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From their site:

"We'll be inviting 500 developers to attend the event, which will begin with hack-related presentations from some of the Web's most respected developers. We will then dive into 24 hours of hacking on a very nice collection of tools, APIs, and data, and end with awards from the sponsors plus bragging rights until the end of eternity or the next Hack Day, whichever comes first."

Now I have to thing about what kind of hack will be my part...

http://hackday.org/

Was wird denn nun mit dem bezahlen und abrechnen durch RFID Chips, wenn sich jeder aus einer Einwegkamera ein RFID-Zapper basteln kann?

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/wiki/RFID-Zapper

This crazy guy from Holland built a very low tech b&w camera from his optial mouse. Any artist out there with an idea to use it for?



http://sprite.student.utwente.nl/~jeroen/projects/mouseeye/

    10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD (O_O)"
    20 END

A compilation of *Hello World programs* designed by various categories of *developer* follows. Great fun!

Do you remember the black marker hack for DRMed CDs?
As techweb reported yesterday, there is an as easy way to deal with the controverse XCP copy protection that was used by Sony BMG on some CDs:
You only need a fingernail sized piece of opaque tape stiched on it to make your PC think the copy protected CD is a normal one.

[via engadget]

Media-centric features:
»Here's a closer first look at all the action, and we have to say right up front that Microsoft is neither kidding, nor over-positioning, when they say this isn't just a game box. Especially if you own a Media Center Edition PC, XBOX 360 is a must-have companion.«
Packet Switched Press

Hack a day: First Impressions
»I purchased this box on the first day because early versions of consoles are generally easier to modify. With the PSP ver. 1.0 it was easy to run homebrew code, but with each successive firmware version, Sony makes it harder. The original Xboxes that are being sold now make it almost impossible to run Xbox Linux because of a hardware change.«
Hack a day

Using Firefox? Then enter about:config in your adress bar to quickly check and edit all your personal preferences! To get a list of all preferences that can be changed go to this Wiki Page.

Simple label hack on Google Maps. (via Code Google).