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By Dave, August 21, 2007 10:42 pm

Slashdot | University Taps Sewers for Internet Access

Well the internet has been going down the toilet for years now so oddly this does seem to fit… 😉

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By Dave, August 21, 2007 10:36 pm

Featured – Weird Guitars – Ed Roman Guitars
They do some wild stuff like the one below the fold. NSFW

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By Dave, August 21, 2007 10:22 pm

RMCybernetics – DIY Projects & Experiments

Interesting site and projects. I like the ray gun tesla coil! Gonna have to try that one.

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By Dave, August 21, 2007 10:19 pm

US Secretary of Transportation says Bikes “are not transportation” (TreeHugger)

Stupid statement and attitude, but about normal for this administration. 🙁

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By Dave, August 21, 2007 5:53 pm

Airstream Caravan on Flickr – Photo Sharing!

Now THATS a bike trailer!

French bicycle racer, Latourneau pulled an Airstream caravan in 1947 to demonstrate how light it was. We think it also demonstrates how much you can tow on a bicycle trailer.

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By Dave, August 16, 2007 12:05 am

Is All We’ve Seen of ‘Poe Toaster’ But a Dream?

Interesting twist on the story but who knows. Good read anyway.

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By Dave, August 15, 2007 10:36 pm

Photos: The one-of-a-kind wooden bicycle | CNET News.com

One totally cool bike for 2!

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By Dave, August 15, 2007 4:48 pm

But starting the cool down for the day. High here was 107.1 F at about 4:10 pm. Tis 4:41 pm now and has cooled to 104.7 F. I ain’t going out till it drops below a hundred. Just way too hot for me right now.

Worked over at the store trailer till noon sorting and alphabetizing books. The progress is slow but I am trying to get 2 or 3 hours a day in over there doing something. Will try going over later and seeing how hot it is at least. Not sure that I’m gonna do any more over there today though. Suspect I need to get up at or before daybreak and work till noon to get more done.

Course tomorrow is a yard sale day so will be over there with that. Doubt that we will have many if any customers but we did saturday even as hot as it was. Figure we will close it down at about noon. Just way too hot in the pm.

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By Dave, August 15, 2007 4:33 pm

Cheaper Than Gas: Paper Stirling Engine Runs Off Hot Coffee – Gizmodo

Neat! Not gonna get one at that price but still an interesting concept.

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By Dave, August 15, 2007 3:43 pm

The Homemade Homemaker | Consumer and ethical living | Life and Health

Link found via Treehugger.

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By Dave, August 15, 2007 3:40 pm

Boing Boing: George Orwell on getting shot

Interesting bit by the author of 1984 on what its like to get shot. Good reading.

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By Dave, August 15, 2007 3:18 pm

BOFH: Damsels in distress | The Register

Better late than never I guess. Just noticed I had failed to post that the latest BOFH was at the Register.

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By Dave, August 15, 2007 3:16 pm

General Strike: 9/11/07

As I said in the last post, I’m up for it. The way the US government has ridden roughshod over we the people the last few years has got to STOP one way or the other. And 9/11 seems to me the best day to get the point across. Though I doubt the idiot in charge will notice. Kinda harks back to Nero fiddling as Rome burned down around him, doncha think…

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By Dave, August 15, 2007 3:11 pm

General Strike for Peace

I’m up for both this one on Sept 21 2007 and the one on Sept 11 2007 (will post url and such on it in a minute) both. Wish they had worked together and set a common day but will put them both on the calender.

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By Dave, August 15, 2007 2:58 pm

Requiem for a legal disaster: a retrospective analysis of SCO v. Novell: Page 1

For the searchengine impaired this is the link to the article Steve mentioned in his comment on the earlier post about SCO vs Novell. At least this is the one I found after searching for it. Thanks for the pointer Steve.

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By Dave, August 15, 2007 2:45 pm

Handcrafted Wonder: 1873 Monocycle Replica Is a Mechanical and Engineering Marvel – Gizmodo

Quite an interesting device. Wish there was some more detailed information on it. Would like to know what the brass can is for that is located just to the left of the handle bars in the picture below. Water or oil or what? The artist did a hell of a job on this piece of machine work. Verrrrry nice!

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By Dave, August 10, 2007 10:51 pm

Agendas: AT&T May Have Censored Bands’ Political Speech in the Past – Gizmodo

And now they have gotten caught. Stupid, stupid, stupid…

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By Dave, August 10, 2007 10:46 pm

Groklaw – Court Rules: Novell owns the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights! Novell has right to waive!
Hot off the presses: Judge Dale Kimball has issued a 102-page ruling [PDF] on the numerous summary judgment motions in SCO v. Novell. Here it is as text. Here is what matters most:

That’s Aaaaall, Folks! The court also ruled that “SCO is obligated to recognize Novell’s waiver of SCO’s claims against IBM and Sequent”. That’s the ball game. There are a couple of loose ends, but the big picture is, SCO lost. Oh, and it owes Novell a lot of money from the Microsoft and Sun licenses.

So glad that it’s coming to an end. Biggest waste of the court system in many years. Now let the SCO bashing begin in earnest…

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By Dave, August 10, 2007 10:36 pm

Virtualize Windows on Linux? Microsoft Says No Way! – Marcus_Soperus – Maximum PC

Got their head deep in the sand… Looks like the reporter misunderstood what Microsoft spokepersons said. Glad to see that they are starting to work with and not against (as much anyway from the sounds of this revised article) the other kids on the block.

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By Dave, August 10, 2007 10:34 pm

A Better Way to Make Biofuel (TreeHugger)

Looks promising. This could also be used to run farm equipment right off the waste biomass left over after harvest. I hope it scales well.