Planet Designer
Planet Designer lets you play with the physics of planetary systems. I keep making planets that won’t hold their atmosphere, but I’ll just rent them cheap! A fun way to learn a little bit more about physics.
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The Catsup Crapper
The Catsup Crapper is a fine example of what a MIT education will do for you. I sure wish I had this much time on my hands!
Hard Drive Clock
Alan Parekh’s Electronic Projects brings us the Hard Drive clock, a sweet clock made from an old hard drive and some LEDs. As we all know, anything with LEDs is cool, especially if they are different colors! The videos really… Read More »Hard Drive Clock
Discover Music – Pandora
Pandora is an amazing service that will build custom “radio stations” for you based on a specified artist or song, and the feedback on suggested songs. I found it was dead on, and reminded me of some great songs and… Read More »Discover Music – Pandora
Toms Networking Reviews Asterisk@Home
Tom’s Networking has a nice review of Asterisk@Home – it’s a nice read aimed at the tech literate who might be somewhat new to VoIP. If you’re looking for a live linux asterisk distro, Asterisk@Home is my personal preference.
Zenworks Imaging boot cds
I’ve been having fits getting zenworks imaging to work with Dell Optiplex GX280s and GX510s. I finally came up with a solution that works 100% of the time. Set the SATA drive to compatibility mode in BIOS, and use the… Read More »Zenworks Imaging boot cds
The Old Negro Space Program
The Old Negro Space Program – The shocking but false story of America’s blackstronauts.
NX
I’ve been very interested in the series Linux Journal has been running on NX. They describe it as: “a new technology that allows one to run remote X11 sessions across slow or low-bandwidth network connections. User experience with NX is… Read More »NX
Peekaboom
A fun game, and apparently you’re helping computers to learn to see at the same time. Peekaboom is this week’s top timewaster for me!
Spamusement
Spamusement calls itself “Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines”, but I call it freaking hilarious. Then again, it is 12:31 AM right now, so I may think differently in the morning. Either way, it has an RSS feed… Read More »Spamusement