Category: Remainder

Remain­dered links are stuff that I thought was inter­est­ing, but not post-wor­thy. Yes I stole it from Kot­tke, just like every­one else.

Apparantly, Mr. Iacocca Is The Leader

I read near­ly this entire book excerpt with my jaw dropped. Who would have thought that one of the most sin­cere and harsh cri­tiques of our coun­try – its gov­ern­ment, its media, and its cit­i­zens – would come from an 80’s indus­tri­al­ist leader who has long been a sup­port­er of both big busi­ness and big… Con­tin­ue read­ing Appa­rant­ly, Mr. Iacoc­ca Is The Leader

ASAP Story on Eye Candy

Ryan Pear­son, a reporter from the AP con­tact­ed me last week about a sto­ry he was doing on the top­ic of gad­get lust and the phe­nom­e­non of “unbox­ing porn,” which is far less graph­ic than it sounds (just pho­tos of open­ing up gad­get pack­ag­ing). I called him up and we chat­ted for ten min­utes or… Con­tin­ue read­ing ASAP Sto­ry on Eye Candy

Plastique

Accord­ing to Wikipedia: “The ori­gin of the U.S. term plas­tique is due to the plas­tic explo­sive intro­duced to the U.S. by the British in 1940. The sam­ples of explo­sive brought to the USA by the Tizard Mis­sion had been pack­aged by SOE ready for drop­ping to the French Resis­tance and were labeled in French, as… Con­tin­ue read­ing Plas­tique

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Geekdad at Wired

Chris Ander­son (edi­tor in chief at Wired mag and author of The Long Tail) announced a new blog at Wired.com this after­noon: Geek­dad. It looks like it’s going to be a lot of fun projects, gad­gets, and advice from the point of view of dads. Need­less to day, I’m excit­ed and it (as well as… Con­tin­ue read­ing Geek­dad at Wired

Eye In The Sky

NASA’s STEREO‑B space­craft took an amaz­ing shot of it’s own solar eclipse late last month dur­ing the process of hav­ing it’s cam­er­a’s cal­i­brat­ed. The moon appears as a black disc against the fiery mass of the sun. I think that the tex­ture of the sun is, well, other-worldly.

Calculating Floor Vibration Frequency

Res­o­nance (by Ran­dall Munroe aka xkcd). I love xkcd and this one is great. I cal­cu­late floor vibra­tion fre­quen­cies all the time! (This com­ic repro­duced under a Cre­ative Com­mons A‑NC 2.5 License)

Fame: Is It Any Wonder I Reject You First

Some of you are well aware of how much I use obsess over Newsvine (a news writ­ing and link-blog site). Recent­ly, one of the sites more pro­lif­ic users, Myko­la Bilokon­sky, did e‑mail inter­views with a hand­ful of oth­er users. I was sur­prised that he asked me but I got a real kick out of answer­ing… Con­tin­ue read­ing Fame: Is It Any Won­der I Reject You First

Learning French at Hogwarts

Kot­tke has a post today about a fel­low who rec­om­mends read­ing Har­ry Pot­ter in a for­eign lan­guage in order to help learn that lan­guage. I thought this was inter­est­ing since Angela pur­chased Har­ry Pot­ter à l’école des sor­ciers over a year ago for just that pur­pose. Fur­ther proof that she is just way ahead of… Con­tin­ue read­ing Learn­ing French at Hogwarts