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Bookmarks for September 30th

These are my links for September 20th through September 30th:

• The Elements by Theodore Gray
• HEXBUG Review & Giveaway 9/30 | Barefoot Mommies
• Show us your boobies! – Geek To Me
• Nuklear Power » Archive » The Yonkers Devil 1 of 7
• The Best Approach for Avoiding Zombies | Current Affairs – ISNS
• Starbucks Taste Test: Will Instant Blow Away Fresh Brewed? | The Green Room | Fast Company
• Arduino playground – Atmega83-3V
  If you want to play a low power Arduino Standalone you can use Atmega8L at 3.3 V power with 8 Mhz internal clock:
• Marubot Football League Arcade Game | botropolis.com
• http://ledshoppe.com/Product/led/LE5045.htm
  Extendable 30cm 12V White/Red/Blue/Yellow/Green 5050 SMD Flexible strip
• Getting Started with symfony | The Environments | symfony | Web PHP Framework

People for the Ethical Treatment of Robots

With a combined investment of two evenings I have cranked out another satirical site. This one promotes the ethical treatment of robots and is known as PETRnow.org.

Bookmarks for September 20th

These are my links for September 17th through September 20th:

• IUS Community Project
  IUS is a repository with updated php5.2 and pear18 packages for rhel5
• Ron Paul: Leave Government Out Of Insurance Plan : NPR
  Ron Paul: I do not believe peoples' needs or desires or wants or demands are rights. Once you do that, you embark on a system of government that is uncontrollable. You have a right to your life, your liberty and you should have a right to keep what you earn. So I do not believe medical care is a right. And that's one of the problems that we're facing today and why there's so much confusion on what we ought to do about healthcare.
• Plugins | sfGuardPlugin | 3.1.3 | symfony | Web PHP Framework
  The sfGuardPlugin is a symfony plugin that provides authentication and authorization features above the standard security feature of symfony.
• wbur.org » News » Mariachi Punk: The Bronx At Home In L.A.
  Members of the Los Angeles-based hardcore punk band The Bronx have taken a radical career turn — they've recorded a mariachi record. For the time being, the hardcore is on hold, and the band members have transformed themselves into Mariachi El Bronx.
• How to write udev rules – Hack a Day
• jay brannan on MySpace Music – Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads
  Some NSFW lyrics, but interesting voice.
• Steampunk Jewelry Rings
• Robotics: The Next Disruptive Technology – Webcasts and Videos – Developer Zone – National Instruments – National Instruments
• symfony | Web PHP Framework
• Welcome to Rotometals, Inc – Non Ferrous Metals and Custom Alloys Call Toll Free 1-866-768-6638
  What could I do with a pound of metal that melts at less than 190 degrees?

Bookmarks for September 17th

These are my links for September 10th through September 17th:

• Make: Online : JeeNode, a low cost wireless sensor node
• Jee Labs Documentation » JN3
  Think of the JeeNode as an Arduino + Xbee shield + Xbee, but smaller and less feature-full than the XBee.
• DestroyTwitter
• Epic Guitar: A LEGO® creation by Rock n' Roll Minifig : MOCpages.com
• A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope
• Dragons Vs Robots
  Manga style Dragons and Robots going head to head.
• 31040 – NunChucky Wii Nunchuck I2C Breakout Adapter « Products « Solarbotics
  This will come in handy when I get around to building my AVR belt-clip remote for my tiny robot.
• Opinion: The unspoken truth about managing geeks
  It turns out that it is the conditions that are stereotypical, and the IT pros tend to react to those conditions in logical ways. To say it a different way, organizations actively elicit these stereotypical negative behaviors.
• Chuck Klosterman Repeats The Beatles | Music | A.V. Club
  Like most people, I was initially confused by EMI’s decision to release remastered versions of all 13 albums by the Liverpool pop group Beatles, a 1960s band so obscure that their music is not even available on iTunes.
• YouTube – BattleBotsTV's Channel
  BattleBots TV is now posting episodes of the old Battle Bots fights.
• Trees could be the ultimate in green power – tech – 10 September 2009 – New Scientist

The Count Censored – Unnecessary Censorship

YouTube – The Count Censored – Unnecessary Censorship.

What is it that the Count likes to do?

Bookmarks for September 10th

These are my links for September 9th through September 10th:

• Glass Microbiology | Luke Jerram
  These transparent glass sculptures were created to contemplate the global impact of each disease and to consider how the artificial colouring of scientific imagery affects our understanding of phenomena. Jerram is exploring the tension between the artworks’ beauty and what they represent, their impact on humanity.
• Mini MAME cabinet – Hack a Day
• The Ultimate State Selector – The Daily WTF
  One of the fundamental axioms of software development — #9 on the list, actually — is that “there is always a better way.” This holds that there is no such thing as Perfect Code, only Good Code which is appropriately correct, appropriately optimized, and appropriately documented for the situation at hand. On the other hand, a lesser-known axioms (#1873, for those keeping count) is that “there is always a worse way.” No matter how bad a particular block of code may seem… someone, somewhere, somehow will develop something even worse.
• Robots – The Old Robot’s Web Site
  Cool site with info about a lot of old robots.
• “Robots Only Come Out at Night” – Cute, Odd, Activities, Happy T-shirt by Dianne Gordon
• Video Archive: David Tennant – Traffic Warden

YouTube – Stop Playing Homework and Do Your Video Games – A Video Game Quintet

YouTube – Stop Playing Homework and Do Your Video Games – A Video Game Quintet.

Bookmarks for September 7th

These are my links for September 4th through September 7th:

• Microlite20 | The smallest thing in d20 gaming
• Mouse Guard Official Site
  A cool looking RPG
• Archaia – Mouse Guard
  An interesting RPG
• Fuzzy Ink, It'll grow on you
• FeedWordPress | simple and flexible Atom/RSS syndication for WordPress
  FeedWordPress is an open-source Atom/RSS aggregator for the WordPress weblog software. It syndicates content from feeds that you choose into your WordPress weblog.
• Application:Preware – WebOS Internals
  Preware is a package management application for the Palm Pre. Preware allows the user to install any package from any of the open standard package repositories on preware.org (or any other location that hosts an open standard package repository). Preware relies on a custom written service developed from community research which allows the mojo app to talk to the built-in ipkg tool.
• On-Screen Virtual Keyboard is a Go for Mere Mortals, Here's How To Install It | PreCentral.net
  The keyboard works passably well, but it's definitely got a kink or two that needs working out (symbols aren't working for me yet). You can see it in operation above [direct YouTube Link for Pre users] – just double-tap the gesture area to toggle it whenever you have a cursor on the screen.
• 5 Cool Shipping Container Buildings | Spot Cool Stuff: Design
• MISSILE FLEET
• Gov 2.0: It’s All About The Platform
• Rummage: Tim O'Reilly bespeaks Gov 2.0

Installing Solid Works Student Design Kit on XP SP3

I created a new VM today using VirtualBox. It was a fresh bare bones XP install with all service packs, upgrades, and all optional software from Windows Update installed.

The Solid Works 2008-2009 Student Design Kit kept responding with “Can’t find applicable resource DLL.”. I even received a similar message if I drilled down and tried to run the english .msi install file directly.

Of course without knowing which DLL it’s a bit difficult to add/replace/repair it. After an all too long Google session I finally found the answer on a Mac forum. Evidently this problem is only common on fresh clean XP machines.

The solution is easy though, just install the newest Microsoft .NET Framework and C++ redistributables.

Google can find them, just be warned that MS isn’t very good at telling that you’re on an old download page. I tried version .NET 3.0 before I realized 3.5 was the newest and went hunting for it.

Bagger 288 – Tribute to the Beast

YouTube – Bagger 288 – Tribute to the Beast.

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