How To: Rob a Bank

The first thing you have to think of is who are you going to get to help you in your bank robbing adventure. Lets face it, you aren’t nearly awesome enough to do this all on your own, you need help to get your act together. Of course you need to hire a crazy guy that wouldn’t mind getting to second base with his Grandmother if it meant he was going to get his share of the money (If for some reason you actually need someone to make out with their Grandmother, I hear Arkansas is the place!)…also, I’m not sure why, but I feel like this dude should have either a British or Irish accent. Also, you can’t forget to hire a calm quiet guy to be your right hand man, but more importantly you need to hire a huge dumb ass. This guy is easily the key to your team, and the reasons are two fold: 1. He’s huge. You need this guy to kick ass when situations arise like guards that watch too many Steven Segal movies or if during a late night meeting your two other guys start fighting about something stupid. 2. You need this dumb ass to take his share of the lot and go blow it on something hella retarded like The World’s Largest Pair of Sandals so the cops catch him and kill him in a blaze of gunfire and not you. If some of you were wondering “Hey don’t you also need a smart guy?” Yes you do, I was hoping you were smart enough to know that was you, but if you didn’t pick up on that, then…yes…get a nerd dumbass.
Of course you will need a ride. I suggest a large white van. That way you can paint some company name on the side so you don’t get anyone suspicious when you roll up to the bank. I like to be clever in the fake company name I choose for the van, examples would be “Heist and Sons Plumbers”, “Gone in a Flash Photography”, or “The We’re Actually Bank Robbers Electrical Company” this way you can feel clever (its always nice to feel clever) and the old smart Denzel Washington cop can drive by and see it and make the connection when he gets to the station. I know that sounds like a way to get caught, but its no fun if Denzel Washington isn’t chasing you after getting a brief glance of you face as he drives by and struggles to figure out your cryptic fake company.
As far as the actual plan goes, I would advise against getting too clever. Your best bet is to go in there, act cool, have your boys disarm the guards, tell the prettiest and blondest with the biggest boobs to calm down and put the money in the bag (except for that wad of cash that sets off the alarm) and then get the hell out of there. I wouldn’t tease the crowd, or shot the 97 year old retired cop that is now a security guard and was actually the uncle of the Denzel cop. I would also advise against leaving some kind of cute calling card…unless if course you thought of a really bad ass one like if you guys are all surfers and you decide to use ex-presidents for all of your masks.
Lastly, have some fun. Sometimes people get so wrapped up that they forget to smell the roses. Put your shot gun in the face of an old lady, feel free to hit on the blond putting the money in the sack and be sure to stop and kick that “hero” who tried to stop you until your big man kicked in so hard in the junk his you felt it while his down.
Be sure to stop back by and let me know how it goes, or just feel free to send me a new MacBook Pro in the mail with a nice note written on a large, unmarked bill.
How To: Make a Nerf Rifle
This guy, lets just call him “today’s personal hero”, made his own, home-brew Nerf rifle.
Lets just say, in my younger middle-school years, I was the consumate Nerf solider. Anytime school was canceled for anything (snow, ice, bomb-scare, rabid monkeys) my friends and I would grab our Nerf weapons and meet usually at my friend Nick Orf’s house. Sure at some point later on that day someone would always get the idea to stick something to the end of their dart which always lead to said dart going directly in to someone’s eye leading with the darts added payload causing a fight of at least a moment of cease fire. If that didn’t happen by 4:00, then each of our moms would begin to call and coral us back home for dinner. Having a war end because one of your teammate’s mom called was always expected, but anti-climatic and sad all the same.
Oh yeah, there’s a couple of videos (after the jump) of the guy shooting his Nerf rifle through paper at 30 feet and through a lightbulb as a closer range. Very cool.
Anyone know of a good Nerf gun out there today that worth picking up? I have the urge for a Nerf fight all of a sudden. I’m serious.
Apple FrontRow Hacked For Use On All Macs
Well its happened. It was just a matter of time. It actually took longer than I thought. FrontRow, the application from the new iMacs, has been hacked to work on all Macs. It also didn’t take long for all kinds of media popping up proving the fact.
- Here’s a video of FrontRow running on a Mac Mini.
- Here’s a flickr set about FrontRow running on a Mini.
- Here’s a how to on getting FrontRow on the mac of your choice.
Can we all now assume Dan will be up tonight getting it to run on his Mini?
Via TUAW
How To Keep Your Monitor 50 Feet Away From Your Box
Why is it that really smart guys that find out a cool new way to do something have zero skills or desire to make a decent website? Maybe a crappy site makes it seem like you are just too smart and you just don’t have time to waste on making a site for your creation, you must move on to that little cold fusion thing you have going in the basement. Either way, Doug Burbidge figured out how to take a VGA signal and send it over cat5 cable and he made a crappy site explaining how to do it.
According to his site he has achieved 800×600 resolution over 50 feet with his VGA to cat5 setup. That is pretty damn cool. Other than a neato video wall of monitors, I really can’t think of a use right now, but I’m sure there is something.
Via Hack a day

I realize that no one really comments much on here. I always thought that it was because I say everything so wonderfully and completely that there is nothing for anyone else to add…or this site sucks. Turns out I was wrong on both counts! Maybe no one comments on any posts (other than the infamous Armstrong article of course) because no one knows how to do it correctly.
Lifehacker to the rescue with their post: Lifehacker’s guide to weblog comments
Here’s a quick tidbit from the article that I hope everyone out there starts following. It doesn’t happen on this site, but it happens a lot of other places and it is annoying as hell.
Go read the article, empower yourself with the knowledge of how to comment correctly, then forget it and run out there and get as many “First Post!” comments you can get!