Found this excellent video of Gary Spivey having an ego-building encounter with WCW wrestler, Mr. Wonderful. I seriously want his hair...or to be his hair.
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Found this excellent video of Gary Spivey having an ego-building encounter with WCW wrestler, Mr. Wonderful. I seriously want his hair…or to be his hair.
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http://www.typeroom.com/
Excellent and free tool for quickly editing static pages - similar to distributed CMS.
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Hackers from the LinuxOnAnything.nl Web site successfully installed Linux on a potato. It's the first time the operating system has been successfully installed on a root vegetable.
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potato doesn't have a CPU, memory or storage space, so it was quite a
challenge," said Johan Piest of the Linux on Anything (LOA) group.
"Obviously we couldn't use a large distribution like Fedora or Ubuntu,
so we went with Damn Small Linux." -
Studies on infants have shown that human children seem to have an innate connection with numbers. Story and discussion at PinkOnBrown.
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Hackers from the LinuxOnAnything.nl Web site successfully installed Linux on a potato. It’s the first time the operating system has been successfully installed on a root vegetable.
“A potato doesn’t have a CPU, memory or storage space, so it was quite a challenge,” said Johan Piest of the Linux on Anything (LOA) group. “Obviously we couldn’t use a large distribution like Fedora or Ubuntu, so we went with Damn Small Linux.”
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Studies on infants have shown that human children seem to have an innate connection with numbers. Story and discussion at PinkOnBrown.
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Coming from five generations of Ku Klux Klan members, 58-year-old "Ms. Ruth" sews hoods and robes for Klan members seven days a week, blessing each one when it's done. A red satin outfit for an Exalted Cyclops, the head of a local chapter, costs about $140. She uses the earnings to help care for her 40-year-old quadriplegic daughter, "Lilbit," who was injured in a car accident 10 years ago.
Good ol' Amerikkka. It amazes me how alive and thriving racism is. It seems to be a renewal of the tribal xenophobic values of a depleted socio-economic system.
Full story with tons of pictures from Mother Jones
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Coming from five generations of Ku Klux Klan members, 58-year-old “Ms. Ruth” sews hoods and robes for Klan members seven days a week, blessing each one when it’s done. A red satin outfit for an Exalted Cyclops, the head of a local chapter, costs about $140. She uses the earnings to help care for her 40-year-old quadriplegic daughter, “Lilbit,” who was injured in a car accident 10 years ago.
Good ol’ Amerikkka. It amazes me how alive and thriving racism is. It seems to be a renewal of the tribal xenophobic values of a depleted socio-economic system.
Full story with tons of pictures from Mother Jones
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http://www.pinkonbrown.org/2008/12/30/drawdio-draw-some-sound/
This weekend, Amber Case and I assembled a very nifty device - the Drawdio. The Drawdio is a simple device that allows you to attach a very simple circuit-board to a pencil (or any other object) to make bizarre theremin-like sound on everyday objects. It works by using the graphite in the pencil and your touch to complete a circuit and generate the sound.
Here is a nifty video of all of us playing around with the nifty device:
It is very simple to construct from the kit we ordered - all we needed to get was a new soldering iron…my current iron had no tip or replacement screw. We assembled it pretty quickly and had a blast for days messing around with the little squealer. There is also an excellent flickr photoset of the project night - wearable computing, Drawdio, a magnifying glass, and popcorn…what a night!
The Drawdio was developed by Jay Silver of MIT’s Media Lab. The Media Lab is responsible for awesome projects like the MPEG-4 SA project which helped to standardize digital sound on personal computers, and eInk - the digital paper/ink replacement. Jay also developed the ok2touch, a jacket that encourages human touch by making noise when making contact with skin.
Amber has more coverage over at Nerdabout Portland. There is also some more information on the Drawdio over at the Makerlab blog.
