- This Easter, automate your Easter-egg rituals with an open-source egg-drawing robot.
- Here’s more on the comet that may hit Mars in October 2014. Whether it hits Mars or not, that comet will come mighty close, and from here it could be a fascinating show indeed.
- Walter Jon Williams is still taking applications for his Taos Toolbox SF/fantasy writers’ workshop. I attended in 2011 and it was spectacular . (I didn’t finish the Contra series because my house almost blew up. However, I wrote a little more here.) Powerfully recommended.
- OMG! Jeff Bezos has invented mainframes!
- George Mason University has an elaborate 50-state ranking on freedom, broken out by category and pulled together by color-coded maps of the states.
- Wikipedia has a nice chart indicating the colors given off by various gases when used in gas-discharge lamps.
- People are still making cantennas to throw their microwaves a little more sharply in one direction, but here’s a cantenna that isn’t a waveguide. (Watch those edges!) Hacker Dave Mirecki builds something similar but much larger using foil-backed duct insulation, in Ten Gentle Opportunities.
- Here’s how a strike that essentially shut down the American music industry allowed unconventional (and largely non-white) music to rise to public prominence.
- Once people begin making dieselpunk keyboards, will dieselpunk itself move from being a blip to being a trend?
- Shop carefully, lest you choke on a banana bone.
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You don’t get enough comments, really. Speaking strictly for myself, who other, eh? Generally, the things you say and link to are worth looking at but, they don’t provoke responses. You might be aware that you have an audience, regardless. We see you.
I’ll second that!
The banana ad (and its neighbors) have a retro vibe, like it might be from the 1960s. (The B&W image pushes it too.) But that’s a fairly contemporary price for bananas, when they’re on sale.
Bezos hasn’t reinvented mainframes and dumb terminals, though. His displays get power from the host. Which requires direct wiring over limited distances.
I have no idea what the point of the device is.