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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…

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By Dave, February 12, 2006 9:26 am

Mind Control by Parasites – Yahoo! News

Interesting article. And well documented and hyperlinked. Well done Yahoo!

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By Dave, February 11, 2006 9:21 pm

Bamboo Living International Bamboo Building Design Competition

More Bamboo stuff!

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By Dave, February 11, 2006 9:19 pm

The Blog | Eric Weiner: American Book Publishing’s Synergy Trap | The Huffington Post

Sad state of affairs here in the land of the Bush and home of the unread. 🙁

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By Dave, February 11, 2006 9:17 pm

Bamboo Technologies | Bamboo Living Homes

BAMBOO HOMES!
COOL!

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By Dave, February 11, 2006 9:12 pm

students-loft download bilder

Interesting concept. Not so sure about the prototype

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By Dave, February 11, 2006 9:11 pm

PBS | I, Cringely . February 9, 2006 – Stupid Net Tricks

I hope at least some of the Congress critters read this and take note but I suspect that even if they do they will still do the worst thing.

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By Dave, February 11, 2006 9:08 pm

Is There an Underwater UFO Base Off the Southern California Coast? by Preston Dennett

And now for something different… 😉

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By Dave, February 11, 2006 7:22 pm

t a l k: Keyser’s Horned Tree

Weird…

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By Dave, February 11, 2006 7:11 pm

Researcher Finds Ancient Science and Math Are Timely

Interesting article, though I wish it had more info or links to more info.

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By Dave, February 11, 2006 7:08 pm

Fossils may hold key to dinosaur death

And where is the story here? 3 paragraphs and no real content.

I must be missing something here too…

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By Dave, February 11, 2006 7:05 pm

Missing robot named Phil
Philip K. Dick is missing. Not the American science fiction writer whose novels spawned hit films such as “Blade Runner” and “Total Recall” — he died more than 20 years ago — but a state-of-the-art robot named after the author.

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And they think he may turn up on an online auction site. Imagine that…

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By Dave, February 11, 2006 7:03 pm

Physicist to Present New Exact Solution of Einstein’s Gravitational Field Equation

Another one heard from. I ain’t doubting his math but not sure about the workability of the concept that is put forth in the article. If we could accellerate a small sun to near light speed I don’t see we would need this propulsion system. Or am I (or is the author of the article) missing something here.

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By Dave, February 11, 2006 6:59 pm

Welcome to HiddenPassageway.com – There is no fantasy.

Seriously cool stuff!
Seriously cool expensive stuff!

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By Dave, February 11, 2006 6:57 pm

Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger)

Gnome version.

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By Dave, February 11, 2006 6:56 pm

Index of /releases/kubuntu/breezy

Live CD’s for x86 and powerPCs. KDE style… Runs rather well on the iBook. Only problem is the wireless isn’t working. Downloading the x86 version live cd to try now.

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By Dave, February 11, 2006 6:36 pm

PC Case

Strange, but I suspect that these would sell rather well in college towns.

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By Dave, February 11, 2006 12:52 pm

This is the total sum of what I have been able to see at that Stupid Flash only site…

Really neat, eh?

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By Dave, February 10, 2006 1:38 pm

Shuron Ltd. / Shuron.com

Cool sunglasses!