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October 25, 2005

Geodesic AiroLITE Boats - ultra lightweight canoes and boats

Filed under: Transportation — anton @ 1:49 pm


Geodesic AiroLITE Boats - ultra lightweight SOF canoes and boats; plans, projects and tutorials

Looks like a cool project for next spring. They have a couple larger boats that would be good for fishing around here.

Pictured below, the remarkable 8-pound SweetPea, can carry a 150 pound person.

How To Keep An Idiot Busy

Filed under: Humor, Stupid People, Stupid Sites — anton @ 12:22 pm

How To Keep An Idiot Busy

Well worth the wait.

HOW TO KEEP AN IDIOT BUSY FOR A WHILE.

Halloween Costumes Gone Wrong

Filed under: Bean Bags, Humor, Stupid People — anton @ 11:17 am


Halloween Costumes Gone Wrong

Some horribly wrong ideas for a costume.

Halloween Costumes Gone Wrong

October 24, 2005

PICAXE - Inexpensive Embedded Controller

Filed under: GPL/Open Source, Hacks, R0bots — anton @ 1:23 pm


PICAXE

I’ve been looking for a low cost robotics kit for my son, and this might very well be it. Their online store appears to be getting hammered now, but the pdf price list indicates 18.61 pounds for the 28A Starter Pack and 35 pounds ($65) for a nice compact line following robot kit.

PICAXE microcontrollers are exciting, low-cost, re-programmable chips that can be used as low-cost ‘brains’ in many kinds of electronic project. For further information browse the index bar on the left hand side of the screen.

Business Opportunities Weblog | How Much Is My Blog Worth

Filed under: Blogging, Blogs, Business — anton @ 9:38 am


My blog is worth $22,017.06.
How much is your blog worth?

Business Opportunities Weblog | How Much Is My Blog Worth

Interesting measure of a blog’s worth.

I’ve created this little applet using Technorati’s API which computes and displays your blog’s worth using the same link to dollar ratio as the AOL-Weblogs Inc deal.

October 23, 2005

Dumbledore Is Not Dead

Filed under: Harry Potter, Literature — anton @ 9:40 pm


Dumbledore Is Not Dead

Very interesting site. I find the arguments convincing, and at least a few of them had occured to me as I read the last chapter the second time.

This is Dumbledore Is Not Dead .com, a site created to help Harry Potter fans cope with the shocking revelations in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

October 21, 2005

About Us

Filed under: Ajax, Web Stuff — admin @ 11:18 am

About us

Wow, this blows Yahoo’s Web Messenger and AIM Express out of the water.

We’re three folks working to bring IM to Web 2.0. Hopefully this lets you get all of your IMing done in one place and makes it easier too.

October 20, 2005

BrickJournal - the magazine for Adult Fans of LEGO

Filed under: Art, LEGO — anton @ 6:28 pm


BrickJournal - the magazine for Adult Fans of LEGO

Yay! I’m very glad to see they produced a second issue. The first was brilliant and I’m expecting this one to be even better.

BrickJournal Issue 2 is now available for download!

This issue is themed toward Mecha with interviews with:
* Bryce McGlone, builder of creepy organic mecha
* Jeff Ranjo, Mecha builder and Head of Story at Sony Animation

Also, there are mecha construction articles by Adam Silcott and Soren Roberts!

Ananova - David Copperfield to ‘magic’ girl pregnant

Filed under: Art, Humor, Stupid People — anton @ 12:57 pm


Ananova - David Copperfield to ‘magic’ girl pregnant

Is this real, how will he prove it happened?

David Copperfield says he plans to impregnate a girl on stage - without even touching her.

Speaking to German magazine Galore, the illusionist rejected the theory that there were only seven different kinds of magic tricks.

October 18, 2005

Altoids Survival Kit

Filed under: Gadgets — anton @ 12:04 am


Altoids Survival Kit

This kit is designed to be a 72-hour kit. It is designed to be small and portable, but also to be effective in providing for the Survival “Rule of Threes.”

The basic kit is enclosed in an Altoids tin, wrapped with 10 feet of 550 parachute cord. Note the 3/32″ diameter hole drilled in the upper right hand corner of the tin. This kit provides for shelter preparation, fire making, water storage and treatment, signaling capability, basic medical needs and food procurement.

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