TechnoPrimitive

Benjamin Franklin

His “plan” for regulating his future conduct. Cool!

Hillbilly Housewife

Good recipes for those on a budget or anyone wanting to save a bit on food. Lotta stuff on how to make your own “prepackaged” foods.

frog Design Mind - Gizmodo

Day of the DRM articles it looks like. This one is arguing that DRM done right will lead to more buying. Not sure where they are going as it is continued later. Worth a read.

The Blog | RJ Eskow: Rancho Notorious Meets the Pentagon: Halliburton Shoots U.S. Army in the Face | The Huffington Post

Sometimes the headline alone is worth bloging…

A sewage treatment plant turns excess liquid into snow - The Boston Globe

Mummmm, yellow and brown snow…

bit-tech.net | A conversation with Cory Doctorow

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A good read, with quite a few well thought out points. I especially liked the following:

“You know, screw them, if it’s a choice between putting everyone in Hollywood out of work - not that this would do that, but if that was in fact the outcome, which the industry says it would be - and if it’s a choice between that and eliminating all freedom of information, due process and privacy rights in electronic communication, then ‘Goodbye Hollywood’, it’s a no-brainer.”

The problem with it is that Hollywood (and it’s masses of lawyers) isn’t going to go quitely and the insane drm and restrictions that they are trying to force into law are screwing us all.

Solution? I haven’t a clue.

To be able to sleep with myself, I license my stuff (writing and photos and such) under Creative Commons, don’t buy new music cd’s due to the RIAA nor new dvd’s due to the MPAA, both because of their stand on drm and the out of control suing of their customers. I also quit buying or using Apple products for their stand on DRM. Linux and OSS software is all I use now.

Overlawyered: Sued for taking baths too early

Totally out of control lawyer, abusing the legal system.

Yea, I know, what else is it there for…

GarbageScout.com - Found treasure map to New York City, a recycler’s dream, a cheapskate’s best friend, and a dumpster diver’s companion

This is so cool! I want a local version!

( bluegrasscountry.org ) Welcome Home.

Bluegrass 24/7!

EPA drops objections to chemical weapon wastewater plan — Newsday.com

This smells.

UH develops charcoal-fired fuel cell - The Honolulu Advertiser
The carbon cell functions something like a car battery. It has an anode and cathode positive- and negative-charged terminals in a liquid solution, and if you put an electrical load — like a light bulb — between them, electrical current flows from one to the other. But that’s where the similarity ends.

In Antal’s cell, the electrolyte is alkaline potassium hydroxide, not sulphuric acid. It is kept under pressure to prevent it from boiling away at 400 degrees. The negative terminal, or cathode, which acts as a catalyst, is made of nickel and silver or platinum.

The positive terminal, or anode, is a porous ceramic column filled with charcoal powder. A piston keeps it pressurized, and serves at the attachment point for the electrical connection.

In operation, hydroxide ions in the electrolyte attack the carbon, creating carbon dioxide and water. The process releases energy.

The cell is fed air to provide the process with new oxygen, and it vents carbon dioxide.

The charcoal does not burn in the sense of a campfire burning. The reaction occurs entirely within the liquid of the fuel cell.

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what voltage per cell? What kind of current per gram of carbon consumed? details damnit! This sounds really promiseing!

The hardware keylogger page. Try a hardware keyboard logger device!

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So now we need to check the keyboard connection before sitting down to a public computer. Lovely. I see two or three sides here but suspect that it will mostly be used for evil. Doesn’t mean I wouldn’t like one, just in case…

The Blog | Bob Cesca: And You Call Yourself A Homeland Security Advisor? | The Huffington Post
Fran Townsend, Homeland Security Advisor to President Bush, was on Fox News Sunday this morning and proudly stated something about as preposterous as anything to come out of the White House this week.

She reasoned that we weren’t alarmed about the British company managing our major ports after the London bombings, so why should be alarmed about the Dubai Ports deal.

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Doublespeak anyone? Do these idiots in the White House really think that the public is this stupid? Or is it that they are so far into never never land that they just don’t think before opening their mouths? Or something entirely different? Alien mind control implants maybe? Or have they been turned into pod people?

Link above goes to a good article on a bad subject.

Dilbert Comic Strip Archive - Dilbert.com - The Official Dilbert Website by Scott Adams - Dilbert, Dogbert and Coworkers!

Trying to get to what the user ACTUALLY wants (or needs (which is another thing entirely)) out of them is sometimes (most of the time?) interesting. This Dilbert illustrates the process rather well I think…

Linux.com | My domains, MyDNS

Interesting article on setting up and running MyDNS and why to use it instead of BIND.

Hetemeel.com : Dynamic images

Interesting concept. Several other dynamic images available in their links.

ABC News: Actor Don Knotts Dies at 81

Good night, Barney!

BBC NEWS | England | Southern Counties | Artist gets naked to earn bread

Ok, that’s different.

THE BASTARD OPERATOR FROM HELL OFFICIAL ARCHIVE

Early BOFH files. Love the keyboard pix. From the second set at this site.

Scotland’s Falkirk Wheel - Gizmodo

Now that’s a piece of wonderful engineering! 1.5kw to raise/lower a boat vs what it would cost to fill a series of locks.