Comments (0) Santorum, Frist, Burns Make List Of 20 Most Corrupt Members Of Congress… | The Huffington Post
Tis a good beginning for a list of the ones to vote out of office!
Boing Boing: AA batteries with built-in USB charging-plugs
Cute, but at what price? What is the lifespan? Can the battery be replaced when it goes bad or is the whole thing disposable? Why not a small usb unit that will charge multiple size batteries?
The Internet Craftsmanship Museum
So much to see! This site will take a LOT of time to get through. Wonderful stuff!
New Scientist Technology Blog: Spaceflight on the cheap
I remember a russian SciFi story (can’t remember the name though) where the people launched rockets off of high altitude balloons to get to an (almost) abandoned space station and then boosted it back into orbit. Wish I could remember the name of the story now. There was a russian cosmonaut on board that had suffered such bone and muscle degeneration that he couldn’t go back to earth and was gonna die when the station deorbited.
Love these bits and pieces of memory…
Glad to see this anyway. Suspect the FAA and probably NASA will move in to stop this on the grounds of national security or something equally lame.
Hand Truck Chair For Carting Away Bloggers Killed in Line of Duty – Gizmodo
I’m still waiting for the punchline. This thing is weird.
Boing Boing: HOWTO pick a Master padlock with a BART card
Ain’t nothing safe anymore… I have seen and done this with a piece of aluminum can before just to see if it would work and it does. Course a hammer is quicker but not quite as neat… 😉
I am so glad to see this! Real tired of these asshats that think just because they WANT something to be that way all they got to do is talk about it loud and long enough and it becomes the truth. Taint so.
LiveScience.com – Despite Rumors, Black Hole Factory Will Not Destroy Earth
But at one a second how do they know? And what happens when their mutual gravitational attraction causes them to join together and make a MUCH bigger one? SciFi land here I know but they really DON’T know either untill they turn it on. And this level of experimentation would be much better done on an uninhabited world a few million miles away…
After downloading the latest Ubuntu distro and burning it to disk I started it up in the iBook. Fought with it for a while but as there was a storm going on at the time and all the wired computers were off, was unable to get to the instructions for making the airport extreme work so rebooted into OS X and waited till later.
Later came today. After updating the backup software I did a full backup to the firewire drive and rebooted into it just to check. Worked fine so then booted into the Ubuntu cd and started trying to get the wireless going. First step was to run an ethernet cable to it so I could do the apt-get thing as well as getting to the Ubuntu site with the instructions. 😉
First page was WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx – Community Ubuntu Documentation which told me to:
In a terminal, type lspci , which lists the PCI devices in your system. Mine is the same as the example and this will be a new install so next page was WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx/Dapper – Community Ubuntu Documentation.
Since this is a new install I skipped down to section 1.2.2 Obtaining the firmware.
It told me to enable the Universe repository and after following the links I did that. Next up was again in the terminal and was:
sudo apt-get install bcm43xx-fwcutter which gets the package needed. Then taking the easy way out and using the script:
sudo /usr/share/bcm43xx-fwcutter/install_bcm43xx_firmware.sh When it quits doing its thing we’re ready to setup the wireless card.
First up is to load it in the kernel: sudo modprobe bcm43xx then check to see what it was loaded as with iwconfig. Should be eth1.
Then see if you can scan the network: sudo iwlist ethX scan and then you get to pick and choose and restart till the damn thing works on reboot.
Not there yet but close. I still have to start the network manager and choose the wifi card as the network device but it IS able to find it and load it. So closer and closer.
Downloaded and installed the KDE base packages and am now back with my perfered desktop. Bit more tweeking and then to try to get my years of mail moved over…
billingsgazette.com : The Associated Press
Coyote bites woman at Conn. rest stop
He’d been eating at a local McDonalds and wanted some real meat. Actually there IS a reason to not feed wild life…
Programmable Soda Bottle: Have It Your Way – Gizmodo
And how are they gonna keep some asshat from punching all the flavor buttons while they are still on the grocery store shelf? Packaging for the bottle maybe. Or maybe they need to think this through a bit more…
Boing Boing: Steam-powered Gameboy video
Better than Steam Punk – A steam powered gameboy. Short video showing a DARK area with what seems like an old steam engine (small) hooked to a generator, meter and then gameboy. Would love to see more of the setup with decent still pix and maybe a post describing it.
Never knew he was a sculpter too. Seeing his drawings, paintings, and sculpture makes me realize just how different his world view really was. He seems to have lived (in his head at least) totally within the different universe that he shared in the books… 😉
Wonderful stuff! Well worth the visit. He even did a nude! Below the fold…
And the Talk Like A Pirate Day WordPress filter is in place here at Technoprimitive.org. 😉
Aarrrr!
Over did it the last few days and am paying today. May post a bit but for the most part am going to try to recoop(?).
Guess it was all the drill use. Don’t have quite this much problem with hands and arms when I use the modified remote battery drill vs the heavy as hell 18 volt sucker.
Downtime is partually due to the last two days spent with the heavy as hell unit in hand putting gutters on one side of the 12×60 and getting metal canopys put up over the doors on the other side before the rain hit.
Trying to cut down on the amount of water that runs down the walls, behind the scrap I have against the sides at the bottom to keep the cats out, under the length of the trailer and then under the end wall of the unfinished rear addition to the q-hut and into the floor.
The flood inside wasn’t quite as bad this time. Of course I ended up putting the last piece of metal up in pouring rain. Put the drill in a large baggie with the bit sticking out one corner and finished up or we would have had a lot more inside. I think this one was a 12 towel leak.
Got a new one at the other end in the bedroom floor. Or that’s where it ends up. Ceiling center 3 feed from the end. Course that is the first seam in the ceilotex so could be from the end to 6 feed or so from it. We were up there a couple of months ago with roof coating so may have caused one then. Tis always something new.
I hope to get metal cut to underpen the trailer and stop the water from getting under in the first place. But I also need to finish with gutters or extended metal water sheads/eaves or something to keep it from getting on what walls are left.  Plan to redo the walls with some cans/bottles/rocks/concrete combo and be done with it fer-ever. One of these days…
Hands are giving out so will close till later…
MIT proton treatment could replace x-ray use in radiation therapy – MIT News Office
Scientists at MIT, collaborating with an industrial team, are creating a proton-shooting system that could revolutionize radiation therapy for cancer. The goal is to get the system installed at major hospitals to supplement, or even replace, the conventional radiation therapy now based on x-rays.
The fundamental idea is to harness the cell-killing power of protons — the naked nuclei of hydrogen atoms — to knock off cancer cells before the cells kill the patient. Worldwide, the use of radiation treatment now depends mostly on beams of x-rays, which do kill cancer cells but can also harm many normal cells that are in the way.
What the researchers envision — and what they’re now creating — is a room-size atomic accelerator costing far less than the existing proton-beam accelerators that shoot subatomic particles into tumors, while minimizing damage to surrounding normal tissues. They expect to have their first hospital system up and running in late 2007.
Room-size atomic accelerator. Now there is a downsized item for you. And gonna have it in the same room as the patient being treated. I hope they make it work. From a couple of things I have read the proton systems do a lot less damage to the surrounding tissue than the x-ray systems now in use.
First penis transplant patient hated it
You got to wonder:
Was it too big.
Was it too small.
Was it the wrong color.
How he lost his in the first place.
And why after getting another one he had it cut off… 🙁
Deep-sea oil rigs inspire MIT designs for giant wind turbines – MIT News Office
Interesting concept. Though I wonder if tidal or wave energy wouldn’t be better use than wind. Though as the article states the wind that far off shore (100 miles) will be much more constant.
Treehugger: Escopetarras: Riffs not Rifles, Ballads not Bullets
Interesting looking things. Whatever you want to call them.
Update: Steve notes in the comments that this is a “Life Rifle”! Thanks Steve!
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