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By Dave, July 25, 2005 8:21 pm

GM crop creates a ‘superweed’

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But that can’t happen! Looks like it can too. Now how much of the other stuff out there is gonna crossbred and spread?

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By Dave, July 25, 2005 8:18 pm

Ocean spray lubricates hurricane winds

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So if we can figure a way to dry those nasty ole hurricanes out, the winds wouldn’t be so bad? 😉

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By Dave, July 25, 2005 7:21 pm

BuildItSolar: Solar energy projects for Do It Yourselfers to save money
and reduce pollution

Just found this site. Looks interesting to say the least!

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By Dave, July 25, 2005 7:19 pm

Treehugger: Man Retrofits Freezer to Make an Ultra-Efficient Fridge

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Makes lots of sense to me. Harder to get to stuff but with racks and such shouldn’t be that big a deal.

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By Dave, July 25, 2005 6:07 pm

Yahoo!, here we come!

Konfabulator has bought by Yahoo! And they released it for free! Cross platform, at least mac and ms.

Looks interesting. Just not sure yet. Will give it a fair shake-down and decide. So far nothing that came with it interests me enough to keep it turned on but that’s on a quick look-see and I am not that impressed with flash and glitter and it has a lot of that. Eye-candy is the term I was looking for there.

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By Dave, July 25, 2005 2:52 pm

Microsoft’s Earth deletes Apple HQ | The Register

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This kind of thing is a problem with any big company with lots of departments that is too big for any one person or group to monitor all of. But this is just plain stupid on any of MicroSloths employees parts. They keep acting kinda like a dying dinosaur, flopping around and breaking even more things while dying. And lets not even think about the latest patents they are trying to get. Someone should open source breathing while they still can!

I have been reading Scoble for a view of from the inside because I just couldn’t see that the entire company could be as bad as I thought they were. I stuck with his blog for quite a while but he has been on a “tablet pc’s are SO great” rant for so long now that it’s gotten more than a little old.

I didn’t when they first came out and today still don’t see the value in “me” owning one. For me, typing is a lot faster than writing (not to mention a lot less painful) and a touchpad or mouse is a lot cheaper to replace than a screen. All I use anymore is a laptop and yes they can be a bit clumsy to work with out on the road but most places I need a computer it works, and I don’t have to clean the skin oil off screen or try to see around my hand when trying to do something.

Anyway, back to Scoble “The Microsoft Evangelist”. So when the only retort he had yesterday about Apple pundits making fun of the “new” name for Longhorn was yea but yall don’t have tablet pc’s yet, I removed him from my feed. Sorry, I’ve tried time and again, but I see nothing about the company that is of any redeeming value.

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By Dave, July 25, 2005 2:17 pm

★ The Joy of Tech! ★

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Vista – n.
1 – A distant view or prospect, especially one seen through an opening, as between rows of buildings or trees.
An avenue or other passage affording such a view.
2 – An awareness of a range of time, events, or subjects; a broad mental view: “the deep and sweeping vistas these pioneering critics opened up” (Arthur C. Danto).

A distant view of something never to be seen up close?

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By Dave, July 24, 2005 10:35 pm

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Butterfly unlocks evolution secret

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Interesting article.

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By Dave, July 24, 2005 6:50 pm

» Blog Archive » Windows Memory Lane Is Lined With Monsters
I broke one of my own rules today…or almost did, the fact that I even considered it jolted me back to reality.

I came extremely close to helping a friend with a “Windows Problem.” I believe the operative and pivotal term here is “close”.

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I know that one only too well. I have 3 people I will work on a windows machine for now and try not to even for them.

Helios makes some good points here. I’d like the hear/read the answers too…

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By Dave, July 24, 2005 6:44 pm

Walk the streets in your 4m robot-suit | The Other Side | Breaking News 24/7 – NEWS.com.au (03-05-2005)

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$43,000.00 dollar land walkers for sale. Really. 1.5 kmph. Controlled with 4 peddles in cockpit.

Wonder when the military is going to get a version that’s armored and has real guns?

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By Dave, July 24, 2005 6:01 pm

Or that’s what I keep telling myself.

Keep finding things I want or need to do. Got most of it done though. Only gonna use 2 themes for now though as I don’t think the theme switcher plays right with some of the ones I’ve tried. Gonna look at it more later.

Added a bit over at Murder They Wrote my new Mystery blog.

Been adding some more cover scans over at Nero Wolfe too.

Slow but getting there.

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By Dave, July 24, 2005 4:52 pm

Treehugger: Escalante bamboo speakers

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These look NICE! I’d love to hear them. I bet the bamboo does some interesting things to the sound quality. Nice interesting that is…

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By Dave, July 24, 2005 3:54 pm

Hazy Cloud of Saharan Dust Nearing U.S. – Yahoo! News

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The assorted colds and respiratory crap that usually follows one isn’t a really problem and I’m sure it’s all in my head (and chest or will be soon). And there isn’t any global warming either…

I really do hope it stays south of here, these hot summer days have limited my mobility to nill already.

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By Dave, July 24, 2005 3:48 pm

Treehugger: Case Study for Flushless Urinals

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Good general overview on the current art and cost savings of switching to a waterless system.

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By Dave, July 24, 2005 11:51 am

I’ve been looking for something that would streamline the links and the dropdowns at the right do that just fine. Now to modify the layout with the addons the way I had the old one and add a theme switcher so you can make your choice instead of putting up with what I want to look at. 😉

Anyway, feedback is appreciated either in comments or email…

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By Steve, July 24, 2005 8:10 am

User Friendly the Comic Strip – The Daily Static
Very nice tribute to Jame Doohan-remarkable man, veteran of D-day, father at 80, most celebrated engineer in Starfleet history. RIP, Jimmy…..

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By Dave, July 23, 2005 11:28 pm

Got tired of looking at the refrigerator ice so threw this one together out of some pix I took while making some hammers and mallets in the barn last month. Old machine tools work great with wood and allow for fair precision to boot. 😉 I’ll try to put a post up about them and the shovels that I have been making too.

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By Dave, July 23, 2005 6:17 pm

Fisherman in Virginia charged with killing alligator – Wikinews

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So remember folks, next time you’re in Virginia fishing and you hook an alligator and kill it, just don’t tell anybody.

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By Dave, July 23, 2005 4:34 pm

TimesDispatch.com | Roanoke Wal-Mart halts ‘Singles Shopping’

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Bet they got tired of the “Cleanup on aisle 5, 7 &19″…

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By Dave, July 23, 2005 10:20 am

Mysterious disease kills nine in China: report

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Not good. No contact between the folks. Scary…