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This Homemade Headphone Amplifier is a Work of Art
"I've seen many good looking electronics projects in my time, but few of them can compare with the simplicity, style, and elegance of the build that I am about to show you."
blog  audio  design  diy  electronics  aesthetics  cool  technology 
5 weeks ago by milkmiruku
Space is really big!
"Let's start by first shrinking the Earth to the size of a Tennis Ball."
blog  article  science  astronomy  space  education  interesting 
5 weeks ago by milkmiruku
drinking games
"...in the end, culture is a more powerful tool in dealing with drinking than medicine, economics, or the law."
blog  article  alcohol  anthropology  culture  psychology  social  education  interesting 
february 2012 by milkmiruku
John Stump, composer of Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz
My uncle, John Arthur Stump, who was my father’s youngest brother, died on January 20, 2006.  His memorial service was held at a Vedanta monastery in Hollywood, where my other uncle (known there as “Jnana Chaitanya,” but to me as Uncle Dave) serves as a monk.  I was not at the ceremony, but my family brought back some memorabilia from the service and from Uncle John’s “estate,” including a large piece of paper densely printed with musical notation.
blog  music  history  humour 
december 2011 by milkmiruku
“When you get right down to it, most security is based on the honor system.”
“No valiant showdown between a small number of larger-than-life geniuses. The battle was lost six months ago, against human fallibility."
blog  it  security  humour  story  narrative  tv  hacking  crack  sysadmin  business  management 
november 2011 by milkmiruku
Everything Sysadmin: Avoid using the term "Cloud Computing" except when being ironic
"SaaS: It's a web site!
PaaS: It's a framework!
IaaS: It's a VM!"
blog  computing  technology  sysadmin  cloudcomputing  iaas  paas  saas  vm  platform  web  web2.0 
november 2011 by milkmiruku
Everything Sysadmin: The Limoncelli Test: 32 Questions for Your Sysadmin Team
"Joel Spolsky brilliantly created "The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code, a 12-question "highly irresponsible, sloppy test to rate the quality of a software team". I've come up with my own test for system administrators. It is 32 yes/no questions. It is equally sloppy and irresponsible."
sysadmin  blog  business  software  organisation  productivity  computing  quiz  management 
november 2011 by milkmiruku
Rider on the Storm
"At times the air was so saturated with suspended water that an intake of breath caused him to sputter and choke. He began to worry about the very strange—but very real–possibility of drowning in the sky."
blog  history  usa  military  weather  clouds  parachute  interesting 
october 2011 by milkmiruku
How Siri Works
"But whether [Apple] Siri becomes the model for how humans interact with computers in the future or whether it gets laughed off the stage of technical innovation like so many AI systems that have come before hinges on whether it can tell the difference between “Andrew” and “Andrea”—especially when I’m in a crowded coffee shop, speaking with a Southern drawl, with a stuffed-up nose from a bad cold."
blog  technology  news  siri  apple  ai  voice  os  hci  software  algorithm  audio  interesting  business 
october 2011 by milkmiruku
Stevey's Google Platforms Rant
"After you've marveled at the platform offerings of Microsoft and Amazon, and Facebook I guess (I didn't look because I didn't want to get too depressed), head over to developers.google.com and browse a little. Pretty big difference, eh? It's like what your fifth-grade nephew might mock up if he were doing an assignment to demonstrate what a big powerful platform company might be building if all they had, resource-wise, was one fifth grader."
blog  post  google  social  service  api  business  model  modularity  software  platform  leak 
october 2011 by milkmiruku
Unlimited Novelty: Node.js has jumped the shark
"That way you'll have a truly roflscale Fibonacci web service."
programming  blog  article  humour  internet  server  maths  fibonacci 
october 2011 by milkmiruku
brain of mat kelcey | do all first links on wikipedia lead to philosophy?
"this raises a number of questions: Q: though i wouldn't be surprised if it's true for most articles it can't be true for all articles. can it? Q: what's the distribution of distances (measured in "number of clicks away") from 'Philosophy'?
Q: by this same measure what's the furthest article from 'Philosophy'? Q: are there any other articles that are more common than 'Philosophy'? Q: what are the common paths to 'Philosophy'?"
blog  article  philosophy  knowledge  wiki  wikipedia  interesting  graph  data 
august 2011 by milkmiruku
Self-Defeating Sentences « Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP
"Today Ken and I want to talk about a different kind of special sentence, one that is self-defeating. A self-defeating sentence is one that ensures it cannot achieve its desired end, which in this instance is to illustrate a self-defeating sentence."
blog  article  language  linguistiics  humour  interesting  war  art 
july 2011 by milkmiruku
Lyric clouds, genre maps and distinctive words
"One of the interesting things that sets even superficially similiar genres of music apart is their lyrical content. Last.fm tags can overlap to a great degree, but we were interested to see what the words can tell you about the subtler shades of meaning that go along with those tags. As usual around here, the best way to answer questions like these is by asking the data."
article  blog  music  statistics  linguistics  language  interesting 
june 2011 by milkmiruku
The Post Office Railway (Mail Rail) | Silent UK – Urban & Underground Photography
"It is without a doubt the Mail Rail sits at the throne, laughing maniacally at the puny adventurers unable to even stare it in the eyes without bursting into flames, the pinnacle of exploration in London, if not England. There is, and will never be anything like it again, its uniqueness "forever unrivalled, London’s final unconquered “Grail” now a slain beast.
underground  photography  abandoned  london  interesting  cool  images  blog  transport  train 
april 2011 by milkmiruku
The Weinerworks » N.O.M. N.O.M. N.O.M.
"NOM is a group whose major function is lobbying against gay marriage. They were made notorious for this video. They seem to have construed the comic to have some stance in favor of traditional sexuality. Apparently they don’t read my comics regularly."
webcomic  blog  lgbt  activism  history  web  humour 
february 2011 by milkmiruku
Dutch Design Week
"He transformed a machine retired from a Chinese production line into a large scale, low-res 3D printer."
blog  article  video  3d  printing  technology  cool  furniture  plastic  art  design 
february 2011 by milkmiruku
Real World Mapping with the Kinect « Decorator Pattern (Martin Szarski's Blog)
"Putting those together, one can take the depth image from the Kinect and turn it in to a metric point cloud with real distances. Then, those points can be projected back to the RGB camera centre to determine which RGB pixel corresponds to each depth point, and hence arrive a colour for each point in the cloud."
3d  hack  mapping  technology  blog  kinect 
january 2011 by milkmiruku
Awesome death spiral of a bizarre star | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
"That also lets me measure the number of spirals — roughly five — and calculate the size of this object: about a third of a light year across, or more than 3 trillion kilometers! Coooool."
news  blog  astronomy  cool  science  photos  space  interesting 
september 2010 by milkmiruku
Infusion Profusion: Game-Changing Fast ‘N Cheap Technique
"You can infuse flavors into liquor (and water based things, too) almost instantly with nothing more than an [nitrous] Cream Whipper. You can use seeds, herbs, spiced, fruits, cocoa nibs, etc. Here’s how:

Put room-temperature booze into the cream whipper. Add herbs, seeds, whatever. Close the whipper and charge it with nitrous oxide (N2O –the regular whipped cream chargers). Swirl gently 30 seconds and let stand 30 seconds more. Quickly vent the N2O out of the whipper, open it, and strain out the infusion. Done."
blog  food  drink  devices  technology  cooking  tutorial  interesting  howto 
august 2010 by milkmiruku
Next Left: A new ideological map?
"As the ship of New Labour tilts precariously in the waters, and the Conservatives struggle to define what they stand for other than a change of personalities at the top, various attempts are being made to define a new politics to fill the void.

This post makes a stab at trying to map the new ideological terrain that is opening up. Needless to say, ideological positions are fluid and imprecise things, and any effort of this kind is going to risk some oversimplification. In addition, by no means all interesting thinking going on at the moment can be fitted into categories like those I am about to use. But, caveats aside, here goes…"
blog  artice  politics  policy  government  liberalism  republicanism  communalism  community  progressive  prediction  interesting 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
Your users are very stupid. (Maybe.)
"11:57 AM - The first comment to put it together: “This is what happens when people use Google to enter sites instead of typing it on their address bar… Damn you all Farmville users…” This is comment number 50

Ah. So it turns out that there was a (perhaps small) present minority who, rather than using the address bar, use Google to get around on the web. Since Google put this post near the top, at least a certain number of these people had no idea the site they just entered was not Facebook. The results are this mess."
blog  internet  usability  facebook  google  search  news  humour  interesting  meme  culture  ux  fail  web  comments 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
A new global visual language for the BBC's digital services
"We've lived with and loved the distinctly 'web 2.0' design for a while now and it's done us proud. However, time's moved on, and in autumn last year we decided it was time to resurrect the project."
bbc  news  blog  design  internet  web  research  web2.0  language  typography  colour  ui  ux  webdesign  webdev 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
Sam Harris and Andrew Sullivan on Faith, Religion, Tolerance, Moderates, Bible, God, Islam, Atheism, Jesus, Christian Nation
"You have simply declared your faith to be immune to rational challenge. As you didn't come to believe in God by taking any state of the world into account, no possible state of the world could put His existence in doubt. This is the very soul of dogmatism."
atheism  religion  blog  article  culture  science  interesting 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
Unfold Fab: The future's here baby! (first successfully printed ceramic vessel)
"We took some time to play around and get used to the dynamics of the clay print process. ... After some calibrating I decided to print a test design that would be hard to make using conventional techniques: a double walled vessel with fins connecting in- and outside."
news  blog  3d  materials  diy  fablab  fabrication  3dprinter  technology  hardware  interesting  cool  crafts  making  prediction 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
NCBI ROFL: Don’t ask, don’t check my gag reflex.
“In a study of consititutional psychopathic personalities especially the sexual deviants, it was found during a routine physical examination that the gag reflex was frequently absent. This was a more definite finding in those homosexuals who admitted fellatio. ... The positive test, i.e., the absence of the gag reflex, depends on the desensitization of this area due to conditioning, this being brought about by the repeated control of the reflex during the act of fellatio … Frequently it proved valuable in detecting the malingerer who attempted to obtain a discharge by professing homosexuality. Presented with the gag test findings the soldier would invariably change his story or admit having lied for selfish gains.”
blog  article  history  usa  army  lgbt  felatio  sex  physiology  interesting 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
Barbie Becomes a Computer Engineer | Geek Feminism Blog
"Consumers loudly campaigned for another Barbie® career. The winner of the popular vote is Computer Engineer. Computer Engineer Barbie®, debuting in Winter 2010, inspires a new generation of girls to explore this important high-tech industry, which continues to grow and need future female leaders."
blog  news  feminism  it  engineering  toys  children  interesting  culture  computing 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
How My Little Pony turned a little girl into a computer scientist Boing Boing
"I had several small plastic Ponies that I used to play make-believe with my friends. But I had one larger, plush My Little Pony, a bright-green stuffed horse with a vivid pink mane and tail that I played with all by myself. I would sit for hours on my own, braiding and rebraiding its tail. I developed a system for braiding the tail of my Pony that taught me about mathematical concepts-- from division to recursion."
blog  maths  toys  education  pony  interesting 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
ignore the code: Realism in UI Design
"The trick is to figure out which details help users identify the UI element, and which details distract from its intended meaning. Some details help users figure out what they’re looking at and how they can interact with it; other details distract from the idea you’re trying to convey. They turn your interface element from a concept into a specific thing. Thus, if an interface element is too distinct from its real-life counterpart, it becomes too hard to recognize. On the other hand, if it is too realistic, people are unable to figure out that you’re trying to communicate an idea, and what idea that might be."
article  blog  design  graphics  interface  development  gui  psychology  web  software  usability  cognition  logos  icons  resources  howto  reference  interesting  ui  ux  webdesign 
january 2010 by milkmiruku
Web Social Architecture: Show Us Your Wow: Getting It Wrong
"Now, you might want to show your Wow to family and friends. You might want to show your Wow, even, to other people out there in the world. But the site is neither messaged or built that way. It's an archetypal example of the corporation wanting to do something community-enabled and just not getting it: 'Hey customers! Send your most special memories to our corporate PR department!'"
blog  software  marketing  advertising  social  web  microsoft  op-ed  sociology  interesting 
november 2009 by milkmiruku
The Fucking Bluebird of Goddamn Happiness - Donning the asbestos suit
"The most common response I am seeing to the Maine referendum is, "How dare they think they can vote on my civil right to marry whom I please?!" Here's the thing: you don't have a civil right to gay marriage. We want to think of civil rights as forces of nature, but they are compacts within society. And gay marriage has not been defined as a civil right by the U.S. government..."
blog  politics  law  rights  lgbt  government  usa  hate  jurisprudence 
november 2009 by milkmiruku
Some Notes On iTunes LP
"Feature-wise, an iTunes LP is a DRM-free album in high-quality 256kbps AAC format, along with digital extras (visualizer(s), photos, videos and interviews) wrapped in a custom WebKit-powered site."
blog  music  design  audio  format  apple  html  css  javascript  software  interesting 
october 2009 by milkmiruku
Charlie's Diary: Why I hate Star Trek
"The biggest weakness of the entire genre is this: the protagonists don't tell us anything interesting about the human condition under science fictional circumstances. The scriptwriters and producers have thrown away the key tool that makes SF interesting and useful in the first place, by relegating "tech" to a token afterthought rather than an integral part of plot and characterization. What they end up with is SF written for the Pointy-Haired [studio] Boss, who has an instinctive aversion to ever having to learn anything that might modify their world-view."
blog  tv  sci-fi  technology  media  literature  startrek  interesting 
october 2009 by milkmiruku
Singular “they” and the many reasons why it’s correct « Motivated Grammar
"There’s been lots of great stuff written about why singular they is acceptable, but every time I want to smash the arguments against it, I have to waste time jumping through old Language Log posts and books and whatnot, so I figured I’d finally go about summarizing it all. Without further ado, here’s the evidence for singular they, and why you ought to stop “correcting” it."
blog  language  english  linguistics  grammar  feminism  gender  writing  education  literature  history  interesting 
october 2009 by milkmiruku
Bête de Jour: Bingo? Let's Play!
"I have decided to take you up on your generous offer and so include below my first post for your perusal. I hope it’s not too irreverent…"
blog  blogging  business  marketing  gambling  humour  internet 
october 2009 by milkmiruku
Online Dating Advice: Exactly What To Say In A First Message « OkTrends
"We analyzed over 500,000 first contacts on our dating site, OkCupid. Our program looked at keywords and phrases, how they affected reply rates, and what trends were statistically significant. The result: a set of rules for what you should and shouldn’t say when introducing yourself online. This is the second post of our statistical investigation into the optimal online dating message; a note about how we protected user privacy is here."
blog  article  communication  statistics  social  relationships  language  linguistics  psychology  culture  dating  humour 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
Dumpster Diving | ReadyMade Magazine
“He is making pools out of dumpsters"
article  blog  design  diy  space  cool  architecture  collaboration  swimming  dumpster 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
Words for Webstock - Bruce Sterling
She poured a coffee, then touched the breakfast table. “Where are my shoes?” “Your sister borrowed them.” “Again? Where is Susan?” “She’s downtown now.” “Susan! Why did you swipe my favorite shoes again?” “Look at this dress.” “Oooh, that dress is darling.” “It would look even better on you.” “You’re right. Get it for me. You can’t have it.” “Trade you for these shoes.” “Let me check that with Henry. Yeah, okay.” Karen had another sip of fair-trade coffee. It tasted weird, but it was still hot.
blog  literature  writing  sci-fi  culture  technology  augmentedreality  prediction  humour 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
XMPP: Catch the Wave
"At the Google I/O developer conference earlier today, Google made a big splash by announcing Wave, a radical rethinking of communication over the Internet. As Tim O’Reilly noted, the Wave vision is to combine the best of different conversational media and collaboration tools, including email, IM, phone, microblogging, and file sharing. Little noted among hoopla is the fact that “The Google Wave Federation Protocol is an open extension to XMPP core [RFC3920] protocol to allow near real-time communication between two wave servers.”
blog  article  news  google  web  im  jabber  xmpp  standards  openprotocol  interesting  wave  communication 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
Racism creeping up in Italy
"After a wave of ugly rhetoric and dubious policies, a number of northern Italian councils run by the far-right Northern League (Silvio Berlusconi’s biggest coalition partner in government) have gone on the rampage against anything foreign. Top of the list, the town of Capriate, 20 miles from Milan, where the council announced a ban on kebab and ‘ethnic’ shops from the town centre."
news  blog  italy  politics  society  hate  authoritarianism  wtf 
august 2009 by milkmiruku
50 Superb Photo-Manips You Probably Haven’t Seen Before
"Photo manipulation is a truly impressive art form. The following works show immense skill in blending multiple photos, effects and colors to produce awesome final compositions. I highly recommend that you check out the other works by these artists, and try your own hand at some photo manipulation."
blog  design  art  images  photography  photoshop  photo  interesting  cool 
july 2009 by milkmiruku
XMPP Jingle - Thiago Rocha Camargo: Jingle Relay Nodes Full Description
"Jingle Nodes comes in place with the goal of making more nodes available, as it makes the task of having public relays close to trivial, as you just need to run an XMPP client with a Public Node Policy available for everyone. Also makes every buddy in your contact list a potential Node. Another positive point is that a client don't need to implement a Relay Node if not applicable ... Skype Network works in a similar way except that on Skype you can't choose whether share your bandwidth or not. And as a closed protocol you can't do anything about it.

"Jingle already have specifications for Direct Media, P2P based on ICE-STUN, but it needs an extension to cover Jingle Relay Nodes.
The long term goal is to have Jingle widely deployed across the world and collaborate to this adoption by providing "easy to use" and "always works" solutions."
blog  xmpp  im  communication  software  openprotocol  interesting  prediction  voip  skype 
july 2009 by milkmiruku
Make: Online : Coconut headphone mod
"Check out this clever headphone mod. Maker Iwan Roberts reconditioned this pair of headphones using coconut husks and some twine as a gift for a friend. They're perfect for listening to a MAKE Podcast and rugged enough to bring along on the occasional three hour tour."
diy  hardware  blog  make  audio  headphones  tiki  interesting  cool 
july 2009 by milkmiruku
There’s No App for That « Riverturn Blog and Talk Back
"Repeated emails yesterday to Apple have still been ignored at this point. We did receive a voicemail at our main office from the same Richard who called our competitor. Unfortunately it wasn’t until today that we were able to connect for our “conversation”. The word conversation really doesn’t cover it because what transpired was not informative by design and felt like theater of the absurd. It went roughly like this:"
blog  news  apple  software  business  voip  apps  mobiles  usa  technology 
july 2009 by milkmiruku
Henry Rollins: Teeing Off: Ain't No Sell Out, We Have Arrived!
"I wonder if it ever occurred to these people that the reason the music of these interesting and alternative bands is being recruited is because their fans are now the ones calling the shots. In other words, we have arrived! Of course the ad is trying to sell you something and by using a band you like, attempting to gain your confidence by exploiting the band's integrity for a commercial end. So what? You're not a fuckin' moron are ya? You see through that, don't ya?"
blog  op-ed  music  advertising  marketing  culture  business  psychology  tv  media  interesting  hate 
july 2009 by milkmiruku
I'll give you postmodern - American Most Unwanted Song
"The most unwanted music is over 25 minutes long, veers wildly between loud and quiet sections, between fast and slow tempos, and features timbres of extremely high and low pitch, with each dichotomy presented in abrupt transition. The most unwanted orchestra was determined to be large, and features the accordion and bagpipe (which tie at 13% as the most unwanted instrument), banjo, flute, tuba, harp, organ, synthesizer (the only instrument that appears in both the most wanted and most unwanted ensembles). An operatic soprano raps and sings atonal music, advertising jingles, political slogans, and "elevator" music, and a children's choir sings jingles and holiday songs. The most unwanted subjects for lyrics are cowboys and holidays, and the most unwanted listening circumstances are involuntary exposure to commercials and elevator music."
music  blog  art  audio  download  aesthetics  interestin  humour  marketing  rap  cowboys  bagpipes  mp3  postmodern 
june 2009 by milkmiruku
Google Bets Big on HTML 5: News from Google I/O - O'Reilly Radar
"If you're like me, you had no idea there was so much HTML 5 already in play."
news  blog  internet  web  technology  software  standards  html  web2.0  browser  programming  prediction  trends  html5  firefox  google  opera  safari 
may 2009 by milkmiruku
Mark Thomas Info - Policy Update - Thatcher
"To launch the Huddersfield Policy campaign, that Margaret Thatcher should pay for her own funeral, I have designed a postcard to protest the prospect of a state funeral for Margaret Thatcher. The person with most say on a state funeral is Elizabeth Windsor (sometimes known as the Queen), thus the cards should be sent to her, seeking to influence her decision making in advance of Margaret Thatcher's demise. You can download the card here, simply print, sign and post."
blog  uk  politics  humour  death 
may 2009 by milkmiruku
Neil Gaiman's Journal: Entitlement issues...
"Look, this may not be palatable, Gareth, and I keep trying to come up with a better way to put it, but the simplicity of things, at least from my perspective is this: George R.R. Martin is not your bitch."
blog  books  authoring  literature  humour  life 
may 2009 by milkmiruku
Matthew Williams Design | Muni Don’t Take My Kodachrome
"Since September 11, photographers have been stopped, harassed, and intimidated into handing over their personal property simply because they were photographing subjects that made other people uncomfortable, such as ship locks, trains, buildings, bridges, and bus stations. ... In the event you’re stopped by overzealous law enforcement or security officials attempting to enforce fictitious laws, I’ve designed these fictitious and official-looking Photographer’s Licenses."
blog  photography  graphics  humour  law  police  identity  security 
may 2009 by milkmiruku
Thousand Yard Stares: Ruins and Ghosts of the Battle of Peleliu, 1944
"When you arrive on Peleliu, it doesn’t take long to start spotting the remains of the war."
blog  history  photography  photos  travel  war  usa  japan  island  interesting 
april 2009 by milkmiruku
DIY Flash and Lighting Hacks for Digital Photographers
"In this post I’ve found 10 DIY Flash and Lighting Hacks that put some of these lighting techniques within the grasp of the rest of us. Some are more involved than others but all are fun and will provide you with some new lighting gear to experiment with."
photography  camera  video  photo  diy  hack  tips  reference  digital  lighting  hardware  technology  gadget  dslr  blog  interesting  cool 
january 2009 by milkmiruku
Light Lane - Concept from Altitude’s Alex Tee and Evan Gant « Dustbowl
"Our system projects a crisply defined virtual bike lane onto pavement, using a laser, providing the driver with a familiar boundary to avoid."
bicycle  cycling  light  safety  design  laser  hardware  electronics  blog  cool  travel 
january 2009 by milkmiruku
How to remove yourself from forward lists - xerode.id - The blog and portfolio of Paul Bennett, a 26 year old Flash developer and occasional photographer
"Now, I love jokes that tackle the difficult subject of stereotypes as much as the next person but I spied an interesting footer after the final joke: “SEND THIS TO SMART WOMEN WHO NEED A LAUGH AND TO MEN YOU THINK CAN HANDLE IT !!!”. I decided to test her sense of humour and see what she could “handle” by responding with the following..."
blog  humour  stereotypes  statistics  friends  email 
january 2009 by milkmiruku
Warren Ellis » Polar Nuclear Lighthouses
"So the Russians erected autonomous nuclear-powered lighthouses. Which worked great, until the collapse of the Soviet Union. In fact, they probably would have been fine after that, if people hadn’t looted them for copper and anything else that looked like it wasn’t nailed down too hard. Including, apparently, reactor shielding."
blog  russia  photography  nuclear  environment  decay  abandoned  interesting  wtf 
january 2009 by milkmiruku
There’s something going down on Facebook. Pay attention. | SquaredPeg
An attempted viral marketing ploy is uncovered on Facebook.
advertising  marketing  education  university  facebook  business  viral  internet  web  blog  interesting 
december 2008 by milkmiruku
brad's life - Android Garage Door Opener, part 2
"it figures out using wi-fi signals when Brad is approaching his house, so even if he turns it on an hour before it won't actually open until he's close by. This isn't possible on other phones because they don't let you get access to the wi-fi bits to do AP scanning."
blog  technology  wifi  googleandroid  opensource  mobiles  transport  cool  geek 
october 2008 by milkmiruku
Homegrown Evolution: Build a Solar Dehydrator
"Our solar dehydrator is constructed out of plywood and consists of a heat collector containing a black metal screen housed in a box with a clear plastic top. ... We ... have used it each season for tomatoes, figs and for making dried zucchini chips."
blog  article  diy  food  solar  howto  garden  reference  guide  cooking 
october 2008 by milkmiruku
FreakAngels
"FREAKANGELS is a free, weekly, ongoing comic written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Paul Duffield. "
comics  webcomic  blog  london  steampunk  art  cool  culture  sci-fi 
september 2008 by milkmiruku
the google sari « Our Delhi Struggle
"Spotted this in a fancy mall in Gurgaon, India (the tech hub south of Delhi)"
blog  google  fashion  culture  design  india  humour  cool  clothing 
september 2008 by milkmiruku
kanYe West : Blog - ANIME INSPIRED GADGETS
"Kaneda's Bike from the Anime Classic Akira is currently being replicated by Neo Fukuoka, and is a fully-functional vehicle."
blog  motorcycle  anime  technology  travel  images  transport  cool 
august 2008 by milkmiruku
Top Podcast Authors Contribute Stories For Brave Men Run Paperback Release Party | Matthew Wayne Selznick
"...I will present a brand new, original short story set in the first year of the Sovereign Era universe. These stories — official Sovereign Era canon — are from some of the most respected authors of podcast fiction"
fiction  sci-fi  podcasting  audiobook  audio  free  download  interesting  cool  news  blog 
july 2008 by milkmiruku
The Buzzball, A Motorized Hampster Ball For Humans | Laughing Squid
"At the heart of the Buzzball is a dual motor configuration, enabling the pilot to control the motion and direction of travel via left and right control triggers, which provides power to the driving wheels."
blog  travel  technology  hardware  sport  ball  interesting  cool  iwant  hamster  cars  transport 
july 2008 by milkmiruku
CR Blog » Blog Archive » Planet Tozer
"Creative Review commissioned photographer Jason Tozer to shoot these pictures on behalf of Sony using its new Alpha digital camera."
blog  photography  gallery  sony  dslr  bubbles  art  space  cool 
june 2008 by milkmiruku
Dark Roasted Blend: Soviet Futuristic Illustration: Oodles of Optimism
"illustrations ... by ... (one of the first Soviet science fiction writers) shows very clearly what kind of future the communist dreamers preferred. Think cool robots, intrepid explorers, brainy scientists, eerily Star Wars-like aliens and a huge doze of
sci-fi  soviet  russia  illustration  blog  images  history  art  design  drawing  cool  space  alien  retro  rpg 
may 2008 by milkmiruku
OpenID Status Check: A Guide to Getting and Using Your OpenID - ReadWriteWeb
"OpenID is convenient for end users, allowing them to login to numerous web sites using one set of credentials - their OpenID. But how is OpenID doing today? Where can you get one? And more importantly, where can you use it?"
openid  internet  web  dataportability  blog  article  reference  social  web2.0  interesting  resource 
april 2008 by milkmiruku
shawnshah.com » Everywhere and Nowhere
"But what about the rest of those? OpenID? OAuth? Microformats? APML? WTF? If all goes well, you’ll hear more about some of them in the next 2-3 years. And some of them you’ll never hear about at all, even when they’re widely adopted."
dataportability  internet  web  cms  openid  oauth  apml  microformats  blog  technology  software  blogging  socialservices 
april 2008 by milkmiruku
William Bennett: BEHAVIOURAL 2
An attack/search on/for identity.
noise  music  edinburgh  blog  philosophy  interesting  determinism  op-ed  psychology 
march 2008 by milkmiruku
Hamster's Lunch at Coco's in Los Angeles - Boing Boing
"This comment brought to you by Microsoft, Shell, and the Nine Circles of Hell." - Funny pic plus comments slagging Boing Boing's new Microsoft sponsored posts.
boingboing  blog  humour  hamster  microsoft  business  advertising 
february 2008 by milkmiruku
Hack Day 2008 - Rather Mashed 2008
Notes on Hack Day 2008 aka Mashed.
bbc  hackday  hacking  blog  interesting  technology  internet  web  mashup 
january 2008 by milkmiruku
Telegraph to become OpenID provider : January 2008 : Shane Richmond : Technology : Telegraph Blogs
"The Telegraph will soon become the first newspaper in the world, and the first British media company, to become an OpenID provider. Readers will be able to begin using the service from the end of February."
media  publishing  uk  web  openid  dataportability  cool  newspapers  blog  identity  internet 
january 2008 by milkmiruku
Japanese - 33 million pixel TV Standard
"The communications ministry is pouring 300 million yen into the NHK project to develop and launch a higher quality 33.2 million pixel broadcast standard by 2015."
hdtv  japan  blog  news  video  tv  cable  research  technology  interesting 
january 2008 by milkmiruku
Pirate leader Falkvinge: "Our enemy has no intellectual capital to bring to the battle" - P2P Consortium
"So now we know what the enemy has, and that they have absolutely nothing in terms of intellectual capital to bring to the battle. They do, however, have their bedside connections with the current establishment. That's the major threat to us at this point
blog  interview  politics  copyright  p2p  sweden  technology  interesting  privacy  surveillance  pirateparty 
january 2008 by milkmiruku
Decriminalize File Sharing « Karl Sigfrid
"The article, calling for decriminalization of all file sharing, has started a loud debate in Swedish media."
article  blog  politics  p2p  news  law  copyright  sweden  filesharing  technology  privacy  democracy  interesting 
january 2008 by milkmiruku
chadzilla: making vodka pills in 24 hours
"I use this word to describe the process of making liquid-filled candies by pouring flavoured alcohol syrups into cornstarch and letting it set until a hard outer shell forms."
article  blog  alcohol  food  recipes  cooking  interesting  cool 
october 2007 by milkmiruku
igdmlgd: AMAZON ONE-CLICK PATENT REJECTED BY THE US PATENT OFFICE AS A RESULT OF MY REQUEST
"In a recent office action, the USPTO has rejected the claims of the Amazon.com one-click patent following the re-examination request that I filed on 16 February 2006."
blog  news  law  patents  software  web  usa  amazon 
october 2007 by milkmiruku
Top 50 Dystopian Movies of All Time
To watch.
article  blog  movies  film  list  sci-fi  prediction  technology  history  reference  dystopia  geek 
october 2007 by milkmiruku
The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn - Conversation Topics!
"Shamelessly copied from a list being used at the xkcd meetup. (Yes, eventually I will shut up about the meetup, but right now I'm still excited about it.) Pick a topic and start a conversation!"
blog  livejournal  list  webcomic  xkcd  geek  interesting  social  forum 
october 2007 by milkmiruku
Language Log: Like, I care whether semantics are or is?
"I mean, it's not just a question of neither being pleased about Mr. Long's choice of verb form nor not pleased; we are talking about a deep and unbounded apathy here, a cosmically profound level of apathy down to which few people's refusal to give a monk
blog  article  language  grammar  semantics  humour 
september 2007 by milkmiruku
alasdair: Better Living Through Chemistry
"But whisky, on the other hand, still is something I love. So, let's talk about whisky, then."
blog  article  whisky  reference  history  alcohol  drugs  chemistry 
september 2007 by milkmiruku
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