DIY Techno-hacksOld hard drive platters make wonderfully good drinks coasters - they look dead smart and expensive and you've stopped people reading your old data into the bargain.
Have you taped all your remotes together, peep-show-style? Have you wired your doorbell to the toilet? What enterprising DIY have you done with technology?
Extra points for using sellotape rather than solder.
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chthonic, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 12:30)
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DIY psychology hack #2: How to avoid talking to idiots on the phone.Here's something I discovered by accident. Once when I got a new answering-machine for my landline, I never got round to recording a message. This had the consequence that anyone who tried to call me heard nothing but a beep followed by silence. A lot of the people (mostly people calling from call-centres) were too stupid to figure out that this was a message-less answering-machine. I even got a few messages where I could here the confused phone-drone ask someone in the background why all they heard was a beep followed by silence. Fortunately, my friends and family were smart enough to cotton on and left me messages when I didn't pick up the phone. Needless to say, my landline calls consisted mostly of people worthy of my discourse.
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mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Tue 25 Aug 2009, 9:29,
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