I have no idea what this is, I just like saying "Luftschiff, the vigilante airship!"

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(ganked from aerocrat)

Apparently "armature" and "gagbit" are the same word in Chinese.

There was a lie the Cretans once told; perhaps they still tell it.


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Not to speak ill of the dead or anything, but if it weren't for the recently deceased Don Herbert I might be a lawyer or something.  That said, my 1950s-era copy of Mr. Wizard's Science Secrets (it was "old" when I got it, a relic of a vanishing era.  It's older now.) is one of my cherished childhood posessions ( Read more... )

Sweet teats of the sky pig, plone + zope is easy to install on Windows.   I was inspired to do so from a video that's been getting passed around of some dude from JPL doing stuff faster with it than he could with other web frameworks ( Read more... )

I was just saying the other day, that no Brit would ever be happy with a computer that doesn't leak oil.  Of course, the market provides:

"Initial prototypes used motor oil until they realised this could corrode some of the components." Leave a comment  1 

not that this is surprising or anything, but an editor of Boing-Boing is inventing unnecessary, inaccurate, and confusing words ( Read more... )

Ed Huber is my new hero.  Witness the 12 Gauge FH (From Hell) wildcat round:


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oh yes, yes, the machines are coming.

From Jane's:

"Described by developers AAI, MRVI and Sea Robotics as a fourth-generation unmanned surface vessel (USV) that can be remotely operated and function in fully autonomous missions, the Interceptor was displayed in public for the first time at IDEX 2007 in Abu Dhabi ( Read more... )

This one is better told out loud, because there are several points where I love the responses I get, but I will include the beats as ellipses ( Read more... )