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How to build an Emergency Internet Relief Kit
If you've ever wondered what you'd take into a disaster zone to help bring back network connectivity, then Make's Internet Relief Kit is just the ticket. Just to make it clear, we're not talking about a relief kit for first-world dilemmas like "Twitter is Down" (if you're wondering, that kit typically contains tequila, triple sec, with lemon or lime juice) - oh no - we're talking about relief kits for massive humanitarian disasters, the sort that destroy telephone and data infrastructure such as hurricanes or floods.
The package in question here is (unsurprisingly) a satellite-based system that, when connected to a laptop, allows emergency responders to use email, voice chat, video calling and the Internet on disaster sites.
As satellite systems go it's highly portable (fitting into a backpack) and costs around $3,500 - though you'll want to activate that satellite subscription before the world as we know it ends....
[Via Boing Boing]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Drew Green said 3:03PM on 9-19-2009
Oh hell yea! Sign me up for 5!
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danhawk911 said 11:05PM on 9-19-2009
hell if there's no bandwidth cap this would be great for my job.
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