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YouTube – Hot Air Balloons Time Lapse

YouTube – Hot Air Balloons Time Lapse.

YouTube – Iron Man vs Bruce Lee

YouTube – Iron Man vs Bruce Lee.

Bookmarks for March 26th

These are my links for March 23rd through March 26th:

• SLOOH – Get Started Now
  SLOOH Space Camera, take command of a high res telescope on the cheap.
• CDC Features – Here Comes the Bride: Healthy and Safe
  Preparing for Your Honeymoon
  [...] and appropriate safety gear for activities (such as helmets, life jackets, and knee pads).
• Noah Stokes – Front End Developer and Other Crap
  That's right, I'll Ajax the crap out of your site. Nothing, and I mean nothing will be static. I'll pull your data asynchronously from every orifice of your server. Your clients will be SOOOOO impressed.
• Gliffy Online Diagram Software
• 16 Awesome Star Wars Papercraft Models
  Some very cool papercraft models.
• Go To SXSW With An iPhone? AT&T Wants To Buy You a Free Month | Andrew Hyde – Startups. Start Here.
  I couldn’t make or receive a call for a week down there. Txt messages would sometimes take four hours to go from one iPhone to another. The data network would work perhaps once a day.
• Top 10 Tips for WordPress Plugin Developers
• IP address geolocation SQL database | Share your knowledge!
  Geographic location of IPs in a sql database
• Twitter gets you fired in 140 characters or less – Technotica- msnbc.com
  Why waste valuable social networking hours getting yourself "Facebook fired," when Twitter allows you to humiliate yourself quickly, and in 140 characters or less?
• MyDellMini • How-To: Install Mac OS X – DellEFI Method
  DellEFI is a boot method and driver package written by bmaltais (and now meklort has joined in) that allows Mac OS X to run nearly perfectly on the Dell Mini 9. The boot part of it is called DellMiniBoot, and the driver part is simply referred to as DellEFI. It is actually a based off an older piece of software written by (and named for) Type11, who has since moved on to bigger and better things.
• Mac OS X on the Dell Mini 9
  Another tutorial on putting OS-X on a Mini 9

YouTube – Cat Shit One Movie Trailer – The Animated Series

YouTube – Cat Shit One Movie Trailer – The Animated Series.

Sick, completely sick, but funny.

YouTube – ArcAttack – Dr. Who theme

YouTube – ArcAttack – Dr. Who theme.

A recent video of Arc Attack at Afterlife in Dallas.  Jump to 0:46 for the start of the Dr Who theme.

I’ve officially added a singing tesla coil to my list of things I need to build soon. Just imaging a VEX robot like Will’s Tank platform carrying a 4′ tesla coil around.

Bookmarks for March 23rd

These are my links for March 12th through March 23rd:

• ArcAttack! – Home of the Singing Tesla Coils
• AWM Hot List '09's Web Site of the Year: Wired.com
  Denmead has a collection of roughly 20 volunteer contributors who in aggregate produce at least four or five posts a day. Among Wired.com’s nine active blogs, GeekDad is one of its more popular.
• PW Style » ThursDIY: 8-foot giant squid pillow
  A giant squid pillow pattern.
• Will It Blend? | Stimulus Package
  Since 1100 pages will not fit in the Blendtec Total Blender, I have it on a thumb drive!
• Sci Fi to SyFy: What the Frak Are They Thinking? | Geekdad from Wired.com
  I heard somewhere they considered several hundred other new names before settling on this one; if so, I can't imagine how bad the others must've been
• Amazon.com: 1 GB USB Robot Memory Stick (Green): Electronics
  A 1GB robot flash drive.
• Animated Knots by Grog
  A handy guide to tying knots with animated directions.
• Memo to CFOs: Don't Trust HR – Careers – CFO.com
  A professor says most human resources professionals are ill-equipped to carry out value-added workforce planning and transformation.
• The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Diamond Heist
  "I may be a thief and a liar," he says in beguiling Italian-accented French. "But I am going to tell you a true story."
• High Performance Web Sites
  14 Rules or Faster-Loading Web Sites.

YouTube – Cajun Crawler Exhibition 08

YouTube – Cajun Crawler Exhibition 08.

This makes me think it’s the bastard child of a VEX Walker and a Segway.

Bookmarks for March 11th

These are my links for March 8th through March 11th:

• Rummager's galactic find turns out to be stolen meteorite – JSOnline
• Amazon.com: 80's Decade Box Gift Basket – Classic 80's Candy: Gourmet Food
  Cool gift box idea, candy from the 80s.
• Amazon.com: 70's Decade Box: Gourmet Food
  Cool gift box idea, candy from the 70s.
• PROJECT
  another cool hexbug mod.
• How to Improve Twitter Email Notifications | Chris Pirillo
  An improvement for twitter mails, esp the X is now following you ones.
• YouTube – Christine and Mark get married!
• Hacking Your VCR Yields Monster Results | Geekdad from Wired.com
• Shapeways | photoshaper
• ROBO KEY COVERS
  Awesome robot key covers. I should get one for the key to the office.
• aimeewilder — robots
  Way cool, and expensive robot wallpaper.

My New Dell Mini 9

I recently got a Dell Mini 9 for work and travel. It’s light weight, long on battery life, and keyboard doesn’t suck. So far I’m loving it.

The first thing most people notice is the small nine inch screen. At just 1024×600 it is a little cramped, but the display is very sharp and small fonts render well. I suggest running Firefox in full screen (kiosk) mode to maximize your display area. If you’re looking for the F11 key, it’s available, but hiding if you have a newer BIOS. fn z and x are F11 and 12 respectively. This makes switching in and out of full screen mode easier.

Everyone I’ve shown the netbook to wants to know about the keyboard. It is smaller than a normal laptop keyboard, but not as bad as the Asus eee 2G. I find that my right hand feels a little cramped and the number placement isn’t quite right, but I can still touch type on it with my fat fingers. The hardest thing to adapt to is the location of some of the punctuation, especially the tilde, pipe, and backslash. The grave and tilde have moved to fn q and w respectively and the pipe and backslash moved to the right of the P with the punctuation from right of the zero.

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Doritos Toro Habanero

I just picked up a bag of Doritos Toro Habanero at the grocery store.  I can’t tell if this is a rebranding of their Fiery Habanero chips, but the Toro seem to be a little spicier and cheesier.  I might just have to get a bag of each to compare.  Each bite gives a temporary respite from the heat only to be replaced with a lingering and enjoyable burn.

I couldn’t find them online but if they aren’t a limited trial, Amazon might have them soon.

Warning: If you think the Fire sauce at Taco Bell is hot, then maybe you should pass on these.