This is an impressive cover of The Animals’ version of ‘The House of the Rising Sun’ (I love you, Eric Burdon!) performed on a bunch of old computer parts (set up by the same guy who did ‘ Bohemian Rhapsody ‘). What parts? I dunno, but hopefully not the privates . I’ve actually seen a friend strum a harp with his wiener before though, so you never know. “I know you need some new damn friends!” God, I really do. Unfortunately beggars can’t be choosers. He used an Atari 800XL with an EiCO Oscilloscope as the organ, a Texas instrument Ti-99/4A with a Tektronix Oscilloscope as the guitar, a hard drive powered by a PiC16F84A microcontroller as the bass drum and cymbal, and an HP Scanjet 3P, Adaptec SCSI card, and a computer powered by Ubuntu v9.10 OS for the vocals. They actually do a really good job, which is a lot more than I can say for any job I’ve ever done. …Are you thinking what I’m thinking? “Of getting the band back together?!” HA — good one, but no. I was thinking of my friend with the harp again. That…was a f***ing awkward wedding reception. Hit the jump for the at least worth skipping around video.

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‘House Of The Rising Sun’ Played On Computer Parts

Another day, another person playing the Imperial March on pieces of obsolete computer equipment (another 3.5″ floppy attempt HERE and a hard drive version HERE ). Admittedly, this is probably the best-sounding one to date. My last date? She sounded like a banshee screaming like someone just cut her off. She actually tried ordering dinner at the restaurant when I was in the restroom pleasuring myself to my own reflection and when I came out everybody had turned to stone. You know what I did? I stole all their wallets. That’s really the only reason I dated her. That and her apartment had hot water and electricity. Hit the jump for the short but sweet video.

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Vader’s Imperial March On 3.5" Floppy Drives

So IBM was awarded a (surprise!) DARPA government grant to more or less create Skynet computer chips and, what do you know, they’re making progress. BUT NOT FOR LONG! *pulling wires out of back of computer* “Why’d you do that?” I DON’T F***ING KNOW, I GET EXCITED! Hey — why’d my monitor go black? The announcement comes nearly three years after IBM and several university partners were awarded a grant by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to re-create the brain’s perception, cognitive, sensation, interaction, and action abilities, while also simulating its efficient size and low-power consumption. “What I hold in my hand as I speak,” Modha told CNET by phone Wednesday, “is our first cognitive computing core that combines computing in the form of neurons, memory in the form of synapses, and communications in the form of axons…[and] in working silicon, and not PowerPoint.” Brain chips: wonderful news, really. So here’s the plan. You might call me crazy, but future generations might call me the savior of humanity . This is it: we use zombies to fight the robot apocalypse for us. Get it?! They love brain chips — they’ll gobble those robotic f****ers up! Then we nuke them and earth will make me its king. IBM says new chip mimics the human brain [cnet] Thanks to Sgt Rebel, Drew, bsmorrow and Mike, who have all kicked zombies so hard their penises fell off (the zombies’, not theirs).

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IBM Creates Brain-Mimicking Computer Chips

This is a pair of $350 “data sandals ” by Etsy seller PCB Creations, whose specialty is creating art out of printed circuitboards and other discarded computer pieces . OMG — make me a computer monitor space helmet! Its summer and time to show off a unique pair of Data Sandals, these were fashioned from PC mother boards, ribbon wire and a host of other electronic components all put together to make these highly detailed and one of a kind Sandals. You’re going to enjoy just staring at these for hours. On the scale of things I’d actually enjoy staring at for hours (with some fine ass yam-yams being an 11, crying baby a 0), computer-part sandals are actually pretty low on the list. Like a 2, tops. Still, worlds better than watching a dog drag its ass on the carpet. *ahem* I said, “still, worlds better than watching a dog drag its ass on the carpet.” DAMMIT CHLOE, PAY ATTENTION! PCB Creation’s Etsy Store (with several other art pieces and circuitboard covered journals) via Geeky ‘Sandals’ Are Made from PC Motherboards [discovery] Thanks to turtlebone, who noted, “step on a crack, break your mother(board)’s back”, effectively making my job a lot easier. Thanks for that brobro.

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$350 Nonfunctional Computer Part Sandals

Seen here in a GW rendition of what the chip probably looks like, Scottish scientists have built a 1,000-core processor that’s 20x faster than those currently on the market, and uses LESS power. Don’t tell Tim “The Toolman” Taylor! Dr. Wim Vanderbauwhede led a research team at the University of Glasgow to create the futuristic processor using a programmable chip called a field programmable gate array (FPGA). Instead of the built-in circuitry of conventional desktop computer chips, these processors can be customized. So with some extremely clever programming, the research team was able to divide the processor into 1,000 cores, each capable of its own computation. To give you some perspective, the fastest consumer processors such as Intel’s Core i7 top out at six cores. According to the Daily Mail, the 1,000-core processor processes 5 gigabytes data per second, and that’s “20 times faster than modern computers.” I’m all for faster computer chips, I just don’t know why they quit at 1,000 cores. STOP HOLDING OUT! I want some million-core chips and I want them now! But I will settle for a bag of store-brand Doritos. Get it? Chip joke! Also, I heard he gave Monty a reach-around in the back of their helicopter . Rescue Rangers FTW WTF! 1,000-Core Chip Could Make PCs 20 Times Faster [mashable] Thanks to Shenanigans, who, exactly — shenanigans.

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Scientists Build 1,000 Core Processor, Claim It’s 20 Times Faster Than Current Models

This is some Russian man’s giant CPU collection laid out on the bed he pretends to have sex in. Great job, guy. I collect baby teeth bottle caps! Largest private collection of CPUs has been discovered upon one Russian guy has posted a message on a forum. His message says “here is my humble collection for you” and then listed something more than one thousand of different types of computer processors he collected. There are ones from the old times and as well as modern ones, the lost and seemed never coming back relics of Soviet Russian genuine processors that preceded Intel world dominance and many other interesting findings he had. Damn, that’s one tough looking geek. I love his pose, it’s like he’s whispering, “Which one of you ladies can I make queen of my central processing kingdom? Any takers? I don’t know if you saw, but I also have a canister vac .” Hit the jump for several more shots of the “in Soviet Russia, C processes U”. *swish*

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This is a little graphic charting the progress in music storage. It’s part of a larger graphic which also includes the evolutions of photo and data storage. Click THIS BIG-ASS LINK RIGHT HERE to see the whole thing. But warning: prepare to be wowed. Or at least moderately impressed with how far we’ve come. Now let’s put a man on the moon ! Or a cat. Oh. My. God — SPACE FURBABIES — WANT!! Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies [gizmodo]

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Don’t Copy That Floppy!: Evolution Of Storage