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Hacking Wireless Hotspots

Posted by Pete Berg on Thursday, August 12th, 2010 at 5:12 pm

A brilliant (and very simple) technique for getting free internet access at paid Wireless hotspots. If there is already another user who has paid for access, it’s very easy to find their IP address and trick the network into thinking that you are that user. This is a bit technical, but surprisingly simple when it comes down to it!


Category: Geek, How-To/Educational, Science / Tech	No Comments »

Slink-O-Matic Does The Slinking For You

Posted by Pete Berg on Thursday, August 12th, 2010 at 3:41 pm

The latest unnecessary machine. I still want one though.


Category: Science / Tech, WTF	No Comments »

Ant Drinking from a Raindrop on a Leaf

Posted by Pete Berg on Saturday, July 24th, 2010 at 1:45 pm

The world is an amazing place.


Category: Animals, Awesome, Science / Tech	No Comments »

Robot Learns to how to LOVE! (Nah, just kidding. It’s a robot learning how to flip pancakes.)

Posted by Pete Berg on Friday, July 23rd, 2010 at 6:34 pm

But robots learning how to do anything is still pretty damn cool. Other than kill people and take over the world. I’m not a fan of that. (Thanks, Jim)


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Ever seen a train lay its own track?

Posted by Pete Berg on Tuesday, July 20th, 2010 at 8:10 am

Now you have.


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How to Turn a Sphere Inside Out

Posted by Pete Berg on Friday, July 16th, 2010 at 10:43 am

This was interesting, but I also found it super creepy because of the computerized voices they used.


Category: Creepy, Enlightening/Intellectual, How-To/Educational, Science / Tech	No Comments »

“1945-1998″ by Isao Hashimoto

Posted by Pete Berg on Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 at 6:05 am

This video tallies up all 2053 nuclear explosions that have taken place around the globe up to 1998. Damn. Mankind is going to destroy itself, it’s just a matter of time.


Category: News / Politics, Science / Tech	2 Comments »

Slow Motion bullet impacts at 1 million FPS

Posted by Pete Berg on Monday, June 7th, 2010 at 8:16 am

I like the part where it’s in slow motion.

Made by Werner Mehl.


Category: Awesome, Science / Tech, SloMo/Timelapse	No Comments »

Degrees of Intelligence…

Posted by Pete Berg on Friday, June 4th, 2010 at 9:15 pm

The first video is a brilliant chimp solving a simple problem that most humans could figure out in a matter of minutes. The second video is Neil Degrasse Tyson speaking on the relative intelligences of chimps vs. humans vs. … higher beings.

Watch these two clips back-to-back. It will blow your f’n mind.


Category: Animals, Awesome, Enlightening/Intellectual, Science / Tech	No Comments »

Science Experiment: Waves in a Large Free Sphere of Water

Posted by Pete Berg on Friday, June 4th, 2010 at 8:42 am

Waves in a Large Free Sphere of Water – An experiment at the International Space Station. The narrator sounds like an excited kid explaining something to their parent!


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1,000 Generations of YouTube Compression

Posted by Pete Berg on Friday, June 4th, 2010 at 7:43 am

Video blogger canzona did an interesting experiment in video compression, to test out the effects of a thousand generations of encoding on the original source, via YouTube. You can see all 1,000 generations on his YouTube channel, but here are the original and the final version. Neat!

After 1,000 encodes by YouTube, this is what was left:


Category: Geek, Science / Tech, Video Bloggers	No Comments »

Deaf baby gets cochlear implants activated and hears for the first time

Posted by Pete Berg on Thursday, May 27th, 2010 at 4:54 pm

This 8 month old baby was born deaf — watch the moment as his cochlear implants are activated and he hears sound — and his mother’s voice — for the first time. The look on his face is priceless! Technology truly is amazing.


Category: Cute, Inspirational, Kids & Babies, Science / Tech	No Comments »

LittleDog Robots one step closer to taking over the world

Posted by Pete Berg on Monday, May 24th, 2010 at 10:53 am

Some geeks at USC have developed LittleDog quadriped robots which can walk over all sorts of rough terrain. Also, if I know anything about creepy robots, I’m fairly certain they will shortly become self-aware and start destroying all humans.


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YouTube turns 5

Posted by Pete Berg on Monday, May 17th, 2010 at 2:47 pm

It’s been 5 years since YouTube changed how we view videos online. Here’s a little birthday tribute to the #1 video site in the world.


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The Gulf Oil Spill is way worse than anyone is willing to admit

Posted by Pete Berg on Thursday, May 13th, 2010 at 11:45 am

I don’t normally post things that are this heavy on Pie Heaven, but this video really got to me. The Gulf Oil Spill is getting increasingly out of control, and it is now clear that this is one of the worst disasters that has ever faced our country. Every attempt BP has made to control the spill has failed, and aside from drilling a relief well (which takes 3 months), they have not presented any other viable solution. The whole situation makes me feel sick.

This is the first underwater video that has been released of the oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico that shows truly how bad it is. Look how fast that oil is spilling out…and this is only one of three different leaks. This is not a minor problem, this is a disaster:

The whole situation is so dire…it makes me, and it seems, everyone else, feel completely helpless.


Category: News / Politics, Science / Tech	No Comments »

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