Inhabitat has a great writeup on a new power chord that will show you (in pretty shiny colors) when and how much energy you’re using. A great application that steps into other senses, and great reporting as well.
i get excited by pretty renewable materials and manpowered gear. of late there has been some information floating around about bike frames made with an interesting assortment of renewables:
beautiful wood frames (Cell is my fav)
Biomega’s biolove (though for the life of me I can’t find it on biomega’s site)
sandwich bikes the idea is you buy one, they export one to folks in need
Brano Meres homemade bamboo bike frame too hot!
Calfee Design’s bamboo bike pricey, but pretty. nothing like a bike that has to be wiped down with furniture polish.
Yup, you heard me. Sexy electric cars. An interesting environmental alternative sports car for folks who have an awful lot of money.
Electric cars can go really fast, and probably help you pick up chicks. If you live in CA and have lots of money and like sports cars, I hope you think about getting one.
Pong has returned, only this time it’s more live action. I highly recommend the quicktime on their site.
Phantom Cell Phone Vibrations plague me at least once a day. You?
Social censorship was one of the topics that came up today over at Jeff Jarvis’ BuzzMachine. This is an interesting twist in a puzzle of me rarely being able to connect to some interesting websites.
Living in China, there are certain things that I take as fact about the Internet:
It surprises me since some Chinese free blogging community services have popped up over the past bit. Also, contrary to popular belief, porn and illicit drug information is extremely accessible from China, which only confuses me. Also, what is available in different parts of China is not the same. In Southern Gansu’s Tibetan Autonomous Region, many Tibetan dissent websites were available, no problem. Those aren’t available from anyplace else I’ve been in China.
Then again, young monks there played a lot of Counter Strike, which struck me as very un-monklike. So much for predictable patterns of behavior.
Check it out! I knew that wireless stuff would be useful beyond neat internet access and still relevant to me. Wireless impact sensors will help high-technify sports like fencing and taekwondo.
Sometimes I see the development of new technology, or new fun things to use, and what do I do?
I drool.
Who wouldn’t want an Apple airport express?
After reading various sources of praise, I decided to check out kinja. I do like it because it gives me more of what I want in a newsreader, which is just to pull it all together from different sources according to date… only I won’t stick Boing Boing on there since it would just fill everything up. So I am trying out using different sources to read different things, thus optimizing my newsfeeding. Hrmm… I wonder if that will be a new verb…
newsfeed: v. the act of using newsfeeds to keep updated on information, usually seen by the speaker as a rather compulsive need to stay informed in an up-to-the-second manner; a typical habit in the blogging community.
The other fun thing about Kinja is that I can share my digest with all you wonderful readers… all 3 of you.
I hope all you wonderful people out there have heard of creative commons. I am in much like with the things they are doing and the ideas behind it. In fact, I think I shall licence my site now.