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See, now I want to build a home so I can use these wicked cool Solar Shingles. I haven’t seen a picture, but the story says they look just like traditional asphalt shingles. They cost about 6 times as much as traditional shingles, but that’s an investment worth making. If more people were doing this,…

The Excel Logic Page is an interesting site offering all kinds of cool excel tips and tricks.

I was locked in restaurant jail tonight. Restaurant jail is what I like to call that period when you’re done eating, but you can’t leave because you have to sit there waiting to get/pay your check. It’s really just awful. You know, I don’t mind waiting for my food. I don’t even mind waiting for…

Cool In a drafty shed in rural northern California is perhaps the rarest Macintosh ever made: an electronically shielded Mac used by a spy or military agency. The machine appears to be unique, and is so secret, no one knows anything about it.

Update: You can’t donate furniture through this web site. Based on a lot of the comments that have been posted to this page, people have the impression that they can donate furniture through this web page. This is just my personal site where I sound off about whatever catches my attention. A while ago, I…

It was a cold Friday night in Los Angeles, and a dozen or so nerds from distances far and wide converged on Renee’s Courtyard Cafe in Santa Monica. more…

It looks like at least one court is getting the idea that the criminal and not the tool is responsible for the crime. Of course for Kazaa, it’s probably too late to matter. Shame really. Wired Story

This might be bad news for my immortality plans. I’ll have to get started working on some other plans.

Short Words to Explain Relativity Old Al, he came out the blue and said, "Not only do rays move at c if what puts them out is held fast or not: they move at c even if you are held fast or not." Now that may not look like such a big deal on the…

More and more it seems like I’m being called on to perform statistical analysis. I sort of feel like I should go back to school, but this is a nice introduction. Or, maybe I should just buy something like Chances Are : The Only Statistics Book You’ll Ever Need