Kyosho - maker of many lines of high-quality Radio Controlled cars - will be featured on the January 22nd “Extreme Makover: Home Edition” show. They also involved the creator of RCP tracks (the industry standard track for indoor miniature RC racing tracks - the same kind my brother-in-law uses.
My guess is they will build [...]
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Quark XPress remains the industry leader page-layout ap (despite attempts by Adobe to shove InDesign down everyone’s throat). A free public beta is available - and will remain functional until March 31st. Go get your design on! (Both for Mac OS X and Windows)
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In general, locks are nothing more than a set of pins blocking a cylinder from moving. Insert a key - and you line those pins up in a way that no longer binds the movement of the cylinder and the lock rotates freely. There is, however, another way to get the lock to rotate - [...]
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I thought I was just crazy when I remembered the high-powered showers from my youth. Turns out, I was right - they did exist - until the government took them away from me.
In a funny, well-written article, a fellow from Mises explains how to hack your shower-head to circumvent government-imposed flow rate limitations.
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MacBook Pro has got to be the lamest name for the PowerBook I have ever heard of. When I hear the phrase “MacBook Pro” it feels oudated. It feels like a name that came out of 1980 or something. I think of a dusty, dinged-up box in the corner of an abandoned office with the [...]
Todays news from MacWorld was good to hear - but nothing super exciting. Here are some of the things that were announced:
A $49 FM tuner/remote for the iPod (works on current models)
Mac OS X 10.4.4 Trivial updates. New widgets. Biggest reason to update is for Intel compatibility
New iLife update Trivial updates to the programs - [...]
Today is the first day of class for the winter semester. Right now, I am in my first class - Geology 101 - and am being bombarded by a review of some basic concepts of science.
It has been a long time since I have been in a 100 level general-ed class. This is the biggest [...]
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A man caught a mouse, and threw it in the fire to dispose of it. Problem solved, right? Not with this mouse. The mouse decided to return the favor to the man.
“I had some leaves burning outside, so I threw it in the fire, and the mouse was on fire and ran back at [...]
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Santa gave my little sister a big, fat, video iPod for christmas - and she subsequently gave me her small, skinny, old iPod for free. Being the nerd that I am, I have known about the iPod Linux project for quite some time now - but never had a way to play with it. Last [...]
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