Neat history and photos of “art cars” in Pakistan. “This extraordinary tradition has it’s routes in the days of the Raj when craftsmen made glorious horse drawn carriages for the gentry. In the 1920’s the Kohistan bus company asked the local Michaelangelo, Ustad Elahi Buksh, a master craftsmen to decorate their buses to attract passengers. Buksh employed a community of artists from the Punjab town of Chiniot, who’s ancestors had worked on many great palaces and temples dating back to the Mogal Empire. It was not long before truck owners followed suite with their own designs”. Link.
Here’s a really cool way to make a list of movies and books that are most popular among the people who are connected to you at Google’s Orkut. The author describes how he used Perl to construct a list of movies and books that are cited most in the profiles of the people who are at a maximum distance of 2 from him on Orkut. Having such a tool handy offers an interesting way to discover popular movies and books. I wish all social networking sites had this and NetFlix queues. Link.
Location based photos are here! Anyone can easily(ish) add photos by adding three tags to a picture, a “geo:lat=xx.xxx”, “geo:lon=xx.xxx” and “geotagged” tag. Then you can either wait for the system to pick it up from the RSS stream for “geotagged” or you add a link to “www.geobloggers.com”. When the link is clicked the site automagically looks up the photo pages you’ve just come from and searches it for “lat” and “lon” tags. Link.
I really like the look of these- “Tired of high prices for panniers? These do the trick at around $100 a pair. These are Merimite Food Containers courtesy of good old Uncle Sam“. Link.
Maybe we can get the 3D printer guy to hang out with the 3D scanner fellow and we’ll be another step closer to replicators. Here’s a 3D laser scanner using a Quickcam Pro 4000 camera, s100 SMS controller card and LSG 35 geared motor. Link.
Here’s a follow up to our DIY Margarita Maker– this site has all the parts, construction tips and recipes you’ll need to make a maragartia maker out of a 5 gallon water cooler and a garbage disposal. Link.
We use a 3G iPod to do 44kHz recordings for MAKE:Audio when we’re out and about…and if you’re interested, the updated installer is out with the new iPodLinux Kernel and podzilla as of April 4th, 2005. Fixes some playback issues, adds some new games, AAC support and better all around build. Link.
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