February 2009
BuildItSolar: Solar energy projects for Do It... →
nuff said
Feb 28th
How to Insulate a Vented Crawl Space | eHow.com →
best advice thus far
Feb 28th
WordPress Plugin Filters | Devlounge →
filters howto
Feb 28th
“Wrong” video officially rears it’s gorgeous head... →
Feb 27th
Christian Faur | Crayon Series →
Christian Faur’s Crayon Series is stunning. (thank you sara)
Feb 26th
AlphaBetter™ Standing Desk - with bookbox ::... →
student standing desk
Feb 26th
North Jersey January Home Sales →
Preliminary January sales and inventory data for Northern New Jersey (GSMLS) is in. Please note that this data is subject to revision. The first graph plots the unadjusted sales data (closed sales)…
Feb 26th
Painting Facebook Portraits →
Matt Held has found a timely twist on portraits - basing them off Facebook profile images. I’ve been thinking a lot the past few days about Michael Surtees’ article about Face pics…
Feb 26th
10 Useful Tips For Ruby On Rails Developers →
By Greg Borenstein and Michael ‘MJFreshyFresh’ Jones Rails is an model-view-controller Web framework written in the Ruby programming language. One of its great appeals is being able to quickly…
Feb 26th
clean fun →
chaj: i gotta us one of these I wish that I would have thought of this…. Baby Mop from Chris Milk on Vimeo.
Feb 26th
Furniture trend for schools: Stand and Deliver →
chaj: people are beginning to see the light ;) [photo credit: Ben Garvin for The New York Times] Here’s a rather interesting trend: Stand-up furniture coming to schools. Apparently, having…
Feb 26th
Polyphony Digital’s Tuned Infiniti G37 →
chaj: droooooool If you’ve spent any amount of time playing GT5 Prologue, you’ve surely noticed the “Tuned Nissan Skyline Coupe (V36)”. It offers just enough modification to the…
Feb 26th
Stand Up for Learning →
standing desk w/ swinging foot rest
Feb 26th
School Desk - Stand Up Desk with Swinging Footrest... →
student standing desk
Feb 26th
The surge protector I've been dreaming of →
I live in a rather dusty environment, and I tend to get worried when cleaning the fine layer of dust that accumulates on the power strips every month; I’m no Fire Marshal, but something tells…
Feb 26th
Character Study →
Ever wonder what is beneath the smiling faces of your favorite cartoon characters? Well thanks to the arguably twisted mind of artist Michael Paulus, you don’t have to. He has created …
Feb 26th
Crawl Space Insulation | Batt Insulation →
more howto - thing to note: friction-fit batts - uses “metal rods” to stay in place between joists instead of having to nail
Feb 26th
Apple shareholders will re-elect board →
Filed under: Apple Corporate, Steve Jobs, Apple Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported that Steve Jobs would not attend Apple’s shareholder meeting, scheduled for this week. It…
Feb 26th
Insulating a Crawl Space | Insulation | This Old... →
nuff said - kinda brief tho.
Feb 26th
OLPC-toting Rwandan students flock to airport for... →
OLPC may be facing some tough times as of late, but there’s no denying that the little-laptop-that-could has made an impact where it’s been distributed, as evidenced by this latest…
Feb 25th
Microsoft’s Low-Power Server Prototype →
How low can your server power go? Microsoft is investigating that question in a project by its new Cloud Computing Futures (CCF) research unit, which aims to reduce data center costs by…
Feb 24th
OLPC-toting Rwandan students flock to airport for... →
OLPC may be facing some tough times as of late, but there’s no denying that the little-laptop-that-could has made an impact where it’s been distributed, as evidenced by this latest…
Feb 24th
Apple To Launch iPhone On Verizon Wireless? (Eric... →
chaj: would be killer Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily: Apple To Launch iPhone On Verizon Wireless? — So, this is a pretty sketchy report, but fascinating if right. — A…
Feb 24th
Masterbeat →
like beatport - but more dancey trancey housey mousey
Feb 22nd
Urban Surveys: Unmanned Helicopters & Drones →
chaj: first vid is nice Unmanned aircraft, primarily helicopters capable of High Quality Digital Photography and HD Video are a low cost method to carry out rapid aerial surveys….
Feb 19th
How to hide the cistern →
Izzy does a terrific job covering up the cistern. She says, “Ikea has just brought out a new range of bathroom furniture and I wanted to do a back to wall toilet with concealed cistern to match….
Feb 19th
Boxee forced to remove Hulu →
chaj: what a blow :( Filed under: Internet, Internet Tools, Apple TV As a boxee user/proselytizer, I am gutted over the latest news: Hulu will be removed from…
Feb 19th
What does this mean? →
The world is now officially in financial turmoil. Our accelerated schedule for Scarlet and EPIC deliveries seem to coincide with a dead market. I see no reason to continue to pay for rapid…
Feb 18th
Photographers Are Now Terrorists In The UK →
chaj: seriously? this is ridic Under an idiotic new law, photographers in the UK can be stopped and their cameras, memory cards and film seized: “If officers reasonably suspect that photographs…
Feb 18th
The Bible Timeline as Diagrams →
The website Bible Diagrams [biblediagrams.com] is dedicated to graphically presenting, in “as clear a fashion as possible”, what the Bible says, what fundamentalists believe, but also…
Feb 18th
Cell phone common charger initiative →
Here’s a good piece of news: Mobile phones from different manufacturers will finally share a common type of charging socket, in line with an accord reached by mobile communications…
Feb 18th
MINI Crossover Prototype Spied Undergoing Cold... →
chaj: what the huh You can get another look at that trippy MINI cross-over prototype that’s currently undergoing cold weather testing over at Autoweek. Look for the production…
Feb 18th
Kogi BBQ Tacos Live Up to the Hype! I’ve been... →
chaj: they need to bring this to the East Kogi BBQ Tacos Live Up to the Hype! I’ve been reading for quite a while about the delicious Korean BBQ tacos from the Kogi BBQ truck and was…
Feb 18th
Drunk Man Gets Hit by Train and Wins $2.3 Million →
Dustin Dibble, 25, of Brooklyn fell onto the subway tracks back in April of 2006. A train came and ran over his leg. Unfortunately, the leg had to be amputated at the calf. Dibble was drunk at the…
Feb 18th
Hulu's Content No Longer Available On CBS-Owned... →
So TV.com’s relaunch as a possible competitor to Hulu may not be sitting right with the News Corp-NBCU joint venture after all. The CBS-owned online video site, which was relaunched…
Feb 18th
NY Times Article Skimmer →
This new article skimmer for the NY Times is pretty sweet (here). They could improve the thing 1000% if they just added original photography to each of the story excerpts. I don’t actually…
Feb 18th
pocket wizards with ETTLII →
Pocket Wizards have launched the latest Canon pw’s The MiniTT1 Transmitter is easy to use; just slide in place and begin to shoot. The new PocketWizard ControlTL™ System interprets the complex…
Feb 18th
Canon PowerShot SX200 IS →
chaj: 720HD ……. High scores for this one Highlights 12.1mp 3″ LCD 12x Zoom (28-336) 720p HD Video Lithium-Ion $350 This is an obvious camera to take on Panasonic’s TZ7….
Feb 18th
Canon Powershot D10 Waterproof Camera →
We Called It Highlights 12mp Waterproof to 10 feet Shockproof to 4 feet Freezeproof to 14f 2.5″ LCD 3x Zoom Customizable faceplates It may not spec as well as some of its…
Feb 18th
NYT Article Skimmer →
nuff said - nice layout
Feb 18th
TS-E 17mm & TS-E 24mm? [CR4] →
UPDATE Introducing TWO new Canon Tilt-Shift Lenses? Images from Germany: http://www.achatzi.de/shop/product_info.php?pName=tse24mm-f35l-ii …
Feb 17th
Stock Letters | PlagiarismToday →
sample cease and desist letter
Feb 17th
Men with Pens - WordPress Blog Customization, Web... →
writing for men
Feb 16th
DM to be featured in new NIN doc [DMode] →
There is a new movie coming out called “Metal Machine Music: Nine Inch Nails and the Industrial Uprising“ that will feature Depeche Mode as well as many other bands. While the movie is mostly…
Feb 13th
Full Transformers 2 Teaser Trailer →
Thanks to NightShade87, here is the full 2 minute 15 second teaser trailer for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The direct link is here. Also another copy, thanks to an anonymous source, is
Feb 13th
Canon Patents a New Live View Autofocus System →
Looks good, not that I understand it. From Engadget via Photography Bay: http://www.photographybay.com/….. cr
Feb 12th
Top Gear Back In June Confirmed →
chaj: yesssssssssssssssssssssssss We’ve had reports that Top Gear would be back this June and it’s now been confirmed in the latest Top Gear magazine. 3-4 months to go!
Feb 11th
Study: Gran Turismo Makes You Want Cars →
In something that probably won’t come as a surprise to most Gran Turismo fans, a recent study has shown that driving a vehicle of a particular make in a video game makes the player “50%…
Feb 11th
More New Images of ROTF Sideswipe Toy, Including... →
Yizhi521, who recently obtained a Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen deluxe-class Sideswipe figure, has now posted some photos of the robot mode. See all the images by clicking here.
Feb 11th
Clarkson Says Top Gear America “Canned” →
Yes this news is from last week, but I haven’t been reading my e-mail too well lately so it slipped between the cracks. Whoops. During a press conference for Top Gear Live in Australia, Jeremy…
Feb 11th