NASA Tweetup

NASA announces tweet up to view the launch of Atlantis.  NASA will pick 150 people at random that sign up on their site. Hrm, I’ll be signing up — and if I’m one of the 150 picked — I think that’s too good of a deal to pass up.  There’s also a second place tweet […]

An Oldie But a Goodie

This is back from 2000.  I still think about this every now and then and thought I’d post it (or re-post it): Postal Experiments from the Annals of Improbable Research.  Experiments include trying to send all sorts of objects (including a $20 bill in a clear envelope, to a ski, to a deer tibia) through […]

Wants For Sale

This couple from New York paints pictures of the things they want, and sell the paintings for the price of the real item. When the painting sells, they buy that item. Really neat concept. Wants for Sale (from Kottke)

Flot

Joe (@szac) turned me on to Flot for a project he’s working on.  I’m helping him out with some php logic.  Flot a pretty nifty graphing library all in javascript.  The examples show that it’s capable of a lot: multiple axes, multiple series, highlighting, and all can be updated real-time using Ajax.  But at its […]