30Oct/090
Today’s Links
- Plastic Engines – We Have the Technology – Is Anyone Interested? - Would be interesting of hybrids and scooters?
- Comic Book Character Costume - cool idea
- 10 Neat Facts About Ferrari
- My Favorite Ball Watches At JCK, Big And Lots Of Lume - I like the Ball Trainmasters
- Ars System Guide: October 2009 Edition
- Hodinkee Recommended Reading: Investing In Vintage & Neo-Vintage Watches - I agree, it isn't about flipping watches....
- Autonomous Robotic Race Car - I love the idea of racing them up Pikes Peak
- Talk of "global cooling" based on bogus statistics
- Linux Kernel /etc/sysctl.conf Security Hardening
- Google's new Social Search surprisingly useful
- George Brown's famous 1000cc supercharged Vincent "Super Nero"
- Google Maps Navigation Brings Slick Turn-by-Turn GPS to Android
- Quantum gravity theories wiped out by a gamma ray burst
- Add Your Facebook Events to Google Calendar
- Grand National First Edition
- 1965 Norton Atlas 750 (Dunstall Dominator)
- Google Music Search Officially Launched
29Oct/090
Today’s Links
- Hasta la Vista, baby: Ars reviews Windows 7
- Windows7 has a better sleep (power) utility
- Aerofoil Keeps Your Laptop's Battery Alive
- 1976 Lincoln Batmobile Replica
- First look: inside Mozilla's Raindrop messaging platform
- Switched-On Ringtones - more moog
- The Secret of a Successful Marriage: Trophy Wife! - I win! (not that my wife will read this...)
- Electricity-free (mini) table saw - cool but you won't be ripping sheets of plywood
- Amelia Earhart’s Final Resting Place Found?
- The Top Ten Ghost Ships
- Bringing a '20s radio back to life
- Cyberattacks: Espionage now, sabotage soon
- Google Wave: we came, we saw, we played D&D - yeah, I got waved, don't have a use for it yet
- The quest for a truly open smartphone: can it be done?
- The SuperFreakonomics Global-Warming Fact Quiz
- Google Rolls Out New Custom Search Features, Including Wikipedia Integration
- Scientists 'unwarp' distorted fingerprints in seconds
28Oct/092
Today’s Links
- Silence! The Last of the Giant Radio Telescopes Is Listening to the Universe
- Great online Halloween haunt resource
- Star Wars Uncut Trailer Teases An Incredible Fan Production
- Lexus Shows Off First Supercar - V10 engine
- Yamaha XS650 - bling!
- Yamaha RD350 custom
- High Voltage Experiments by Kizmox
- The Complicated Physics of a Dribbling Teapot
- Air cooled Czechoslovakian Tatra 603 V8 motorcycle
- The Andreas Honda V12
- The first women to go from New York to California on motorcycles
- WhiteHouse.gov goes open source
- Timewarp: How your brain creates the fourth dimension
22Oct/090
Today’s Links
- QT Lite Frees You from QuickTime's Bloat
- 72 volts, based on a 1980 Suzuki GS 250b. 70mph
- Ducati Flat Track Racer
- 1969 Honda CL350
- Cutting-Edge Science Reveals: World Won’t End on December 21, 2012 - I'm shocked!
- Porsche 356 Speedster Replica gets electric power, lands on eBay
- Counting the hidden ($120 billion) cost of US energy economy
- Push-Pull Tube Amp Build
- 5K Volt Can Crusher with a 100uF Capacitor
- LHC reaches operational temps, collisions start in 5 weeks
- How to Lock Down Your Facebook Account
- Get Your Copy of Vim 101 Hacks eBook
- Time lapse video shows Wiesmann build the GT MF4 live at Frankfurt
- DIY Segway shows impressive balance and ingenuity
- Canonical and IBM team up on Ubuntu-based Win 7 alternative
- Amazing fantasy armor leatherwork - wow
- The Power User's Guide to Google Chrome, 2009 Edition
- Orrery based on Ferguson's "mechanical paradox"
- Weighing the pros and cons of stratospheric geoengineering
- A Lesson in eCommerce from The World of Goo - I would pay $5-$10 for it
19Oct/091
Today’s Links
Some great stuff today.
- ‘66 GTO Goes Green for Route 66 - natural gas conversion
- Fitbit Fitness and Sleep Tracker - looks cool but needs to be $50
- Gardening Coral in Fiji
- Is The NFL Protecting Big-Name Quarterbacks?
- The Big Picture: World Animal Day 2009
- Ancient Apology Form for Drunkeness
- Physical Challenge: Beer Run - Buhahhahaaaaa!
- 1929 Majestic - wow
- Energy-harvesting rocking chair - cool idea but that chair looks uncomfortable
- Even as Fares Creep Up, Airlines Tack On Fees, Too
- Harley didn't calculate savings before killing Buell, hopes business as usual leads to financial recovery - and they are getting some bailout money
- MIT helicopter uses lasers to navigate indoors
- Placebo Effect Caught on MRI
- Inventor Woody Norris TED Talk - That is very very cool
- TriBSA 750: ‘The Bitch’
- 1971 Norton Commando 850 Cafe Racer
- cafe racer shot - I wonder what it is
- Buell RW750
- Papercraft Rickshaw
- 'Magnetic electricity' discovered
- HSN teaches valuable lesson about Wii accessory safety
- When robots fall in love: Ars reviews Machinarium - needs wii port
- Lightning-fast robo-hands - ok, wow
- Modeling a black hole with a 300 GigaWatt laser
- Ilmor 5 Stroke Engine – 700cc Turbo 3 Cylinder – 130 bhp, Better Mileage, Less Weight
- The Big Picture: Saturn Equinox
16Oct/090
Today’s Links
- Impressionist cake
- Moto Guzzi 850 Le Mans
- Mouse Runs on Trackball Through Virtual Maze
- How to save the world from power vampires
- Train an army of crows to gather treasure for you
- Scientists Create Pocket-Sized Black Hole
- Will Linux be the dominant OS for consumer electronics?
- Carl Sagan Goes down-tempo Electronic With Cosmos Video
15Oct/090
Today’s Links
- Hard Drive Camera Stabilizer
- SteriPEN Adventurer Opti - seems like a good idea
- 1941 Indian 741 Flathead racer- wow
- CALM Act plans to put loud TV commercials to sleep - yes please, this shouldn't need to be a law but an industry standard.....
- Beware: SOMC cute!
- 30 years of failure: the username/password combination - alternatives still not available....
- New da Vinci Discovered Thanks to Hunch and A Fingerprint
- Carrying a motorbike on the back of a scooter
- Was Marie Rogêt Murdered by Edgar Allan Poe?
- Vintage Motorsports Tees
- Harley-Davidson Shuts Down Buell, Plans To Sell MV Agusta
- New Mule XS 650 Project
- Judge: ringtones aren't performances, so no royalties - sensible....
- Vivaldi – Performed on an Accordion - wow