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Dozens of Useful FREE Utilities Written in AutoHotKey

These freeware utilities are written in the AutoHotkey scripting language. Downloads are available both as pre-compiled .exe files or as .ahk scripts you can customize for your own use.

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