Archive for March, 2006
Thursday, March 30th, 2006
Damn Interesting » The Smoldering Ruins of Centralia
Another interesting story.
There is a small town in Pennsylvania called Ashland where Route 61's northbound traffic is temporarily branched onto a short detour. Exactly what the detour is circumventing is not immediately clear to travelers, however few passers-by pay it any mind… ...
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Wednesday, March 29th, 2006
Cool Hunting: Rubik's Sudoku
Add this to my wish list.
Rubik's x Sudoko = this travel friendly, programable game. No word on the official Rubik's site but the game is already hitting (virtual) store shelves in advance of its expected U.S. release in May 2006
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Wednesday, March 29th, 2006
Ruby on Rails
Rails 1.1 is out for anyone who cares.
Rails is a full-stack framework for developing database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern. From the Ajax in the view, to the request and response in the controller, to the domain model wrapping the database, Rails gives you a pure-Ruby ...
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Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
Brickshelf Gallery
An insanely large scale model of the USS Harry S Truman (CVN75). There's a lot of attention to detail. If anyone knows of a writeup about this model, please let me know in the comments and I'll include links here.
A bit of info fron here.
Some facts:
Made by ...
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Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
Words For My Enjoyment » Blog Archive » I Am Afraid of Keychain Clutterers
The saga of keychain clutterers began simply, like any other huge problem in society. People all had keys and they all looked the same and so people set out to find a way to make people’s keychains ...
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Monday, March 27th, 2006
Quicksilverscreen.com: Self Cooling Beer Can
Another complete waste of resources just for the love of a cold beer. While beer is arguably more important and certainly tastier than the artificially sweetened crap that Wolfgang Puck sells it seems like there's got to be a better way to keep/make it cool.
"The ...
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Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
WOAI: San Antonio News - Flying Cow Leaves Two Police Cars in Flames
Yikes, flying cows. Time for a thicker windshield. FYI, Seguin is about 20 miles east of my place.
Talk about a wild night near Seguin. A cow came flying out of its trailer, sent DPS and police ...
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Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
Graffiti Research Lab » LED Throwies II
A second throwie video. We're planning a similar event in San Antonio during the Fiesta. Contact me by Friday if you are local and would like to participate.
LED Throwies @ Astor Place, NYC
LED Throwies are an open source graffiti technology developed at ...
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Thursday, March 16th, 2006
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How to set up reBlog - killer server side feed reader - Lifehacker
This looks like something I should investigate some. I've been using a custom script to fetch and post feeds to a wordpress blog, but it lacks any handy ui for adding feeds.
How to set up reBlog - ...
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Tuesday, March 14th, 2006
Spore Gameplay Video - Google Video
This looks like an awesome game. The official site is here: http://www.spore.com/ but doesn't have much info. If anyone can find out when/if this product comes up for sale please let me know.
Will Wright talking at the 2005 Game Developer's Conference about 'Spore', ...
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Tuesday, March 14th, 2006
Cryzip Trojan Encrypts Files, Demands Ransom
Virus writers are coming up with new ideas and writing better code, but they still can't write a simple english sentence.
The Trojan, identified as Cryzip, uses a commercial zip library to store the victim's documents inside a password-protected zip file and leaves step-by-step instructions on ...
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Monday, March 13th, 2006
plastk:net - Quake 3
That looks like it'd be a lot of fun. Reminds me of running doom back in the day with 3 computers and 3 monitors.
Our lab also has a 24 monitor display wall, and as you can see from the pictures below, I got Quake 3 running ...
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Sunday, March 12th, 2006
one red paperclip
I've posted about this before, but thought this was worth an update. So far he's traded all the way up to a pretty sweet sounding recordind deal with Metal Works Studios in Toronto.
My name is Kyle MacDonald. I started with one red paperclip on July 12th, 2005 ...
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