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By Dave, February 15, 2006 2:09 pm

Feds say eagles no longer are endangered

So glad to see this. Them there eagles sure is sum good eating!

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Can’t wait to hear from PETA (People Eating Tasty Animals)…

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By Dave, February 15, 2006 2:05 pm

Wired News:
Tune In, Turn On, Veg Out

5 years without tv. Sounds like me but it’s been closing in on 7 with me now and I really haven’t missed it. Haven’t missed wasting time watching things I wasn’t interested in just because it was on. Haven’t missed having much more “free” time to do other things like take a walk, read, listen to music (while walking or reading). And am not interested in going back…

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By Dave, February 15, 2006 12:30 pm

Welcome to Wrightspeed Inc.

If you have a fast connection you need to see the movie at this site of their electric car taking on 2 of the fastest production automobles in production and stomping them both!

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By Dave, February 15, 2006 12:27 pm

Wired News: From Pest to Ethanol King
The key to kicking what President Bush calls the nation’s oil addiction could very well lie in termite guts, canvas-eating jungle bugs and other microbes genetically engineered to spew enzymes that turn waste into fuel.

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Gotta love any article that has the words “President Bush” and “termite guts” in the same sentence. 😉

And it’s a rather good article too…

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By Dave, February 15, 2006 12:23 pm

BAY AREA / Out of the retail rat race / Consumer group doesn’t buy notion that new is better

I am NOT alone! Cool idea. Now to see if it can spread worldwide in time to save us all…

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By Dave, February 15, 2006 10:28 am

New Scientist SPACE – Breaking News – Space-elevator tether climbs a mile high

FAR OUT! Bad I know, but someone HAD to say it… 😉

This is a major step toward a real space elevator. Hats off to these fine folks!

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By Dave, February 15, 2006 9:59 am

Just trying a new browser, Flock, available at http://flock.com/developer/
that has built in blogging capabilities.  Looks interesting.  If you are trying to get it for Linux change the ending of the url in their link to the page from pgp to php.  I’m sure they will fix this soon… 😉

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By Dave, February 15, 2006 8:24 am

Wired 14.02: Posts
The Rootkit of All Evil
By Bruce Sterling

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Good read with some good points.

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By Dave, February 13, 2006 4:18 pm

eMercedesBenz – The Unofficial Mercedes-Benz Weblog

He started with a tree and 2500 hours later he had a wooden 300 SL. Actually he didn’t start with a tree but still carved a Mercedes…

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By Dave, February 13, 2006 4:16 pm

NSFW
Positive Ape Index

Coop shows how he does BIG paintings. In detail.

Makes me want to get the paints out again. Been nearly 40 years since I did any real painting. Hard to beleve that it’s been that long but guess it has. My, how time flies when you’re not looking… 🙁

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By Dave, February 13, 2006 4:01 pm

Yugo runs by wood-gas

Soon we may all need to do this… 🙁

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By Dave, February 13, 2006 2:25 pm

Early California A killing field

Throws a bit of a different light on the subject of Indians and their hunting habits…

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By Dave, February 13, 2006 1:46 pm

Tabletop nuclear fusion device developed

This sounds more realistic than the tabletop power plants of last report. Cool none the less!

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By Dave, February 13, 2006 1:45 pm

Linux Today – Infoworld: “Get the Truth on Linux Management” Report
“Anyone who has read a tech publication or visited a major tech news site has invariably seen Microsoft ads touting random ‘facts’ which are questionable at best.”

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Like the ones just to the right of where the above was copied from… 🙁

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By Dave, February 13, 2006 1:43 pm

Cardboard Domes – Homepage: Constructing Cardboard Geodesic Domes That Will Survive Burning Man and the Black Rock Desert

Cool! Cardboard domes with detailed (really detailed) instructions on how to build them.

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By Dave, February 13, 2006 1:41 pm

New Scientist Breaking News – Robot moved by a slime mould’s fears

SlimeBot! Love it!

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By Dave, February 13, 2006 12:15 pm

Einsteins Theory Improved

And another party heard from…

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By Dave, February 12, 2006 4:42 pm

Found this at
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-alterman/laughs-for-a-snowy-sunday_b_15533.html
and couldn’t resist reposting. Enjoy!

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President Bush was scheduled to worship at a small Methodist Church outside Washington, D.C. as part of Karl Rove’s campaign to reverse Bush’s rapidly deteriorating approval ratings. A week before the visit, Rove called on the Methodist Bishop who was scheduled to preach on the chosen Sunday. “As you know, Bishop,” began Rove, “we’ve been getting a lot of bad publicity among Methodists because of the president’s position on stem cell research and the like. We’d gladly arrange for Jack Abramoff’s friends to make a contribution of $100,000 to the church if during your sermon you would say that President Bush is a saint.”

The Bishop thought about it for a few minutes, and finally said, “This parish is in rather desperate need of funds … I’ll agree to do it.”

The following Sunday, Bush pompously showed up for the photo op, looking especially smug even while attempting to appear pious.

After making a few announcements, the Bishop began his homily: “George W. Bush is a petty, vindictive, sanctimonious hypocrite and a nitwit.
He is a liar, a cheat, and a low-intelligence weasel with the world’s largest chip on his shoulder.
He used every dirty election trick in the book and still lost, but his toadies in the Supreme Court appointed him.
He lied about his military record in which he used special privilege to avoid combat, and then had the gall to dress up and pose on an aircraft carrier before a banner stating “Mission Accomplished.”
He invaded a sovereign country for oil and war profiteering, turning Iraq into a training ground for terrorists who would destroy our country.
He continues to confuse the American people by insisting on a nonexistent connection between the horrors of 9/11 and the reason he started his war in Iraq.
He routinely appoints incompetent and unqualified cronies to high-level federal government positions and as a result, hundreds and hundreds of Americans died tragically in New Orleans.
He lets corporate polluters despoil God’s creation and doom our planet. He uses fear-mongering to justify warrantless spying on American citizens, in clear violation of our Constitution.
He is so psychotic and megalomaniacal that he believes that he was chosen by God.
He is the worst example of a Methodist I have ever personally known.
But compared to Dick Cheney and Karl Rove and the rest of the evil fascist bastards in this administration, George W. Bush is a saint.

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By Dave, February 12, 2006 1:29 pm

Device Profile: MooBella on-demand ice cream maker

Truly COOL! Fresh ice cream in 45 seconds! And runs on Linux!

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By Dave, February 12, 2006 11:30 am

Impact Lab – Microwave-Drill Technology

Interesting new use for old tech! Wonder if the magnatron is directly attached to the needle or if a waveguide is involved? Guess I need to read the tech specs.

Update – right there in the abstract:

The paper describes a novel method of drilling into hard non-conductive materials by
localized microwave energy (US patent 6,114,676). The Microwave Drill
implementation may utilize a conventional 2.45GHz magnetron, to form a portable
and relatively simple drilling tool. The drilling head consists of a coaxial guide and a
near-field concentrator. The latter focuses the microwave radiation into a small
volume under the drilled material surface. The concentrator itself penetrates into the
hot spot created in a fast thermal runaway process. The microwave drill has been
tested on concrete, silicon, ceramics (in both slab and coating forms), rocks, glass,
plastic, and wood. The paper describes the method and its experimental
implementations, and presents a theoretical model for the microwave drill operation.
The applicability of the method for industrial processes is discussed.

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Cool! Now to see if a microwave oven can be hacked to do the trick… 😉

Another update – In one of the pdf articles I found a diagram that is rather interesting too.

Adjustable focus mirror and movable needle seem to be the only things not in a standard microwave setup. Interesting…