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By Dave, April 4, 2008 8:41 pm

Portable Yurts from Go-Yurt : TreeHugger

This is just too cool! 😎 Canvas skin and about 45 minutes setup. I want to see one in person.

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By Dave, April 4, 2008 8:32 pm

Mobile phones ‘more dangerous than smoking’ : TreeHugger
So says Dr. Vini Khurana, an Australian neurosurgeon. His recent 15-month critical review of the link between mobile phones and malignant brain tumors concludes that the phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, that people should avoid using them wherever possible, and that governments and the mobile phone industry must take “immediate steps” to reduce exposure to their radiation.

I don’t know if they are or aren’t dangerous, but studies saying they are keep popping up from all over the world so I use one as little as possible. Time will tell.

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By Dave, April 4, 2008 8:26 pm

Tapping the Power of the Mighty Mississippi: Thousands of Hydrokinetic Turbines Could Generate 1600 MW : TreeHugger

Makes a LOT of sense to do it this way vs the huge dams and massive turbines. Instead have a LOT of small units. One goes out just put another in it’s place. Hope they get the permits and go ahead.

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By Dave, April 4, 2008 8:20 pm

» A Great Gordon Ramsay Interview » The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century : Joey deVilla’s Personal Blog

This interview is LOL funny!

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By Dave, April 4, 2008 8:03 pm

More on Pedal-Power Victory : TreeHugger

Glad to see that the Judge threw this out. Stupid waste of the taxpayers money to be in court in the first place and wouldn’t have happened if the cop hadn’t been a complete ass about it.

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By Dave, April 4, 2008 7:56 pm

Brain Scanner Can Tell What You’re Looking At

Interesting and scary at the same time. Lots of uses as well as misuses for this kind of tech. First thing that comes to mind is Big Brother and thought crimes. Then there is communicating with folks that can’t due to birth defects or injuries.

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By Dave, April 4, 2008 7:47 pm

Speed Up Windows XP – Wired How-To Wiki

And one more How-To from Wired. Even though I don’t use Windoze I know lots of folks that do and have to help some of them out from time to time so am once again posting the link here so I can find it later. 🙄

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By Dave, April 4, 2008 7:43 pm

Make a Local Backup Of Your Gmail Account – Wired How-To Wiki

Another good How-To from Wired. Mainly posting the link here so I can find it later when I need it. 😉

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By Dave, April 4, 2008 7:39 pm

Set Up Dynamic DNS – Wired How-To Wiki

Done this before but alas the computer is no more so am glad there is a How-To so I can (maybe) get it set up again on the soon to be server.

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By Dave, April 4, 2008 7:35 pm

The Double-Decker Smart ForTwo – Twice the Space, Half the Handling | Autopia from Wired.com

If you haven’t seen this yet it’s worth the look. And the laughs! The video is wonderful and LOL funny!

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By Dave, April 4, 2008 6:59 pm

Supercharge Your Camera with Open-Source CHDK Firmware – Wired How-To Wiki
Digital cameras have powers beyond what is immediately available to the user. On a standard Canon, for example, the fastest shutter speed option offered is 1/1,600 second, but the hardware can handle much more than that — up to 1/60,000 of a second.

CHDK does not replace the existing firmware on your Canon, so the process is completely reversible. The existing firmware stays intact, while the CHDK software is loaded on demand from an SD card.

Makes me want to get a Canon camera and try this. Sounds quite interesting.

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By Dave, April 4, 2008 6:53 pm

Intel shuns Microsoft, taps Linux for mobile Net devices | Tech news blog – CNET News.com

Keep screwing your customers and partners long enough and they WILL turn on you, as MicroSloth is learning, or should be by now.

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By Dave, April 4, 2008 4:35 pm

Japanese creative packaging design solutions to ugly barcodes – Boing Boing

These are just too cool!

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By Dave, April 4, 2008 4:33 pm

US Judiciary opts to spend millions on accessing its own records, which are now available on the Web for free – Boing Boing

Gotta wonder if it was just one person that made the decision…

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By Dave, April 4, 2008 4:21 pm

Shedworking: Cody Studio

Rather interesting design. I like the green roof and chains directing the water runoff from the gutters. Simple and effective.

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By Dave, April 4, 2008 10:11 am

Navajo Nation to Lose Internet Signal

I would post something about the above link but the information contained in it will go away in 15 days because it is an Associated Press feed and the copyright statement that they use on every one of their stories that I have copied and pasted below says I can’t.

© 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

You’d think that by now they would see it would benefit them to use a less restrictive license so folks would point to and talk about their stories but I guess when the company is run by the bean counters the bottom line is everything.

Anyway to get to the point of this too long gripe, because of this I don’t and won’t post any links to any story by the AP.

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By Dave, April 4, 2008 9:57 am

Oatmeal cancer claim questioned
A book by government health adviser Ane Bodil Sogaard says oatmeal contains acrylamide, which has been shown to cause cancer in laboratory rats, the Copenhagen Post said Thursday.

Makes me wonder which other breakfast cereal company(s) are lining his pockets.

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By Dave, April 4, 2008 9:45 am

Are you using Firefox 3? (Scripting News)

Just read your post and am downloading it now. Thanks for the heads up.

Update – Can’t run it on the Mac as I am still using 10.3.9 due to Apples stupid DRM in later versions of the OS. Guess I’ll need to boot the linux box and try it there.

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By Dave, April 4, 2008 9:27 am

spacetoday.net: Ares 1 vibration worries eased

Uh, yea. The vibrations aren’t strong enough to cause problems but they are looking into shock absorbers both on the engine and even on the seats. If the problems are severe enough for the seats to need vibration damping, what is gonna be the effect on EVERYTHING else thats on board? Something tells me that there is more to this that they are trying to gloss over.

The links to newspaper articles give a LOT more info on both the problem and the proposed solutions. Seems the same general type of oscillations caused one of the early unmanned Saturn V test rockets to fail.

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By Dave, April 3, 2008 11:12 pm

The Joy of Tech comic… laughter is the best tech support.

The internet thinks I’m FAT! 😆 😆 😆