Friday, April 30, 2010

Reinventing the Wheel

This is brilliant - an omni-directional wheel. Here is Honda's U3-X:





Full story here.

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Feed Bags

I think I posted this once before, but it's worth another look.

New Wearable Feedbags Let Americans Eat More, Move Less

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Solar Beat

Ever wonder what the universe sounds like? This is worth a minute or two.



Damn, Pluto is slow... now I see why it's planet license has been suspended....

Monday, April 5, 2010

Changing of the Guard

I'm a little sad, and a little excited.

After many years of faithful service and numerous upgrades (2 motherboards, 3 cpu's, 3 heatsinks, 3 optical drives, 4 hard drives, 3 power supplies, 2 fan controllers, 2 lighting kits, and a few Operating Systems) it is finally time to retire my old "Hot Rod". I speak, of course of our computer that has most recently been functioning as our living room media pc.



We have just replaced the old beast with a new, store bought computer. It's a Gateway with the Intel i3 quad-core proc, 1 Tb sata drive, 6 Gbs RAM and Windows 7. It's super quite, very energy efficient, approx 1/3 to 1/3 the size of the old computer, and about 5 times as FAST!

I'm a little embarrased to have purchased a store-bought computer, but when I added up the cost of building a similar system myself, it was actuall a little bit more.

Here's some pix of the history of the old "hot rod" computer:









Friday, April 2, 2010

Today's Groove Challenge

A little shout out to my lady - Kathleen! Here's the challenge, put this song on and go back to your emailing and facebooking and try, just TRY, to not bob your head and/or shake your butt. I give you about 39 seconds :)

40 Thieves feat. Qzen - Don't Turn It Off (Brennan Green Mix)
"Qzen, drop it like it's hot!"