Month: August 2008

Indie Fixx Craft-Off Contest

Indie Fixx is celebrating their 2nd Anniversary with a Craft-Off Contest just for you! Jen from Indie Fixx writes: This contest also requires you to do something in order to win, not collect secret words, but CRAFT! Yes, I wrote craft! In order to win the Indie Fixx Craft-Off, you must create a crafty item […]

Memcached and high performance MySQL

Memcached is a distributed object caching system that was originally developed to improve the performance of LiveJournal and has subsequently been used as a scaling strategy for a number of high-load sites. It serves as a large, extremely fast hash table that can be spread across many servers and accessed simultaneously from multiple processes. It’s […]

Breathalyzer microphone

Breathalyzer microphone

My friend Randy at the fffffatlab made this breathalyzer microphone: The breathalyzer microphone is a system for the inconscpicuous collection of blood-alcohol content level data sets. In other words, you can measure a person’s sobriety with a device, that for all intents and purposes, looks no different than a standard microphone. He has also created […]