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Mad mods, amputees and the Really Big Button

Random links for the Silly Season

By Drew Cullen (drew@theregister.co.uk)

Posted in Bootnotes, 2nd August 2002 13:30 GMT

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Site(s) of The Day (Thanks for all the submissions)

Hardware mods

LetsBlowitup.com (http://www.letsblowitup.com) Dedicated to detonating computers (see also Reg story Ten ways to kill your laptop (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/25715.html))

The story of Andy's Computer (http://www.skizzers.org/andy/lego.html) More Block Structure madness (c.f. Mad mouse mod entombs LEGO volunteer (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/26367.html))

Knit your own ITV Digital monkey (http://www.eveshamdallimores.fsnet.co.uk/knitting.htm)

TeddyBorg (http://draco.mit.edu/teddyborg/) Turn your teddy into a 100Mb networking switch

Biomass mods

Cut off my feet (http://www.cutoffmyfeet.com/main.html) You can watch me amputate my legs with a homemade guillotine!

Ampulove (http://www.ampulove.com/) A Belgian organisation for amputees and their friends

Clones R US (http://www.d-b.net/dti/) Surrogate birthing for the masses, or ultimate mad mod?

Usability

The really big button that doesn't do anything (http://www.pixelscapes.com/spatulacity/button.htm)

Web Pages that Suck (http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com) Where you learn good Web design by looking at bad Web design

W3C approves HTML 4 'emotitags' (http://www.therockalltimes.co.uk/2002/04/08/new-tags.html) Once more with feeling

Wait All Day (http://www.waitallday.com/) Please Wait

Buymeahooker.com (http://www.buymeahooker.com/) (via B3ta.com (http://www.b3ta.com)) More entertaining scam than the Nigerians. But who is Brian? ®