It's probably too late for this
holiday season but here's a
place that will make your own
personal bobble-headed dolls
in whatever likeness you want!
Just upload your photos!
Several choices for bodies too!
The new Spitzer Space Telescope is
cranking out it's first images and
they're pretty amazing!
Since it's infrared based it can see
what's hiding behind the clouds!
The Australian beetle grows scales with
the internal structure of Opal's.
We could literally have "bugs" in our
future computers.... because Opal's
have a big part to play in the photonic
crystals we'll need for our speed of
light circuitry...
An excellent, well written article on
the beginnings of aviation with the
Wright brothers...
All sounds vaguely familiar as I
read through it...
A pretty neat pointer article on building clusters!
Apparently I missed the TechTV show
they built one using FreeBSD..
A really cool QVTR of the Eiffel Tower!
There are other QVTR's on the website,
including one from Burning Man 2003,
Mt Everest, and many, many more!
While Columbus was sailing the ocean blue
others did their own thing...
The 2.6.0 version of the Linux kernel has
been released!
SCO sueing everybody who's heard anything
at all about it first thing in the morning...
You too can own your own fuel cell car
for the low, low price of $150..
"Pour in the water and watch it separate into hydrogen and oxygen..."
Need to look busy for a while so you don't
get some quick and dirty job dumped on
you?
Some helpful hints from professionals!
(and no it's not another one of MY sites
so keep your snide little comments
to yourself!)
Ever want to hook your PS2/DVD/VHS player to
your high resolution computer monitor?
Now you can with the Video Console!
I know that most of us would like to pretend that
we don't have any relatives and would much
rather concentrate on our immediate family, the
family that we get to choose, our friends... but
Sometimes some of you have had those thoughts
about marrying your 2nd cousin twice removed
and you're not sure if the gene pool has been
diluted enough...
Here's a handy chart that keeps it all in one
place!
It still doesn't answer one of my burning questions
though... if my sister marries my wife's brother does
that give me the choice of considering us related
by marriage? ;-}
Java 1.4.2 has been tossed to the four winds!
Go forth and be fruitful... oh, sorry, wrong story...
Go forth and write 1000's of lines of code that is layered
on top of someone else's 1000's of lines of code that
you're using 20% of that's layered on top of someone
else's 1000's of lines of code that you're using 20% of
that's layered... {repeat 10 times}... that's converted
to byte code that's interpreted at run time (sometimes
only once) that sells computers that need lots of cpu
and memory and keep us all gainfully employed until
our jobs are outsource to India... ;-}
Not sure what the vision is here....
I'll have to go and see if Stratton Sclavos is running EMC too! ;-}
Google's adding more search capabilities!
You'll be able to search book contents!
Interestingly http://print.google.com/ just has a
place holder... BUT if you do a
http://www.google.com/search?q=%221%2C000+knock+knock+jokes+for+kids%22+site%3Aprint.google.com you can get results...
Not sure what else is out there in book content!
Oh, and then there are some "other" options .... ;-}
A Japanese company has come up the
the "T-Cube" computer...
In the photo it looks about the size of
an orange.... it's the color of and
an orange (there are oranges in the
photo... they don't say anything
about smell or taste..
It doesn't run M$ Windows... or Linux
either..
A company has come up with a way
to cheaply and easily to make anti-bodies
that can hit two different targets.
It'll be stateside one of these days!
The AP (Associated Press) got to see the
PSX before release...
- DVD burner
- TV tuner
- CD player
- digital photo album
- 250GB HD
They did have to ditch some features..
Anyone else out there been thinking this way?
Well bummer!
I missed the big International Robot Exhibition
in Japan in November!
Have to put it on the calendar for next year!
New "ways" to search google....
Definitions...
Travel Conditions...
and Numbers!
Numbers include things like FedEx and UPS tracking numbers,
patent numbers, FAA airplane registration numbers,
FCC equipment IDs....
Why can't we do this here?
The city of Shanghai has an automated system
that will enable them to enter the phone number
on illegal posters around town.
It will then call the phone numbers on the
posters on an increasing frequency basis
and leave messages to remove their posters!
Here's some Java code you can download that
may be useful!
Quote: "SmoothTeddy is a simple 3D sketch-based
modeling and painting software. You can
make rotund 3D models such as teddy bears
quickly, and paint them in an integrated
environment."
There's a demo clip.
Intel's research folks are working on personal
server technology using a new twist!
From the paper:
"Smaller than PDA-class devices and without
traditional input/output (I/O) capabilities such
as a keyboard or display, the Intel® Personal
Server concept prototype links wirelessly to
existing infrastructure to provide ubiquitous
access to personal information and applications."
For all of you folks who might be
wondering how M$ is planning to
get rid of IE (and ALL browsers)
in the next generation of Windows!
Someone has done some sample
programs that use M$'s new XAML
and show's how they'll handle
frames and borders and events
and hyperlinks and scrolling and
sliders and...
[12/15/2003 - Here's a link to the M$DN site
giving their tutorial on the same topic.]
[Ed. note -- sometimes you don't hit the ctrl-c
like you thought you did - link is corrected!]
You know how some of your bosses
seem unable to take project dates
and durations and see the conflict?
Here's an interactive tool that will
build some nifty timelines that you
can reference via URL!
Say what?
Some cool pictures of deep sea creatures!
Yes, that's right..
A Pacman game that runs in Excel!
Why you say? exactly..
Here's a specialized tool that will take
your hotdogs and make them look
like octopuses!
IBM has produced an interesting roadmap
document oriented towards moving from
Windows to Linux.
Pointers to relevant topics and what
order to read them in.
How much of a geek are you?
Take the survey and see what
you score!
I came in at 169!
Apparently Gillette is putting RFID chips in
their packaging...
and has sensors and cameras in the shelving
and checkout counters...
Be wary!
HUGE lines waiting to get in to the
new Apple store in Tokyo!
QT movie follows the orderly line for
many, may blocks!
For you Perl fans!
Affrus 1.0 is an integrated Perl editing and
debugging environment for Max OS X!
From the Japanese National Yo-Yo championships!
Pretty impressive..
More power!
Build your own ENGINE!
He's even thinking of GPL'ing some of his stuff.. Hardware Open Source...
"the ultimate portable video screen" -- Eyetop!
View and record!
It appears that NetHack will live forever!
Pick up version 3.4.3 and have at it!
A couple of articles on optimizing and tuning the FreeBSD kernel!
Zony has this nifty new camera module that images
a full 360 degrees in one operation!
There was an earthquake today just west of Richmond VA!
Actually within the last hour! cool!
If any of you Pixar fans don't already know this..
They've got a series of short films that are quite
enjoyable!
Yahoo seems to be taking the lead in making changes to
SMTP to add public key cryptography to validate mail
servers...
Doesn't seem to be quite enough...
This Ferrari F50 has seen some serious gene splicing! ;-}
Cost's almost a much as an original.
I'll still take that BMW X4 from yesterday!
They're hoping to start clinical trials using bionic eyes...
It looks like Australia is where the bionic eye'd folk will be running into each other.. ;-}
Pretend like yer in the slammer and make some license plates!
Have fun!
Y'all might find this one interesting..
Sun seems to be trying to preempt M$'s Longhorn..
Certainly sounds like there could be some fun here!
An alternative view on what's happening with all
of the job outsourcing...
Maybe EVERYTHING seeks a natural equilibrium
and we shouldn't screw with it!
Got enough weather?
I guess it could be worse... ;-}
Related movie coming out in the spring... ;-}
Dammit!
I missed out on the sale for the 737-200 cockpit section!
It didn't sell so maybe there's still a chance!
Wish I had one of these to play with!
Looks like a whole lotta fun!
You've only got about a day and a half to get your bid in on eBay to purchase your very own Mig-21 Fishbed Fighter Jet!
Current bid is a paltry $18K!
Of course you have to pick it up in the NL and it doesn't currently fly.
Came from the Polish air force..
Going in style!
They've uncovered a guy who had been buried in his chariot about 500BC in the UK!
Guess there was quite the feast at the burial as they've found the bones of an estimated 250-300 animals to feed his friends at the burial!
The Japanese have made a two legged robotic chair.
Says it handles uneven terrain quite well.
Works well even with a squirmer in the chair!
A Sundial that displays the time in digits....
Accurate to 10 minutes...
Intriguing....
The latest techniques used by the spammers involve including text from the eText stuff to try and fool the Baysian filters...
More IT work shifting to India!
Nice...
Looks like there's some fun stuff available in this catalog!
Too bad they're in the UK (although they do ship overseas!)
A new game console that has "Drop and Play" capabilities that will play any PC based games without modification..
Seems a little fishy to me.
Looks like a PC.... hmmm
An article on what's coming down the pipe in 2004 in Solaris 10.
New filesystem, new trace tools, new TCP/IP stack, and more!
You might be interested in reading an article about the render farm used to make the Lord of the Rings movies!
1600 dual processor machines!
The Internet had to have started somewhere to get where we are today!
[UPDATE: the URL in this one should have referenced changed with a new edition... URL has been updated to the archive version...]
Hmmm..
Maybe will end up physically removed from the computer field...
First we knew him as an actor.
Then we got to see him from the inside out in "Being John Malkovich".
Now we get to see him in a TV show where he shares his crackpot proposals received in the mail!
The Digital Rights Management used by iTunes has been busted, code posted.
By the same guy who cracked and published code for DeCSS..
Intel has produced 65 nanometer chips...
Should double the number of transistors on current chips.
When the coming Ice Age gets here (winter has arrived after all) you might need to build an Igloo for fun (or profit)!
Data encryptions toolset, written in JavaScript, running entirely in your browser!
Why? you ask.... you'll just have to visit and find out! ;-}
Some folks are dumber than rocks!
or as my Grandma used to say: "... they ain't got the brains that God gave a peanut!"
Discovery Kids is selling a kit that includes a centrifuge and electrophresis chamber and can extract DNA from fruits, vegetables, siblings, whatever...
all for only $80!
Pratt & Whitney expect to have pulse-detonation engine in production within the next decade or two.
Four times the speed of sound...
Got a Billy Big Mouth Bass laying around gathering dust?
Hook it up to your linux box, add a microphone and maybe a ccd camera and...
Kind of oogie if it's talking back to you... ;-}
Step-by-Step instructions on how to build your own string of USB powered Christmas lights!
Forget all this 50MB wireless crap!
GiFi will be here soon!
You'll all like this one!
Embedded RFID tags -- embedded in YOU and ME that is!
Not likely in my case... They wouldn't like what I would be waving across their scanner..
The winner in a blind taste test of Scotch? a Japanese company!
A cool dude has installed a 7" touchscreen in the dash of his Audi with GPS and plays MP3, Divx, AND Nintendo games..
I'm headed out to check out my Mustang....
;-}
