Universcale

bit of a scaleup (and down) of the solar system thing.... explore the universe on all scales.

OLPC manufacturer to sell $200 laptop in developed countries

Quanta, the company manufacturing the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project's XO laptops, plans to begin selling low-cost budget mobile computers for $200 later this year. According to Quanta president Michael Wang, the company plans to leverage the underlying technologies associated with OLPC's XO laptop to produce laptop computers that are significantly less expensive than conventional laptops.

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One Woman Army

World Press Photo Awards for '06

All (known) Bodies in the Solar System Larger than 200 Miles in Diameter

Nifty viz of the solar system

Bright Mountainy Places I Have Recently Been

I Am a Strange Loop

Douglas Hofstadter picks up where he left off with "Gödel, Escher, Bach" in his new book "I Am a Strange Loop." Just read a great article in Seed by him about it and it sounds like it'll be as amazing as GEB. Here's a Wired interview with him about it and here's the Amazon page on it.

Dilla

I don't know why I slept on this, but anyway, the latest Dilla (August 06) is hot.

The Shining

YOUR VESPA ASPLODE

GHOST RIDE IT

Jott + GMail = todo list from your phone

nifty little trick to let you make phone calls that become items in a todo list in gmail described here

KILL KILL KILL KILL

CANNONBALLLLLLLLL!!!!

back in the saddle

Gonna try to get back on this ole blog horse, hoss. This video is dope.