Tag: links

A water pump is hooked up to a merry-go-round. Energy from kids playing on the merry-go-round drives the pump, and delivers potable water to rural villages where there is little or no power to drive pumps. Pretty brilliant.

Free online reference for CSS by SitePoint.

Never pull a Post-It™ note from the bottom. Always pull from the side.

My friend David with a simple tip on keeping track of what those AC adapters under your desk are plugged in to on top of your desk…

North Texas Gun Club’s web site for DFW-area gun shows.

Here’s a view of the Space Shuttle you won’t usually see.

“It’s easy to forget that Apple is 30 years old. Lets take a minute to remember the 20th Anniversary Mac. With a 250 mhz processor and a 12 inch screen, this was a steal at $7,499. We’ve come a long way.”

“We love Photoshop as much as the next guy, but sometimes you take a picture so perfect you don’t even have to touch it up. Our lawyer won’t let us make promises, but we’ve noticed that we shoot nicer pictures when we wear this shirt.”

Best known for their lenses, Sigma has already released dSLRs on the market. Now they’re going after the compact market: “The DP1 is a completely new type of camera offering the full spec. and high image quality of a DSLR in the body of a compact camera.”

Well, we already have all three Star Wars Mr. Potato Heads in the household, Optimash Prime, and Spider-Potato, so obviously, the Tater of the Lost Ark will have to be added to the collection…

“Need to link to a New York Times article from your weblog? Enter your link here, and we’ll give you the weblog-safe link” There’s even a bookmarklet so you can just drag-and-drop…

A church in North Carolina is giving out shot glasses with their logo and other info at local bars as part of an outreach to the community. That’s definitely some of the out-of-the-box thinking the church at large needs more of.

Love him or hate him, Jobs does know how to knock’em out, and make the trivial seem exciting, and the exciting seem spectacular. Some good advice here, for those who do a lot of presentations.

“It’s the only way to be sure.”

On my friend Tom’s recommendation, I purchased the MP3 album “Drowning Out The Television” on Amazon; I haven’t been disappointed. I predict the songs “Black & White”, “Phoenix”, and “Better” will find themselves on network television in the near future.

“[E]xplore the intersection of Bible study and technology. This two-day conference is designed for publishers, programmers, webmasters, educators, bloggers and anyone interested in using technology to improve Bible study.”

Directions to add the mobile vesion of the English Standard Version of the Bible to your iPhone’s home screen. Now you can have a free translation of the Bible with you anywhere. (Anywhere you have EDGE or wifi access, that is…)

I like them all, except for the one which uses Myriad Pro.

Growl notifications just got a lot prettier. (Sorry, Windows users.)

“[A]cts like a built-in, system-wide color picker, available in any Mac application that supports this feature of Mac OS X. Apple’s own iWork and iLife suites, Google Sketchup, Adobe Photoshop, and renowned applications like Coda, CSSEdit, and many more

Yeah, I think that headline is pretty self-explanatory of why you should go read it.

Situations like this cause this particular feeling in me to boil up; that if he’s found guilty, a little Code of Hammurabi needs to be administered, and certain body parts come off…

Boy, if you live in New York, you might want to look in to arming yourself and your family, getting concealed carry permits, etc. Oh. Wait….

What happens when the proximity sensor on your iPhone flakes out.

Saturday, February 23d, see all five movies nominated for Best Picture in a single day. $30 nets you all five flicks, a free large popcorn with unlimited refills, and a collectible pass.

A little CSS to add to the top of your Backpack pages to optimize them for viewing on the iPhone or iPod Touch.

Someone took Eddie Izzard’s bit on Star Wars and set it to LEGO figures. Incredibly funny. (Though not safe for work, as the F-word is used a few times. It is Eddie Izzard, after all.)

“[A]n open source JavaScript software, offering a Web 2.0 approach to popup windows. It streamlines the use of thumbnail images and HTML popups on web pages.”

In a little over nine minutes, you, too, can learn how they make lenses for cameras. Pretty fascinating.