“Dream Workshop” is a new device from Japanese company Takara Co. That is supposed to help you control your dreams by playing music, displaying a picture of a person you’d like to be in your dream, and playing recorded keywords. The music varies depending on the kind of dream you’d like to have, though surprisingly [...]

Or a really cool water gun, if you don’t want to get arrested for being a terrorist.
I think it’s important to note that even though this kid has a few gallons of explosive strapped to his back and is blowing a thirty foot flame around his yard, he remembered to wear his safety goggles.
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Gadgetopia has an excellent review of 37Signals’ “The Building of Basecamp” seminar. This was something that I wanted to attend but was unable to for about a million reasons. If you are interested they have announced their next seminar.

All in all, an excellent seminar on two levels: (1) the actual information presented, and (2) the [...]

Apple has released a preview of its Rendezvous technology for Windows 2000 and XP. There are also releases for Java, and Linux/Solaris/FreeBSD
Rendezvous technology is now available on Windows 2000 and XP. This preview release includes full link-local support, allowing Windows machines to discover advertised HTTP and FTP servers using Internet Explorer. It [...]

With .Mac, Apple users have been able to sync their Safari bookmarks between multiple machines for a while now. But with this setup you are limited to using a Mac (obviously) and Safari.
Now there is a way to synchronize your Firefox bookmarks as well, and thanks to the cross-platform nature of Firefox, you can also [...]

I wrote fanmail to a couple of programmers.
The programmers in question were Havoc Pennington and Keith Packard.
I don’t know too much about programming per se (I am very early in the process of learning Python, my first language), but I do know what I like.
Keith Packard does lots of stuff, and one of the things [...]

I’m sure that everyone reading this has seen Star Wars at one time or another, and know just how great of a movie it is. Another popular movie favorite of mine is Office Space, which is so true to real life that it’s scary.
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you combined the two? [...]

Many sites, including this one now have RSS feeds, and many people use programs like NetNewsWire to easily browse them. But what if you want to add an RSS feed to your site so you could for instance have the latest news headlines on your front page? With Feed2Javascript this can be really simple. Just [...]

A giant exotic plant that has not bloomed in the Northeast in more than 60 years is ready to flower at the University of Connecticut’s greenhouses. The “corpse flower” has the odor of 3-day-old road kill, and UConn botanists couldn’t be more excited.

So the flower smells like dead animals and looks like rotten meat. [...]

In the past few weeks before the WWDC began, Apple Rumor sites were abuzz with speculation about what new products we could all begin thinking differently about. As is the case, the speculation ranged from accurate (several sites predicted the new LCDs) to highly innaccurate (massive iMac design overhaul/g5 processors) to very very tired [...]

So these scientists tested this drug on some female rats and the rats went crazy. Wonder how many women would be willing to take a drug tested on rats, even though I am sure all drugs are tested on animals, but the thought of rats having sex doesn’t appeal to me.

The female rats flirted [...]

Mike posts a thorough entry on how Apple has blatantly stolen their idea of Dashboard from Konfabulator. Head on over and check it out for yourself.

My first response to this was:

Heh. Only in the blogosphere.

But then I realized men have to talk on cellphones to appear cool to all the women out there so it is only reasonable that we are on the phone more. I know, I know not everyone does this “tactic”, but I know many people who [...]

In this third article of the series, I’ll show you how the database and directories should be set up. I’ll also talk about the how to create, install, and use a content block, which mostly relies on arrays and array functions. I’ll cover proper authentication methods for such a project so that multiple sites can [...]

Before anyone else has a chance to hawk my all-time favorite anime, I will step up and sing the praises of “Trigun.”
In a desolate post-future landscape, the hunt is on for Vash The Stampede. He is a humanoid typhoon with a $$60,000,000,000 price on his head. Is this man a ruthless criminal, a heartless [...]

Alright, pretty much everyone has one by now, but I am sure there are some out there who don’t who desperately want one. Well I have 12 left and all you have to do is link to FG. Yep, I am link whoring the site, but I think that is a pretty easy thing to [...]