Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
Anyone with a love of building things out of paper will enjoy this site. Inside this blog you will find links to origami, info on paper Disney castles, way cool japanese ‘make-it-yourself’ paper version of Life, and other coolness.
Go grab your card stock and fire up the inkjet printer and build yourself silly this weekend.
Eh, not the cryptid that they were looking for I’m afraid. Still, it is a good thing that they went a head and ran the DNA and made sure. I personaly don’t think that there are such things as bigfoot or sasquatch or even a yeti. I think that people will see what they want to see and that will never change. But you know, I’ve been wrong before but this time I think I’m right.
Neat, another solar cooker! If your in a place where the sun shines a lot – like the southwest United States – one of these could save you some bucks on gas on y our next BBQ. Good for camping too, you could boil water without worring about starting a forest fire.
The site leads you to one in Italian but you can find there in the US. The Solar Cooking Archive is a good place to start, lots of information there. If your looking for one that is a bit like the Italian one, the ClearDome SolaReflex Parabolic Solar Cooker should do the trick for you. And if your wondering why the heck you would use a big old silver salad bowl to cook with, you should read this.
If your looking to keep up with what is going on with the current Space Shuttle mission and can’t get NASA TV in your area, you should take a look at this list. Dozens of links to feeds with a quality rating next to each one. I like the 350 kb/s feed myself, it’s almost like watching the video feed on cable. I’m watching the crew move the Canada arm around so they can install Raffaello, the Multi Purpose Logistics Module that was hauled up on orbit by the shuttle, to the ISS. It’s simplay amazing to see something like this and know that its happening right now.
Go celebrate NASA’s return to space by geeking out in front of your computer and absorb some hard core space news.
I’m a big fan of neat do-dads that are multi funcional, well except for those scanner/fax/printer monsters, those pretty much suck across the board. The Egg and Muffin toaster looks like something that I’d be happy to have in my kitchen.
This new multi-function toaster can not only toast your bread, it can cook an egg and warm up a slice of ham. Breakfast ready to eat in about four minutes. That’s a great idea, hehe.
“With the new Egg & Muffin Toaster, Back to Basics continues to prove its ability of bringing to market new and better ways for the consumer to make the food they love,” said CEO Randy Hales. “CWe’re again creating a ‘light bulb’ moment for small electrics, this time in the toaster category.”
350 000 Egg & Muffin Toaster units will be available in stores around September and sell for $49.99. I Wonder if this lovely item will be available here in Europe also”
Breakfast Egg & Muffin Toaster – sunny links for rainy days.
The Optimus keyboard has been getting some press lately, and I can see why. With a fully configurable keyboard layout there is no limit to how this can be customized. Each key switch has an OLED cover that will display just about any image you can fit in what looks to be a 40×40 pixel matrix. Typing in Japanese? No problem, just select the soft overlay and your now looking at a Japanese keyboard. Editing video? All your task keys are now highlighted and set. Same thing with games. No more hunting for the right keys to figure out how to fire the guns. Just look for the icon.
Will it support a fast refresh so you can display messages on your keys? I don’t know but that would be quite cool to be able to see your latest email message subject on the space bar.
Might be out next year for a kings ransom I’m sure, but wouldn’t it be sweet to have one.