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I haven’t done one of these in a while, hauled out my Yaesu VX-3R and recorded a pass. I’ve busted the sync corrector in my program again, so it’s not aligned right, but overall, it might be one my better passes, covering a lot of the continental U.S. Addendum: The follow up pass was out […]

A few days ago, I blogged about a Python program to monitor the status of your Domino’s pizza order. Last night found me at home by myself, with nothing desireable to eat in the house, so I ordered a pizza. And tried out the python script. bash-3.2$ python dominos.py XXXXXXXXXX Dominos (R) pizza tracker. 1 […]

Silly Internet Quiz of the Day: How long could you survive in the vacuum of space? Created by OnePlusYou

Don’t ask me how I got here, but i thought I’d bookmark the 1922 patent of C. F. Jenkins for sending pictures over wireless. TRANSMITTING PICTURES BY WIRELESS CHARLES FRANCIS JENKINS His book, Vision By Radio is available via archive.org.

Okay, I’m not a gazillionaire, so all of this interest is (pardon the expression) purely academic, but check out the 347 lots available in this weeks Christie’s auction of scientific books. A truly amazing collection of rare antique books on a wide variety of scientific topics. IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC BOOKS: THE RICHARD GREEN LIBRARY There’s even […]

What can I say? It’s really good family fare. Animation? Art Direction? Story? All really good! I enjoyed it a lot. So did the wife. And, if the laughter of children is any indication, so did the audience. It’s colorful, clever and fun. Take the kids!

To show just how much of a lunatic I am, today while surfing around, I was trying to remember what the gadget that caused the puppeteer’s voice (or, more properly, the Professor) of a Punch and Judy show to sound the way it is. A bit of searching reveals that the device was called a […]

Just a fun link of the day: a Mechanix Illustrated article on making home made 3D movies. MOVIES IN THREE DIMENSIONS

This came over the make blog this morning: a rather nice looking page describing a cool robot motor controller. Hassock Hog motor controller description

Crazy link from hackszine.com that monitors the progress of your pizza from Dominos website. Neat! Hackszine.com: Python pizza status

Platypus is a system that can convert scripts (shell, Python or even perl) into something that looks a lot more like a real Mac application. I have a number of potential uses for it to pretty up some of my scripts, so I’m bookmarking this for now. Sveinbjorn Thordarsons Website – Platypus

I’ve seen a bunch of movies lately. Rather than give details of each, I just thought I’d give a single line review of each. Iron Man: I was wildly entertained, but inexplicably couldn’t tell you why afterwards, other than to say that Robert Downey Jr. is great onscreen. Chronicles of Narnia, Prince Caspian: Snoozefest, lots […]

I attended the first one, I’ve pencilled in the next one on my calendar. hackday.org

Well, all this reading about the board game Hex made me want to play. Six is an interesting, capable hex player available for Linux. It’s really very slick, it plays on any board size from 4×4 to 14×14, and at multiple difficulty levels. I’ve only played a few games, but have already learned a lot. […]

As we get closer to the Wall-E premiere, you’ll probably be seeing this animatronic version of Wall-E in various promotional spots, and eventually deployed at the theme parks. One of my good friends at Pixar, Tom Duff helped work on the software to help control him (a very cool project) and so it’s good to […]