30 Year Battery Life

http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/next-energy-news-betavoltaic-10.1.html

Think of it as a solor panel, but instead of sunlight it uses electrons that are flying through the air. This sounds really cool, I wonder if and how this could be used on solor cars. Instead of having to worry about sunlight, this could be used instead? Think of this use on laptops, and other devices would be nice too, I'm sick of the 3 hour battery life.

Expect to see these in 2-3 years.

If developers ruled the world

Some interesting movie & tv show concepts if developers ruled the world:

http://franksworld.com/blog/archive/2007/09/26/4884.aspx and http://franksworld.com/blog/archive/2007/09/26/4882.aspx

Lego RoboFlush

Interesting concept of taking the lego mindstorm and making a automatic toilet flusher.

http://www.battlebricks.com/roboflush/index.html

Time watching movies

So, I have rated over 2528 movies on netflix so far. That is bascially 220 days of movie watching.

Interesting hack to help speed up Window Apps

A way to increase the GDI memory:

http://www.windows-now.com/blogs/kmkenney/archive/2007/08/29/increasing-gdi-and-user-handle-limits-in-windows.aspx

Cool website: Check out the chating

http://www.ff0000.com/

Google Maps: Street View

Here are some places from Street View:

City and County of Denver - one of the places that I have consulted.

CCD Building

Old location where Midtech Partner's building was located.
Old Midtech Partner's location

Interesting: Flickr vision

http://flickrvision.com/

You can see in real-time what pictures people are adding to flickr.

Funny: Mess with people who are using your Internet access.

http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html

This guy basically makes all internet pictures either upside down, or fuzzy looking when viewing. Too bad it's with a linux box, would love to have a simple app that I could run to do this though.

Interesting: Origin of state names.

http://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/04/the-origins-of-state-names/

So, the states I have lived in:

CALIFORNIA. According to one theory, Spanish settlers names it after a utopian society described in a popular 16th-century novel called Serged de Esplandian.



NEW YORK. Named after the Duke of York and Albany.



COLORADO. Means "red" in Spanish. The name was originally applied to the Colorado River, whose waters are reddish with canyon clay.

Surprising, I haven't lived in a state with a Native American name yet.