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Build your own Gauss Pistol - or, if that seems too tame, you can add a jet engine to your bicycle or go-kart, or maybe construct a 2 million volt tesla coil in your garage.

For those hard-core thrill seekers, try being a network engineer this weekend.

ZDNet

ZDNet bemoans the dangers of caching P2P data and wireless networking, or at least its current incarnations.

Fortunately, they stop whining long enough to take stock of their current Top 10 Tech Gadgets.

O'Reilly Network

Swaine Manor, one of the best computing columns around, has come to O'Reilly Network. Good thing too, as I haven't bought Dr. Dobbs (Michael Swaine's regular home) for months. [He should stick to commenting on computers, though. — Ed. Having now read his home page, I'd have to agree.]

They also have a short article on BitTorrent, the nifty file-swarming application. The article introduces the term idempotence, which is a very useful concept that more programmers need to understand, dammit! Uh, sorry...

The Register

It would appear that one of the many bad places to be a network engineer right now is British Telecom, where techies trying to prevent a Denial of Service attack instead created one of their own.

OS News

The evil and irrelevant SCO is being evil and irrelevant again. I think it's time that SCO went quietly into the night.

Designtechnica

Designtechnica reviews a 30 inch Sony LCD television. If anyone else has a 30 inch LCD TV that they need reviewed, please let me know.

Wired News

Wired interviews a blogger who is making money out of it. And no, it's not Andrew Sullivan.

(Thanks again to freshnews.org for their automatic Geek News aggregator.)

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 07:55 PM

Comments

1 If you like Jet engines don't miss the Jet Ped,
http://www.p.nutt.btinternet.co.uk/homepage.htm
I believe that is Happy Fun Pundit's neighbor in the photo. Maybe Steve didn't see it coming and got hit. I just don't buy that 'eaten by wolves' story. One can't believe Dan anyway, he has mad cow disease.

Posted by: Mr. Oni at July 20, 2003 06:56 AM (KYqbh)






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