Doing some hardcore modifications to your electronic devices and can’t figure out what kind of chip you’re looking at? Check the Chip Directory.

Even more on that barcode-library idea: “Getting your CueCat declawed” has far more information on gutting and modifying the CueCat than any human should ever know.

More on that barcode-scanned library idea: DVD Profiler is a handy tool that allows you to track and manage scanned-in DVD titles. This would be good for those of you that have large DVD collections and would like to have proof for your insurance companies.

Someday, when I have time, I’m gonna hack up Robert’s CueCat and scan all the books in my library.

No really, I am.

Never read webpages right after you’ve woken up.

When I first saw this Wired headline, Hawking Mucus On the Net, my first thought was “Why in the hell would Stephen allow his own bodily fluids to be sold online?

Quote of the Day: “I stopped getting spam when I blocked all two-letter domain names.”

Anoto is developing a map system of digitization on paper: every page printed with the Anoto system of near-invisible dots gets an absolute location on the Anoto grid system. When you write on Anoto-encoded paper with an Anoto-enabled pen, the pen creates a digital trace of what you do, storing the information in the pen until you mark the apropriate section of the page, such as a blank or check-box. The digitized information is then forwarded via Bluetooth to any specified server on the Internet.

Woohoo! Learn how UPC bar codes work!

Dr. Paul W. Ewald, author of Plague Time, argues that most of the diseases we currently consider to be genetic or effects of lifestyle, such as cancer, Alzheimer’s, and atherosclerosis, instead have pathogenic causes.

Electric Sheep is a screensaver project that uses distributed processing to generate new fractal images for display.