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Are you growing tired of playing all those high-framerate first person shooters? Perhaps you long for the days of blocky graphics and text-based play. You’re in luck because Tradewars 2002 is still around. Many of you will remember this 1980’s BBS based game, playing a limited number of turns per day in an effort to rule the galaxy.
The game may be around, but the way you play it has changed drastically. The advent of custom scripts that interface directly with the game system makes this more of a who can write a better script rather than who is better at the game. A hacker’s challenge if you will. Using programs like TWX Proxy or Swath, scripts can be written and executed to perform just about any task you wish. Mapping out the galaxy, automatically trading for profit (cashing), automatically colonizing planets, and much more can all be done automatically. The most advanced script writers have produced advanced team scripts that several people run at once to coordinate team based strategy and hunting scripts that try to anticipate where enemies will end up so they can be ambushed.
There are plenty of resources for learning to play the game, the basics of the scripting languages used, and finding servers to play on. Dust off your coding skills and get down to some ASCII graphic goodness.
I've had an extra busy week this week, and my energy just isn't cooperating. By mid-day yesterday, I was ready to throw a pillow on my laptop and call it a day. It didn't take long to realize I hadn't been eating the right foods for breakfast (egg souffle, anyone?), and I vowed to eat healthier next week.
But how can you focus on health when you're strapped for time? Doesn't healthy food take eons to prepare? Not necessarily. Here are my top five favorite health foods that are quick, convenient, and most of all --- delicious:
1. Banana Oat Bran Muffins
You can find the health-conscious recipe right here, and I'd suggest making a batch on Sunday to last you through the week. They stay super fresh in the refrigerator, and are the perfect snack to grab-and-go on your way out the door.
For a complete breakfast... Add a banana, fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice and a bottle of water to go.
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As huge fans of water rockets, we are worshipping Australian rocketeer George Katz and his Air Command Water Rockets team, who are now launching single-stage soda bottle rockets over 600 feet using three drop-away booster engines that separate, NASA-style, when their thrust is spent. The boosters have upward-pointing pins that slip into rings on the main rocket, so they simply slip back out upon burnout.
Water Rocket with 3 boosters from AirCommand on Vimeo.
To make it work, the team devised a clever launch base with an air manifold that pressurizes all three boosters equally, simultaneously with the main rocket. Air Command's insanely good website has video of the launcher build, DIY instructions for drop-away boosters and all aspects of water rocketry including multi-stage and parachute mechanisms, plus build and flight logs for all kinds of crazy rockets. And their launch videos (from ground and onboard cams) are so awesome we want to build a water rocket Cape Canaveral.
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Regular submitter [Jared Bouck] from Inventgeek.com has sent us this cool project. He wanted to make a fireball cannon, but didn’t want to settle for plain old fireballs.Instead of using a common propane system, he built an alcohol based one so he had a “blank slate” to start with. He then applied some copper chloride to get the desired greens and blues. With all of the fire displays we see, how come we don’t see more colored flames? Check out the overview video after the break.
If you're looking for an easy way to store the manuals you've collected over the years or just want all the online information in one spot, then web site ManualsOnline is for you.
Once you've created your free account, you're ready to set up and compile your manuals. Choose the room, category, brand, product type, and model, and ManualsOnline adds it to your profile. After you're done, you'll have an organized collection of all your household manuals in one easily accessible spot.
Next time you're consulting your manual but still aren't able to stop that VCR from blinking (hey, I've still got one), the site also provides a forum where you can ask for product help from the ManualsOnline community.
But before you go ditching those paper manuals, upload and share any unlisted manuals if you can. Someone, somewhere will be grateful you did. If you like the idea but aren't keen on the site, check out previously mentioned SafeManuals for another take on the same idea.
We've shown you how to learn to play an instrument online in the past, but CNET's Don Reisinger has a great roundup of even more resources for the job, focusing primarily on the guitar.
The guide features several great web sites for polishing your guitar chops, including All Guitar Chords and Chordbook, two solid-looking resources for learning your chords. Reisinger does feature one drumming resource (which also looks really great) called VirtualDrumming if the guitar isn't your instrument of choice. If you've always been eager to teach yourself to play an instrument, both our guide and CNET's suggestions look like good places to start.
Already consider yourself somewhat of an expert on your musical instrument of choice? Let's hear your best tips for getting started in the comments.
[Jared Bouck] is on a roll this week. We just covered his Diamond thermal paste and now he’s got more for us. To celebrate the re design of his website, he has released the plans for the paintball turret. As you may recall, we absolutely loved this design when he originally showed it to us. Though he has had kits available for a while, he has finally put the plans up for download. You can cut your own parts and build it yourself. He mentions that version 2 is coming shortly, we wait with bated breath.
The process of fermentation provides us with such deliciousness as yogurt, cheese, alcohol, sauerkraut, sourdough, and other sour things in general. If you've ever been interested in trying your hand at food science, here's your guide to everything you need to get started in the wild world of ferme...By: scoochmaroo
Long time lurker, first time poster.Exactly as the name describes, it's a chicken that gets roasted with beer and lemon pieces,
with a warped twist.
We made it at work the other, just because we could.
Whats Needed
Whats Needed:
2 Chickens
1 340ml Beer (South African Breweries Black Label is my...
By: Stoveboy
