The NSA Product Generator automatically generates weirdly-codenamed fictional NSA spying products beyond the wildest paranoid’s dreams. Every time you refresh the page, you get a new product information page. They look so real it’s almost scary. The NSA Product Generator was inspired by the recent dump of NSA’s TAO product catalog. →
I have earlier shown some amazing Lego building projects on this blog, but this one is over the top: An Australian entrepreneur and Romanian tinkerer have built an air-powered full-size car out of LEGO. The car has homepage at www.superawesomemicroproject.com. Here is a video of that Life Size Lego Car Powered by Air. It is →
This animated Donkey Kong wedding cake just won best nerd cake forever page claims that it is going to be impossible to beat the glorious nerdness level in this wedding cake, which uses projectors to animate Mario on his quest to beat Donkey Kong and rescue Pauline. This is what happens when a bunch of →
It’s often said that pop culture fails to provide inspiration to aspiring engineers. Design News magazine article Slideshow: Engineering the Silver Screen attempted to capture a few exceptions to that rule. In truth, Hollywood occasionally writes engineers into movies or television plots. In some rare instances engineers serve as central characters, or even as stars. →
In Five Worst Inventions video TIME senior writer Lev Grossman discusses the choices for Worst Inventions of the Year 2009. Check out the video even though it is few years old. →
Do engineering videos grab your interest? What is the correct way to advertise an engineering product? Which is the better MCU pitch? Song-and-dance or dog-and-pony video? article asks if traditional dog-and-pony show or uptempo song-and-dance style is a better way to advertise a micro-controller. Because this is a Friday post, I will link here that →
A seasoned veteran give tips and encouragement to an aspiring software engineer. For a software developer this is hilarious and a little bit creepy! →
The best animated gif Pixar/NSA satire you’ll see today For background why this is so relevant, check the comments at Security trends for 2013 article. Check also USA vs NSA Animation Alternate Ending. →
Hopelessly addicted to email, social networking, or other online distractions? Robert R. Morris and Dan McDuff created Pavlov Poke to wean themselves off Facebook and finish their dissertations. While this project is intended to be a joke, the project creators believe a serious discussion is needed about how communication technologies are designed. In the technical →
Star Wars Imperial March Played by Dual Floppy Drives Join the Dark Side, we have floppy disks! Ghostbuster’s Theme on eight floppy drives Somethin strange in your floppy drive. Who you gonna call? Tech support! I ain’t afraid of no DOS. Building a six-channel floppy drive synth from start to finish →