Archive for June, 2006
Friday, June 30th, 2006
TenDollarDigitalCamera - ElephantStaircase
Another great article on hacking a cheap disposable digital camera. I'm going to get one of these soon to make a waterproof camera for kayaking.
Turn a "disposable" 10 dollar digital camera from RitzCamera, CVS, or Walgreens into one you can use over and over, just like a ...
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Friday, June 30th, 2006
Cynical-C Blog: Destroying a Car with a 500lb Rubberband Ball
Destroying a Car with a 500lb Rubberband Ball
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Friday, June 30th, 2006
OpenSource Fest 2006
Anyone going to make it?
The Summer 2006 GNU/Linux/BSD/OpenSource Fest
July 12 - 15
Presented by San Antonio College CIS Department, San Antonio Linux Users Group, and X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio
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Thursday, June 29th, 2006
Evolving Trends » Wikipedia 3.0: The End of Google?
The Semantic Web (or Web 3.0) promises to “organize the world’s information†in a dramatically more logical way than Google can ever achieve with their current engine design. This is specially true from the point of view of machine comprehension as opposed ...
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Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
New Scientist Breaking News - Air-con and lack of sleep promote obesity
Obesity is just as likely to be caused by lack of sleep and too much air-conditioning as it is by a sedentary lifestyle and aggressive marketing by the food industry, according to a research article that challenges the conventional ...
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Monday, June 26th, 2006
Potter's "Phoenix" Rising Next Summer - Yahoo! News
One year to go. Will this coincide with the release of the next book as well?
Muggles are going to have to crane their necks to catch this Phoenix.
Warner Bros. announced Wednesday plans to unspool
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the ...
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Monday, June 26th, 2006
Rowling to kill two in final Potter book - Yahoo! News
Any guesses as to which two characters? My guess is one of the Weasleys and at least one professor.
Children's author
J.K. Rowling has revealed that at least two characters will die in the seventh and final installment of her bestselling
Harry ...
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Monday, June 26th, 2006
New York Times Crossword Creator Will Shortz Gets Rich Off Sudoku -- New York Magazine
Interesting article.
The crossword editor for the New York Times is giving me an advance peek at the Sunday puzzle he will publish a week later. “See, now this grid is jam-packed with fresh uses of language,†...
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Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
Duct Tape Fashions, buy Duct Tape, Duct tape wallets, hats, purses, books and more duct tape!
Interesting DIY ideas but I don't think I'll pass on paying $12 for a hat.
Welcome to Duct Tape Fashion.com
Hand crafted duct tape items. All products 100% duct tape!
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Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
ongoing · On the Goodness of Unicode
Quite a few software professionals have learned that they need to worry about internationalizing software, and some of those have learned how to go about doing it. For those getting started, herewith a brief introduction to Unicode, the one technology that you have to ...
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Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
http - Google Search
Microsoft is bumped from the #1 result when searching for "http". For years microsoft.com has come up as the #1 search result for http. They were bumped recently bu w3c.org.
World Wide Web Consortium - 3 visits - 9:33pm
The interface allows scripts to perform HTTP client ...
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Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
Carbon Fiber
Forget about the carbon fiber toilet seat, now you can have an entire toilet made of the stuff. I'm completely afraid to guess the cost.
RFX10.9 Carbon Fiber Royal Flush Station
Using the same water jet technology as our porcelain models and weighing in at a mere 10.9 lbs. This ...
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Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
Windows Vista: Customer Preview Program
We invite you to be among the first to experience the clarity that Windows Vista can bring to your world. The Windows Vista Customer Preview Program makes a pre-release edition of Windows Vista Ultimate broadly available to the public for the first time.
Now I realize some ...
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