Archive for February, 2008

Fixing Noise in ISO 1600 Pictures

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Imagenomic - Imagination at Shutter Speed — free and pro versions of noise filtering software — standalone and plugin version. seems to do a great job, has a depth ... Read more..

Intriguing materials science notes

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Nanotechnology-based clean hydrogen for cars — uses a vapor deposition process to create small catalyst spheres New aluminum alloy used to create hydrogen — I don’t understand this one as well Changing ... Read more..

The Kindle — changing my life.

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Excellent review here — agree with most of it. The integrated wireless and the Amazon.com integration make this thing sing. It has completely changed my reading and my ... Read more..

Chicken Wire Ghost

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Easy, Do-It-Yourself Ghost : Wacky Archives — nice. I don’t know that I have the viewing distance in my yard to make this effective. But not a hard ... Read more..

Free games, indy games

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

ViaCrunchGear ? Archive ? It’s Wednesday, time to waste your employer’s money, play all your old NES favorites online Top 3 indy games to watch for — and here is the ... Read more..

Lacrosse Links for 2008 Season

Monday, February 25th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Where to find all the key info for this spring season: Walax Overlake Schedule Boys Div II Standings Stats WHSBLA site Read more..

Network Magic Coupons

Monday, February 25th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Network Magic Coupons ~ Chris Pirillo — not sure where Chris found these but glad to see them! Read more..

WordPress Resources at SiteGround

Monday, February 25th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

WordPress is an outstanding blog software and that is why many people choose to use it for building their blogs. SiteGround is proud to host this particular WordPress installation and ... Read more..

Replacing a PC Power Supply

Sunday, February 24th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Beautiful day here yesterday but I spent part of it wrestling a new power supply into a desktop pc. The PC wouldn’t turn on this morning — didn’t respond at ... Read more..

Stairbookcase

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Thrill of the (book <em>and</em> stair) case — cool Read more..

Greentech PPA Report

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Good summary of this report — Clean Energy Future by Arno Harris: GreenTech’s PPA Report — Key Insight on Leased Buildings: In 2009, PPAs will be established as the standard way ... Read more..

MIT Clean Energy Entrepreneurship competition

Thursday, February 21st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

MIT Clean Energy Entrepreneurship Prize-Judges — cool, our own Brian Curtis is a judge! Interested to see the entries. Read more..

Stuff I Want But Do Not Need — grab bag

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Toolmonger ? Blog Archive ? Arbortech Power Chisel — who doesn’t need one? Awesome for Halloween sculpting. Of course my sculpting skills suck, and adding power to them ... Read more..

Text 30644 for sustainable fish guide

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Dial F for fish | Fish, Seafood, Sustainability | TerraPass: Fight global warming, promote alternative energy — this is great, I never remember to carry the printed guide with me Read more..

Kinesis camera bags

Monday, February 18th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Kinesis Photo Gear homepage [Built for People -- On the Move]â„¢ - recommended to me by my smart photo friends Read more..

Bottoms up assembly of nanowire devices

Sunday, February 17th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Nanowire arrays think big - nanotechweb.org — bottoms up, “organic” assembly of nanowires. Some technique like this is going to be necessary for nanowire devices. And solving the ... Read more..

Engineering Challenges for the next century

Sunday, February 17th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Home — a pretty inspiring list. We should all be working on one of these! I am glad to see that Ignition has companies working on health ... Read more..

Watching AVCHD on TV

Saturday, February 16th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I’m trying to figure out the best way to watch AVCHD movies on the family room TV. I’m not excited about installing a media center pc or appletv. ... Read more..

Danny doesn’t really want to watch HD

Friday, February 15th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Danny Glasser: The Road to HD: QAM to the rescue? — Danny is concocting the most complicated Rube Golbergian system possible to try to watch HD. Good luck! ... Read more..

iphone to ical to entourage to exchange == yuk

Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

OK this is starting to get really annoying. 70+ sync errors today with the iphone. seems to be mostly with recurring calendar events. grr. i know ... Read more..

Simple but useful tools

Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Toolmonger ? Blog Archive ? All Tied Up With Flat Twine — more useful than tape in a lot of cases Nylon Pry Set — excellent idea SATA to USB adapter — ... Read more..

Water Taxis to the San Juans

Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I didn’t know about these guys — Island Express Charters, San Juan Islands, Washington. I’ve used Paraclete a lot. If you don’t need a car on the islands, ... Read more..

DOE Lighting for Tomorrow

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Lots of great energy stuff up at the DOE site — including Solid-State Lighting: Research Highlights which has their award winners for solid state lighting last year. I’ve tried ... Read more..

Recent software of note

Monday, February 11th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Feature: Run Your Personal Wikipedia from a USB Stick — really cool, but I have to admit I can’t understand why you would jam all your valuable project and personal ... Read more..

Exploitation of college athletes

Monday, February 11th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Sunday Morning Quarterback :: Return of the Exploitation Index — great analysis of the economics around college football. Institutions and the adults involved continue to reap huge dollars off ... Read more..

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