* Gearhead: All at sea with Xcelsius * Backspin: The Physics of IT * Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
Gearhead: All at sea with Xcelsius
You know how sometimes you pick up a product that is just amazing and you can’t put it down? Soon the day has zipped past followed by the night and then the next morning and you discover that there’s not enough coffee on the planet to keep you awake.
To read this week’s Gearhead, click here.
Backspin: The Physics of IT
Science is how we try to explain the universe and what the guys who do science (usually called “scientists” but you can call them anything you like because most of them are pretty nerdy) really want is a TOE. No, not those things that stop your feet from fraying; what they want is a Theory of Everything, a theory that allows them to start from first principles and deduce (if I might quote Douglas Adams) the existence of rice pudding and income tax. .
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Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
Frankenmouse
On Instructables: Mouse Mouse! “Hacked travel-size (hardware) mouse + taxidermied (wetware) mouse = Mouse Mouse! “. Yeeeeewww.
BlueOrganizer BlueLink Test
In my Network World Web Applications newsletter I’m covering a terrific browser extension called BlueOrganizer from AdaptiveBlue. Below is a BlueLink. Want to know what it is all about? Subscribe to the Web Applications newsletter and it will be in the 05/04/07 issue or wait until the w/c 05/07/07 when it will be in the Web Applications newsletter archive.
Time Sink #20: The Tenth Dimension
The Tenth Dimension is a cool Flash Website that explains the concept of the tenth dimension which is the world of superstrings and string theory. This is not the “kosher” background to string theory but it is interesting.
Best Mouse Cursor Ever
Check out 1-Click Award. (Hint: move your mouse around in the gray circle and when you stop laughing, click.)
