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Bookmarks for July 28th

These are my links for July 23rd through July 28th:

• Martian mesa… in 3D! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
• Throw Away The Recipe; Learn The Ratio Instead : NPR
  His new book, Ratio, is about learning basic ratios. For example: 3:2:1 — three parts flour, two parts fat (like butter) and one part water — makes a basic pie crust. Add a dash of salt, and it's a savory base for a quiche. Add some sugar, and you've got a shell for cherries, chocolate cream or fresh peaches.
• List of open source video games – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Open source video games. Not complete, but a good start.
• Tyrian (video game) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• http://www.bphobbies.com/view.asp?id=V617495
• E. A. ELECTRONICS: MOTORS
• GData: An Online MD5 Hash Database
  A rather large rainbow table of md5 hashes
• WONDERMAGNET.COM – NdFeB Magnets, Magnet Wire, Books, Weird Science, Needful Things
• Mouse buttons do not work as Back and Forward
  Fix firefox to use the mouse wheel left/right click for back/forward
• Palm Pre Review | PreCentral.net
  Detailed review of the Palm Pre

YouTube – Space Butter: The motion picture

YouTube – Space Butter: The motion picture.

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Bookmarks for July 23rd

These are my links for July 20th through July 23rd:

• Shapeways | personalize your own stylus
  Personalized stylus for touch screens.
• Interactive Matter goes Kit | Interactive Matter
  The questions for kits grow stronger and stronger in the comments. Therefore I am happy and proud to announce that Interactive Matter starts selling kits. The first will be the Space Invaders Button. The first round of prototypes has been packaged and already shipped:
• Tremorworks » HDL System
• Palm Pre – How to Guide to Enable Tethering!
  Palm Pre How To Guide – Enable Tethering Over Bluetooth!
• eTraxis – Features
• Why not, right?
  This is scary.
• linux kernel monkey log
  As one person involved in this whole process said to me, "It looks like hell just froze over."
• Coding Horror: Software Engineering: Dead?
  I can publicly acknowledge what I've slowly, gradually realized over the last 5 to 10 years of my career as a software developer: what we do is craftsmanship, not engineering.
• Tap the Air With an Atmospheric Water Generator!
  Start your own moisture farm with these cool devices.
• Pterodactyl Squad – A video game music netlabel – Weezer – The 8-bit Album

Whip It 2009 Trailer

YouTube – Whip It 2009 Trailer.

More info on IMDB: Whip It (2009). Released Oct 9th 2009.

via Economy Size Geek

Bookmarks for July 20th

These are my links for July 14th through July 20th:

• The Moon Landings: Fact, Not Fiction | GeekDad | Wired.com
  As a GeekDad who also works in the space program, I often think about all of the myths and conspiracies associated with space exploration and how I will ensure that my Geekling will be brought up with the ability to separate the sand from the moon dust.
• Design your own Kindle (and win it) with Engadget, Amazon, and Adafruit Industries!
• Companion (Doctor Who) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet
  Greg Rutter's Definitive List of The 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet Unless You're a Loser or Old or Something
• Schylling High Wheel Robot: Toys & Games
  Wind-up black sparking robot with colorful gears in his chest.
• SPLITREASON.COM :: Duh Zombie t-shirt
  Zombies shouldn't look to robots for brains.
• SPLITREASON.COM :: Nuklear Power – Atomic Robo t-shirt
  Cool Atomic-Robo shirt.
• WALL-E – a set on Flickr
  A cool series of photos involving a Wall-E toy.
• Control a Cat – Remote Control Toy
  Wish you could control your pet cat with a simple push of a button? This "remote control" has all the commands you need for your feline friend. No Batteries Required
• Why the Arduino Matters – Ideas For Dozens
  Athe Arduino is the Altair of today.

Bookmarks for July 14th

These are my links for July 11th through July 14th:

• Primer
  Links to the timeline of the movie Primer.
• Dingoo A320 News at DCEmu – All the Latest Homebrew Emulators and More for the A320
  Run MAME on the Dingoo game emulator.
• DINGUX: Porting a menu frontend
  Linux on the Dingoo game emulator.
• MAME Ported To The Dingoo A320 – Congoo
  Busshy writes 'Slaanesh has released a port of MAME for the Dingoo A320 (the console that comes with GBA, SNES, CPS1 and Megadrive emulators built-in), with support for thousands of old arcade games. You will have to install Dingoo Linux to be able to use MAME on the Dingoo. Some tutorial videos are…
• DealExtreme: $82.80 Dingoo A-320 2.8" LCD GBA/NGO/SNES/ NES/SFC/CPS1/2/+ Emulator Game Console (4GB Built-in + Mini-SD)
  A cheap Chinese made handheld game console with a Mame port available.
• digiKam – Photo Management Program | Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of Open Source
  This looks very promising for workflow software.
• digiKam – Photo Management Program | Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of Open Source
• blueMarine – Home
  This looks promising, but dev seems to be stalled.
• Linux.com :: Wash away the photo workflow blues with blueMarine
• YouTube – The State of Yo: Tom Kuhn's Yo Yo Revolution
  Nice teaser documentary about the yoyo

YouTube – Letterman – Optimus Prime Top Ten List

YouTube – Letterman – Optimus Prime Top Ten List.

Bookmarks for July 11th

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

• YouTube – Summer In Abu Dhabi
  Arc Attack gets some air time in Abu Dhabi
• Dreamland Toyworks – My Little Cthulhu by John Kovalic
• Lunar World Record 2009
• binary clock
  A very cool binary clock.
• The Escapist : News : Australians Control 15-Metric-Ton Robot Arm With Wii Remote
• SparkFun Electronics – Missile Switch Cover
  A cool red switch cover. Toggle not included.
• slightlywarped.com's Curiosities
  Totally screwed up airport runway in Gibraltar.
• 50 Skills Every Real Geek Should Have | Maximum PC
• Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. – Follow us on Twitter
  Wow, who'd have thunk that wally world has a twitter policy.
• YouData – Home
  Sell yourself instead of letting others do it for you.

Bookmarks for July 8th

These are my links for July 5th through July 8th:

• RC Hind Turbine Helicopter
• Tuesday, July 7, 2009 « Medium Large
  How much wood could a woodchuck upchuck if a woodchuck could upchuck wood.
• Free Websites Performance, Availability, Traffic Monitoring
  A free website monitor. Could be a good replacement for red alert.
• Robo-bats With Metal Muscles May Be Next Generation Of Remote Control Flyers
• Homepage of ZABBIX :: An Enterprise-Class Open Source Distributed Monitoring Solution
  Another system monitor.
• mp3cat – concatenate MP3 files – search.cpan.org
  A perl script to concatenate mp3s
• PHP MP3 Class @ SourceRally.net PHP Community
  A php class to muck around with MP3s. It looks to be able to concatenate mp3s.
• 50 Robots to Draw and Paint: Create Fantastic Robot Characters for Comic Books, Computer Games, and Graphic Novels
  Travis loves to draw robots. I'm hoping to get a copy soon to review for GeekDad.
• The Long Tail – Wired Blogs
  Chris Anderson's new book, "Free" will be released later this week in paper and ebook formats. The latter is free, and in some cases, so is the former.
• Amazon.com: LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0 (8547): Toys & Games
  It appears the NXT 2.0 is in stock and being sold at Amazon. I didn't think they would be available til August.

RC Turbine Helicopter MI-24

Wow, this is a crazy RC helicopter.