Thursday, September 29, 2005
Boing Boing: Thirty buck "toy" amp kicking all kinds of ass
Boing Boing: DIY wooden automata kit
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Boing Boing: Peeing statues spell out famous quotes and SMSs in wee
PubSub - Top 1000 blogs
PubSub - Top 1000 blogs
Boing Boing: Hand-sports (pen-twirling, card-cutting, cup-stacking) in video and tutorial
Slashdot | Voyager 1 Sends Messages from the Edge
Monday, September 26, 2005
Slashdot | World Solar Challenge Started in Australian Desert
Sunday, September 25, 2005
The Leonard Cohen Files
The Leonard Cohen Files - very good, comprehensive site of Cohen material.
Boing Boing: Outdoor LAN gaming in a carport
Boing Boing: Cut and shuffle a deck with one hand
Saturday, September 24, 2005
we make money not art: Advanced Wars papercraft
Staying anonymous in the internet jungle | The Register
The iPod Mini... from 1954
Slashdot | Mini-ITX Computing For Everyone
we make money not art: 3D action puzzle game for two
we make money not art: The crocodile and the toothbrush
Thursday, September 22, 2005
Boing Boing: iPod, circa 1954
Boing Boing: Decorative Russian hand-painted mice
Boing Boing: Linux-based handheld has DRM?!
Internet Speed Test - Broadband, DSL Bandwidth Connection Check
Sunday, September 18, 2005
we make money not art: Personal Rockin Computer
Saturday, September 17, 2005
Suunto X9i - GSM watch
Xbox Velocity - imaginary device
Mobile Magazine: R&D: Xbox Velocity - an imaginary device - for now.
Thursday, September 15, 2005
Boing Boing: Build your own PVR and get a TV that you really 0wn!
Boing Boing: Hummer laptop
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Boing Boing: 5th graders re-enactment of Devo's "Whip-It"
Boing Boing: HOWTO make an X-Wing fighter out of a Paris Metro ticket
Boing Boing: TiVo alternatives you can own (not the other way around)
Boing Boing: Cardboard boxes transformed into art
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
RealBasic 2005 for Mac, Windows and Linux | The Register
Sunday, September 11, 2005
Boing Boing: Advance Wars papercraft
Boing Boing: Mechanical papercraft toys -- including a Maneki Neko
Boing Boing: Lemmings implemented in DHTML
we make money not art: Augmented carnage
Saturday, September 10, 2005
ScotteVest Version 4.0 - Gizmodo
Rubik's Cube Solver
The Million Dollar Homepage - Own a piece of internet history!
PCWorld.com - 20 Things They Don't Want You to Know
Boing Boing: Flat, paint-over Ethernet and component video wires
Boing Boing: Super Mario magnets
Guardian Unlimited | Life | Don't dumb me down
Guardian Unlimited | Life | Don't dumb me down - excellent article discussing "bad science" in the media. Good read.
Boing Boing: Super Mario Brothers implemented in Javascript
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Politics (Disaster Foretold)
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Politics (Disaster Foretold) - link about Nat. Geo article "foretelling" Hurricane Katrina.
Louisiana's Wetlands @ National Geographic Magazine
Louisiana's Wetlands @ National Geographic Magazine
An article from October 2004 that almost exactly predicts Hurricane Katrina (August 2005).
An article from October 2004 that almost exactly predicts Hurricane Katrina (August 2005).
Boing Boing: Cellular automata ringtones
Slashdot | Windows XP In Your Pocket
Slashdot | Windows XP In Your Pocket - link to Tom's article on setting up your flash drive.
Friday, September 09, 2005
Slashdot | Logitech Unveils Smart Mouse
Boing Boing: Stonehenge watch needs to be aligned to
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Boing Boing: Pre-microcomputer ASCII art gallery
Boing Boing: Anti UK national ID card video
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
Portable Gadgets: Solar Charger For Portable Game Consoles
Monday, September 05, 2005
we make money not art: Modulobe: Free Software for Constructing Virtual Creatures
Criminals beating Chip-and-PIN
Guardian Unlimited Money | Special_reports | Fraudsters show how to beat chip and pin
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Criminals to 'adapt to ID cards'
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Criminals to 'adapt to ID cards'
Boing Boing: Vintage USAF "flight computers" for sale
Slashdot | The First Killer App: VisiCalc
Slashdot | The First Killer App: VisiCalc - links to the creators home site.
Sunday, September 04, 2005
Boing Boing: SIngapore's cool-ass hard-drive video-players
Saturday, September 03, 2005
Boing Boing: Create your own first-person shooter
BBC NEWS | Magazine | The modern rules of advertising?
BBC NEWS | Magazine | The modern rules of advertising? - slightly humourous view of advertising cliches - some reader responses too.
Friday, September 02, 2005
PSP video fun from Guardian Unlimited: Gamesblog
PSP video fun from Guardian Unlimited: Gamesblog - with links to 4 Utils that help get video on to your PSP.
Thursday, September 01, 2005
Boing Boing: PSP's social/technical merits and demerits
Boing Boing: Dennett's NYT op-ed on the Intelligent Design hoax
Boing Boing: Video recorder saves to Memory Stick for PSP viewing
Boing Boing: Hand-cranked phone charger/FM radio/flashlight
we make money not art: DIMobile, the travelling retail unit
Slashdot | PSP Browser Tips
Boing Boing: Matrix "regenerator pod" casemod
Diamonds lose 'world's hardest' title | The Register
Diamonds lose 'world's hardest' title | The Register - C60 squashed.
Pencil Revolution
Pencil Revolution - weblog all about pencils.
Funfurde: au.
Funfurde: au. - very strange chairs - must see.
16 Things NOT To Say When Your Boss Asks What You're Doing
The Cyborg Name Generator
The Cyborg Name Generator - avatar pix - a few as well.
Boing Boing: Hamster-powered phone charger invented by 16-year-old
Boing Boing: Hamster-powered phone charger invented by 16-year-old - a GCSE Technology project - and it only got a C.
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Spy craft take gull flight lesson
Kottke on O'Reilly's Link-Spam | Matrix ASCII Art Movie
Cell chip mysteries revealed | The Register
Cell chip mysteries revealed | The Register - has link to IBM site for technical details of Cell CPU.
Boing Boing: Puzzle of the Month: Popular Science, April 1960
Boing Boing: Puzzle of the Month: Popular Science, April 1960 - nice Maths logic puzzle.
Boing Boing: Answer to PopSci 1960 puzzle - and this is the answer.
Boing Boing: Answer to PopSci 1960 puzzle - and this is the answer.
Boing Boing: Excellent purple dot illusion
Boing Boing: Excellent purple dot illusion - and links to other illusions too.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Poor print exposing pin numbers
Boing Boing: Bender casemod, talks, glows, and stores a terabyte
Boing Boing: Bender casemod, talks, glows, and stores a terabyte - character from Futurama.
Boing Boing: Model-railroad-sim controller
Race off: Forza Motorsport vs. Gran Turismo 4 : Page 1
Race off: Forza Motorsport vs. Gran Turismo 4 : Page 1 - compares the two games - notes TOCA Race Driver 2 as well.
Boing Boing: ItPlaysQuake: reviews of Quake-ports on odd hardware
Boing Boing: ItPlaysQuake: reviews of Quake-ports on odd hardware - post about a site that looks at loads of Quake ports - backwards link to one for Doom ports.
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts | Online librarian is 'overwhelmed'
Boing Boing: Indoor RC airplane
The J-Walk Blog: Fractals
Chris Doyle Presents - Reasonably Clever! Wasting your workday since 1995
Chris Doyle Presents - Reasonably Clever! Wasting your workday since 1995 - a LEGO spacecraft in detail - Serenity from the TV series Firefly.
Boing Boing: Human cannonballs
Slashdot | 10 Computer Mishaps
Wired News: Intel Chips Emphasize Efficiency
BBC - Doctor Who - K9 returns
Slashdot | New 'Pentop' Computer To Help Children Learn
The End Of Faith, by Sam Harris
The End Of Faith, by Sam Harris - book that argues for end to religious faith. Even moderate belief.
Boing Boing: Gigantic Klein botttle
Boing Boing: Gigantic Klein botttle - effectively a 3D Moebius strip. A bottle with no inside or outside.
Boing Boing: Cardboard house supplies own water
Boing Boing: Cardboard house supplies own water: "Cardboard house supplies own water
The Cardboard House -- roofed with HDPE plastic -- is recycled, recyclable, flat-pack, home-assembled, and comes with a composting toilet and condenses its own water, which doubles as an under-house ballast tank to keep it from blowing over. " Link
The Cardboard House -- roofed with HDPE plastic -- is recycled, recyclable, flat-pack, home-assembled, and comes with a composting toilet and condenses its own water, which doubles as an under-house ballast tank to keep it from blowing over. " Link
Intelligence: Behold the All-Seeing, Self-Parking, Safety-Enforcing, Networked Automobile - Popular Science
Intelligence: Behold the All-Seeing, Self-Parking, Safety-Enforcing, Networked Automobile - Popular Science - cars of the future?
DEAD AIR SPACE
DEAD AIR SPACE - RadioHead weblog?
Boing Boing: Mechanical flapping papercraft bat with tombstone
Blogger Buzz: Fabulous JPG magazine
Blogger Buzz: Fabulous - links to JPG MAGazine.
Funfurde: embrio.
Funfurde: embrio. - cool motorised unicycle - linked from a furniture site too - wow.
cheesedip.com: lem, love & tensor algebra
cheesedip.com: lem, love & tensor algebra - a love peom with maths - linked explanations for non-mathematical.
Flying Spaghetti Monster links
Flying Spaghetti Monster - Wikipedia: "The Flying Spaghetti Monster is the deity of a parody religion, known as Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, started on the Internet by Bobby Henderson as a parody of the decision by the Kansas State Board of Education to allow intelligent design to be taught in science classes alongside evolution."
Also - Boing Boing: Pastafarianism: Flying Spaghetti Monster cult grows and The J-Walk Blog: Flying Spaghetti Monster.
BoingBoing followup - Boing Boing: Boing Boing's $250,000 Intelligent Design challenge.
Also - Boing Boing: Pastafarianism: Flying Spaghetti Monster cult grows and The J-Walk Blog: Flying Spaghetti Monster.
BoingBoing followup - Boing Boing: Boing Boing's $250,000 Intelligent Design challenge.
Massive IT overhaul in prospect for UK schools | The Register
Boing Boing: Ferrari steering wheel costs $25,000
Ferrari steering wheel costs $25,000
Look at all the pretty knobs, buttons, and lights on this Ferrari Formula 1 steering wheel. It looks like a high-end crib toy. My 2-year-old daughter would love one. Link
Look at all the pretty knobs, buttons, and lights on this Ferrari Formula 1 steering wheel. It looks like a high-end crib toy. My 2-year-old daughter would love one. Link
Editing your digital images without the mystery
Editing your digital images without the mystery - 6 pages of detail about editing/tweaking digital images.
Boing Boing: HOWTO convert an NES controller to a TV remote
backstage.bbc.co.uk :: Backstage Blog :: O'Reilly's Radar puts our users on the map
Combining BBC data with Google maps.
AIGA - The Color Project
33,000 or so English nouns arranged by colour and function. Interesting Java applet - read about it here.
Boing Boing: Hong Kong Mickey Mouse flip-phone
spacetoday.net: MESSENGER flies past Earth
spacetoday.net: MESSENGER flies past Earth - it was back on 2nd August 2005.
Slashdot | Carmack's Throatless Rocket Engine
Slashdot | Carmack's Throatless Rocket Engine - the very same John carmack from iD Software and all that means. Interesting links that could move on to beter things.
Slashdot | 29 Vector Drawing Programs
Slashdot | 29 Vector Drawing Programs - link to page with comparison table further down the screen.
Slashdot | Running Windows With No Services
Slashdot | Running Windows With No Services - save memory and CPU cycles maybe.
mobiBLU America
mobiBLU America - very small MP3 player in cube shape - 1GB perhaps.
Slashdot | PC Keyboard Connected to PSP
Google Total
Create Your Google Logo
Google Moon
Work Blog: Exciting Sneaky Bastard Fun from Work Magazine - A Third of Your Life, All of the Time
Work Blog: Exciting Sneaky Bastard Fun from Work Magazine - A Third of Your Life, All of the Time - a neat one, a spreadsheet to help search for work (US only I guess - never mind) and updated here too.
Funfurde: rocket. lamp. style-3.
Boing Boing: "Radiohead artist" Stanley Donwood's prints online (UPDATED)
Boing Boing: Windows on a PSP
Boing Boing: Brighton's steampunk rolling sea-platform
Boing Boing: Paper steam engine
Boing Boing: Futuro Houses: prefab space kitsch
Boing Boing: Homebrew model Star Wars ships that ACTUALLY FLY
Boing Boing: Web Zen: pixel push zen
Boing Boing: Promise TV -- PVR records a month's worth of shows from all channels
Boing Boing: 3D modeller to recreate all of Walt Disney World
Boing Boing: Origami full-sized house
JPG Magazine
BBC NEWS | England | Beds/Bucks/Herts | 'Silent aircraft' design launched
BBC NEWS | Technology | Downloading 'myths' challenged
BBC NEWS | Technology | Teens urged to be future thinkers
BBC NEWS | Technology | Digital rights group gets going
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Astronomers detect '10th planet'
BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click Online | Kenya pilots handheld education
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 'Eternal planes' to watch over us
