This modded LEGO Star Wars Clone Trooper is the best use of a light-emitting diode since my LED-based Lava shot glasses, Philips Living Colors lamp, and psychedelic bath tub rubber ducky (which work extremely well combined.) The instructions about how to do it are fairly easy, as you can see in the gallery.
posted by Bill Quackenbush @ 10:09 PM
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Astronomy Picture of the Day is a double showing the chute and leg of Phoenix before and immediately after landing on Mars. Wow!
posted by Bill Quackenbush @ 7:37 PM
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The summer season of highway hell has officially arrived—and $4/gallon prices at the pump certainly aren't making life on the road any easier. As the next generation of hypermilers develops new ways to hack your car's fuel economy, our guest MPG geek breaks down the vehicle mods, driving habits and common-sense fixes you need to know to max out you
posted by Bill Quackenbush @ 6:18 AM
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Now that Mozilla's locked down Firefox 3's final feature set with Friday's push of release candidate 1, it's official: while Firefox 3 boasts some great new features like a smart address bar and better bookmarks manager
posted by Bill Quackenbush @ 10:12 PM
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Combining terrain data from the orbiting Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft (now dormant) with information about the robotic Spirit rover currently rolling across Mars has resulted in a digital movie that shows what a flight over the Columbia Hills might look like.
posted by Bill Quackenbush @ 12:25 PM
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I was actually expecting to still see beta 5 when I went to the developers page, but was happily surprised.
posted by Bill Quackenbush @ 7:30 PM
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A White Plains, NY woman who was the victim of burglary, including her MacBook, used the Back To My Mac screen sharing feature to turn on her webcam and capture images of the unwitting culprits using the computer. As a result, police were able to arrest the thieves and recover most of the stolen goods.
posted by Bill Quackenbush @ 6:22 AM
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When starships transporting colonists first depart the solar system, they may well be headed toward a Google-discovered planet as their new home. J
posted by Bill Quackenbush @ 6:19 AM
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Each time the space shuttle rises from its launchpad, a range safety officer waits anxiously for the first 2 minutes to pass safely. If the spaceship were to veer off course and endanger a populated area, this officer would bear a terrible responsibility...
posted by Bill Quackenbush @ 9:36 AM
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Microsoft said Saturday that it was abandoning its blockbuster bid to acquire Yahoo after the two companies could not agree on a price.The breakdown followed a meeting in Seattle on Saturday morning between Microsoft C.E.O. Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, and Yahoo C.E.O. Jerry Yang, Yahoo's co-founder and chief executive.
posted by Bill Quackenbush @ 10:43 PM
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