Ephemera

As you can see there are quite a few entries here already. I imported all of the Greymatter entries into this. Some of you may recall that there were two incarnations of my journal before Greymatter. I can also re-enter those, but not as easilly as the one's from Greymatter. So, as time passes there will be more and more old entries filling the gap between May 1998 and October 2003.

Not that I really belive anyone but I cares -- I just wanted to offer a word of explanation if anyone noticed very old date appearing in the archives.

Posted by Hitch at 03:35 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Silly putty is neat stuff.

The article on Boing Boing where I found this had a lot of scientific mumbo jumbo about "glass transition temperatures" and "viscoelastic properties of polymers," but the important thing is silly putty stretches and deforms quite easily at low speed and constant pressure, but if you try to hit it fast or stretch it suddenly it gets quite brittle.

So what happens if you get a really big ball of silly putty (say about 50 pounds) and drop it from the top of a parking garage?

Let's find out: Sunbelt Software Silly Putty Task Force

Posted by Hitch at 10:17 AM | Permalink

You won't see this for a couple days, but when you do you'll know I was working on this way back now.

I want to address and encourage commenting. All fields and links in the commenting section other than "name" and "comments" are (currently) optional. This is supposed to have a degree of spam protection as it is, but I may need to implement more security later if I have problems.

I may require a valid email address later, but will avoid publishing it or otherwise exposing it to spammers if I do.

Currently all comments are accepted and published automatically and I'll clean out undesirable ones as I see them. Later, I may implement moderation that will prevent comments for being published until I screen them.

At the present time there is no requirement for you to authenticate with TypeKey to post comments. That's another option I can (but hope not to) implement.

Meanwhile, enjoy the freedom and tell me what you think.

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This is why you keep your parents off the internet.

Posted by Hitch at 01:31 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

If you're going to pay too much for a USB drive, make sure it's as stupid looking as possible.

First up in our "not worth the effort" category is the Knitted Digestive System. Leaving aside for a moment the time and effort to make such a thing, what would you ever do with it?

In a superficially more practical vein is the LEGO web-enabled automatic dice roller. Even given that it's supposedly capable of rolling over 80,000 dice in a day, who needs that? And why not just grab a handful of dice and drop them?

PS: I'll add this one, so I don't have to do it myself. UGLY CHRISTMAS LIGHTS.COM

Posted by Hitch at 10:56 AM | Permalink

If nothing about this image disturbs you, I envy your innocence.

Posted by Hitch at 09:32 AM | Permalink

But for some reason I really admire people who do this sort of thing.

The Atari 800 XE Laptop

Posted by Hitch at 04:07 PM | Permalink

The Ministry of Unknown Science - Kung Fu F U (Bandwidth warning - video file)

Indeed.

Posted by Hitch at 03:04 PM | Permalink

Be sure to check out the video of how these are made.

Space Sprayer

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eBay: Microsoft Xbox 360 Game Console

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