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Cute animals made of money

may — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:59:17 +0000

It’s called moneygami! I wish there were instructions to go with this gallery but I imagine they’ll come soon. My favorites are the penguin and dog above.

ThirstyLight

may — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:57:42 +0000

This is pretty neat. ThirstyLight is a plant sensor that you stick in the dirt next to your plant and when your plant needs watering, it’ll start to blink!

I have a feeling I wouldn’t notice the blinky light on some of my plants though (because they’re tucked away in a corner)…but if they also made a small beeping noise when they’re thirsty, they would definitely get watered.

Still, it’s a great idea!

TIKI intends to RULE THE WORLD and SHOW NO MERCY

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:31:28 +0000

Throw out your Don Ho records! (via boing boing)

Austin Ice Cream Festival

may — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:50:14 +0000

This actually happened last weekend but I unfortunately missed it. My friend Jesse and some friends of his decided that Austin needed an ice cream festival, so they put one together! Here’s a video of the making of the ice cream truck (he’s the one driving it)…and a linkie to the website.

Ice cream is my all-time-favorite-food-group and drug of choice (all my attempts to OD on it have failed miserably though) so I wish we had an ice cream festival here too!

Cheap 1.5V button cell batteries

rajbot — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:08:50 +0000

Energizer A23 12V [[batteries]] sell for under $2 for a pack of two. Inside each A23 are eight 1.5V button cell batteries. Perfect for tiny LED projects :)

Shoes, a Tiny Toolkit for Making Web-like Desktop Apps

rajbot — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 23:25:40 +0000

Shoes is a new project by the infamous why:

Shoes is a very informal GUI toolkit. It’s for making regular old windowing apps. It’s a blend of my favorite things from the Web, some Ruby style, and a sprinkling of cross-platform widgets. (More in the README.)

Check out the book reader tutorial on Hackety.org

simple screenshots:

reCAPTCHA: stop spam and help digitize books

rajbot — Thu, 24 May 2007 21:19:39 +0000

reCaptcha is a project by Prof. Luis van Ahn at CMU.

Over 60 million CAPTCHAs are solved every day by people around the world. reCAPTCHA channels this human effort into helping to digitize books from the Internet Archive. When you solve a reCAPTCHA, you help preserve literature by deciphering a word that was not readable by computers.

reCAPTCHA is a great project. I added the WordPress plugin to TikiRobot, which will hopefully reduce all the crap that Akismet fails to catch. If you haven’t seen Prof. van Ahn’s TechTalk on Human Computation, check it out. It’s very good!

His other projects are The ESP Game and PeekABoom.

Update: Here is a quote from Brewster:

“I think it’s a brilliant idea — using the Internet to correct OCR mistakes,” said Brewster Kahle, director of the Internet Archive, in a statement. “This is an example of why having open collections in the public domain is important. People are working together to build a good, open system.”

Flickervision!

rajbot — Mon, 14 May 2007 19:36:06 +0000

Having two monitors really does make you more productive! Without the second one, I couldn’t get any work done, because Flickervision is fullscreen on the first one :)

Pop Art Toaster

may — Wed, 02 May 2007 00:46:48 +0000

I just ordered this toaster and can’t wait to get it. The plates that come with it aren’t quite as cool as The Holy Toast, but are still pretty cute I think. It comes in 3 different colors (red, white, blue, or black) and you can get it at Target or online at Amazon.

(via OReilly Radar)

UPDATE: Never mind the one i just mentioned above…this one’s even cuter!!!

…and there’s this one too (for those times you want to offer a yummy sandwich to the cute person who lives next door ;-)

We can use this technology to make the world a better place … robotic bar!!

peliom — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:08:45 +0000

Link to Robot Makes Tea on CNN