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Ice fishing shack photos

Scott Peterman's photos of ice fishing shacks in Maine. "The photographs are taken on milky days in rain, fog and snow, when the light is filtered and the range of color is extremely narrow. This makes the shacks appear all the more mysterious, as if they have been airlifted onto the scene, opening them up to secondary narratives beyond the strictly functional."

Posted Tuesday, January 24, 2006

The Monster Engine

"What would a child's drawing look like if it were painted realistically?" [HT: Mike Pickus]

Posted Friday, January 20, 2006

Fishing helmet required

Ever had one of those days when the fish were just jumping in the boat? [HT: Moldy Chum]

Posted Tuesday, January 17, 2006

The quietest PC

My friends know me as a fanatic about PC noise. But I haven't yet gone to the extreme of filling up the computer case with eight gallons of refined vegetable oil (better idea than eating the stuff tho). [HT: Jeff Slarve]

Posted Tuesday, January 17, 2006

A better keyboard layout

We all know that the QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow down typists and prevent them from jamming mechanical typewriters. 130 years later nothing much has changed, except for those few who use the Dvorak layout. Peter M Klausler wonders: "But Dvorak designed his layout in the 1930's without the aid of computers. It contains a couple annoying features that lead to common errors in my typing -- namely the placement of Y and B). Could a modern evolutionary algorithm and a huge input sample discover a better arrangement? I had to give it a try. The results surprised me!"

Posted Tuesday, January 17, 2006

A penny for your bridge

Cool pics of bridges made of stacked coins. No glue.

Posted Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Is that a projector in your pocket...

Mitsubishi has a new line of DLP pocket projectors, weighing about one lb. These projectors don't throw a whole lot of light, but the company thinks they'll be great for things like store displays, and watching movies while camping. Yay! Movies while camping! What are you gonna watch, Deliverance? Still, this is nifty technology.

Posted Monday, January 09, 2006

Now that looks like a fun drive

Check out the awesome three-wheeled Carver, a car that rides like a bike. Someday I want one of these.

Posted Monday, January 02, 2006

Make a snowflake

Leroy Schulz pointed me to this cool site that lets you snip a virtual snowflake. The Flash app folds some paper for you, and you decide where the cuts go. You can also see what other snippers have achieved - and there are some pretty cool flakes.

Posted Monday, January 02, 2006

Make anything

Here's a slick idea - a company that can quickly build stuff directly from your CAD drawings. The key is the custom CAD software you download (for free) from the eMachineShop site. You create not just the drawing, but the machining instructions as part of the drawing. HTT Mark Riffey.

Posted Monday, January 02, 2006

Make your own 3D movies

Kodak's new camera with two lenses made me wonder why there doesn't seem to be a 3D digicam out there. And then I discovered that you can make your own 3D movies for cheap.

Posted Monday, January 02, 2006

The kids won't understand

This DVD rewinder would be the perfect useless gift, only they've gone and put a compartment inside for disk cleaning supplies. C'mon, guys. Think Pet Rock.

Posted Friday, November 25, 2005

You'll never play Solitaire again

Just what you need - another way to watch TV. The Slingbox is a bit of hardware that connects your TV to you local computer network, or to the Internet, so you can watch your TV from any PC, anywhere. You need Windows 2000 or Windows XP, and broadband to watch across the 'net. From the web site: "Absolutely zero subscription fees! All you need to begin watching your TV anywhere is your Slingbox. You don't need to buy another computer just to watch it, and there are no monthly, yearly, hourly, or split-secondly subscription fees. That means you don't have to feel guilty about watching TV all the time now. (Well, unless you want your significant other to still love you.)" Important disclaimer there, I'd say. Thx to Mike Pickus for the link.

Posted Wednesday, November 16, 2005

archy and mehitabel

if you have never heard of archy my friend then you are in for a treat the poor little guy was a free verse poet in a past life and came back as a cockroach where the only way he could communicate with the world was to climb up on a typewriter owned by don marquis and hurl himself down headfirst onto the keys one at a time a laborious process to be sure and not one that permitted luxuries like capitalization or punctuation but at least he has a friend mehitabel who was once cleopatra you would not believe the things a cat will say

Posted Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Guinness record for dumb questions

The Dutch animal protection agency is in a flap over a sparrow ruthlessly killed with an air rifle after it knocked over some 23,000 dominoes, out of four million being set up for an attempt at a new world record for falling dominoes. "I think they were awfully fast to pull out a rifle. If a person started knocking over a few dominoes they wouldn't shoot him would they?" Um, why do you think the rifle was there in the first place?

Posted Tuesday, November 15, 2005

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