Battle of the Batteries Redux
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New batteries aid climate battle
New batteries aid climate battle
09/08/2004 04:30 PM
A new generation of rechargeable lithium batteries could reduce global
warming, a leading expert says.
Fuji Novel Batteries “Reverse Current
Prevention” Protects Devices From Harm /
The Only Alkaline Batteries to Offer
this Superior Equipment Protection
Feature
Fuji Novel Batteries “Reverse Current
Prevention” Protects Devices From Harm /
The Only Alkaline Batteries to Offer
this Superior Equipment Protection
Feature
02/01/2005 08:46 PMFuji Novel Batteries, one of the largest manufacturers of batteries
for portable electronics and digital cameras worldwide, is pleased to
offer a specially engineered “reverse current protection” feature in
its Fuji Novel D-Size and C-Size alkaline batteries. This feature
actually blocks the completion of negative-to-negative current in
batteries that are connected in series, thereby virtually eliminating
potential damage and premature discharge from reverse current in
incorrectly installed batteries. [PRWEB Jan 26, 2005]
The 1966 film “The Battle of Algiers"
Tells Us a Lot About the Battle for Iraq
12/21
The 1966 film “The Battle of Algiers"
Tells Us a Lot About the Battle for Iraq
12/21
12/21/2003 07:18 AMPhilip Gourevitch, writing in the New Yorker .. Winning and
losing
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Downhill Battle - Downhill Battle Labs -
Battle Torrent
Downhill Battle - Downhill Battle Labs -
Battle Torrent
08/04/2004 09:28 AMDownhill Battle - Downhill Battle Labs - Battle Torrent .. proposal
for making bittorrent
usable
downhillbattle.org/labs/battletorrent
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"Downhill Battle - Downhill Battle Labs
- Battle Torrent"
"Downhill Battle - Downhill Battle Labs
- Battle Torrent"
08/04/2004 03:30 PMSeven redux
Seven redux
04/07/2005 12:53 PM
The final scene of
"Seven" performed by stuffed animals. Art from AA batteries
Art from AA batteries
04/18/2004 07:01 PM
Fully functional batteries transformed into
hip objets d'art.
Link
(
Thanks, Jean-Luc)
New AA and AAA Batteries
New AA and AAA Batteries
04/07/2005 03:56 PMDo you get tired of your kids saying "I need some batteries" being
a steward of thinking about the environment we use chargeable
batteries but from time to time I need to use a regular battery.
Panasonic has announced a AA and AAA batteries that will last twice
as long and will be on the market soon. Good news for all of us and
this is a good move to preserve the environment. [LockerGn
ome]
Bye-Bye Batteries?
Bye-Bye Batteries?
06/04/2004 10:37 AMDemocracy Redux
Democracy Redux
03/31/2005 02:34 PMWhat we may end up with as part of this push towards "democracy" in
the Middle East is civil war. Lebanon, Iraq, and Palestine are
all on the brink of it now. Are we better off with this?
Open How-tos redux
Open How-tos redux
07/28/2004 09:52 AMOne of the coolio things we've got built into 1UP is the notion of
a game expert. Any kid can declare themselves an "expert" of any of
our 11,000+ games in our database.
When someone lands on a Game overview page - 'some' of the experts
for that game are displayed..... (can't show them ALL = too many!)
I myself used to be an expert of Joust, Defender and Prof. Pac-Man.
Maybe it was because I knew the folks who programmed those games (and
got expert advice from) or because I happened to be a programmer
myself of ProfPac - but anyway......
Finding expertise and help from the open distributed net will be
aBIG business moving forward. And haviong standards to help us find
each other and perhaps even barter help, will also be key....
So now Ming the Mchanic (Flemming Funch) picks up a thread started
by Kevin Kelly and Seb on Open How-tos. How-to tutorials are a deep,
rich kind of micro-content with very clear structures, intentions and
applications.
This is a PERFECT new kind of effort.
It would also dovetail nicely with some requests I've been getting
from people for a 'OpenLists' effort. Though Lists don't really have
a need for schemas, they're certainly something that people want -
which (by definition) should be enough. I just tell folks
"get it into OPML" for now....
He
re's the post from Ming.....
From Seb
Paquet:
Kevin Kelly
asks:"What are the best how-to books, videos,
software, websites that you've ever seen? I don't care what the topic
is, I am primarily interested in the
execution."
Building a distributed body of how-tos
would be another great application of structured blogging.
Paging Marc Canter: must add Open How-Tos
to your list of digital lifestyle standards.
Update: Jeremy picks up the digital lifestyle aggregator
idea:"Now imagine that profile as a sort of
e-portfolio, containing most of the stuff you careed about, things you
were thinking about, connecting you to everyone else who wanted to
learn the same things, helping you find the information and resources
that would help you learn... "
Yes, yes,
yes. Of course we need all of that. A comprehensive open archive of
the how-tos for ... most everything. And an easy way of finding
everybody who want to do the same things. And we might actually get to
work.
[Mi
ng the Mechanic]
BlogTalk Redux
BlogTalk Redux
07/08/2004 08:25 PMSorry to have missed this year's
BlogTalk gathering in Vienna. I
participated in the one last year, and got some eye-opening material
from European bloggers.
Joi Ito set up
this wiki about
the event.
More Unleashed Redux
More Unleashed Redux
06/29/2004 02:38 AMWe've received confirmation that Hasbro is currently soliciting orders
for their
Unleashed wave 11 assortment.
RVW Redux - OpenReviews
RVW Redux - OpenReviews
04/09/2005 05:50 PMHey Arnaud - take a look at what Alf Eaton
just updated - this time utilizing Mozilla's GreaseMonkey.
Since you've been impelementing Structured blogging in OPML
- why don't you get everything into Alf's namespace - and set up a
shared Review server.
I bet the lower case semantic web folks will create a microformat
called 'review' - or maybe it's has to be a smaller chunk of 'info' -
like 'morsel' - or 'hotel room key' or 'tire'.
But it's not a coincidence that all this activity is starting to
percolate. It was destined to happen - once people got tired of
talking about "what is blogging."
What's been missing up til now have been the specific namespaces or
microformat types - which are appearing, bottom up, literally out of
the woodwork.
And with services and APIs like Google Maps, Flickt, de.licio.us
and EVDB available - how long will it be til we have aggregators
supporting these formats - presenting "easy-to-use" interfaces for
humans.
Next step after that - is that it's all available on our
smartphones and then we can give Howard Rheingold what I promised him:
"tools for the mob." And make Russell Beattie happy.
VWB Flyboy Redux
VWB Flyboy Redux
12/24/2004 12:16 PM
There's more to this VWB Flyboy that we talked about yesterday than I thought. First of all, it
looks to have been around as an OEM design for a while, as US Modular
is selling a 20GB version of their own through the Army/Air Force Exchange for $369 and Buy.com is selling it for $289 after rebate. And while cheap
doesn't always mean better, it certainly is a nice place to start.
Scripting by the Bay, Redux
Scripting by the Bay, Redux
04/11/2005 08:22 PMMatt Neuburg (~100 words)
Scripting by the Bay,
Redux -- For those who need to acquire or hone AppleScript
skills, Shane Stanley and Ray Robertson will once again be leading
their wonderfully intensive AppleScript Pro sessions, 02-May-05
through 06-May-05, in beautiful Monterey, California. I'm slated once
again to teach my famous "forced march through AppleScript
Studio" class. One source of real excitement is the question of
whether Tiger will have shipped in time; if it does, we'll be able to
talk about the new features, such as BLEEEP and
BOOOP (sorry, censored by the NDA police). [MAN]
Surgery Redux
Surgery Redux
12/07/2003 09:24 AMweblog.burningbird.net/fires/life/surgery_redux.htm#comment8347
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Fat Club redux
Fat Club redux
08/27/2004 01:34 PM
Yesterday, Mutsumi in our office told me half a
dozen times that I looked "bigger". I'd been thinking about how to
lose some weight and I remembered
Fa
t Club because
Jan
e linked to a Fat Club entry on her blog. For some reason, I seem
to be able to motivate myself to lose weight when I'm competing. I
asked everyone in our office if they wanted to join Fat Club 2004.
Kuri,
Jim and
Nob agreed to participate. The race
is to see who can lose 10% of their body weight first and sustain it
for one week. The last one in has to be a slave to the winner for a
day. Slave rights can be sold or rented. We decided to set up a
private wiki to organize this event.
Mizuka bought a fancy scale awhile ago hinting that I should
probably lose some weight. I jumped on it this morning and it told me
that I had the body of a 49 year old. (I'm 38.) The fancy scale uses
Bioelectric Impedance to measure your body fat and calculates basal
metabolism, body fat percentage, muscle percentage, internal body fat
level, your body mass index and your body age equivalent. Let me just
say it was very motivating. This new scale has 6 contacts, two for
your hands and 4 for your feet and seems more accurate than some of
the older models.
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First Primary: A Bit of Redux
First Primary: A Bit of Redux
01/28/2004 12:08 AMJohn Kerry has now done what none of his rivals for the Democratic
nomination have yet come close to doing: He has won twice.
Atom/W3C redux
Atom/W3C redux
06/04/2004 08:39 AMMatt May: We at W3C like Atom. Speaking for myself, my concern remains
about openness, not time to market. The one thing that I felt
that
was not adequately explored in the meeting was the possibility that
there might be a difference from a legal perspective between these two
organizations. ...
Yucca Redux
Yucca Redux
07/23/2004 01:23 AMThe flowers on
that
Yucca have died, but gracefully...
Regulation Redux
Regulation Redux
05/28/2004 01:59 PMYou may have to vouch for your information security in the
not-too-distant future as regulators get restless over cyber-attacks.
DanceMob Redux
DanceMob Redux
12/19/2004 03:31 PMFollowing our forays during the Republican National Convention, many
in our DanceMob declared that dancing in the streets had been so much
gosh-darned fun that it would be a good thing to do even without a
targeted political motive. I agree. There is something mysteriously
liberating about making a fool of yourself in public. Dancing anywhere
is good. Dancing someplace unexpected is better. Dancing like we were
in this video clip is sweet indeed. I wonder if it's ever apolitical
though... I came away from our previous experience believing that in
America at this time, all dancing is revolutionary. It really does
feel to me that this election is more about culture than policy. There
are two primary cultures presently at odds in America. One of them is
inclined to dance, the other is not. During the Convention, I found us
creating a kind of litmus test. It was very easy to see in peoples'
reaction to us which side of that divide they were on. But it also
seemed to make some converts. While, on some faces, the sour pucker
only deepened as we drew closer, there were many others who smiled and
drew encouragement from our good energy. So, like many of you, I think
we ought to do it again. Indeed, I think we should start making a
regular practice of it, sort of like the dancing equivalent of the
Critical Mass bicyclists. I'm arbitrarily selecting the 3rd Friday of
every month. (Which may have to be seasonal, but we'll see...) Thus, I
hope you will join me this Friday evening for a new DanceMob action in
New York City. Here's the deal: PLACE: Zocalo, on the Food Concourse
of Grand Central Station DATE: Friday, October 22 TIME: 6:00 pm. (That
is, we'll start to gather at 6 and probably head out at around 7:00,
to be realistic.) Zocalo is a good but not great Mexican restaurant in
the basement of Grand Central Station. Their main attraction, aside
from being central to good dancing territory, is a pretty swell blood
orange margarita. Suck down a few of those and you'll be willing to
dance anywhere. It's hard to say about the weather, of course. I
wanted to do it last Friday and was dissuaded by the forecast.
(Fortunately, as it turns out. There was a bleak rain falling just as
we would have ventured out.) The current forecast is more promising,
but if it turns vile on us, we can always just dance in Grand Central
Station, something I've always wanted to do. Those of you did this
before know what a hoot it is and need little persuading. Those of you
who haven't should come and experience it. I'm pretty sure you won't
regret it. If you have any questions or suggestions, please give me a
call on 917/863-2037. Or e-mail me at barlow@eff.org. You can also
contact our incredibly dedicated Subcommandte Scott Piscitelli at
646/342-5077 or spmonkeyking@yahoo.com....
LLSSRV Redux
LLSSRV Redux
03/19/2005 03:11 AMDave Aitel (Mar 17 2005)
Badgers: Redux
Badgers: Redux
12/19/2003 11:36 AM Flash Friday Badgers: Redux OpenReviews - redux
OpenReviews - redux
03/14/2005 05:09 PMSo following up on years of work by Alf Eaton - the folks at
PubSub have released - 'structured blogging' which takes Reviews
to the next step - with a nice
UI plug-in for WordPress.
Somebody nominate this man to be head of OpenReviews! And don't
forget OpenRecipes! Meg Hourihan needs somewhere to store all her
fine new trick.
via PhotoMatt
WebJay redux
WebJay redux
04/09/2004 04:11 PMFree
music that streams to your media player.
Free music that streams to your media player
Posted Apr 9, 2004, 7:46 AM ET by Alberto Escarlate
From Wired
News: Webjay, is a website
in which users build their own playlists of free music — like a
mix tape — and share them with friends. It doesn’t store the
files, but it pulls together the URLs for each track and puts them in
a playlist format.
Webjay regular Brett Singer, a New York theater producer
and computer consultant, builds playlists in his spare time. He’s
created more than 50 collections with titles like Song-a-Day, a list
made up of songs he has chosen each day for the past two months. On
March 28, he had a seaweed treatment, so he chose a song by the group
Seaweed Soup. He picked a song called “Party Party” on the
occasion of his kid’s birthday party.
There isn’t only music playlists. You can find Lawrence
Lessig’s “Free Culture” read aloud by miscellaneous
people: Lessig/Free Culture audiobook project.[The Digital Music
Weblog]
Congrats to Lucas Gonze. The meme spreads.
Nukamiso redux
Nukamiso redux
06/22/2005 02:38 AM
Nukazuke is a type of Japanese traditional
pickling that requires a special kind of mash that is made from rice
husks and a number of other ingredients. This mash is called
nukamiso. Some
nukamiso is very old and it requires
a special touch and constant mixing to maintain the special flavor.
Vegetables are typically stuck in the
nukamiso overnight or
for the day.
I wrote a Nukamiso guide was which I last updated in April
1999. Since then, I have moved twice and in the process, killed my
poor nukamiso. My original nukamiso seeded from
three 50 year old nukamiso's and a 25 year old
nukamiso, two from Kyoto and two from Tokyo. Killing it was
an unforgivable sin. Since then, Mizuka and I have felt so guilty,
that it took a lot of courage to decide to start up again. The trigger
was receiving a batch of the best eggplant nukamiso that I've
ever had. The container contained a healthy amount of the
nukamiso in addition to the eggplant and the instructions
suggested that you could seed your nukamiso with this. We
tried some vegetables from our garden and it was excellent, so we went
and got a cedar tub today.
In the past, we lived in western houses so one of the challenges
was keeping the nukamiso as cold as possible in the summer.
This was partially the cause of the demise of our last
nukamiso. This time, we now live in a traditional Japanese
house has an opening to the space under the kitchen. Japanese houses
typically store pickles and other things that need to stay cool in
this space. Unlike doing nukamiso from purchased vegetables,
we will be able to feed our nuka-chan with fresh home grown
veggies.
I just
Flickr'd some of the pictures.
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Threads Redux
Threads Redux
06/22/2005 02:04 AMThe June 12th On
Threads piece got slashdotted (twenty thousand hits for a 2,300
word hard-tech piece, not bad), which provoked really interesting
feedback from (among others) David Dagastine, Greg
Wilson, and Ben Holm,
along with pointers to some related work. All those pointers are worth
following, and some of the points are worth a little more
discussion...
ReST vs RPC Redux
ReST vs RPC Redux
03/11/2003 11:53 AMIt looks like SOAP is destined to continue to be maligned and
misunderstood.
Dave Winer is
upset because not everybody limits themselves to his
narrow RPC profile of
SOAP usage. Non-RPC usage of SOAP isn't new - it was always
in the
spec.
And things that fit Dave's narrow profile continue to interop.
Mark Baker is
upset because SOAP permits usages which are not, in his and
many people's opinion, well architected. Usages such as
RPC. While many of Mark's arguments resonate with me, he
tends to throw the baby out with the bathwater. He might as
well say that Python is not a good language for building REST
systems because it can also be used for RPC.
Meanwhile, where Mark
throws up
his hands, others are
making progress.
Hardware Redux
Hardware Redux
12/27/2003 01:38 PMI’d be remiss not to pass on more of the helpful information
people have sent in response to the recent whine about the iBook’s
shortcomings:
- As posted before, uControl makes
remapping troublesome analphabetic keys easy, e.g., putting fn keys
back into usefulness and killing the caps lock, though it does require
you to be utterly up to date, Panther-wise.
- Regarding FM transmitters, Jonathan Woolson recommends this C Crane
device.
- Jonathan also mentions the importer of some industrial
design porn from Japan: titanium/aluminium Powerbook and iBook
stands that solve heat buildup problems and which echo the seemingly
unkillable trend of vertically-oriented food in restaurants.
- The heat under the left handrest can be reduced by NOT unchecking, as I had done, the option to
‘put the hard disk to sleep whenever possible’ when the
power adaptor is plugged in (thanks to Marshall Sokoloff for pointing out that
the disk, not the processor, is in that spot).
- The glowing sleep light can of course be covered with white
electrician’s tape, much in the same way that the television
screen can be painted black whenever a Jude Law movie comes on.
Waterbox redux
Waterbox redux
03/06/2004 01:51 AMThe music of Waterbox, part of this site's Classics department, is
back online for your listening pleasure. Tracks were cut in the 1980s,
using a prototype Akai MG1212 integrated 12-track recorder/mixer.
JahShaka redux
JahShaka redux
01/07/2004 05:06 PM
Jahshaka will set you free.
Open Source Video Editing
system that works on Linux and OS-X and
other platforms.
[Om Malik's Broadband Blog]
My buddy JahShaka is back at it. 4:4:4, open source, composting and
animation.
Batteries For Your Pen And Paper?
Batteries For Your Pen And Paper?
09/11/2004 02:26 PMSlashdot Sep 11 2004 6:28PM GMT
Batteries Can't Keep Up
(washingtonpost.com)
Batteries Can't Keep Up
(washingtonpost.com)
01/10/2004 07:21 AMwashingtonpost.com - Lithium ion batteries, the battery type most
commonly used inside laptops and the flashy gadgets that early
adopters of new technology lug everywhere in their pockets, are the
most lightweight, powerful and low-maintenance batteries around.
They're even more environmentally friendly than other choices.
Building Better Batteries
Building Better Batteries
12/24/2004 12:29 PM
David Pescovitz:
My latest article for TheFeature is about new battery designs for
mobile devices, from an onboard nuclear trickle charger that harnesses
radioactive energy to a microbattery made with the same techniques
used to fabricate computer chips.
"In late 18th century, Italian physicist Luigi Galvani
shocked the public by demonstrating that an amputated frog's leg
twitched when touched with certain metals. Galvani was convinced that
energy stored in the frog's leg caused the jerk. He called the
accumulated juice "animal electricity." Galvani's friend Alessandro
Volta called it nonsense. To prove that the energy came from the
metal, not the flesh, Volta eventually made a sandwich of silver,
moist cardboard, and zinc. His device also spurred frogs' legs to
spasm. In the end, Volta won the intellectual battle and also invented
the battery. Two hundred years later, the technology hasn't changed
much."
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A look at iPod batteries
A look at iPod batteries
03/19/2005 03:27 AMSince it’s debut in 2001, iPod users have had to contend with the
thorny issue of battery replacement.
Apple iPods are not unique in the world of rechargeable devices,
writes Lance Ulanoff of PC Mag.com. All of the MP3 players on the
market use rechargeable batteries, however some are designed for easy
battery replacement by the owner. In his comprehensive article,
Ulanoff outlines Apple’s battery replacement policy and gives the
background in what has been a contentious issue for many iPod owners.
“Maybe Apple made a mistake by not making them so consumers could
replace their own batteries, but perhaps that's the price you pay for
that much-lauded Apple industrial design,” Ulanoff concludes. “So
please, enough with the wild conspiracy theories and the threats of
class-action lawsuits. The iPod's a good player. Apple's not trying to
pull a fast one, and some of you need to learn a little more about
rechargeable battery care.”
Font Size Redux
Font Size Redux
12/02/2003 12:40 AMPhew. We're turning over the font size issue so vigorously it's gone
green. An on-screen style switcher was due on this site sometime down
the pipeline, but I rushed it in response to the discussion. See
right-hand sidebar -- if...
Oldest Working PC (redux)
Oldest Working PC (redux)
01/22/2004 03:09 AMMore letters Spaced out
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