Comments (0) AppleInsider | Speed of Apple Intel dev systems impress developers
Could it be that (Gasp!) Intel processors will speed Macs up? Could that be the reason for the switch?
“Master, what is wrong?”
“I felt a tremor in the Force, as if a million nerds (or somewhere between 2 and 15% of the user base, depending on your sources) had suddenly screamed out in disbelief!”
Found on the web…
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A helicopter was flying around above Seattle when an electrical malfunction disabled all of the aircraft’s electronic navigation and communications equipment.
Due to the clouds and haze, the pilot could not determine the helicopter’s position. The pilot saw a tall building, flew toward it, circled, and held up a handwritten sign that said “Where am I?” in large letters. People in the tall building quickly responded to the aircraft, drew a large sign, and held it in a building window. Their sign said “You are in a Helicopter.”
The pilot smiled, waved, looked at his map, determined the course to steer to SEATAC airport, and landed safely. After they were on the ground, the copilot asked the pilot how he had done it.
“I knew it had to be the Microsoft Building, because they gave me a technically correct but completely useless answer.”
Vietnamese Spam Offers a Beguiling Printer Ink System : Gizmodo
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I’m surprised that someone hasn’t done this before now. And that they aren’t available here. Somebody is missing a good biz op…
The Huffington Post | Latest News
Willie Nelson Album’s Pot Leaf Cover Morphs Into Palm Tree For Wal Mart…
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I hate to miss a chance to say: WALMART SUX! And this is only one of the many reasons that I don’t do wallyworld. Finely found a place to get most of the vitemans that we had been getting there. Costing a bit more but the business is local and thats where the money stays.
Think global. Buy local.
Support local business not big business.
Just say NO to big business.
Think small. Buy local.
Any more along this line?
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Interesting. The overhead projector part is no problem. Got one around somewhere. or two or three. Two now I think. I’ve been wondering about using an old lcd display from a laptop but suspect there is more than one reason it won’t work. Course with all the other projects around the farm doubt that I will ever get a round tuit…
19 inch PC Rack by TykSak of ModZone.dk
Now here is a guy who probably built his house entirely by hand! I mean, having a 19″ rack in your house with terabytes of storage is one thing, but building the entire thing from scratch (rack, cases, and all) is the sign of a true modder! Or of needing a life…….still, my hat is off to this guy. Wish he lived next door, I’m sure I could talk him into a KILLER mp3 machine for my truck…..
And isn’t it a little funny-this guy builds enough hardware to run a school system on (I know-I work at a school system) and he doesn’t have “Next” and “Back” links on his pages? Hardware oriented, I guess….
Am going tomorrow (today now) to look at a machine that makes 6 inch by 6 inch by 8 to 16 foot long cross tie looking things. Or plastic building/retaining wall timbers that last forever and then some. Taking the cam to get some shots of it.
Uses wire insulation the is cut up in the recycling process for the metal that’s called fluff. Puts it in a mold and using a 250 ton (?) ram compacts the fluff into one solid piece.
The equipment will have to be moved and I’m along for the tear down and put a working machine back together part of the trip. This is just a first run thing to see if it is feasible to take apart and move. Don’t know much of anything about it yet.
Canned 8 pints of blueberrie jam tuesday. Froze 2 quart bags and gave the folks another half a gallon. Still got lots on the bushes. All 3 of them.
Made a loaf of banana blueberry bread today too. Added a cup and a half more flour than they called for and got it to work about right. Tastes kinda like a blueberry bagel. Good just not what I would have thought it would have tasted like. Or has the texture of or something.
The jam was taken off the stove about 6:30 pm and was boiling at the time of putting in the jars. Put them in the water bath and boiled for 10 minutes or more then out on the counter on a towel. After the second batch (small boiler only holds 4 pints) was out I put 3 small towels around them all. Jars not touching. about 11:30 or a little after I noted that they were still HOT. Took a thermometer and they were at 122 degrees f. Tis about 1 am now and they are still at 118.
Here they are with the thermometer sticking out of one side.
Shot from above showing the jars and another thermometer.
Closeup of the temp.
And to be perfectly anal about this here is one more with the towels tucked firmly back in place around the thermometer.
It’s taken me about 20 minutes to get the pictures and resize them, upload and write this crap and the temp has dropped another degree at most. Room temp is 70 or so. Quite good insulation.
Think I will call it a night and start it anew again tomorrow.
Treehugger: Tree Care Solutions with Rubbersidewalks
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I’m thinking franchise city here. This process should also be able to scale up to road parts. Got a lotta potential with an ever growing supply of raw material.
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Andy’s Mystery Device
The mystery of the secret device has been solved folks, and it was something that I would never have guessed. I am writing, of course, about Andy’s secret something that he was to show off at the end of his Keynote, and show it off he did.
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This is cool. Not that I could play it even if I got one but still is neat. A usb enabled uke! input into garage band and sound like anything!
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Point, counter point? Or is that point of view? Or view the porn?
Never understood how blood and violence is acceptable but the sight of the human body is just horrible and a sexual perversion… Bunch of farking hypocrites is what I says… Or it could be the chili barking…
Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth
by R. Buckminster Fuller
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This is the entire book online at and thanks to the Buckminster Fuller Institute.
The Buckminster Fuller Institute
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Gotta link to this site directly. Lotta cool stuff looks like at first glance.
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