Archive for May, 2004

Map of Springfield

Thursday, May 27th, 2004

Someone has put together a very cool map of springfield and a corresponding Guide to Springfield USA.

(link from slashdot)

Minneapolis Suburb to get City-wide WiFi

Thursday, May 27th, 2004

This is kind of cool. eWeek is reporting that Chaska is going to get city-wide WiFi.

Eric Idle’s Rant Song

Wednesday, May 26th, 2004

Eric Idle (of Monty Python fame) has a great rant song that’s worth checking out. Beware…Put your headphones on. The Lyrics are very NSFW (not safe for work).

Big freznel lens fun!

Saturday, May 22nd, 2004

Ever wonder what you do with a “1-square meter freznel lens”:http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bclee/lens.html. Well, a couple people from the University of Michigan decided to find out! (Link from “/”:http://slashdot.org/articles/04/05/21/1936210.shtml?tid=159&tid=186).
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The Berts are Invading…

Tuesday, May 18th, 2004

“Davezilla’s”:http://davezilla.com got a great photo…”Bert all that you can Bert”:http://davezilla.com/index.php?p=2146&c=1
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MovableType 3

Thursday, May 13th, 2004

There seems to be quite a chorus out there of people not too happy about the “licensing changes for Movable Type 3″:http://www.sixapart.com/corner/archives/2004/05/its_about_time.shtml. “Technorati has a good list of discussions about the new licensing changes.”:http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?rank=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sixapart.com%2Fcorner%2Farchives%2F2004%2F05%2Fits_about_time.shtml
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Mileage Problems with Hybrid Cars

Wednesday, May 12th, 2004

“/.”:http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/12/1436225 is pointing to an interesting article on “how the reality behind the fuel-efficency of hybrid cars isn’t exacly what people expected”:http://www.wired.com/news/autotech/0,2554,63413,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1. It turns out the mileage people are getting in these cars is actually much poorer than the 45+ mpg advertised.

VW Bus Ball

Thursday, May 6th, 2004

“BoingBoing”:http://www.boingboing.net/2004/05/05/vw_bus_ball.html has this link to a very cool looking “sculpture of a ball that looks like it’s made out of a VW Bus!”:http://www.socaleuro.com/forum/topic.aspx?topic_id=25523&category_id=8&page=1

Rescue Complications for Hybrid Car Accidents

Wednesday, May 5th, 2004

“Slashdot”:http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/04/1923240 provided a link to this very interesting article talking about some of the “problems rescuers face with Hybrid cars”:http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/05/04/hybrid.rescues.ap/index.html that they haven’t had to fave before.