Where Demolition Comes Alive

Everything you’d ever want to know about explosive demolition is over at ImplosionWorld.com. They’ve got a photo gallery, videos and the “History of Structural Demolition in America” (as well as a world records section). They’ll also send you email notices of upcoming live webcasts of building demolitions.

Birthday Gifts!

Hank showed up last night with a birthday gift (a little early). It was a copy of Leo Laporte’s 2003 Technology Almanac, which immediately paid for itself when we popped the enclosed disk into the DVD player and found the solution to the problem Hank was having with the new disk drive he was trying […]

Lorem Ipsum Generator

Handy background info on Lorem Ipsum and a Lorem Ipsum generator over at Lipsum. Just in case you ever need it, here’s another text generator for legalese.

Toiletology 101

Everything you’d ever want to know about toilets can be found at Toiletology 101: Lesson Plan for Toilet Repair Course.

Floaties

I think the first one I ever owned was from the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair (it had a monorail), and now Float Art Design’s lets you create your own custom design float pen, or if you prefer, a virtual “floaty”. Be sure to check out their gallery.

Earthquake Alerts

Skimming through some of the sites that have information on this month’s magnitude 7.9 Denali earthquake, I ran across Seismo-Watch which offers earthquake alert bulletins via email, pager, cell phone, pda or fax.

ReFound?

I recently rediscoved FOUND Magazine. I especially like the notes and the find of the week.

Delta Gets It

Jon Udell describes the new Delta flight information system – it’s something that I always thought should be available, and I’m glad to see it finally happening. Hopefully, this is a trend that will continue. Another small, less sophisticated, example I ran across is the Alaska Division of Motor Vehicles. A recent visit to their […]

Big Eruption on Io

A huge eruption on Jupitor’s moon Io was recorded by the Keck Observatory in February 2001, but the images were only recently analysed.

DHTML Wizardry

Omar Zabir’s Portal – a fantastic website with a Windows interface done entirely in DHTML and JavaScript.

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