Booo! The month after I pay my 5€, calls through VoipBuster within the USA are no longer free.
There is a new company. Seems to be exactly like VoipBuster. Probably just a spawn and that’s how VoipBuster plans on making money. The new company is called VoipStunt and they currently allow free calls to any of the following countries:
Free calls to any regular landline in:
Australia Austria Belgium
Canada Chile China
Croatia Cyprus Denmark
Finland France Germany
Gibraltar Hong Kong Hungary
Iceland Ireland Israel
Italy Japan Liechtenstein
Lithuania Luxembourg Malaysia
Monaco Netherlands New Zealand
Norway Poland Portugal
Singapore Slovak Republic South Korea
Spain Sweden Switzerland
Taiwan United Kingdom United States
Too bad I’m not willing to bust out another 5€ for this new service. I’ll just sit around and wait and see. I do have 100 free minutes each month with TelePacket already.
Random Crap:
Optical Mouse cam (from /.) – People get bored sometimes, and when I get bored I sometimes open up stuff to find out what makes it tick. One time, I did this with an old optical mouse. Well, a mouse only has 2 chips inside: the optical sensor and a chip for the usb/ps2-interfacing. I looked up the datasheet of the optical sensor (which is an ADNS2610) and it told me the sensor has a tiny 18×18 CCD, which can be read out using the serial port (the one which normally interfaces to the PS2/USB-chip). So I start Visual Basic (I usually do my stuff under Linux, but I’m no star at using anything graphical like QT or GTK, so for this quick’n’dirty project I fell back in my old habits) and hack something up using a few wires to the trusty ole parallel port. The result: crisp lo-res b&w imaging 🙂 People these days come up with the craziest things when they’re bored.
100 things we didn’t know this time last year (from Tera) – Each week the Magazine picks out snippets from the news, and compiles them into 10 Things We Didn’t Know This Time Last Week. Here’s an end of year almanac. Pretty interesting and fun read. Interesting ones I notice include (the bolded ones were the one I found to be the most interesting):
- 3. While it’s an offence to drop litter on the pavement, it’s not an offence to throw it over someone’s garden wall.
- 5. Nicole Kidman is scared of butterflies. “I jump out of planes, I could be covered in cockroaches, I do all sorts of things, but I just don’t like the feel of butterflies’ bodies,” she says.
- 6. WD-40 dissolves cocaine – it has been used by a pub landlord to prevent drug-taking in his pub’s toilets.
- 14. It’s possible for a human to blow up balloons via the ear. A 55-year-old factory worker from China reportedly discovered 20 years ago that air leaked from his ears, and he can now inflate balloons and blow out candles.
- 19. The = sign was invented by 16th Century Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde, who was fed up with writing “is equal to” in his equations. He chose the two lines because “noe 2 thynges can be moare equalle”.
- 20. The Queen has never been on a computer, she told Bill Gates as she awarded him an honorary knighthood.
- 32. “Restaurant” is the most mis-spelled word in search engines.
- 35. The name Lego came from two Danish words “leg godt”, meaning “play well”. It also means “I put together” in Latin.
- 37. Cyclist Lance Armstrong’s heart is almost a third larger than the average man’s.
- 41. Tactically, the best Monopoly properties to buy are the orange ones: Vine Street, Marlborough Street and Bow Street.
- 43. The spiciness of sauces is measured in Scoville Units.
- 52. You’re 10 times more likely to be bitten by a human than a rat.
- 53. It takes 75kg of raw materials to make a mobile phone.
- 59. Oliver Twist is very popular in China, where its title is translated as Foggy City Orphan.
- 63. It takes less energy to import a tomato from Spain than to grow them in this country because of the artificial heat needed, according to Defra.
- 66. The hotter it is, the more difficult it is for aeroplanes to take off. Air passengers in Nevada, where temperatures have reached 120F, have been told they can’t fly.
- 67. Giant squid eat each other – especially during sex.
- 69. First-born children are less creative but more stable, while last-born are more promiscuous, says US research.
- 73. One in six children think that broccoli is a baby tree.
- 76. The day when most suicides occurred in the UK between 1993 and 2002 was 1 January, 2000.
- 78. One in 18 people has a third nipple.
- 87. Pulling your foot out of quicksand takes a force equivalent to that needed to lift a medium-sized car.
- 94. Bill Gates does not have an iPod.
morning musume watches clip from ring (from artemyst) – an oldie, but still so funny! It’s Morning Musume put on stage and forced to watch a clip of Ringu. Haha. It was pretty sweet to see their reactions, especially the finale.
$20 Bill Printed Over Sticker Nets $25,300 – A $20 bill printed on paper that mysteriously had an ordinary fruit sticker on it sold Friday for $25,300, an auction company official said. Somebody’s been eating bananas while on the job.
Ocean view — as soon as the poison works – A Vancouver woman pleaded guilty on Thursday to poisoning several trees that border the city’s downtown Stanley Park to improve the view of the ocean from her condominium.
Ali G Feminism (from Fuzzywuzzy) – Ali speaks about feminism
Ali G interview with Posh & Beckham (from fuzzywuzzy) – Ali G interview with Posh & Beckham
Check out this hilarious bash quote (from Tera): MY CAT JUST JIZZED ON ME
Two-Headed Snake for Sale for $150,000 – For sale: One albino snake. Has two heads. Asking $150,000 or best offer. The World Aquarium in St. Louis has been home to We, a one-of-a-kind two-headed albino rat snake, since 1999. President Leonard Sonnenschein has decided to sell the reptile, and bidding on reptileauction.com will start at $150,000.
Church Selling Toilet Paper to Raise Money – “The rolls are larger than the standard, with 450 sheets per roll, and it’s two-ply,” he told The East Oregonian newspaper. “We’ve heard all the jokes. People really enjoy that it’s Angel Soft, but what else would a church sell?”
Free booze makes Canada’s homeless healthier-study – Giving homeless alcoholics a regular supply of booze may improve their health and their behaviour, the Canadian Medical Association Journal said in a study published on Tuesday.
Canon in D Guitar (from Fuzzywuzzy) – Japanese playing great song on Guitar. This guy is good! Turns Johann Pachelbel’s Canon in D into an awesome rock song. Also known as Canon Rock (from Artemyst).
Water Cooled Xbox 360 (from /.) – The world’s first water cooled Xbox 360! A full Xbox 360 breakdown that will show you how it is done easily.
18 Tricks to Teach Your Body (from deadlock) – Soothe a burn, cure a toothache, clear a stuffed nose… Pretty cool list, but when my throat ticked, scratching my ear didn’t work.
Humans display their stupid side to wildlife – “I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don’t understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you,” said James Cameron, a South African professional hunter. Haha. Blaming Disney movies because you didn’t know how to deal with wild animals. HAHAHAHA.
