The DeRose family (apparently much cooler than mine) have made a Potato Gatling Gun for entry in this years Maker Faire.  Read on for details and a video of this potato machine gun.

A company called Motion Apps has created an app called Classic which will run your old school PalmOS apps on the new Palm Pre. So if you’ve purchased an app like ePocrates for your older Treo, no worries you can port it over to the Palm Pre and it will run approximately twice as fast [...]

When I saw this product I wept.  I love slider burgers, all the fat with (somehow) slightly less guilt.  The mini-burger slider kit includes a slider mini-burger basket ($25), slider mini-burger press ($25), and a slider mini-burger cutter ($5).  Simply genius!

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Hackers at CCC pwned SSL certificate security, and they did it using phat stacks of SONY PlayStation 3 boxes – DAS RIGHT, A FRIGGING BEOWULF CLUSTER OF PLAYSTATION 3s! Just to make it clear, they didn’t just create a phony SSL cert, they were able to create a trusted but phony authority root [...]

Ever wondered if your coffee is actually decaf or regular? Or, just don’t trust the barista?  Never wonder again… test your drinks to see if they are actually caffeinated or not with D+Caf Test Strips ($9.95 for 20). 
My favorite part of this whole caffeine gadget is this quote, “studies have shown that up [...]

Yeah I am a Google nut, but once in a while the company that’s out to do the shite for the “Greater Good” screws the pooch. Those of you who use iGoogle homepage know what I am talking about – if you use www.google.com/ig as your landing page with all the groovy customized news, [...]