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This just in. Scientists at Harvard and Caltech have animated a small slab of silicone with rat heart-muscle to create Medusoid. Absolutely beautiful.  

Adam Frelin’s artwork is inspiring. This happened at a quarry in upstate NY last weekend. Here’s some history on the firefall, Here is Adam’s page on it. The rest of his site is worth the time too . Here’s a … Continue reading →

Friend Dave Lewis got a boat. 28 footer. Had a chance to go sailing a week and a half ago. Sailing past the Verrazzano Bridge. We picked some trash out of the harbor, which turned out to be some mylar … Continue reading →

This is a testing post. The graph is a week wide. Started 4/18 around 7PM. Updates every 4 minutes or so. Refresh page for latest update. You can also see this in different time scales by going here     … Continue reading →

File under: Collateral Troll Damage. There is a sad digression in the ongoing intellectual property lawsuit between Sipco, LLC and Amazon, et al, involving one of the defendants, Hawking Technology. Back in the fall of 2008, Sipco served it’s complaint … Continue reading →

Last time I wrote about SipCo’s case against Digi International et al, and I want to write about their defence against Sipco, but not right now. There is a concurrent case that Sipco is trying against Amazon.com, Cooper Industries, Cooper … Continue reading →

I’ve been splashing around in the US Patent Office Records (as reproduced by Google. Much better interface than USPTO, IMHO) in an effort to get a sense of the territory surrounding home thermostats and related devices. As a home owner, … Continue reading →

That Irene, she is ‘a blowin’  We got gusty wind and rain But we ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Time for a break to watch a video from the hikes Deb and I took last weekend. The first day we went … Continue reading →

Preparedness Fail Paranoid? Safe!

It’s been too damn hot to take pictures, but I went ahead and took some today to show you all. The deck is done! Well, 95% done. I still have to put in all the ‘in-between’ balusters on the spiral … Continue reading →