August 2007

Battery Overhaul.

Having fixed the screen on the Powerbook, I'm looking for other ways to save money and repair things. Here's a good place to start: Inside your notebook's battery, How to rebuild your laptop battery, replacing cells in a Pismo battery, and a link to replacement batteries for the $40 Powerbook 1400.

Posted on August 31, 2007 5:18 PM | link to this entry

Orbitron

I saw this news item show up on another message board a few days ago, but it seems like everyone suddenly found it yesterday: The Orbitron, a long-lost Ed Roth custom one-off, was located recently, abandoned outside an adult bookstore in Mexico, after a stint at a carnival. Lord knows how it made its way down there, or where the hood and bubble have gone, but the new owner claims he's going to restore it.

Posted on August 30, 2007 9:46 AM | link to this entry

Boing Boing redesign

Wow-Imagine my surprise when my favorite geek/wierd stuff/political/epherma blog Boing Boing looked strangely different this morning. It's a nice change from the decidedly lo-fi preceding version, and it reads a lot better now, but I don't like the idea of splitting the gadgets off into their own section–one of the things I liked most about the original was the anything-goes smorgasboard of stuff each day. Progress, I suppose...

Posted on August 28, 2007 12:02 PM | link to this entry

Designing Interfaces

This is an O'Reilly book about Designing Interfaces, with a pretty detailed companion website. I'm going to have to go to a store and lay hands on the actual book, because most of the online information is nothing new.

Posted on August 27, 2007 9:31 AM | link to this entry

Lunchbox

This is a Google mashup which highlights restaurants on a map based on zip code. It'll be helpful after a few months when more restaurants are entered, but it's a great start. (via)

Posted on August 24, 2007 11:49 AM | link to this entry

Glyph reference for OS X

All the glyphs on OS X in three handy PDF sheets. Beats hunting and pecking for the € symbol. (via)

Posted on August 23, 2007 12:44 AM | link to this entry

More White House bullshit

I don't know what's funnier about this story, really. From everything I've read, Petraeus is a straight shooter who will tell the truth about Iraq, so I'm not surprised our lousy government is trying to keep any bad news covered up. But it still makes me mad that they're trying to spin this thing like their half-baked war is a success.

Posted on August 16, 2007 5:00 PM | link to this entry

Use a wristwatch as a compass.

How to use a wristwatch as a compass. I keep forgetting this one, but I love it.

Posted on August 14, 2007 4:52 PM | link to this entry

Honeybees

There's a fantastic article in the latest New Yorker about the mysterious honeybee illness that's threatening the commercial apiary business here in America. (Commercial honeybees are essential for pollinating most of the crops grown and sold here in the States.)