The Rigged-Up Net

Zach sent me this one: What’s 42 feet tall and 150 feet long and has some visitors to Vancouver’s beaches shocked and annoyed? Nike cutting into beach time

Evidentally, if you hit a bird at the wrong time you lose the entire plane… in this video it happens really early, and they spend the rest of the time trying to get set up to eject… [yikes] Fighter jet meets bird

Woah, this is pretty scary stuff: As kids head back to school, experts are urging that parents of children with allergies inform teachers and other school staff about anaphylaxis — a potentially life-threatening allergic reaction triggered by allergens. Severe Allergies Bring Back-to-School Dangers

Very impressive stuff… Lighter Trick

Wow – you can finally get Opera on the Treo… yay! Opera Mini can be successfully installed on a Treo 600/650. There are some rough edges, but the speed will win you over. Opera Mini on Treo

Mountain biking at its finest. Mountain Cycling Accident

You may not be aware that your printer is leaving a trail that could point directly to you. Color laser printers snitch on their owners with privacy-violating subliminal encoding of all printed documents

A few years ago I had heard about this, and recall being fascinated with it… now it doesn’t look that amazing, but its still oddly interesting to watch… Free Running-This is how we get across town

While Amazon is best known for selling new products, an estimated 23 percent of its sales are from used goods, many of them secondhand books. Used bookstores have been around for centuries, but the Internet has allowed such markets to become larger and more efficient. And that has upset a number of publishers and authors. […]

Have a bad laptop battery? Just fix it. 🙂 HOW-TO: Rebuild your laptop battery Here’s another: How to rebuild a Li-Ion battery pack

This is one freak’n bad-ass car: Dodge Magnum SRT8 6.1L V8 5 Speed Automatic Power (SAE net) 425 bhp @ 6000 rpm Torque (SAE net) 420 lb-ft @ 4800 rpm Zero to 60 mph 5.0 sec! Here’s Motorweeks video review of it (incidentally, they love it!): magnum-srt8-divx.avi

Medical City is among hospitals across the nation adding a little VIP treatment for those willing to pay extra. Patients Pay Big Bucks for Hospital Luxury

Apparently you can game the Zeigarnik Effect for more effective studying, employ it to goose your direct marketing plan, or just consider it as one excellent explanation for the allure of multi-tasking. Incomplete tasks and the Zeigarnik Effect

The City of Austin’s anti-begging statute has been ruled unconstitutional. Austin’s begging ban violates free speech – 2005-07-26

Maybe we’ll get some UMTS action soon… Cingular Wireless is investing about $245 million to expand its wireless network throughout Central Texas, San Antonio, Bryan-College Station, Galveston, and Southeast Texas. Cingular expanding Texas wireless network – 2005-07-27

Here’s the instructions to allow your treo 650 to use your pc’s Bluetooth connection to use the internet, email, etc. I found that using this instead of my cellular connection via sprint is much faster for home use. PalmAddicts: Using reverse BT DUN w/ Treo 650

Everything you EVER wanted to know about Virtual Memory… Virtual Memory Optimization Guide

This is such an awesome deal… if you don’t have a camera, I highly recommend this bundle: Canon PowerShot SD200 + 1GB SD Card $208

Sailors who traditionally dumped barrels of oil into the sea to calm stormy waters may have been on to something, a new study suggests. The old practice reduces wind speeds in tropical hurricanes by damping ocean spray, according to a new mathematical “sandwich model”. Oil on troubled waters may stop hurricanes

NPR now has podcasts… and thats pretty cool! NPR Podcast Directory

Good stuff – Cop Car vs. Train Cop owns himself

A small collection of electronic circuits for the hobbyist or student. Site includes over 100 circuit diagrams, links to related sites, commercial kits and projects, newsgroups and educational areas. Most of the circuits can be built with common components available from Radio Shack or salvaged from scrap electronic equipment. Most all of the circuits have […]

Wow! How to remove DRM from Audible files

So, what is the FeedMesh? OK, here is the basic idea: When a blog is updated it pings—sends a signal—to a number of services to let them know that the content has been updated. This method, of the blog pinning the search engine, is much more efficient then the blog search engines check the blog […]

Fascinating: Ever wondered about what’s really in hair coloring, Silly Putty, Cheese Wiz, artificial snow, or self-tanners? C&EN presents a collection of articles that gives you a look at the chemistry behind a wide variety of everyday products. What’s That Stuff?