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 normal digital camera.
Most digital cameras [...]
Cynical-C Blog: Destroying a Car with a 500lb Rubberband Ball
Destroying a Car with a 500lb Rubberband Ball
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
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 to human comprehension.The Semantic Web [...]
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 wisdom.
Hrm. Turn off the [...]
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 highly anticipated fifth film from
J.K. [...]
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 Potter series, but was careful [...]
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,†Shortz says, sitting in his [...]
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.
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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 get comfortable with if you’re [...]
