Scientists have figured out how to make a drop of oil navigate a complex maze. The oil can navigate a maze using basic chemistry. Acid leaks into a solution that fills the maze, creating a gradient: Solution near the exit becomes more acidic, whereas solution near the entrance stays more basic.

Did you know that you can send SMS text messages from Google gchat? Right from your email inbox window, you can add the phone number as a new contact. Here’s the response I received when I sent a message to someone’s phone recently:

I normally use the guided missile or Counter UAV with the Harrier and either the Pavelow or Chopper Gunner, but I decided to mix it up one match and selected Harrier, Emergency Airdrop, and Pavelow. The kills needed for these three are 6, 7, and 8. When I got all three in a row, I got a new title. I say challenges because I think it’s a challenge to complete the tasks in order to get all the titles and emblems. And they’re hidden because there’s no instructions on how to unlock all the titles and emblems!

Get a developer key and install Unbuntu on a usb disk so you can boot any XO from the USB disk without modifying your XO laptop. All production XO laptops have firmware security enabled when you receive them. Once unlocked, you can run any operating system you want.

The Bioshock 2 website is up and it’s pretty good stuff. It reminds me of two of the videos from Tool’s Undertow album. If you click on the black thing in the house and draw faces on the wall, the whole room will change and the doll with the pull-string will come to life.

Recreate your repository using the “-d” switch to include sqlite files. Run repoview with the path to your repository as your webserver sees it. If your structure is somewhere outside of the web root, just link to it and use the linked path. Easy mode. If you don’t give it an output path, you’ll find the repoview directory under the repository directory.

LftpFS is a read-only network filesystem with caching for smart mirror of sites. Useful for mirroring of Linux repositories. It’s based on FUSE and LFTP client, which supports FTP, HTTP, FISH, SFTP, HTTPS, FTPS protocols and works over proxies.

My old method was to install some sort of flash player plugin named something like “libflashplayer.so” and copy it from /usr/lib or /usr/lib64 to the plugins directory under “~/.mozilla/plugins/”. But now that’s old school. All you need to do in Fedora 12 is:

I finally got a reply to my request for Google Wave. And my first message was that I have a few invitations I can send out to friends. I had a friend that got on before me by getting an invite, but he said he didn’t get any invitations to send out. It reminds me of when gmail was beta and you got like 99 invitations to send to other people. So is there anyone out there that wants an invite?

Install mercurial source control management system (sorry git lovers), and prerequisites. Set up by making some directories and exporting a variable or four. Clone the source repository. Let the building begin.