Comments (0) Technologic Systems TS-7200 SBC uses NetBSD OS to control Toaster
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This is just too cool! Ah, Hot. Or something. Love the interior picture with the mother board attached to the frame of the toaster.
Combination power-heat system created
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I want to know more about this! Especially the exhaust fired cooling.
Molecule tells flower to flower
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A tiny little molecule causes the flowers to bloom.
Just like those hormones cause horniness in june…
Doesn’t work too good in a love song though…
Slashdot | Microsoft’s Bold Patent Move
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Why in the hell are we the people putting up with this nonsensical IP crap!
Oh yea, the lawyers…
Read more Heinlein!
More biodiversity at Chernobyl
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At least 2 eyed, 4 limbed, 20 digited humans anyway…
Errors in the Measurement of Global Warming Corrected
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Mhmmm… Okay. If they say so.
New Scientist Breaking News – HIV breakthrough raises hopes for a cure
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This certainly sounds encouraging! It seems that the last little bit is going to be the hardest go eradicate.
Techdirt:FedEx Throws A DMCA Fit Over Creative Use Of Their Boxes
FedEx easily could have left this guy alone — or, even better, encouraged him. It would have made for a great, amusing, advertisement for FedEx. Instead, they look like a bunch of bullies.
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And VERY stupid bullies at that!
Glad to hear this – NOT. Guess it means that I find another way to ship stuff as I REFUSE to support with my $$$ companies that support the DCMA.
New Scientist News – Climate warning as Siberia melts
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Ah! More of the news that I am tempted more and more each day to quit reading.
So as the peat bogs continue thawing the peat will release more and more methane into the atmosphere from an area the size of france and germany put together.
And here we’ve been worrying about methane release of a few cow farts… 🙁
Are hurricanes increasing? Ask a Georgia Pine tree
Makes sense. What few are left…
Linux Today – vnunet: SCO Resellers Turn Blind Eye to Linux Lawsuit
“SCO resellers are burying their heads in the sand when it comes to the firm’s controversial legal claims over ownership of key elements of Linux source code, and are focusing instead on the quality of its operating system.
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In the first place, who knew there were any SCO resellers left?
In the second place, Quality? Or do they mean they need to focus on improving the quality?
The last 3 SCO setups I have seen were so outdated that they make tandy co-co’s look like last years compaq’s in comparison.
But what do I know…
Swamp Coolers Portable Evaporative Swamp Cooler
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Had no idea they were still making these things. Wonderful for dry areas. You get cooling even here in the south east until we hit those 100% humidity days when every surface is covered with water then they don’t do so well…
Another Newspaper Falls into Creationist Trap | Bayosphere
Dan makes a very good point in this piece. And one I had not considered.
Just got my head full of coding and find it hard to move from writing words to working with code so…
Got the paypal if else part more nearly done. Shows up when and where it should and not otherwise. Now got to figure out the rest of the return from paypal to verify sale and flip the For Sale switch from 1 to 0 or checked to unchecked. I’m sure it’s not a biggie but my head ain’t thinking this way today. May have to shelve the project till I get back into the grove…
Armadillo Aerospace News Archive
Armadillo Aerospace News Archive
Servo regulator, Throatless engines, Hold down test
Aug 4, 2005 notes
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Looks like they are making progress. The engine test mpg down toward the end is awsome!
Slashdot | Former Health Secretary Pushes for VeriChip Implants
An anonymous reader writes “Tommy Thompson, the former Bush Health Secretary after implanting a chip into himself, is going to submit a proposal within the next 50 days to promote it for everyone in the USA. VeriChip spokesperson John Procter said ‘virtually everyone could benefit from having a chip inserted.’ Enjoy your assimilation in the land of the free, citizen.”
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They can implant me – Right after they pry my gun out of my dead cold hands!
Slashdot | Can a Customer Loyalty Database Change a Society?
The following is taken from the comments and illustrates a LONG standing problem with family owned business
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The village where I live is about 3 miles from the nearest Tesco and, one by one, the small family-run shops are closing. But they themselves are partly to blame – apart from Saturday mornings, they’re closed when I’m at home. I would buy my meat fresh the butchers, fruit and veg from the greengrocer, and fresh bread from the bakers, but they don’t give me that choice. If they stayed open late, just by a couple of hours, one day a week they’d get my business. At the moment the only people able to shop there are pensioners, the unemployed, housewives and shift workers.
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I see this constantly. The family business that is open to the public (brick front vs web store) only wants to be open during “business hours” or 9 to 5 then everyone wants to be off and go out and do things. Big problem.
I was thinking of opening a book store a few years ago and one of the things I had decided to do was change the open hours to reflect the people I was trying to sell to. Was planning on being open from 3 pm to 11 pm 4 days a week. But health and inertia intervened and now we are surrounded by books 24/7 and selling on the web. Much lower overhead and no set hours. But no walk-in traffic. To offset the lower overhead on rent and utilities is the shear amount of work that it takes to get the book ready (on line) for someone to buy.
Whereas in a brickfront used book store you take the boxes of used books and take the books out, search and see what the book is worth, pencil in the price, enter it into inventory, assign a shelf location and put them in on the shelf.
In a online used bookstore you take the books out of the boxes and search to see the current price range on the particular book, decide how much the book is worth, enter the book and it’s condition into the database, scan the front and back of the book, convert the scans to the proper size, enter the picture number in the database, assign a shelf location for the book, and put them on the shelf.
After putting it down on the screen it looks like the bigest difference is the addition of the scan and the detailed description of each book.
I’m already working to automate a lot of the steps required to scan, resize, make thumbnail, rename, upload to correct places, so maybe it will be less labor intensive and human error prone.
Ah well. Ramble over. Time to get back to the php/wordpress mines…
The Huffington Post | The Blog | is-your-lawn-safe
Is Your Lawn Safe?
The American shruburbs. A safe place to raise your kids, right? Maybe, but here’s another “dark side of the American dream” story, with an easy solution:
More than 70 million pounds of pesticides are sprayed onto America’s 30 million acres of lawns each year by companies like ChemLawn, who’ve made the perfect lawn an icon more imporant than the white picket fence.
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Been saying this for years… But most folks don’t think. I mean that’s what the adds tell us to do right? –
Got weeds? Spray.
Got bugs? Spray.
Don’t think about (man behind the curtain) the environmental effects somewhere off down the road. Or in your offspring.
As long as the critters/weeds are gone NOW that’s all all you should care about.
Bullshit! Weeds and most bugs are good for something somewhere. Natural controls are available in most cases and less toxic means exist where natural isn’t available. Besides we need all the green we can get to counteract deforestation erosion and global warming.
Act locally, think globally…
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