audio gadgetware
Experiment with time-lapse, showing two horses visible outside my office window: (download) The second horse has a fly-mask, to keep buzzing insects away from face, but the equine can see just fine. The horses are kept in separate areas for now, since one beast has a tendency to take nibbles out of the other, and … Read more
Happy tenth birthday to Windows 98 (codename Memphis), released June 25, 1998. Even now we still hear from Win98 users, running current or previous versions of our products. (We don’t officially support this OS anymore, but if it still works for you, then great!)
Gaze at a “word cloud” generated by Wordle [no longer available, or moved] for recent blog post entries: Related post: Cloud
Our colleague C. visited Costa Rica and was entertained by the antics of monkeys at a restaurant, climbing down from roof-tops and stealing sugar packets.
From the Associated Press news wire: Giant asteroid hurtles toward… Link
Here we find a cute theremin kit with solar cell packaged in an Altoids tin: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0jsixGG6k8] [video link] link [kudos Make:]
The new-ness of a project is a few months past, and you are slogging through the minute details of a graphical user interface, while tracking down an obscure bug that causes random crashes every few hours, on top of struggling with a recalcitrant operating system API. Suddenly you are struck with an AHA! moment and … Read more
This device in a Japanese toilet makes the sound of running water, to mask other, ummmm…, indelicate noises. Saves water, since patrons don’t feel compelled to flush a toilet multiple times to block sounds. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ond_IaNA4wk] video link [kudos boingboing] Previously: When Ambient Sounds Go Bad, Celebration of Nature Sounds
Even Lower Carb Bread 1 cup warm water1/8 stick of butter2 egg whites (left over from here) or 1 egg 1/2 cups white whole wheat flour1/2 cup wheat gluten1/2 cup wheat bran1/2 cup oat bran2 TBS flax meal1 TBS spoonable Stevia1 1/2 tsp yeast1/2 tsp salt1/2 tsp molasses Add liquid ingredients to bread maker, then … Read more
With eight current software titles, thirteen years in business, plus several additional programs OEMed by other companies at one time or other, we thought it might be fun to talk about failed products. At Sagebrush, every project kick-off starts with a new notebook. The bookcase behind me has a shelf of notebooks with zero net … Read more