Toxic Design Studio made this excellent video for a festival in Oslo.

(As Daniel said, “It’s a trap!”)

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I really love Ural 13 Diktator’s wonderful 80’s-style 8-bit “music video” for their song, “Name of the Game”.

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I find it mildly amusing that Microsoft chooses insect-related themes for their products. For example, the butterfly guy, and their new “resource for Windows community leaders”, which is called The Hive.

Does this mean Microsoft closely identifies with bugs?

Here’s how to set up syslogd on OSX to log base station activity.

Note that Tiger is a bit different, so you’ll need to refer to this other article.

I’ve posted my vacation pics here. Note there’s a “Part Two” and a “Part Three”.

I’ve been out in the desert for about a week, camping in Big Bend national park, and in the Davis mountains. it’s been very hot — at 109F in Study Butte.

We only saw two Western Diamondbacks, but since we didn’t have small game hunting licenses, we didn’t catch them. We justpicked them up, took their pictures, and tossed them off the roadside.

Posting from vacation hot-spot (literally), Uvalde, TX.

We drove for about 18 hours. I’m going to bed.

Tomorrow’s for rafting and hiking and looking at dinosaur tracks.

Seeing canned palak paneer at Cost Plus World Market got me thinking that surely $3.99/can was highway robbery, and surely it’d be cheaper on the Interweb — I mean, CPWM has to order that stuff from somewhere.

After some digging, I found iShopIndian.com, which seems to have some really good prices for most of the Indian and Asian food that I’d otherwise get from Whole Foods. For example, their palak paneer is $1.99, which is cheap even after I add in shipping.

Woot! After adding a gigabyte of RAM to my new Mac mini, I’m very, very impressed with it. It’s really a very fast machine — faster than my new iBook.

Here are the Xbench scores of my Mac mini 1.42Ghz versus my G4/500 RAID server.

Note that this is after adding RAM. Before the RAM upgrade, the Mac mini was so horribly slow that I wanted to set it on fire. ProTip: max the RAM.

Ooh, here’s a mix of Cheapgas and Google Maps that shows you a map view of the cheapest gas in your area.

One of the most serious problems facing developing nations and areas affected by natural disaster is the lack of potable water.

Tony Flynn, of The Australian National University, has developed an ultra-cheap, ultra-low-tech water filter capable of removing virtually all E. Coli bacteria from a water supply.

The filter can be made from terra cotta clay mixed with coffee grounds, molded into a cup-like shape, then fired in a manure-pile. The manure will burn at temperatures of up to 700????F, which will burn away the coffee ground inclusions. The resulting pores are large enough to allow water to pass, but small enough to trap bacteria and other pollutants.