Morse Resource

Morse Resource: "MorseResource - Tools to help learn or improve your Morse code skills.

Welcome Makers! Thanks to the Make blog for the link

Morse code is fun. It's fun to know, fun to use, and has roots in the earliest days of radio. Copying and sending morse code are skills that require practice. There are a lot of books, programs, and tapes that can help you learn Morse Code, but I wanted a way to practice copying code anywhere. I came up with the idea of morse code podcasts, and that was the initial motivation for this web site.

In the process of building this site, I wrote a page that let me test the morse code generation, and that became the Morse Code generator page that's available."

The Austin Chronicle Screens: 'Lost Ark,' Resurrected: Three kids on a seven-year shoot produce one heck of an homage

The Austin Chronicle Screens: 'Lost Ark,' Resurrected: Three kids on a seven-year shoot produce one heck of an homage:

"Last February, Eric Zala received a signed letter from Steven Spielberg.

'Dear Eric,' it began. 'Wanted to write and let you know how impressed I was with your very loving and detailed tribute to our Raiders of the Lost Ark.'"

The Austin Chronicle Screens: 'Lost Ark,' Resurrected: Three kids on a seven-year shoot produce one heck of an homage

The Austin Chronicle Screens: 'Lost Ark,' Resurrected: Three kids on a seven-year shoot produce one heck of an homage:

"Last February, Eric Zala received a signed letter from Steven Spielberg.

'Dear Eric,' it began. 'Wanted to write and let you know how impressed I was with your very loving and detailed tribute to our Raiders of the Lost Ark.'"

USB webcam driver for Mac OS X

USB webcam driver for Mac OS X

United Nuclear - Neodymium magnets

United Nuclear - Neodymium magnets: "THESE ARE ABSOLUTELY NOT TOYS AND CAN BE VERY DANGEROUS! KEEP AWAY FROM CHILDREN! - THESE CAN EASILY CRUSH FINGERS! WE CANNOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR INJURY OR DAMAGE CAUSED BY THESE POWERFUL MAGNETS.

If you really need unbelievably powerful magnets, here they are.
Uses include magnetic steering of nuclear particles in accelerators, levitation devices, magnetic beam amplifiers, scrap iron separators, etc.
Beware - you must think ahead when moving these magnets.
If carrying one into another room, carefully plan the route you will be taking. Computers & monitors will be affected in an entire room. Loose metallic objects and other magnets may become airborne and fly considerable distances - and at great speed - to attach themselves to this magnet. If you get caught in between the two, you can get injured.
Two of these magnets close together can create an almost unbelievable magnetic field that can be very dangerous. Of all the unique items we offer for sale, we consider these items the most dangerous of all. Our normal packing & shipping personnel refuse to package these magnets - our engineers have to do it. This is no joke and we cannot stress it strongly enough - that you must be extremely careful - and know what you're doing with these magnets.
Take Note: Two Super magnets can very easily get out of control and break fingers and even your arm if opposing poles fly at each other. If working with multiple Supermagnets, always handle one magnet at a time, secure it, then proceed to the next magnet."

United Nuclear - Scientific Supplies

United Nuclear - Scientific Supplies: "Scientific Equipment & Supplies "

Royal Society Publishing

Royal Society Publishing: "Nearly three and a half centuries of scientific study and achievement is now available online in the Royal Society Journals Digital Archive following its official launch this week. This is the longest-running and arguably most influential journal archive in Science, including all the back articles of both Philosophical Transactions and Proceedings.

For the first time the Archive provides online access to all journal content, from Volume One, Issue One in March 1665 until the latest modern research published today ahead of print. And until December the archive is freely available to anyone on the internet to explore.

Spanning nearly 350 years of continuous publishing, the archive of nearly 60,000 articles includes ground-breaking research and discovery from many renowned scientists including: Bohr, Boyle, Bragg, Cajal, Cavendish, Chandrasekhar, Crick, Dalton, Darwin, Davy, Dirac, Faraday, Fermi, Fleming, Florey, Fox Talbot, Franklin (pictured), Halley, Hawking, Heisenberg, Herschel, Hodgkin, Hooke, Huxley, Joule, Kelvin, Krebs, Liebnitz, Linnaeus, Lister, Mantell, Marconi, Maxwell, Newton, Pauling, Pavlov, Pepys, Priestley, Raman, Rutherford, Schrodinger, Turing, van Leeuwenhoek, Volta, Watt, Wren, and many, many more influential science thinkers up to the present day."

Oracle Admin Scripts

Oracle Admin Scripts: "The following scripts and tools are available for free download."

Puzzle Pirates - View Thread - Create a Puzzle Pirates Commercial video! Winners announced!

Puzzle Pirates - View Thread - Create a Puzzle Pirates Commercial video! Winners announced!: "An amazing number of entries, and again such skill! We so much enjoyed watching these and judging them - whether it was screenshots or animation or live action or lego, you did brilliantly! This was judged by the OceanMasters, by the Ringers in the office, and by the dashing Captain Cleaver himself. "

MOO | Share your contact info and your flickr photos

MOO | Share your contact info and your flickr photos: "# Choose your favourite Flickr pics
# Make 100 different cards for $19.99
# Add your personal details on the back
# Share with friends!"

How to talk like a pirate

How to talk like a pirate

The Master Key - Chapter 1.

The Master Key - Chapter 1.: "'Electricity,' said the old gentleman, sagely, 'is destined to become the motive power of the world. The future advance of civilization will be along electrical lines. Our boy may become a great inventor and astonish the world with his wonderful creations.'

'And in the meantime,' said the mother, despairingly, 'we shall all be electrocuted, or the house burned down by crossed wires, or we shall be blown into eternity by an explosion of chemicals!'"

DailyLit

DailyLit: "Too busy for books? Read them by e-mail."

List of exclamations used by Captain Haddock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

List of exclamations used by Captain Haddock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "List of exclamations used by Captain Haddock"

List of exclamations used by Captain Haddock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

List of exclamations used by Captain Haddock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "List of exclamations used by Captain Haddock"

another zit on the arse of the universe from warrenelliscom

warrenelliscom: "Second Life Sketches

Below, a random person I spotted in Transylvania two minutes after the grid went back up earlier today. In her eyes, you can make out part of an error message, denoting that a graphic or script from her customised “avatar” or representative form in Second Life is missing. It means that the system, that’s been crashing and hiccuping constantly since an upgrade on Wednesday, is failing to find and/or process the entirety of her body. Elsewhere, I’ve seen people wearing that message over swathes of their skin, projected there by the system.

The girl with error-message eyes."

The top 10 classical music downloads on iTunes. By Marc Geelhoed - Slate Magazine

The top 10 classical music downloads on iTunes. By Marc Geelhoed - Slate Magazine: "The top 10 best-selling classical 'songs' on iTunes show exactly this split between calm and stormy. The list also shows an unhealthy obsession with Andrea Bocelli,"

Ryan Tomayko - Top.app

Ryan Tomayko - Top.app: "One thing that's always bothered me about MacOS X's Terminal.app is that you can't really run multiple applications."

YouTube - Ellam Inba Mayam - Dance Fever

YouTube - Ellam Inba Mayam - Dance Fever: "'Solla Solla Enna Perumai' - from the 1981 film."

Bitsum Technologies Wiki - WRT54G5 CFE

Bitsum Technologies Wiki - WRT54G5 CFE: "This is a project started by Jeremy Collake (aka db90h) to flash a Vxworks based WRT54G/GS v5-v6 with third party linux firmware without the use of JTAG or serial cables. After considerable research and time, this has been accomplished!"

The Chronicle: 9/15/2006: A Pop Quiz for Constitution Day

The Chronicle: 9/15/2006: A Pop Quiz for Constitution Day: "In late 2004, Congress passed a law (118 Statute 2809, 334-45 [§ 111]) mandating that 'each educational institution that receives federal funds for a fiscal year shall hold an educational program on the United States Constitution on September 17 of such year for the students served by the educational institution.' Sadly hundreds, if not thousands, of American institutions of higher education failed to stage Constitution Day events in 2005, the first year of mandated observance — thereby imperiling their federal subsidies. In an effort to help colleges and universities comply with federal law, we have prepared the following quiz that can be distributed to professors, administrators, and students alike."

WFMU's Beware of the Blog: Japanese Surf Versions of Classical Themes (MP3s)

WFMU's Beware of the Blog: Japanese Surf Versions of Classical Themes (MP3s): "Here's the great Japanese guitarist Takeshi Terauchi with his band The Bunnys adding the fuzz to eleven well known classical themes from his LP, Let's Go Classics."

Face Recognition Abilities - Self Evaluation

Face Recognition Abilities - Self Evaluation: "How good is my face recognition?

In order to help you assess whether or not you have face recognition problems, we have two tests available."

Urban Legends Reference Pages: The Unsolvable Math Problem

Urban Legends Reference Pages: The Unsolvable Math Problem:

"Claim: Student mistakes examples of unsolvable math problems for homework assignment and solves them.

Status: True. "

The Inflation Calculator

The Inflation Calculator: "
The following form adjusts any given amount of money for inflation, according to the Consumer Price Index, from 1800 to 2005. (And don't use any commas in the numbers...) Enjoy!"

Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories - Make a Video Feedback Screen Saver in Quartz Composer

Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories - Make a Video Feedback Screen Saver in Quartz Composer: "Quartz Composer is an easy to use tool that lets you create amazing digital art, even interactive digital art, without writing a single line of code. You might already have it: Quartz Composer is included as part of developer tools package (Xcode) that comes with Mac OS 10.4 Tiger. In this tutorial, I'll show how to get started with Quartz Composer. No prior programming experience is required. As an example, we'll build a video feedback screen saver that can take input from an iSight camera."

Flash video and no sound on OSX at fredericiana

Flash video and no sound on OSX at fredericiana:
"Every once in a while though, on Mac OS X it can happen that these Flash video players don’t have sound anymore.

1. open /Applications/Utilities/Audio MIDI Setup
2. check the properties for Built In Output.
3. It might be set to 96KHz. Change it to 44KHz and audio in Flash will return immediately."

(The same might apply to audio input)

debbiesidea.com: Welcome to DebbiesIdea.com

debbiesidea.com: Welcome to DebbiesIdea.com: "Debbie's idea was to fill a simple need: to help a reader decide which book to read first of an unfamiliar author."

Fake model photography

Fake model photography: "With a very little effort, you can take existing photographs of everyday scenes and make it look like they're actually of miniature models.
It doesn't take much to fool the mind of the viewer, but there are a few basic rules you can follow to help convince your audience that they're looking at a railway set rather than the real world; see the section on picking the right photo at the bottom of this page. You'll need a copy of Photoshop CS or later to follow this tutorial. "

BUILD YOUR OWN AIRPLANE!

BUILD YOUR OWN AIRPLANE!: "This is a design for a business card that I use. The first version was done in 1995, but I still carry them around. It usually gets a good response, although most people don't actually get down and use their glue and scissors. Suits!"

Paul Desmond: A Life Told in Pictures, Music and Memories/Jerry Jazz Musician

Paul Desmond: A Life Told in Pictures, Music and Memories/Jerry Jazz Musician:

"from
Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond
by Doug Ramsey

Doug Ramsey's biography of saxophonist Paul Desmond is a lavish, detailed work of art, filled with photographs, letters, and memories of a complex and frequently inspiring life. Paul Desmond: A Life Told in Pictures, Music and Memories, a Jerry Jazz Musician production published in cooperation with Ramsey and Parkside Publications, features photographs and excerpts from the book, as well as sound samples of Desmond's music."