2007/11/27

Fan is broken. Play Beethoven?

2007/11/18

Holiday wishlist part 1 of many...

1. PC to Phone. Free. Via the web, all the better.
2. Cell phone to house land line. Get a call on your cell? House phones ring.
3. Localized services on phones. And I don't mean ads. How about "Locate coffee near me." No GPS; just cell tower triangulation. Could have had this in 1998.
4. Line-in on all car radios.
5. USB jacks everywhere. Free. Such as airplane seats.
6. Automated image naming on cameras. "It has been more than a day since you turned on your camera; are you in a new location?"
7. Automated time zone updates. "This network connection is in {latitude}. Would you like to change to {timezone}?"
8. Expiring emails. (Bonus; Outlook provides this. Kinda)
9. "Personalized menus" banished from all existence.
10. Users who choose to accept personalized menus banished from all existence.

That's all for now. More soon.

2007/11/14

Flying Fish

2007/11/12

The Nerd Handbook

s/nerd/geek/g

Rands in Repose

2007/11/07

New Wiki competitor Lunarr

New document management software from Hideshi Hamaguchi of Cybozu fame.
Press Release from David Wolman

2007/11/06

All of TV in one place

A catch-all for TV shows; all free!
FindInternetTV.com

2007/11/05

Ski Trail Painting

After F1 track tester, I'd put this high on my list of jobs I'd rather have.
via The Map Room

2007/11/03

Cornell Racing in DARPA Urban Challenge

Go Big Red!
Cornell Racing

Animated Sculpture

Ben Hopson makes some intriguing kinetic sculpture.

2007/11/02

Cannonball run in 32 hours

Randolph highway patrol sunglasses, 20-gallon reserve fuel tank, Tasco 8 x 40 binoculars fitted with a Kenyon KS-2 gyro stabilizer, military spec Steiner 7 x 50 binoculars, Hummer H1-style bumper-mounted L-3 Raytheon NightDriver thermal camera and LCD dashboard screens, front-and-rear-mounted sensors for a Valentine One radar/laser detector, flush bumper-mount Blinder M40 laser jammers, redundant Garmin StreetPilot 2650 GPS units, preprogrammed Uniden police radio scanners, ceiling-mount Uniden CB radio with high-gain whip antenna.
32hours7minutes.com, Google Earth map via Wired