http://mocpages.com/moc.php/22386
It's a chaingun that shoots streams of rubber bands, built out of Legos.
The guy has pictures on his website, and a sweet video (hosted on YouTube).
Category: fun
Photos from a Ballard Locks cruise
I just posted photos from a recent Ballard Locks Cruise.
Simple but fun Flash game: Sneek
If you have a few minutes to kill, try Sneek. The object is to keep your pointer inside of a box that steadily moves around faster and also shrinks. Chess it's not, but it's surprisingly fun in short doses.
Monopoly goes cashless
http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/24/monopoly-ditches-cash-goes-plastic/
Monopoly (the board game) is going cashless. Instead of the classic multi-colored bills, the new version of the game ships with "credit cards" and a calculator-like device that maintains the balances on the cards.
"Dock dogs" photos
I just uploaded pictures of a "big air" competition sponsored by the Puget Sound Dock Dogs (PSDD). The competition was back in June — I'm running a little behind.
If the Earth were a sandwich
http://www.zefrank.com/sandwich/
"Never before have two pieces of bread been simultaneously placed on the ground directly opposite each other on the globe, thus making an EARTH SANDWICH. The fact that the earth has never been a sandwich is probably why things are so f*cked up."
I guess Zefrank does a daily video blog, and this one was from May 16. Be sure to watch the full video, it even includes a music video. Also try out the "find the opposite" tool and the "current status tool" (Google Maps mashups).
From a June 19 Slashdot story:
A piece on NPR this Saturday details the concept and a team from New Zealand and Spain completed the challenge.
Then on Friday he allowed his show to be written by his viewers who
battled out 2,000+ script revisions in a Wiki. Sunday's New York Times describes the results."
Cory Doctorow on why new media will succeed
As the old media companies try to resist the tidal wave of new media, they should pay attention to the following statement made by Cory Doctorow in his June 2004 Microsoft DRM talk:
New media don't succeed because they're like the old media, only better: they succeed because they're worse than the old media at the stuff the old media is good at, and better at the stuff the old media are bad at.
This parallels some of the ideas in Clayton Christian's excellent book, The Innovators Dillema.
Wikipedia on the go
Love Wikipedia but wish there was a "lighter" version for use on your cell phone or PDA? Then use one of these versions:
Cell phone: en.wapedia.org
PDA: pda.en.wapedia.org
Bookmarklet for Wikipedia's "Today's featured article"
Click and drag from the link below on to your "bookmarks toolbar" or "links toolbar". When you click it from your toolbar, you will get the current "Today's Featured Article" page from the english Wikipedia.
   Wikipedia's Featured Article (don't click this link; drag-n-drop it)
The above link is usually called a bookmarklet.
Firefox/Mozilla users can also make the "Today's Featured Article" page your browser's home page by right-clicking the link above, then selecting "Copy Link Location". Then go throught the "Tools, Options" menu, go to the home page location field, then paste (ctrl-v).
Making the bookmarklet your home page will not work for Internet Explorer (and may not work in other browsers).
For browsers that don't support the bookmarklet as your home page (like IE), you can use this "Today's Featured Article" link as your home page. The title for the page is not quite as nice as the bookmarklet version, but you get the same content.
Updated Nov 13, 2007: The link was broken, but is now fixed. It should work correctly now.