http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/05/drive-cradle-makes-i.html Swappable cradle for un-enclosed hard drives. This is such a cool idea.
Category Archives: Science
HTML Tags illustrated | haha.nu – the lifestyle blogzine
http://haha.nu/misc/html-tags-illustrated/ As stolen from BoingBoing, a series of photos whimsically reinterpreting the use of HTML tags. This was my favourite.
Motorola KRZR TVC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcejnYsgif4 Fear not – the thumbs up for this Motorola ad is not for the product or the ad itself. Instead, it’s for the ad company’s choice of song. Anyone who has ever experienced the awesomeness that is Grand Rapids, MI’s indie band, The Icicles, is revelling in the double-awesomeness of their Sugar Sweet being […]
Rubens Tube
http://wohba.com/pages/ruben1006.html The iTunes visualiser’s got nothing on this.
Thagomizer – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer My sister is obsessed with Gary Larson’s late, lamented (by her, especially) Far Side cartoon. Apparently she’s not the only one with the obsession – did you know that a Far Side punchline has become palaeontological canon? Whatever was the original word for the spiked tail of Stegosaurus, if it indeed ever had one, […]
HowTo: Read Wikipedia on an iPod & scattershot genius;
http://swannman.wordpress.com/2006/10/01/howto-read-wikipedia-on-an-ipod/ Well, the script works, but my iPod is too old to support it. Too bad; I loved the idea of carrying the full knowledge of Wikipedia’s American Civil War pages in my pocket!
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http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2006/1756390.htm Nutmeg sends me this article about a techie nerd researcher who aims to create sensory – and sentient – clothing. Those of you with robot revolution phobias are quaking in your analog boots right now, I know it. The line that had me most stumped was this one: Berzowska also has musical clothes including […]
Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine | KurzweilAI
http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0504.html?printable=1 The luckiest students in the world get one of their fathers to help them with their homework. Of course, the homework is an early computer cluster and the father is Nobel Laureate/Los Alamos Genius Richard Feynman. Getting Richard to give advice like that was sometimes tricky. He pretended not to like working on any […]
Pluto mnemonic device contest results
http://www.kottke.org/06/08/pluto-mnemonic-device-contest-results I’ve been wondering, since Pluto’s planetary blacklisting, what effect we’d see on grade-school mnemonics across the world. (What exactly does the very early man not use to munch his juicy steaks now?) This one doesn’t solve the problem, though it does manage to express every affected grade schooler’s digust and coat it with a […]
Microwaved Water and Plants
http://www.execonn.com/sf/ I gave up my microwave years ago, due more to space and enthusiams issues than medical concerns, but this kind of experiment makes me wonder if I shouldn’t have ditched it sooner. Note disclaimers at bottom of page, but the pictures say a lot.