Google Moon is Google’s commemorative site for the anniversary of the first manned Moon landing — an interactive, zoomable map of the moon’s surface with waypoints set for the six Apollo landing sites. Nice Easter-egg if you zoom all the way, too. [via] [via] Link. Also, moon parties!
MacMod.com today announced “The Great MacMod Challenge 2005 Sponsored by dealmac.com,” officially designating August as Mac Mod Month. The Challenge pits Mac users against one another in a battle of creative wits to modify (“mod”) their Apple Macintosh computers by improving performance, appearance, and functionality — for example, painting the exterior, adding bright color LED lights, and overclocking or water-cooling the processor. Link. I’m going to enter a mod for the MAKE team!
I think there’s something interesting here…Tags, not Trees. Take my new tree-structure-free gizmo out for a test drive: What is it? Whatever you want it to be: Navigation-free website. Tags-only blog. Complicated-to-simple database. Active resource picker. Knowledge and learning base. File system. Whatever. An experiment for the heck of it. Basically a different approach to organise data, finding data, and transferring knowledge. An example of no-tree-structure-at-all. Anataxonomy in practice… Link.
I’m posting this from 30,000 feet in the air using Boeing’s Connexion wireless service on their planes, so far so good. I’ll have a lot of photos, audio and video posted soon- but for now, check out all these as they upload from the air!!
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MAKE is heading off to “Blogging the Stratosphere 1.0” – The event is an exclusive flight onboard Connexion One, a Boeing 737-400 used to demonstrate the Connexion by Boeing: signature high-speed, in-flight Internet service. If you want, look for me around 3pm PST on AIM/iChat IRC (#joiito on freenode.net) or Skype me. Also, look for my Flickr photos “live” from the air once I’m online.
The homebrew electronics page has tons of homemade projects ranging from LED clocks to power amps. My favorite is the “hot-mouse”: it’s a mouse that has been modified to keep your hand warm on the cold cold internet nights. Link.
I think this is the coolest clock ever..used but working DG7 tubes and a transformator cheap, one from Mullard and one from Phillips. Other CRT Cathode Ray Tube types can be used; you can even rip one from an old and maybe dead oscilloscope, then you also get the powersupply and stuff. If you are lucky the deflection amplifiers also work :-) Then your own home made Scope Clock is soon up and running, good luck. Link.
