Archive for July, 2007

Interesting matsci stuff this week

Monday, July 30th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Perfect lens could reverse Casimir force (July 2007) - News - nanotechweb.org — a way to eliminate sticking forces at the nano/mems level. pretty fascinating. Motor proteins (AAAS membership required) ... Read more..

UNESCO world heritage sites

Sunday, July 29th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

World Heritage Centre - World Heritage List — good resource for next trip, places i really should see Read more..

Halloween stuff

Sunday, July 29th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Via Make, uC Hobby ? Blog Archive ? uC Meets BJT — how to control high current devices with a microcontroller D*Face — awesome — how can i turn ordinary structures ... Read more..

Clipboard Text Scrubber

Sunday, July 29th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Most useful software tip of the month — 7. Deformat your clipboard text - Lifehacker — no more routing thru Notepad to eliminate formatting. Read more..

Ignition blog roundup

Sunday, July 29th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

OK well mostly Rich highlights. Tong Family Blog: iPod Backup — Rich points to a summary of ipod backup tools. L this is what you need. Brett on field water purification. ... Read more..

Stupid Halloween Gadget

Sunday, July 29th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Help, there’s a poltergeist in the library! ? Coolest Gadgets — at this price, probably incredibly cheesy, but still kind of cool. Read more..

Nutrition Data

Monday, July 23rd, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Nutrition Facts and Analysis for Squash, winter, acorn, cooked, baked, with salt — great site for detailed nutrional analysis of any food product. Read more..

Software links

Monday, July 23rd, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

WikiMatrix - Compare them all — lists and compares all the wiki implementations Forummatrix — same dealy for forums MonkeyGTD — the fusion of wikis and GTD ideas is a strong draw ... Read more..

The Tesla is sexy but I think I’d rather have one of these

Thursday, July 19th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

100% Electric SUV Recharges In 10 Minutes : MetaEfficient. Read more..

Vista still troublesome

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Vista Still Sucks, Pirillo Pissed — in my case, my reliability index hovers at about 5 and I can drive it down arbitrarily low by running games. I have ... Read more..

OSX and Windows playing nicely

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

A bag of tips on making OSX and Windows happy on the same machine — Hack Attack: Set Windows programs as defaults for your Mac (and vice versa) - Lifehacker ... Read more..

Ohio State Decor

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

EDSBS ? Archive ? THE GREATEST FOOTBALL ROOM EVER EVER — I am clearly an amateur when it comes to Buckeye-themed decor, all I have is a rug. And ... Read more..

Best Starting Salaries

Monday, July 16th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

College grads see higher starting salaries this year - Jul. 12, 2007 via The Big Picture. Engineering rules yet again. Might be a tortoise and hare thing tho, ... Read more..

More Stuff I Want But Don’t Need

Monday, July 16th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Bell & Ross BR 01 Phantom — beautiful sparse design. Not sure I could ever justify 4-5K for such sparseness tho. The Teslaphonic Organ — I pretty much love anything ... Read more..

How to get google mail for your domain on the blackberry

Monday, July 16th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

Scott Hanselman’s Computer Zen turned me onto the fact that you can get your google-hosted email on your blackberry: “I almost like the BlackBerry Gmail app (note, there’s two apps, ... Read more..

GFI power cord

Monday, July 16th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Toolmonger ? Blog Archive ? Be Safe: Bring Your Own GFCI — I always blow a circuit or two, what with lots of outdoor props and northwest rain. This ... Read more..

Optical illusions

Sunday, July 15th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Dark Roasted Blend: Optical Illusions Update — always love these. Read more..

Formula D Saturday

Sunday, July 15th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Formula Drift - Professional Drifting Championship — great event. The sport is in its infancy here so you can easily get into the pits, up close to the track, ... Read more..

Inverted World Map

Sunday, July 15th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

148 - Oh, Inverted World ? strange maps — just awesome. now someone needs to write the corresponding series of fantasy novels. Read more..

Stuff I Want But Do Not Need

Saturday, July 14th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

French Ranges - Lacanche Stoves — beautiful ranges Pioneer music tap — in the sonos, slimdevice space d3o shock responding polymer — absolutely no need for this but it is cool Van Hoy ... Read more..

Headed to Formula D today

Saturday, July 14th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Formula Drift - Professional Drifting Championship Read more..

Select Comfort Beds

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Considering a SelectComfort bed — The Fool on SCSS — recent consumer complaints — SCSS financial info Read more..

Web Service Stuff I Should Learn More About

Sunday, July 8th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Six Apart - Movable Type News - MT4: Time To Give It A Try — you can run a hosted version of MT4 on Amazon’s EC2 service. When my ... Read more..

Congrats to Walter Smith Et Al

Sunday, July 8th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

When three ex-MSFTies partner: They’re Beautiful! - istartedsomething — I’d been meaning to notice these guys, looks like they are up to some cool stuff. Not sure how they ... Read more..

Wire Storage Tower

Sunday, July 8th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

MAKE: Blog: Make a wire storage tower — need to make one of these Read more..