Neato Links
Here are some things that I think are rather neat.
| Goodbye, English: | We may have to re-learn English in the future. |
| Cthulhu-bot: | Cute. I'm going to make one. |
| Nanotube radio: | They can make radios small enough to insert into your blood stream! |
| Metallic glass: | It's all about pentagons. Who knew? |
| Collective nouns: | Rather useful. |
| King of America: | No. It's not Bush. It's Rev. Moon. |
| E.Coli Cit+: | Evolution in the E.Coli bacteria. Exciting and scary. |
| Mars: | I'd love to visit. |
| Quiet sun: | The sun is strangely quiet these days. Too quiet. |
| A twist to evolution: | Complexity theory fascinates me. |
| Dow Chemicals: Expensive: | Looks like the price of everything is going up. Sucks. |
| Feeling frugle?: | This lady is the queen of coupons. |
| First flying man: | We're getting closer and closer to the future, folks. |
| 140 year old supernova: | That's not very old. And not very far away. |
| Shakelight: | I'm going to make my own. No sense in spending $20 on somebody else's DIY hobby. |
| Ethics of life: | What does it mean to kill an organically grown leather coat? |
| Toppling the phone industry: | This looks promising. I may have to do something similar at home. |
| Orange peels: | The beauty of the inside of an orange peel. |
| Firmware upgrade for my camera: | Woohoo! This will let me do all sorts of tricks with my camera. Fun! |
| Aerogel - brew your own: | Who knew this stuff was so simple? |
| Easy mini CNC: | Wow. This is easy. |
| Blueberry propogation: | I'm doing this in the late spring. |
| Regeneration is here: | What a benign way for the end of the world to arrive. Not by chips, but by regeneration. Maybe this is why God forbade pork... |
| Compfight: | Search through Flickr pictures. Very handy for browsing CC images. |
| DOM and nodes: | If you're gonna code in javascript, you need to know this. |
| Mind-reading is coming: | The machines will know what we think. What we desire. |
| Airborne = fraud: | I KNEW it. I said this all along. |
| Holograms!!!: | It's the real deal - the Japanese have done it! |
| Snow-causing bacteria: | More evidence that biology affects weather. |
| oobject: | A directory of oddball gadgets. |
| We can see atoms: | And in color, too. |
| DIY Playhouse: | My kids are going to love this when I'm done with it. |
| Messenger Bag: | I like storage. Even bags. |
| Tig welding tips: | I'll be tig welding in no time. |
| Linux CNC software: | I do believe I now have everything I need to get started. |
| DIY Tig welder: | I've already got most of what I need for this. Sweet. |
| Want to work for WA?: | This is where to start. |
| Learning the mandolin: | I play. This will help me play better. |
| 11 year old guitar player: | This kid is amazing. Absolutely amazing. |
| DIY air/fuel meter: | Because spending $10 is better than spending $40. That, and DIY rules. |
| Music is free: | Looks like the music industry just caved in to consumer demand. |
| Lego day: | Today is Lego day. Happy Lego day. |
| shorttext: | Prevent WALL-OF-TEXT on forums by linking to shorttext. Very handy. |
| Handy diagnosis chart: | Search by symptom. Very useful, but not a substitute for medical advice. |
| Link from rats to bats: | Terribly compelling case for evolution. It makes a lot of sense. |
| kimbap: | I'm going to make kimbap this weekend. I might even blog about it. |
| High Dynamic Range: | Taking pictures of things just got neater. |
| SimCity - FREE!: | The original SimCity has gone open source as "Micropolis," and is freely available for use/reuse. |
| Electronics stock photography: | If I need pictures of electronic doodads, I've got it covered. |
| Upgrading my router: | This'll turn my $60 router into a user-friendly $600 router. |
| Balancing Robot: | We have come a long way since the Segway. |
| Stacking LEGO blocks: | Why did I never think of this? |
| Video Trace: | Rapid interactive scene modelling from video. This is amazing. |
| Even better ring light: | This is a much better way to build a ring light. |
| Joule thief: | Yup. I'm making one of these, too. |
| CSS text wrap: | It's not just rectangles anymore. |
| Zetix: | Blastproof fabric. |
| Mind Control Toys: | This is the next phase of our evolution. |
| Shotgun rules: | Calling shotgun? Better read the rules. |
| Newspaper bricks: | This is amusing. I'm going to make one. |
| LED ring light: | This would be nice for my camera. |
| Flying Suit: | What's the difference between falling and flying? A wing-suit. |
| Möbius transformations: | Math is fascinating |
| The SU-30MK: | I would like to fly one of these |
| The bloop: | What ocean creature is larger than a blue whale? I dunno. But it scares me. |
| Steampunk everything: | I like steampunk. |
| Capacitor codes: | Reading capacitor codes |
| Schematic for 8 watt amp: | Aaron Cake has a fantastic project site. |
| Fast food data sheets: | Want to know how calories are in that triple cheeseburger? |
| Kaizo Mario: | A run-through of goons playing Kaizo Mario. |
| DIY Speaker: | Making a speaker with a magnet, coil, some glue, paper, and a plastic cup. |
| Online vectorizer: | This turns your bitmaps into vector images. Not perfect, but useful. |
| Tesla playing Mario: | Tesla coils set to MIDI, playing the original Super Mario Bros. theme song. |
| The Hydropolis: | The idea of an underwater hotel is exciting and frightening at the same time. |
| Picking the right speakers: | Amps, ohms, watts, and speakers. |
| Schematic Heaven: | More audio schematics. |
| Laser printed circuit board: | This is the best DIY circuit board tutorial I've seen. |
| Tutorials on visual web stuff: | Tutorials for Flash, CSS, Photoshop, 3ds Max, etc. |
| Making your own music: | This guy is quite an inspiration for making DIY stomp boxes. |
| String theory: | String theory explained in 2-minutes or less. |
| Liquid Rescale: | Fantastic new Gimp plugin: Liquid Rescale. This is very powerful. |
| Photoshop tricks: | Turning pictures into movie stills. |
| Electronics: | This is the best intro to electronics I've seen on the net. |
| We are in a recession: | Ah yes. Fools and their money. This is not good news. |
| Political signs: | Know your rights. Your HOA can't prevent you from posting signs. |
| X-Wing model flies: | This is sure to get the Star Wars fans drooling. |
| Pain beam: | There are many more bad uses for this thing than good ones. |
| Color palette generator: | Derive color palette from a submitted image. |
| Genetic algorithm tutorial: | Electronic evolution is terribly entertaining. |
| Bee hive in a jar: | I like bees. |
| Chip implants leads to cancer: | One more reason to reject being chipped. |
| Popcorn is killing us: | Common chemical in popcorn at center of concern. |
| 200,000 galaxies in alignment: | 200,000 galaxies can't be wrong. |
| Interfacing GD library: | Creating images on the fly with Perl |
| Resistor color codes: | Handy resistor chart. |
| IR paint remover: | Removing paint with a DIY speed heater. |
| Book binding: | How to bind your own books. |
| Yamaha Parts Catalog: | This will help me get my motorcycle running. |
| Water motorcycle: | Motorcycle for the water. |
| Copper cleaning: | You can clean copper with vinegar and salt. |
| Got lactace?: | The gene to tolerate milk only occurred a few thousand years ago. |
| Mouth-to-mouth: not so good.: | Chest compressions alone is more likely to save lives than adding mouth-to-mouth. |
| Tougher than diamond: | Barium titanate and molten tin: stiffer than diamond. But only between 58ºC and 59ºC. |
| $25 car survival kit: | In case you get stuck in your car. And a home kit makes sense, too. |
| Horizontal Gene Transfer: | Quite a defense for evolution. Even covers our adaptive immune system. |
| Bacteria-generated fuel: | This should prove to be much more efficient than the ethynol-creation process. |
| Soda = DNA damage: | This is why I've cut back on my soda drinking. That, and the sugar intake. |
| DIY Welder: | From Afri-gadget, a DIY welder. |
| Carbonating at Home: | How to make your own home-brew soda. |
| Neil's Rotating Composter: | A composter made from a 55 gallon drum. |
| $50 Paint Job: | Rust-o-lium and paint thiner = cheap auto paint. |
| Green Steam: | I'm not sure what I'd do with a steam-powered engine, but it sure looks cool. |
| Underwater Cabin: | This is one of the many things that I'd like to do. |
| Water Cone: | What a simple way to collect clean water. It's brilliant! |
| Dick Bear's McBearen/Mclaren: | This guy made a race car. |
