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{ Monthly Archives } August 2009

Wireless Electricity

Eric Giler @ TED talks about wireless electricity… which seems no more than a magnetic field between a power station and a device resonating at a specific frequency. Goodbye batteries. This is a fascinating video.
Watch Wireless Electricity

links for 2009-08-27

macosxhints.com – 10.5: Store Time Machine backups on an AFP NAS
(tags: timemachine)

Using Leopard Time Machine to Backup of a Network » Insights from Imulus, an Interactive Agency
t me use our office network servers as my backup location.
(tags: timemachine)

Geeky: Get Leopards (10.5) Time Machine to Backup to A Network Drive
(tags: timemachine)

Sizes of the planets, the sun, and other stars

I have posted pictures and video on this topic before, but my son asked me to dig up the last one. During my search, I found this excellent video, complete with a soundtrack. Video quality could be better, but worth the watch.

Ivan Sutherland: Sketchpad

This is a fascinating demonstration of early computer graphics and human/machine interaction. Ivan Sutherland’s Sketchpad was a pioneering piece of work. Watching it now, almost 50 years later, left me fascinated. This was cutting edge and there are nontrivial things going on in this program, written so long ago.
Enjoy.
Part 1

Part 2

Lego Genius

A treat for the senses… genius…

Thanks RobG!

“I kicked a terrorist so hard in the balls that I broke a tendon in my foot”

This article is hilarious:
http://www.cracked.com/article/79_the-5-most-embarrassing-failures-in-history-terrorism_p2

Read on for more fun. Favorite snippet:
Because it’s Scotland, and they still build fucking men up there.
In the space of about 30 seconds, this man was in a car accident, an explosion, lit aflame and then kicked in the balls with more force than a human foot can technically take.

A Plea for Simplicity

Worth the 7 minutes… beauty and power in simplicity.

Jimmy Kimmel Unnecessary Censorship – Mr. Rogers Edition

Going through old e-mails and I found this gem:

I never watch late-night TV so I’m not hip. This was new to me, and histerical.

Sleepy Bear

Warning: Cuteness ahead

Windows 7

Last Friday, I went and upgraded by Windows Vista x64 Ultimate installation with Windows 7 x64 Ultimate. Windows 7 became available to MSDN Subscribers the day before (I think) and I didn’t hesitate much to perform the installation.
I was optimistic about the upgrade, even though I had never performed an OS upgrade before. Like most [...]

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