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March 2006
- Visualize Your Tax Spending
- Posted over on Boing Boing, Xeni pointed to this very cool visual representation of how US taxes were spent in 2004. It’s fascinating to visually see how much was spent on one thing (the ‘Bureau of Indian Affairs’, for example, at $2.462 billion) compared to... full entry
August 2005
- Serenity, Legoized
- What happens if a person has the time, resources and skill for Legoizing (if that’s not a word, then it should be), has an interest for Firefly, and some web space to spare? I’m pretty sure you’ll click on this link to find out.
July 2005
- Ok, you’ve got three months to cool off
- That’s what workers at the Steward Observatory Mirror Lab will say to a two-story centifugal furnace full of molten glass after it finishes making the 27-foot mirrors for the Magellan telescope, otherwise known as “teh largest eye bulb telescope evar”. That’s some hot glass!
March 2005
- Writings of H.P. Lovecraft
- I was looking for links to read the short stories of H.P. Lovecraft, the horror author from the turn of last century, when I discovered that his works prior to 1923 are now public domain. And whether the copyrights of the stories he wrote after... full entry
December 2004
- Pricing Software
- Joel Spolsky comes out with yet another wonderful article. You know, all of his that I’ve read have been great and yet his site isn’t a regular destination for me. Hmm… I think this needs to change. Anyway, his great article is on software pricing.... full entry
October 2004
- Print Magazines delivered digitally
- Using the free Zinio software, many print magazines are offering themselves to be delivered digitally. Like most magazine offers, you get the free ones by signing up for trade publications. Depending on your answers to their questions, you are given a list of qualifying trade... full entry
June 2004
- Listen, Print, Share
- Apple has released the new Airport Express, a nifty palm-sized wireless extension of the Airport Extreme Base Station. Yes, cards, and other full-size wireless routers can extend the range or provide additional wireless and wired access points to your network like this can; but the... full entry
April 2004
- iTunes 4.5 Update
- Apple released iTunes 4.5 today, and after checking some forums to make sure nothing got nerfed, I downloaded and installed it. Read on to discover the new features.
March 2004
- Why I’m Short(er)
- Blogdex had a link today to a New Yorker article about average heights of different people/populations around the world and throughout history. It seems that the average height in the US has remained essentially the same for the past 50 years whereas European heights have... full entry
- Dialect Survey Mapped!
- Yeah, exciting headline, I know. In the vein of Chris’s recent commonly mispronounced words entry, I bring you (courtesy PA), the Harvard University Dialect Survey. It maps alternate pronunciations of words and where people say them, and questions such as the quintessential: ”What is your... full entry
- Common Mispronunciations
- Yourdictionary.com has a list of the top 100 mispronounced words and phrases in the english language. I’m not quite sure of the source for the list, but there are certainly a large number of the entries that I hear mispronounced all the time. “excape” and... full entry
- Burning DVD Labels?
- I finally got around to reading last month’s PC World issue and I came across a small article (is it really an “article” if it only takes up around a third of a printed page in the magazine?) that discussed a new method for creating... full entry
- Subways of the World
- The size of varying cities’ subway systems really isn’t particularly important in the greater scheme of things. Or even the lesser scheme. But darned if it isn’t really interesting! Fake is the New Real has up a page (which looks to be expanding in the... full entry
- Apple Upgrade Gets an A+
- I received my hard drive today. As I’ve mentioned, I’ve never purchased a hard drive before, but I have swapped them from machine to machine and built a PC from scratch, so I’m certainly familiar with the installation process. Apple gets a fabulous grade in... full entry
February 2004
- Finding ‘Mars on Earth’
- Wired has a rather fascinating article up about some NASA researchers who are trying to devise tests to perform on Mars. In order to do so, they’re trying to find the best proxy for Mars that Earth has. They think they’ve found it. The ridge... full entry
- Death Star LEGO Diorama
- This display of LEGO creativity is simply leaving me in awe. “AC Pin” created a massive diorama of the Death Star interior. It includes many scenes from the movie (Falcon hangar, control room, detention cell, garbage room, conference room, etc.) as well as many really... full entry
- iTunes Now Playing
- I found this hint at MacOSXHints today. It’s pretty nifty, as it samples iTunes every 15 seconds, and if it detects that you are playing a new song, it generates a PNG and uploads it to your server. The image is then ready to use... full entry
- Life, the Universe, and Ev…well, the Universe Anyway
- The Washington Post, among other newspapers is running a story regarding a new finding from the Hubble telescope. Well, kind of new. Einstein postulized that there was some sort of cosmological constant, some sort of energy that kept the Universe from tearing apart or collapsing... full entry
- Outdoor Gear Wishlist - Forever Flashlight
- With an upcoming kayak excursion, my eyes float towards new and nifty gear. I’ll probably have quite a few of these “wishlist” type items, so I’ll use the above title to sort them. Today’s item is the Forever Flashlight. Working on the Principle of Induction,... full entry
January 2004
- Hot deal ‘vinyl’ CD-R’s under 50 cents each
- Today and tomorrow (through 1/17), Office Depot has an in-store only buy one get one free of the Verbatim Digital Vinyl CD-R’s. The five pack is $4.83, so after the free pack (at register, not a rebate) they end up being 48 cents each. It’s... full entry
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