A Little Ludwig Goes A Long Way

Pinewood derby designs of excellence

john — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:43:34 +0000

MAKE: Blog: Pinewood derby designs of excellence.Â Love the pinewood derby, still remember coming in 2nd and winning the pen and pencil set so many years ago, one of my finest moments.Â These examples are clearly adult-assisted but cool.Â Your kid’s car should look nothing like these — mine looked like a block of wood painted gold.

Cisco Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Pure Networks

john — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:46:27 +0000

Cisco Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Pure Networks: Financial News - Yahoo Finance.Â Congrats to Pure Networks team, to Pure alums, Pure investors, and Cisco for getting a great asset.Â Good luck guys!

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john — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:16:03 +0000

More trees with eyes!

john — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:00:44 +0000

MAKE: Blog: More trees with eyes! — very nice.

FanDome

john — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:51:05 +0000

FanDome - NCAA College Football - Ohio State Buckeyes Team Page — useful buckeye link page, lots o videos.

Photo Stuff

john — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:45:43 +0000

onOne Software - Developers of Award Winning Plug-Ins for Adobe Photoshop.Â Need to try out.
Phantasmagoria — free effects software to try out
Rich explains F/Stops to me again.Â Goofy.
Sony CP1 Canvas picture frame.Â Looks cool, doesn’t seem to really exist yet.

Stuff I want but don’t need

john — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:25:56 +0000

Toolmonger Â» Blog Archive Â» Bending Over Is For Chumps — actually I totally need this! Ordering today.
Waspknife. For the sharks in Lake Washington.
Jawbone 2. Rich loves it but I refuse to go bluetooth until they look less dorky. I have my pride.
LED Candelabra for Halloween. Stupid expensive.
Hex-pro wrenches.
Gum Magnets. Gross. But cool.
Picksets. awesome.
Extruded Aluminum Dominoes. Neato.

Fat Spaniel Launches Open Platform

john — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:51:05 +0000

Greentech Media | Fat Spaniel Launches Open Platform.Â Congrats guys.Â One nice example of the platform use here — another here — a bunch of these up on the fat spaniel site

Kindle 2.0 coming

john — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:54:58 +0000

This year’s must have Christmas item?

Revolutions in dentistry

john — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:44:07 +0000

Toward the end of the dentist drill? — I grew up with a great family dentist but since adulthood my experiences have not been as good, and I sure hope that technologies like this come to fruition. I hope a hundred years from now people look back at 20th century dentistry and shudder at the barbarism of it all.