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A better keyboard and MEMS
Can’t think of anything compelling to write today so, I offer the following: Peter Klausler attempts to answer the following question: Could an evolutionary design algorithm and a huge input sample discover a better keyboard arrangement? While not quite nanotech, … Continue reading
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When Consumer Society Went Wrong
Today, I fixed my old Emerson Electric desk fan. This monster was built back in the nineteen-forties or the nineteen thirties and it really shows–solid steel everywhere and everything is designed to be taken apart and reassembled. It could probably … Continue reading
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CSS, nuclear materials tracking and the loose, wanton ways of Windows
For quick summation of some great CSS hacks, visit Real World Style. If you have NT 4, Windows 2000 or XP and you’ve looked at the service settings in MMC, you’ll find something called Windows Messenger service. Windows systems, including … Continue reading
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The Penny is Garbage Money!
I hate that jar of pennies I have. I hate having to pack pennies into little rolls to take to the bank. I have a little pocket on my equipment vest just for pennies and other useless change and, I … Continue reading
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Radio-acoustic shaping and space elevators
New Scientist details a microgravity construction technique that uses radio waves and interference patterns to shape clouds of small particles into solid objects. I imagine by the time this technique becomes widely used, it will be supplemented with zillions of … Continue reading
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Announcing a new policy here at Factory Floor
As you may see, looking over the archive, I am not a very frequent poster to my log. I want to change this. I hereby promise to write at least one entry every weekday from here in. I may even … Continue reading
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Microsoft, Wired and Standards
Microsoft, in a reactionary and cowardly refurbish, refuses to take a step forward to support web accessibility. Most of its pages don’t validate to standard. Wired Magazine, on the other hand, boldly shows the rest of the world that designing … Continue reading
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Pretty soon all the kids will be doing this.
A senatorial candidate in Montana, after a few years of imbibing colloidal silver, turns his skin blue permanently. Maybe it’s just me but, why isn’t it surprising that his party afiliation is Libertarian?
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I really should be working
I’ve still got a ton of things I should be doing for work but a friend of mine introduced a new toy to me–Knoppix. Knoppix is a distro of Linux that runs entirely from a CD so, there is no … Continue reading
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Flying Robots, Hilbert's Hotel and Droplets of Pitch
One link about computer security, another link about computer security and a third link about computer security. A valid trick to hide CSS rules from Opera. Building your own DVR. I talked about building a softwareDVR over a year ago. … Continue reading
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