FUSE: Filesystem in Userspace

FUSE: Filesystem in Userspace: "With FUSE it is possible to implement a fully functional filesystem in a userspace program. Features include:

* Simple library API
* Simple installation (no need to patch or recompile the kernel)
* Secure implementation
* Userspace - kernel interface is very efficient
* Usable by non privileged users
* Runs on Linux kernels 2.4.X and 2.6.X
* Has proven very stable over time"

The Rake: The Rake's Progress : Notorious G.K.C.

The Rake: The Rake's Progress : Notorious G.K.C.: "If it’s been awhile since you thought about Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), the English essayist, novelist, playwright, hagiographer, Catholic apologist, and journalist, then the Bloomington-based American Chesterton Society is here to set you straight."

: "THE FLYING INN BY GILBERT K. CHESTERTON"

: "THE FLYING INN BY GILBERT K. CHESTERTON"

Maopost.com - Vintage Chinese Propaganda Posters

Maopost.com - Vintage Chinese Propaganda Posters: "
A revolutionary oil painting
Your portrait painted like a propaganda poster
Offer yourself a beautiful oil painting, executed by an artist painter. Originality guaranteed."

The Size Of Our World

The Size Of Our World: "The Size Of Our World"

isummit 2006 the movie : open the wifi -

isummit 2006 the movie : open the wifi -: "But one strange point is that the wifi connection is nor free nor open... You need a password and it’s quite expensive to get it. But I decided to buy one connection, and Cory Doctorow offered to share it through his laptop."

TenDollarDigitalCamera - ElephantStaircase

TenDollarDigitalCamera - ElephantStaircase: "Turn a 'disposable' 10 dollar digital camera from RitzCamera, CVS, or Walgreens into one you can use over and over, just like a normal digital camera.

"

A Gentle Introduction to SQL

A Gentle Introduction to SQL: "Interactive SQL tutorial, learn about: SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, DB2, Mimer, PostgreSQL, SQLite and Access."

http://zwok-game.com/en_GB/

TWOTD: http://zwok-game.com/en_GB/

The Online Photographer: Great Photographers on the Internet

The Online Photographer: Great Photographers on the Internet: "Sam, GORGEOUS scene I luv it! Too bad u couldn't get a little more color in sky area. Blues should be a little more saturated. Also the rule is u need to have either sky or land (lake?) dominate, not just split right down the middle. Try to move the camera after u focus. A great shot though please see my entries and leave your comments. Ted."

: "rem Purpose: Create a demo table and context index. Show how to rem re-sync the index anfer inserts (any DML)"

Oracle Text: Optimize Your Text Retrieval

Oracle Text: Optimize Your Text Retrieval: "This article provides an overview of Oracle Text, creates and tests an Oracle Text index, and shows you how to optimize your Oracle Text applications by using the reporting package, CTX_REPORT."

TV in Japan: Rocket Chairs on a Ski Slope - Suprise!

TV in Japan: Rocket Chairs on a Ski Slope - Suprise!: "This is a practical joke. With naked dudes. Unaware they're sitting on rocket chairs. On a ski hill. On TV. In Japan."

YouTube - D1大整古-流動廁所

YouTube - D1大整古-流動廁所: "Rising Outhouse on Japanese TV"

Cassini Imaging Diary

Cassini Imaging Diary: "Moons In Motion
The cold, icy orbs of the Saturn system come to life in a slew of new movie clips showing the ringed planet’s moons in motion."

Declan’s Blog »Blog Archive » Radio Capture and Self Podcasting

Declan’s Blog »Blog Archive » Radio Capture and Self Podcasting: "For a long time I’ve wanted to capture radio shows on public radio and play them back on the iPod. This article describes the process of using the RadioShark to get the content (boring, I know, others have done this) but then describes how to make the content a podcast that can be added you your iTunes or other podcast aggregator."

YouTube - Lady and the Lamp

YouTube - Lady and the Lamp: "A masterpiece. John Lasseter made this when he was at CalArts in 1979. "

PAT2PDF - Free PDF copies of patents: Download and print!

PAT2PDF - Free PDF copies of patents: Download and print!: "Download U.S. patents (in PDF) and more!
To download a copy of a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, please enter your request in the format below."

http://www.pat2pdf.org/patents/pat6243451.pdf
http://www.pat2pdf.org/patents/pat6041325.pdf

REPIPE SPECIALISTS, INC. -- Copper Repiping -- The Benefits

REPIPE SPECIALISTS, INC. -- Copper Repiping -- The Benefits: "By replacing the old galvanized iron
pipes in your home with new,
high quality copper pipes"

Pikmin Returns: Pikmin Online

Pikmin Returns: Pikmin Online: "Today, we've updated the site with the entire Pikmin World's Soundtrack for you all to download. There are few soundtracks available for Pikmin, and even fewer to find outside of Japan, so we're putting them up for you to download here."

Coke and Mentos Fountain at EepyBird.com

Coke and Mentos Fountain at EepyBird.com: "The Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments:
What happens when you combine 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints? It's amazing and completely insane."

Atmel Corporation

Atmel Corporation: "AVR Butterfly is an evaluation tool demonstrating the capabilities of the latest AVR Technology. The tool is shipped with preloaded firmware supporting temperature sensing, light measurement, voltage readings and music playback. AVR Butterfly can also be used as a nametag.
"

fboweb.com/Google Earth; 3D flight tracking in real time for LAX, BOS, ORD, ATL, JFK, MIA, SEA, SFO Inbound Flights

fboweb.com/Google Earth; 3D flight tracking in real time for LAX, BOS, ORD, ATL, JFK, MIA, SEA, SFO Inbound Flights: "Cool Stuff! See live inbound traffic for a number of US-based airports, live and in 3D using Google Earth!

Click to www.fboweb.com for detailed flight tracking, flight planning and aeronautical information!"

Cubicle Culture: How brainstorming works best

Cubicle Culture: How brainstorming works best: "In fact, great brainstorming sessions are possible, but they require the planning of a state dinner, plenty of rules, and the suspension of ego, ingratiation and political railroading. Hosts have to hope that people won't expend creative energy trying to tell others their ideas are bad without actually telling them that -- admittedly a real business skill. And they have to cross their fingers that the session won't deteriorate into what some people call 'blamestorming' or 'coblabberation,' where you get nowhere or settle on something mediocre to be done with it."

DevilDucky - David Attenborough: The Lyrebird

DevilDucky - David Attenborough: The Lyrebird: "In April 2006, to celebrate naturalist David Attenborough's 80th birthday, the public were asked to vote on their favourite of his television moments. This clip of the lyrebird was voted number one. A Lyrebird is either of two species of ground-dwelling Australian birds, most notable for their extraordinary ability to mimic natural and artificial sounds from their environment."

I’ve found God, says man who cracked the genome - Sunday Times - Times Online

I’ve found God, says man who cracked the genome - Sunday Times - Times Online: "THE scientist who led the team that cracked the human genome is to publish a book explaining why he now believes in the existence of God and is convinced that miracles are real.

Francis Collins, the director of the US National Human Genome Research Institute, claims there is a rational basis for a creator and that scientific discoveries bring man “closer to God”.

His book, The Language of God, to be published in September, will reopen the age-old debate about the relationship between science and faith. “One of the great tragedies of our time is this impression that has been created that science and religion have to be at war,” said Collins, 56."

Big Spanish Castle

Big Spanish Castle: "just stare at the dot for 30 seconds.
Then, without moving your eyes, move the mouse over the image.
It will look like it's in color until you move your eyes."

Light Reading - Pixar - Telecom

Light Reading - Pixar - Telecom: "Brandeau added that the rendering system used for animation was creaking under the strain of the new release, prompting a rethink of the firm's storage strategy. 'We realized that our rendering time was taking too long. Frames were taking 10 hours [to render] that should have taken one hour.'"

John J. Miller on Budget Deficit on National Review Online

John J. Miller on Budget Deficit on National Review Online: "Budget Busters
How to balance the federal budget in less than an hour.

Both President Bush and John Kerry say they want to cut the $478 billion federal budget deficit in half over the next five years. That's a worthy goal, but it raises an obvious question: Why not eliminate the whole darn thing?"

bonnaroo flagpole

bonnaroo flagpole: "Plans for building a PVC flagpole"

essays & effluvia: Amazing R/C airplane demo

essays & effluvia: Amazing R/C airplane demo: "Amazing R/C airplane demo"

The Subatomic Assembly of H 2 - Popular Science

The Subatomic Assembly of H 2 - Popular Science: "As current flows from a 9-volt battery through a cup of water, bubbles of hydrogen form on the negative electrode (connected to the black wire) while oxygen accumulates on the positive one (red wire)."

Constructional Lighting Projects

Constructional Lighting Projects: "One of the fun electronics projects that one can experiment and build is projects that uses lights. Among the lighting devices that are popular in recent years are LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes). LED is fast replacing bulbs as the technology in LED gain breakthough year by year. The luminence of powerful LEDs and the development of various colors of LEDs - in recent years, blue colour has become a common color. LEDs have been used in household appliances, automobile, control circuitry and a host of other applications.

"

CHARLES AND HUDSON | Make It Your Home with our Home Improvement, Remodeling, and Renovation Ideas and Sources

CHARLES AND HUDSON | Make It Your Home with our Home Improvement, Remodeling, and Renovation Ideas and Sources: "Welcome to Charles and Hudson. We're here to help you remodel, renovate, and beautify your home"

Gray Matter - Popular Science

Gray Matter - Popular Science: "Ever yearn to make your own silicon? Preserve a snowflake on a microscope slide? Fuel a rocket ship with sugar? Theodore Gray undertakes these and many more mind-bending projects in his monthly PopSci column, archived here for your entertainment. Just remember that Gray is well trained in lab safety procedures—if you decide to try these experiments, you should be, too."

Transistors

Transistors: "The purpose of this page is to explain the transistor.
The audience to which it is aimed, is anyone who hasn't a clue to how these little Buggers work and/or how to use them. A real problem with previous explanations: for the sake of 'fidelity' authors' include confusing details until the concept, or thread--of how they actually work & how to use them--is lost. "

Wrench Xylophone

Wrench Xylophone: "Want to make a real Garage Band? Then you'll need an instrument. Get out your wrench set, start wacking 'em, and make a xylophone."

The Fantastic in Art and Fiction

The Fantastic in Art and Fiction

PARADE Magazine | How We Make Marines

PARADE Magazine | How We Make Marines: "How does the Marine Corps take 17-year-old civilians and, in 13 short weeks, transform them into Marines? How do they motivate these young men and women to become members of a group that needs to function at the highest level under enormous stress? PARADE Contributing Editor Larry Smith spent two years researching his new book, “The Few and the Proud: Marine Corps Drill Instructors in Their Own Words.” He discovered that drill instructors are the key to making a Marine—and that there are lessons all of us can learn from them."

David Orban's Blog: "Engines of Creation" available in free electronic format

David Orban's Blog: "Engines of Creation" available in free electronic format: "The 'Englines of Creation' by Eric Drexler has been a lightning bolt for me when I read it in the late 80s, and it is great to see it freed for all to enjoy. Nanotechnology has come alive lately in lame textiles or cosmetics products, but the vision of Drexler of nanoscale manufacturing lives on, and is unsurpassed in its bold predictions.

Many authors start to realize that the danger of obsolescence by obscurity is greater to them that the perceived loss of royalties, and they put their books online, sooner or later after publication. Cory Doctorow is one of those who do it simultaneously with his science fiction books, which can be purchased in paper form, or downloaded electronically at the same time. Stephen Wolfram also very positively surprised me when just a year or so after the publication of 'A New Kind of Science' he put it online for free."

Engines of Creation - K. Eric Drexler : Cover

Engines of Creation - K. Eric Drexler : Cover:
"Engines of Creation
The Coming Era of Nanotechnology
K. Eric Drexler"

What Effect Reading Has on Our Minds - MSN Encarta

What Effect Reading Has on Our Minds - MSN Encarta: "Here are two facts that probably won't surprise you: Reading makes you smarter, and the more reading you do, the better.

Why this is so and how the magic happens, though, is quite interesting.

In a paper called What Reading Does for the Mind, Anne E. Cunningham, associate professor of cognition and development at the University of California, Berkeley, makes the case that reading:

* increases vocabulary more than talking or direct teaching;

* substantially boosts general knowledge while decreasing the likelihood that misinformation will be absorbed; and

* helps keep our memory and reasoning abilities intact as we age."

Modern Mechanix » Wear a Flash on Your Head

Modern Mechanix » Wear a Flash on Your Head: "Synchronizing Photo Flash Lamp With a Camera Shutter
THE difficulty of synchronizing the flare of a photo flash lamp with the click of the shutter is frequently encountered by enthusiasts of the camera art. There’s a way to overcome this difficulty, however, and that is by constructing the little gadget shown in the accompanying photo.

The contrivance consists of a flat type pocket flashlight battery mounted between two pieces of wood, on the top of which is affixed a common porcelain socket to hold the photo flash lamp.

On the base of this baseboard is mounted a pair of contacts in such a position that the loading lever will push them together when the shutter clicks. The wiring is illustrated in the insert.

Synchronization is achieved by the simultaneous clicking of the shutter and the closing of the photo flashlamp circuit through the silver contacts. The duration of the flash is 1/50 of a second, which occurs when the shutter is wide open.

For convenience, the flash lamp unit is secured to the head by an elastic band, thus leaving the hands free to operate the camera. The lamp should be backed by an aluminum reflector."

A grease geek will guide you: `Cars' decoded - Los Angeles Times

A grease geek will guide you: `Cars' decoded - Los Angeles Times: "'CARS' is the 'Da Vinci Code' for gear heads."

Animation World Magazine

Animation World Magazine: "Cars: Hitting the Mother Road — Part 1
In part one of AWN’s in-depth Cars coverage, Bill Desowitz focuses on the character and lighting innovations at Pixar Animation Studios."

The Office supplies trebuchet

The Office supplies trebuchet: "Bored at work? Build your own 3' trebuchet out of paperclips and throw balls of blu-tac up to an amazing 4 feet."

DIY:happy » Quick and Dirty Mosquito Trap

DIY:happy » Quick and Dirty Mosquito Trap:
"How to build a Mosquito trap.

Materials Needed:

2000ml (2 liter) bottle
50 gram (brown?) sugar
1 gram yeast
Thermometer
Measure cup
Knife
Black paper"

Lake Peigneur Disaster

Lake Peigneur Disaster: "The whirlpool easily sucked up the $5 million Texaco drilling platform, a second drilling rig that was nearby, a tugboat, eleven barges from the canal, a barge loading dock, seventy acres of Jefferson Island and its botanical gardens, parts of greenhouses, a house trailer, trucks, tractors, a parking lot, tons of mud, trees, and who knows what else. A natural gas fire broke out where the Texaco well was being drilled. Let's not forget the estimated 1.5 billion gallons of water that seemed to magically drain down the hole."

Lake Peigneur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lake Peigneur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Lake Peigneur is a 1,300 feet (396 meters) deep, salt-water, lake near New Iberia, Louisiana. The name Peigneur is French for 'comber'.

The lake was previously a three foot (91 cm) shallow fresh-water lake until an unusual man-made catastrophe on November 21, 1980. At that time, Diamond Crystal operated a salt mine under the lake while a Texaco oil rig was drilling down from the surface of the lake."

Damn Interesting » Lake Peigneur: The Swirling Vortex of Doom

Damn Interesting » Lake Peigneur: The Swirling Vortex of Doom: "Early in the morning on November 21, 1980, twelve men decided to abandon their oil drilling rig on the suspicion that it was beginning to collapse beneath them. They had been probing for oil under the floor of Lake Peigneur when their drill suddenly seized up at about 1,230 feet below the muddy surface, and they were unable free it. In their attempts to work the drill loose, which is normally fairly easy at that shallow depth, the men heard a series of loud pops, just before the rig tilted precariously towards the water."

OpinionJournal - Taste

OpinionJournal - Taste: "Technology writer Steven Johnson likens the intellectual process at work in video gaming to 'the basic procedure of the scientific method.' True, I might have better used my time reading Phillip Roth's new novel, but as mind-aerobics this exercise surely beat watching the tube. As for my kids navigating the game, wouldn't it be comparable with their playing chess for hours?"

United Nuclear- About Us

United Nuclear- About Us: "The sole purpose of United Nuclear Scientific Supplies, LLC is to put the 'fun' back into science.
Currently, both private and public schools (as well as other learning institutions) are removing chemicals & glassware from their chemistry labs, electronic components from their engineering classes... along with many other important pieces of 'hands-on' learning equipment. In exchange, they have students conduct experiments on computer or simply read text instead of actually coming into contact with the equipment & materials they are learning about.
Most professors & teachers we have spoken with completely disagree with this concept.
It is our intention make these and other interesting/scientific related items once again available to the hobbyist, teacher, experimenter, and professional organizations.

"

United Nuclear - Scientific Supplies

United Nuclear - Scientific Supplies: "United Nuclear has been featured on nationwide CBS television news and 'Coast to Coast' radio with host Art Bell. We're also in the June 2005 issue of MAXIM magazine: 'Top Science Gear' page 164"

MAKE: Blog: Scientific and technical books of yesteryear

MAKE: Blog: Scientific and technical books of yesteryear: "We collect a lot of these old publications and books at MAKE, it's incredibly interesting to note the contrast of what was published for amateur scientists, and everyone just 30, 40, 50+ years ago compared to now, which really isn't a lot."

TVfolk.net - Traditional music from Nothern Europe

TVfolk.net - Traditional music from Nothern Europe
"TVfolk.net now presents 409 videos of traditional music from nothern Europe."

Which of these redfines "traditonal?"
Lars Jobs
Jan Granli
Oort

Aharef: Websites as graphs

Aharef: Websites as graphs: "Since tags are nested in other tags, they are arranged in a hierarchical manner, and that hierarchy can be represented as a graph. I've written a little app that visualizes such a graph, and here are some screenshots of websites that I often look at."

BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | The Simpsons as philosophy

BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | The Simpsons as philosophy: "The Simpsons is more than a funny cartoon - it reveals truths about human nature that rival the observations of great philosophers from Plato to Kant... while Homer sets his house on fire, says philosopher Julian Baggini."

MAKE: Blog: The Making of Stingray and Thunderbirds

MAKE: Blog: The Making of Stingray and Thunderbirds: "The stars of the studio are man made puppets which are known and recognized around the world... Fashioned from fiberglass and made almost alive by painstaking artistry, they bring the age old art of puppetry truly into the 20th century."

GAM3R 7H30RY

GAM3R 7H30RY: "Welcome

Together with the Institute for the Future of the Book, I created this website as a way to think to about games. Games, as in computer games, are the subject of my next book, GAM3R 7H30RY. I am interested in two questions.

1. can we explore games as allegories for the world we live in?
2. can there be a critical theory of games?"

www.SisterZone.com

www.SisterZone.com: "SisterzOn Bridges shows how to build an 'Elementary Level' balsa wood bridge. This particular bridge won 1st place at California Region 11 and California State competitions. It also won 3rd place at the 'Destination Imagination' Global bridge building competition in Knoxville, Tennessee in May 2005. It is especially useful to kids who want to understand the process of building balsa wood structures."

The 'Perfect' Lens Hood

The 'Perfect' Lens Hood:
"How to make:
The 'Perfect' Lens Hood
You can buy one or you can...
… make one out of recyclable materials you have around the house
… about all it takes is some time and care and careful, slow going to cut the material appropriately and such that it fits properly. "

www.abcTronics.com - easy like abc

www.abcTronics.com - easy like abc:
"3 mm LEDs Units Blue Green Red Yellow White
Luminous Intensity (mcd) 2500 6000 3000 3000 3000
Price for 10 pieces US$ $1.49 $1.69 $0.59 $0.59 $1.69"

TrustedReviews - The €7 MP3 Player

TrustedReviews - The €7 MP3 Player: "Just how cheap can you make an MP3 player? You’d be amazed…"

AOJ Outdoors Tip - Eliminate Yellow Jackets With This Non-Toxic Homemade Yellow Jacket Trap!

AOJ Outdoors Tip - Eliminate Yellow Jackets With This Non-Toxic Homemade Yellow Jacket Trap!: "How It Works: The yellow jackets love fish and will begin to cut off small pieces to take back to the nest. In their 'excitement' of buzzing around the bait a few will occasionally hit the water. The soap in the water breaks the surface tension of the waterproof coating on the yellow jacket and it instantly sinks in the water and drowns in a few seconds. Some yellow jackets will successfully haul a piece of meat back to the nest and tell all the other gatherers in the nest where this great food source is. Soon all the wasps from the nest will be working on this fish and over a period of time, all will eventually make mistakes and either fall off the fish and into the water or bump other wasps flying around and knock themselves in the drink, then its curtains for them too. It only takes a day or two to wipe out nearly every yellow jacket in your area."

TeamDroid » DIY Hollow Out A Light Bulb

TeamDroid » DIY Hollow Out A Light Bulb: "When I was growing up I had a keen interest in the sciences. Mostly because of the cool gear that scientists used, you know, beakers, flasks, Bunsen burners that sort of thing. Well, not only did I not have the money for those sorts of thing but I had no idea where to even buy them if I could. So I had to improvise. One of the better improvisations I was able to do was to hollow out a light bulb and use it for other things. The glass that makes the envelope of the build is quite heat resistant and the screw base is good to attach things to (even better if you can find old ones with brass bases, you can solder to those). I made a number of small boilers in order to learn about steam and distillation. I hope to show people that even if a bulb burns out, it can still be useful."

Silicon Chip Online - The Itsy-Bitsy USB Lamp

Silicon Chip Online - The Itsy-Bitsy USB Lamp:
"Parts List - USB Lamp

1 USB male plug moulded to suitable length 4-way screened cable
1 Ultrabright White LED (preferably at least 2000mCd) (eg, DSE Z-3980, 3981, 3982, etc)
1 3AG in-line 2-part plastic fuseholder (eg, DSE P-7912, Jaycar SZ-2015, etc).
1 47Ω 1/4W or 1/8W resistor
Lengths of thin diameter heatshrink (preferably) or spaghetti insulation"

Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer :: Mozilla Add-ons :: Add Features to Mozilla Software

Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer :: Mozilla Add-ons :: Add Features to Mozilla Software: "If you use Firefox on more than one computer, you'll want Foxmarks. Install Foxmarks on each computer, and it will work silently in the background to keep your bookmarks synchronized. As a bonus, log in to my.foxcloud.com from any computer anywhere to access your bookmarks."

Converting a colour photo to a single layered stencil with Photoshop - Tutorials - Stencil Revolution

Converting a colour photo to a single layered stencil with Photoshop - Tutorials - Stencil Revolution: "Once you are familiar with this technique you will find creating stencils with multiple layers easier to master using a similair process."

Converting a colour photo to a single layered stencil with Photoshop - Tutorials - Stencil Revolution

Converting a colour photo to a single layered stencil with Photoshop - Tutorials - Stencil Revolution: "Once you are familiar with this technique you will find creating stencils with multiple layers easier to master using a similair process."

Best Song Ever

Best Song Ever: "Ghost Riders in the Sky, is, quite frankly, the best song that there ever was. There can be no topping it, no stopping it, block rocking beats have tried glocking it but keeps ON, on like a tee vee, you think you can see me like THAT? Yo step up whack. That impromptu rap was just an example of one of the millions of songs that Ghost Riders in the Sky is much better than. Originally written by Stan Jones, the song has stood the test of time, and as an added bonus, there happen to be an incredible number of versions of this song, by an extremely wide variety of bands. This is in part due to the fact that stylistically, the music can be interpreted easily in many different ways, and in part due to the fact that its just really goddamn great. The goal of this page is to catalogue every version ever recorded of this song."

DevilDucky - Star Trek 2.0: Cribs, Director's Cut

DevilDucky - Star Trek 2.0: Cribs, Director's Cut: "Star Trek 2.0: Cribs, Director's Cut "

Literature: The Book of Lost Books by Stuart Kelly - Sunday Times - Times Online

Literature: The Book of Lost Books by Stuart Kelly - Sunday Times - Times Online: "THE BOOK OF LOST BOOKS An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You Will Never Read
by Stuart Kelly"

A Star Is Made - New York Times

A Star Is Made - New York Times: "Deliberate practice entails more than simply repeating a task — playing a C-minor scale 100 times, for instance, or hitting tennis serves until your shoulder pops out of its socket. Rather, it involves setting specific goals, obtaining immediate feedback and concentrating as much on technique as on outcome."

the official East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse website

the official East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse website: "'Every teacher's first stop and every artist's second home.'
6713 San Pablo Ave. Oakland/Berkeley border
510.547.6470
Site Meter
open 11am-6pm Every Day"

Plasma Pong

Plasma Pong: "PLASMA PONG is a variation of PONG that utilizes real-time fluid dynamics to drive the game environment.

Players have several new abilities that add fun twists to the classic game. In the game you can inject plasma fluid into the environment, create a vacuum from your paddle, and blast shockwaves into the playing area. All these abilities have fluid-based kinetic effects on the ball, making Plasma Pong a fast-paced and exciting game."

A Docking Pack for your Gizmology

A Docking Pack for your Gizmology: "A closely related need involves all the stray batteries, as opposed to those that are recharged within their corresponding hand-held devices. I have standardized on Ni-MH, and found this excellent package with 10 AAA, 25 AA, 8 9V, 10 C, and 8 D batteries... along with a tester and a smart charger:"

Lulu.com - Self Publishing - Free

Lulu.com - Self Publishing - Free: "Publish and Sell Worldwide
Fast Publish a book, CD, DVD, image or calendar — and order it within minutes.
Easy How easy? Take the Lulu publishing tour
Free No set-up fees. No minimum order. No catch. We print and ship each product as it's bought, and the purchaser pays for it.
You keep control ... of the rights, the design, the price and 80% of the profits. Really."

Blurb Create a Book

Blurb Create a Book: "It's this simple:
step one
Download Blurb's aptly named BookSmart software. (We know you've heard this before, but it's free and fast. Really.)
step two
Choose the book you'd like to make today.
step three
Play – add photos, blogs, stories, the works.
Rejoice. Your book is published, and yours to share and sell at Blurb."

Boing Boing: Posh American neighborhoods recreated as Chinese burbclaves

Boing Boing: Posh American neighborhoods recreated as Chinese burbclaves: "Posh American neighborhoods recreated as Chinese burbclaves
Orange County, China is a gated community modeled on the posh neighborhood south of Los Angeles of the same name -- it's one of many recreated US neighborhoods springing up in China, including 'Soho, Central Park, Palm Springs and Manhattan Gardens.'"

chindogu

chindogu: "think it’s time for something on the lighter side, some comic relief as it were. with that in mind i give you chindogu: the not-so-ancient Japanese art of inventing ingenious everyday gadgets that, on the face of it, seem like an ideal solution to a particular problem. However, Chindogu has a distinctive feature: anyone actually attempting to use one of these inventions, would find that it causes so many new problems, or such significant social embarrassment, that effectively it has no utility whatsoever. Thus, Chindogu are sometimes described as ‘unuseless’ - that is, they cannot be regarded as ‘useless’ in an absolute sense, since they do actually solve a problem; however, in practical terms, they cannot positively be called ‘useful’. the following are 12 examples culled from the pages of the book 101 unuseless inventions."

A Docking Pack for your Gizmology

A Docking Pack for your Gizmology: "This is a quick and easy how-to piece, but it can dramatically clean up the space around your computer while making it much easier to 'grab and go' with all your essentials.

I'm sure you know the problem. You probably have a pretty decent collection of portable gadgets: iPod, PDA, digital camera, camcorder, cellular phone... and perhaps a few of the more esoteric things like ham radio, GPS, and weather station. Every one of these items has some support requirements, ranging from a charging cable to a USB-connected dock that lets it interface with your computer while topping off its battery. For most folks, this translates into a big mess of cables and clutter in the general vicinity of the machine, and I bet you've fished around a few times for the right unlabeled connector to shove into the inscrutable socket on some seldom-used widget. Packing it all up to go is an even bigger problem, and it's easy to forget a dusty charger when you're heading out the door in a hurry."

Calculator company list

Calculator company list: "Vintage Technology: Calculators
1970s Vintage desktop and pocket calculators listed by company (121 identified brands, 554 calculators). I am slowly revamping the images and descriptions - and have another 100+ calculators to put on - so keep looking! If you're interested in old desktop calculators try looking at Desktops."

DevilDucky - They're Made Out of Meat

DevilDucky - They're Made Out of Meat: "After years of probing humans, two alien researchers meet to discuss a most unusual discovery about our species. From an act play by Terry Bisson."

Create a personalized CD/DVD cover

Create a personalized CD/DVD cover: "Use your digital photographs to make a personalized CD or DVD cover and a lot more. Just choose a photo, add some text (like a playlist or a note or a dedication), and follow the simple printing and folding instructions. Amaze your friends with your digital-photo-crafting-kung-fu! Works with your photos hosted on Flickr or anywhere else."

bokstavskex.framtid.nu - automatic biscuit image creator

bokstavskex.framtid.nu - automatic biscuit image creator: "Please note that it is not possible to make a direct link to this image, feel free to save a local copy and using as you wish."

Create A Graph

Create A Graph: "Graphs and charts are great because they communicate information visually. For this reason, graphs are often used in newspapers, magazines and businesses around the world.

NCES constantly uses graphs and charts in our publications and on the web. Sometimes, complicated information is difficult to understand and needs an illustration. Graphs or charts can help impress people by getting your point across quickly and visually.

Here you will find five different graphs and charts for you to consider. Maybe it will help explain what you are trying to show. Use homework problems, things you have a special interest in, or use some of the numbers you find elsewhere on this site. Have fun!"

Dogcaught: A Railroad Blog

Dogcaught: A Railroad Blog: "Illustrations of Pacific Northwest Railroading"

iowahawk: The Real Acme

iowahawk: The Real Acme: "Still, even with a rocket there's a lot of weight and inertia involved in moving a large hunk of Detroit steel down a race track. That's why many discerning folks opted for the ne plus ultra of Turbonique insanity: ROCKET THRUST GO KARTS.

'TOO MUCH: The above cart, which is equipped with T-21-A engines, is considered unsafe for 1/4 mile competition as pictured. The thrust/weight ratio is such that speeds over 160 mph are reached within 4 seconds.'

Turbonique, the company where safety comes first!. Such pleas for moderation fell on the deaf ears of 'Captain Jack' McClurg, who eventually coaxed his Turbonique kart to over 240 mph in the early 1970s.

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PhotoRescue - data-recovery solution for digital photography

PhotoRescue - data-recovery solution for digital photography: "Have you lost your pictures? Do not panic! Try PhotoRescue: the digital photo & picture recovery solution for erased or damaged compact flash, memory stick, xd cards, smart media, sd cards and other media used in digital cameras. Download our demo for Windows or for Mac OS X today and save your cherished memories!"

eyehook - games : COLOR box

eyehook - games : COLOR box: "Use the LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to move the color at the top of the page. Press the DOWN arrow key to drop it.

When a color is dropped, its color is added to the colors in adjacent squares, using the additive color system (color theory). There is a color key for reference below.

Make WHITE SQUARES for points."

General Decimal Arithmetic

General Decimal Arithmetic: "Most computers today support binary floating-point in hardware. While suitable for many purposes, binary floating-point arithmetic should not be used for financial, commercial, and user-centric applications or web services because the decimal data used in these applications cannot be represented exactly using binary floating-point."

iPodDisk » About

iPodDisk » About: "To be accurate, iPodDisk isn’t a tool that copies songs from iPods; instead, it enables other applications to do so by emulating an iDisk drive."

3D World of Warcraft Screenshots

3D World of Warcraft Screenshots: "I've been a fan of 3D photography for a long time. Over the years I've built a few 3D cameras, but I've never thought to take 3D images of a game world. The idea finally occured to me, and I've taken a couple of shots to experiment. If I like the idea, I'll take a lot more and build a better website to display them. "

Really cheap homemade diy studio - no lighting needed | DIYPhotography.net

Really cheap homemade diy studio - no lighting needed | DIYPhotography.net: "Here is what I have to offer for about 1–3 USD. This studio utilizes a huge soft box and a background. But before we start lets see some of the prime requirements from a studio. We want to get even light, with good shadow management and a smooth background that will not distract from our main subject."

Computer History Museum - Selling the Computer Revolution - Marketing Brochures in the Collection

Computer History Museum - Selling the Computer Revolution - Marketing Brochures in the Collection

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. "

Simply Google

Simply Google: "All of Google on one page."

Simply Google

Simply Google: "All of Google on one page."

HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE - The 10 Most Harmful Government Programs by

HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE - The 10 Most Harmful Government Programs by: "The program with the highest aggregate score -- Social Security -- was given the No. 1 position on this year's list, and next year will be retired into the Government Program Hall of Shame. When the ballots were tallied, we phoned spokesmen for the federal agencies responsible for each program that made the list to see if they could point to the constitutional language, if any, that authorized the program."