Where Demolition Comes Alive

Everything you’d ever want to know about explosive demolition is over at ImplosionWorld.com. They’ve got a photo gallery, videos and the “History of Structural Demolition in America” (as well as a world records section). They’ll also send you email notices of upcoming live webcasts of building demolitions.

Birthday Gifts!

Hank showed up last night with a birthday gift (a little early). It was a copy of Leo Laporte’s 2003 Technology Almanac, which immediately paid for itself when we popped the enclosed disk into the DVD player and found the solution to the problem Hank was having with the new disk drive he was trying […]

Cornell Athena Team

The Cornell University Athena Mars Exploration Rover team has interesting weekly updates on their website that provides an inside look at the troubleshooting involved in getting every last detail just right on the two rovers before their launches next summer. You can follow their progress as they fix one problem after another. They also have […]

Supercomputing Leapfrog

IBM announced today that they’ve been awarded a contract to build the world’s fastest supercomputers for for the U.S. Department of Energy. The two systems, ASCI Purple and Blue Gene/L, together will have more computing power than all 500 of the systems on the current TOP500 List of supercomputers.

Does it Work?

Does It Work? reviews those gadgets you see advertised on TV, like the Auto Hammer, Hairagami, and Handy Stich.

Lorem Ipsum Generator

Handy background info on Lorem Ipsum and a Lorem Ipsum generator over at Lipsum. Just in case you ever need it, here’s another text generator for legalese.

Toiletology 101

Everything you’d ever want to know about toilets can be found at Toiletology 101: Lesson Plan for Toilet Repair Course.

Floaties

I think the first one I ever owned was from the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair (it had a monorail), and now Float Art Design’s lets you create your own custom design float pen, or if you prefer, a virtual “floaty”. Be sure to check out their gallery.

Earthquake Alerts

Skimming through some of the sites that have information on this month’s magnitude 7.9 Denali earthquake, I ran across Seismo-Watch which offers earthquake alert bulletins via email, pager, cell phone, pda or fax.

ReFound?

I recently rediscoved FOUND Magazine. I especially like the notes and the find of the week.

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