How many times have you said "Wow, I could use a warning sign right about now!"? If you’re like me it’s an almost daily event. Well despair no more blog readers, the ‘Net has the answer to your problems once again.
Simply click on a link below and choose your sign background, logo, and witty safety minded phrase and just as Bob’s your uncle you have a nice little graphic that you can print out and get into all sorts of trouble with. Go have a blast but don’t blame me if some people can’t take a joke and over react.
Author: John
Electronic Music Box Kit
I can see something like this being hacked to become a MIDI input device.
OTOKIBAKO, an electronic music kit operated by turning the handle at the side, plays melodies by reading the black and white melody data sheet with light sensors. In addition, the special software "Melody Factory for OTOKIBAKO" enables you to create a melody data sheet of your own melody (with 3 octave range (C to B) including halftones)! 8 tones and 15 melodies are already installed. The wooden outer box projects a warm atmosphere and inspires you to paint on or carve pictures on to create your own OTOKIBAKO.
‘Moon Over Morocco’ Podcast, Theater of the Mind is Back!
Give your ears a treat an fill them up on some classic ZBS(wiki) goodness. If you have no idea what the hell ZBS or ‘Moon Over Morocco’ is you missing out. For years the ZBS Foundation has been producing amazingly well crafted radio dramas involving the bazaar, strange, and often times metaphysical. I’m a fan of the Ruby the Galactic Gumshoe and Travels with Jack Flanders series. If your looking for something different to do on a Saturday night I urge you to visit your personal theater of the mind and enjoy some of the offerings of ZBS. Remember, your imagination has the best special effects you will ever see plus an unlimited production budget. 🙂
[via Boing Boing]
Link to ZBS podcasts, Link to Moon Over Morocco
The ZBS Foundation
1×50 Atom Transistor
Quite amazing, the transistor junctions made from this material (Graphene) are ten times smaller than their silicon counterparts. As long as the heat dissipation issues are not the same as with silicon these could be what runs the computers in 20 years.
Using the world’s thinnest material, Graphene, researchers at the University of Manchester have created the world’s smallest transistor. According to Professor Andre Geim and Dr. Kostya Novoselov from The School of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Manchester, the new transistors are only one atom thick and less than 50 atoms wide. The development opens the gate to superfast computer chips at sizes not possible before with standard Silicon transistors.
[via digg, DailyTech]
University of Manchester – New graphene transistor promises life after death of silicon chip
Secret Waffle House Codes
Who would have ever known that the venerable Waffle House used a sophisticated code system to encode orders. Does the NSA know about this?!?
Let me give you an example. If I were to order three scrambled eggs, dry wheat toast, and hash browns, the waitress would face the grill and yell out loud – "Mark: Triple scrambled dry wheat plate."
The cook would then quickly take a large dinner plate, turn it sideways, and place a tub of jelly upside down at the six o’clock position.
A little more info on WH from Wikipedia.
[via boingboing]
EXCLUSIVE – Waffle House grill cook cheat sheet on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Beginner’s Bible Coloring Book! on Flickr
My old friend posted this to Flickr account recently. Damn, that guy has talent. I can’t wait to see the page on how Noah kept the dinoasurs from eating all the other critters on the ark. Pure joy!
Dad, did dinosaurs really exist?
Sure they did, son. The Bible says so. They didn’t call them "dinosaurs" back then, but instead they were known as "leviathans" or "behemoths".
But, my science teacher says dinosaurs lived millions of years ago. Is that true?
Of course not, son.
Beginner’s Bible Coloring Book!
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