Happy Winter Everyone!
for us northern hemisphere folk, today is our Winter Solstice! the longest night, and the point at which our planet begins its process of tipping back in favor of our sun!
the actual date is somewhat arbitrary, but it’s a great (pagan) occasion to celebrate! Remember, a couple million miles closer to the sun [...]
Category Archives: geekathon
happy solstice
2007Dec22
windmill inspiration
2007Dec16
I’ve been following AfriGadget for over a year and William Kamkwamba now for as long as they’ve been reporting about him, and he finally gets the recognition he deserves, with a recent writeup in the Wall Street Journal and online video:
It might only power some light bulbs, a radio and a television set, but for [...]
oh..my..YES!JKL!!!1!:L: (psst, GTA IV !)
2007Dec09
oh yes oh yes oh yes!
while I have said before that I don’t like to turn my blog into a document of my materialist purchases, every now and then I simply find something that excites me and is after all part of a larger construct, as one finds relations between the hardware one uses and the work they produce.
I’ve never [...]
759,375 screensavers (and office killer)
2007Nov24
some hot shit work called ‘monoface‘ available by mono-1. Not too dissimilar from my own work on some levels, however this is waaaaaay more immediate and propagative, with mere clicks of the mouse resulting in up to 759k-plus permutations! serious office killer! you know the mono-1 team - whose clients have included PBS, Porsche and [...]
a tale of two drivers (geekathon alert)
2007Nov17
this post actually has absolutely nothing to do with Charles Dickens or with the tale of his book, but is rather simply a play on words: I had one driver, they had another but wouldn’t give it to me. But as these things go, you find a way, and now I’m reporting about it and [...]
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