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There have been a bunch of images floating around the internet of people making ‘light’ drawings. There is even an add on tv that uses this technique. Just so I can say I am keeping up with popular culture, here is how to do it:

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Google put silently two hidden messages in its 2008 logo. Google is celebrating 25 years of TCP/IP and the New Year.

The first is the year 2008 hidden in the cabling

The second is the words SYN SYN ACK ACK hidden in the confetti at the bottom. The syn syn ack ack is referred as a “Three Way Handshake.”

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Michael Battle over at Footloose Moose has come up with a very novel flash binary clock. The short version, is that he takes the binary composition of the current time, and converts the 1’s and 0’s to ‘left’ and ‘right’.

For the longer explaination, you can check out his site. You can also see the clock in action after the jump.

footloosemoose.com

Check out the clock

Now you too can play timeless classics like, Happy Birthday, and Louie Louie on the phone!

Happy Birthday
112163
112196
11#9632
969363

Auld Lang Syne
11113212
321139#
#9331212
321##91

Frere Jacques
12311231
369369
9#9631,9#9631
191,191

Mary Had a Little Lamb
3212333
222,399
3212333
322321

Louie, Louie
111-66-999-66

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What may seems like a boring image, actually holds an interesting secret. Those of you who have photoshop, or gimp, take a look at the histogram for this image. For everyone else, follow the link to see the magic!

ironicsans.com

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When I was a kid, my favorite toys were Legos. Many a rainy day was spent building planes and spaceships, supercars and battleships, medieval castles and futuristic moon bases. But I never made anything like this. Constructed using Lego’s Mindstorm Robots, this is an autonomous production line capable of building Lego cars. It can even select the color of the blocks used. Consider my little Lego geek mind blown.

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Some of you may remember Zork from your childhood. Apparently, someone took the time to map the entire thing!

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Custom-built sensors hidden inside coconuts are hung from trees at several public locations to monitor noise produced by overflying aircraft. Detection of excessive aircraft noise triggers automated telephone calls to the airport’s complaint line on behalf of the city’s residents and wildlife.

The best part, is they leave messages like this:

Uh… Hey. Um, yeah. So… Um, this is…. Yeah, no, like, I’m… Shut up, no, I’m talking. Okay, so, yeah. So, all these planes, man… It’s crazy. It’s like a roooaarrrrr. Dude, I need a pizza… Could you send me a pepperoni pizza? Dude, that would be great. Wait wait wait wait wait, put some mushrooms on that. Yeah, mushrooms. Sweet.

Follow the link for more details, and more messages.
mit.edu

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