After almost 13 years of faithful service it is time to sell my old 4x4 pickup truck. I was vacuuming it out, cleaning the windows and dashboard, and sprucing it up as much as you can spruce up an old rusting relic when I hit accidentally hit the fan switch to high. The fan made the strangest noise I've ever heard and it took a few seconds before I remembered the mouse nest I'd found in the glove box earlier this year. Figuring they'd come in through the fan ductwork I quickly concluded that this was where they had setup the other mouse apartment. Here's a picture of the squirrel cage fan, before and after:
stupid meece...
Which reminded me of my favorite mouse scene from the movie Never Cry Wolf...a must see.
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Nomadic Computing & Connectivity Resources for Technomads from Nomadic Research Labs. You may or may not remember the founder of Nomadic Labs, Steve Roberts, who travelled the country in a few homebrewed techno-recumbent bikes. For the past ten years or so he's been working on an aquatic version, the Microship. Some seriously interesting geek talk can be found on the System Infrastructure page. Here's an excerpt:
For BEHEMOTH, we developed an audio crossbar around the Mitel 8816 chip, vastly simplifying those spur-of-the moment connections that are irresistibly associated with having lots of devices. It took only a few lines of FORTH code, for example, to respond to a lat-long change without the right password by dialing 911 on the cellular phone and having the speech synthesizer intone, “I am a bicycle and I am being stolen. My present coordinates are...”
I've been seeing some cool and interesting flash projects lately. Today's feature is Introduction to Manhattan Timeformations, an interesting cartographical history of Manhattan Island.