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July 25, 2006
CAPTCHA Scmatzpa
I finally got my CAPTCHA working, although it means I will lose a lot of new friends. A CAPTCHA, for those of you who don't know, is a "completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart(tm)" It's...
July 24, 2006
Building Blocks
I was reading over on slashdot today about a neat operating system called "Plan 9". For those of you who aren't film buffs, the operating system is named after the famously bad movie"Plan 9 From Outer Space". So what makes...
July 19, 2006
Lack of Motivation
I've been getting little emails every day with nice motivational quotes. Stuff like "What you think, you become" and "Success means doing what makes you happy" When you are an inventor like me, everybody is more than willing to give...
July 18, 2006
The Switchblade
I am an amateur pilot, and I love strange airplanes, and this one takes the cake. It is a proposed strategic bomber for the Air Force starting in 2020. Here's what it does and some back-of-the-napkin analysis: Normally the airplane...
July 15, 2006
Set Phasers To Corn
Hapy Anniversary, Star Trek! If you're an English farmer who likes Star Trek, what better way to celebrate the anniversary than creating a huge maze? Tom Pearcy used satellite technology to help him design the huge maze at his farm...
July 14, 2006
The Wisdom Of Crowds
Over on Yahoo, the emails and votes are favoring Ms. Poland to be the winner of the Ms Universe. I've always been a big fan of The Wisdom Of Crowds, so in the interest of science I reviewed the pictures...
July 10, 2006
Getting a Tune-up
The fun just keeps rolling along here at the House of Bat. Last week I got a version of Cakewalk for me and my son. For those of you who don't know what that is, lemme tell you about it,...
July 7, 2006
F-35A Seen Rolling Out
This is one cool airplane Being a private pilot, I always like to keep my eye out for new airplanes. Flight Global recently spotted the new Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) rolling out, getting ready to start making test flights. The...
July 6, 2006
Weather Channel Scoops CNN
i was waking up this morning, reading my email, feeds, and favorite web pages, when I came across this from the weather channel. I had to read it twice.
July 3, 2006
Nerd Heaven
I've been busy working on conceptualizing batBack version 2.0 over the past couple of days, and it has been a hoot. I guess I can tell you guys a little about it -- hey, you're not going to tell anybody,...
July 1, 2006
The Fire
It started as a simple request. it ended in a conflagration It all started when my lovely wife asked me: "what are you going to do about those trees?"...