Archive for 2006
Cool Links of the Day
An excellent video showing the Universe to scale. Makes you feel very very insignificant!
An astronaut loses his camera in space while working on the International Space Station.
The most powerful automatic weapon in the world
Building instructions for every Lego set EVER
Dragonfly: The World’s First Winged Robot Video Demonstration
Cool Links of the Day
Full 3D video projection. A prototype of a 3D projector using 256 bits of string, very cool.
Asimov, the Honda robot, trips going up some steps, the poor guy
How to get out of quicksand, for your hiking trips around home I guess.
Final Fortress is a great flash game. defend your city from the invading [...]
Palm Programming
Heres a list of resources for programming for the Palm.
OnboardC is a complete C programming environment for your Palm. The source editor, resource editor and compiler all run on your Palm so you can develop on the move.
Handheld Basic++ (HB++) from Peter Holmes Consulting is a complete and very well designed visual basic development environment.
Wordpress Comments built with Yahoo UI
Jack Slocum has just created an incredible comment system for Wordpress. The demo lets you add comments to any block in the post just by clicking in the left margin.
Yellow tags show the number of comments for that block of text, just click the tag to view the comments.
What is really nice is that the [...]
Play Pacman in Microsoft Excel
Pacman for MS-Excel is an amazing feat of VBA programming. As far as I can tell (I was never very good at Pacman), its a faithful rendition of the original arcade classic, written in Excel VBA, complete with sound and a demo mode.
Excel Space Invaders, also available at the same page, is another excellent conversion [...]
Cool Links of the Day
Overclock your toothbrush! Just don’t shred your gums
A fantastic Honda Civic commercial with a choir doing the sounds effects.
Sling snotty slime around devious mazes.
A tutorial on how to make steel and glass icons in Photoshop. The results look very impressive.
Using ScummVM and DOSBox to play your favorite old classic games.
Howtoforge is a [...]