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Bookmarks for January 6th

These are my links for December 25th through January 6th:

• Making Paper Airplane that Flies like a Real One
• Convert your Honda Accord to run on trash
  Gasification is the use of heat to tranform solid biomass, or other carbonaceous solids, into a synthetic "natural gas like" flammable fuel. Through gasification, we can convert nearly any solid dry organic matter into a clean burning, carbon neutral, gaseous fuel. Whether starting with wood chips or walnut shells, construction debris or agricultural waste, the end product is a flexible gaseous fuel you can burn in your internal combustion engine, cooking stove, furnace or flamethrower. Or in this case, your DeLorean. Well ok, how about a Honda Accord . . .
• Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard
  Everything is just a few hundred clicks away.
• MAKE: Blog: Screw heads demystified
  We can thank instructables user arcticpenguin for this excellent explanation of cross-head, cross-point, cruciform, and square drive screws and drivers!
• TweetDeck
  TweetDeck is an Adobe Air desktop application that is currently in public beta. It aims to evolve the existing functionality of Twitter by taking an abundance of information i.e twitter feeds, and breaking it down into more manageable bite sized pieces.
• BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Why Braille is brilliant
  I wonder if it'd be possible to create a single hand input device that uses buttons similar to braille bumps.
• If a 13 year-old can launch a startup you have no excuse
  So began an email exchange over last weekend which culminated with me chatting to Scott’s mum today to verify, that, indeed, he was actually 13 and really had launched a blogging site for people in Scotland.
• Tortuga Caribbean Rum Cake, Blue Mountain Coffee, 33-Ounce Box: Amazon.com: Grocery
  I've tasted the original recipe and would like to try this someday.
• Platinum Arts Sandbox – Free Open Source 3D Video Game Design Creation Software/Tool
• BeatBots
  Looks like the BeatBot has it's own site now.
• PyRoom — distraction free writing
  PyRoom is a free editor that stays out your way – and keeps other things out of your way, too. As a fullscreen editor without buttons, widgets, formatting options, menus and with only the minimum of required dialog windows, it doesn't have any distractions and lets you focus on writing and only writing.