TehAwesome.Net » internet http://www.tehawesome.net A collection of awesome things Tue, 29 Jun 2010 08:06:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc ShadyURL Makes Normal URLs Awesome http://www.tehawesome.net/2010/02/20/shadyurl/ http://www.tehawesome.net/2010/02/20/shadyurl/#comments Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:46:39 +0000 snipe http://www.tehawesome.net/?p=387

“Don’t just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening”. This clever twist on url-shortening services could quite possibly be my new favorite thing ever.

So simple, yet so hilariously brilliant. Enter a normal url, and this free service will spit out a new, fully-functional scary-looking url that promises to be stuffed to the brim with malware, trojans and porn.

If the new url isn’t quite shady enough for you, hit reload until you get one you like. For TehAwesome.Net, here are a few that were generated:

http://5z8.info/super-nsfw_l4o3o_start-trojan
http://5z8.info/nakedgrandmas.jpg_c5k6n_worm.exe
http://5z8.info/super-nsfw_x3e1z_facebook-of-sex
http://5z8.info/ip-stealer_e7g4c_startphish
http://5z8.info/how2printmoney_t1d2u_stalin-will-rise-again
http://5z8.info/_init_download_s1a7m_alqaeda-message-boards

The redirection works perfectly, so I think I’ll be using this service to send out all client urls from here on out. Try it out for yourself at ShadyURL.Com!

]]> http://www.tehawesome.net/2010/02/20/shadyurl/feed/ 0 How to Make the Internet http://www.tehawesome.net/2010/01/29/how-to-make-the-internet/ http://www.tehawesome.net/2010/01/29/how-to-make-the-internet/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:11:21 +0000 snipe http://www.tehawesome.net/?p=248

In season 3, episode 4 of The IT Crowd (a nerdy britcom that chronicles the story of two basement-dwelling IT geeks), our lovable geeks “help” their boss by letting her borrow The Internet for her Employee of the Month speech.

The Internet is black box with a blinking red light on top that Roy and Moss have given Jen, who knows absolutely nothing about computers, in the hopes of embarrassing her in front of her peers during her speech.

Naturally, as happens too often in real-life, the rest of her peers are complete knobs and have no idea what the Internet is either, so they are quite impressed by The Internet, and Roy and Moss are hoist by their own petard. (I’m not doing this episode justice at all. The only thing worse than trying to summarize a British comedy in text is an American trying to summarize a British comedy in text.)

Watch a clip from this episode for yourself, and then download the series on Netflix Instant Queue,

Now, thanks to Instructables user Melty McFace, you can build your own The Internet and let your own inter-office mayhem ensue. Click here for the step-by-step.

]]> http://www.tehawesome.net/2010/01/29/how-to-make-the-internet/feed/ 0 Googolopoly: Monopoly for the Internet! http://www.tehawesome.net/2010/01/26/googlolopoly-monopoloy/ http://www.tehawesome.net/2010/01/26/googlolopoly-monopoloy/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:47:32 +0000 snipe http://www.tehawesome.net/?p=205

Fantastic graphic from Geekstir. It would be even more hilarious if it was make in SketchUp. :D

Via [Geekstir]

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