Ick.
But can a human subsist on a constant diet of pelletized, nutritionally complete food like puppies and monkeys do? For the good of human kind, I’m about to find out. On June 3, 2006, I began my week of eating nothing but monkey chow: “a complete and balanced diet for the nutrition of primates, including the great apes.”
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(SCENE: a strip mall Radio Shack with a single Radio Shack EMPLOYEE standing behind the sales counter. CORY DOCTOROW enters.)
Cory Doctrow visits a radio shack and harrasses a poor low wage lackey. And people think this is funny?
You’re pissing up the wrong tree. I’m all for cynisism but this is just being an asshat. The high school kid making $10/hour at Radio Shack so he can put gas in his car, take Betty Sue out to a movie and if he’s real lucky, actually get lucky, isn’t any more able to change the policies of Sprint than we are. Pissing in his Wheaties is just spreading ill feelings and does nothing good for anyone.
Google Spreadsheets - Sneak Peek
Creating spreadsheets
Create basic spreadsheets from scratch.
You can start from scratch and do all the basics, including changing the number format, sorting by columns, and adding formulas.Upload your spreadsheet files.
Upload spreadsheets or worksheets from CSV or XLS format - all your formulas and formatting will come across intact.Familiar desktop feel makes editing a breeze.
Just click the toolbar buttons to bold, underline, change the font, change the cell background color and more.
I just got my invite to Google spreadsheets. Very nice interface, similar to Open Office’s oocalc. I imported an xls sheet with no problems, saved it on the site, and have options to export as xls or csv. Very cool and appears to be full featured.
Some interesting ear-rings made from various electronic parts.
How much would it take to make a working circuit powered by a little ultra capacitor? Recharge the capacitor in a few seconds on a dresser top charger and wear. With the right capacitor and low power circuit it should be possible to design something that flashes, wiggles or chirps for a few hours or more. Maybe tune an antenna to your cell phones frequency and the ear ring vibrates to let you know you’re getting a call.
Damn Funny Pictures - Cool Pictures - The Flintstones House
Someone has built a cool live-in model of the Flinstones house. They had to settle on real fixtures instead of dinosaurs but it’s quite well done and looks like it’d be fun to live in.
1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose - Project Gutenberg
Some very interesting definitions here. We could learn a thing or two about vulgarity from our fore fathers.
Reprint of the author’s Lexicon balatronicum; a dictionary of buckish slang, university wit, and pickpocket eloquence (and now considerably altered and enlarged, with the modern changes and improvements, by a member of the whip club.)
Some samples from the text:
FRENCHIFIED. Infected with the venereal disease. The
mort is Frenchified: the wench is infected.To SHAG. To copulate. He is but bad shag; he is no able
woman’s man.SQUIRREL. A prostitute: because she like that animal, covers
her back with her tail. Meretrix corpore corpus alit.
Menagiana, ii. 128.
Music thing: The Tritare: A guitar with Y-shaped strings
Yesterday morning, at the Acoustical Society of America’s 151st meeting in Providence, RI, Sophie Léger of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Université de Moncton, Canada, will be presenting a paper on “A New Family of Stringed Musical Instruments”. She’s one of the inventors of the Tritare, which has triple-ended strings - one string goes up the fretted neck, and the other two resonantes on the second, and third, fretless necks
The samples appear to me to be similar to a regular guitar with a bit of flange and reverb effect. Not sure the complexity of the Y stringed instrument is justified by the sound. Can you imagine trying to tune it and keep the junction of all the strings on the same line?
MAKE: Blog: HOW TO - Build your own band aid fuel cell
Nice little tutorial to let you explore fuel cells.
Build a Fuel Cell with a couple of Band Aids, an MEA and a few scraps of stainless steel bug screen by Gavin D. J. Harper.
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