Archive for October, 2005
Tuesday, October 25th, 2005
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.
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2005
How To Keep An Idiot Busy
Well worth the wait.
HOW TO KEEP AN IDIOT BUSY FOR A WHILE.
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2005
Halloween Costumes Gone Wrong
Some horribly wrong ideas for a costume.
Halloween Costumes Gone Wrong
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Monday, October 24th, 2005
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 [...]
Posted in GPL/Open Source, Hacks, R0bots | Comments Off
Monday, October 24th, 2005
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.
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Sunday, October 23rd, 2005
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 [...]
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Friday, October 21st, 2005
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.
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Thursday, October 20th, 2005
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, [...]
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Thursday, October 20th, 2005
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.
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2005
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 [...]
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