Balloon filled with ground coffee makes ideal robotic gripper (w/ Video)

I think this book reinforces negative stereotypes about people with epilepsy and this novel reflects that. I think instead of "The Idiot" we should be talking about Developmental Delay and Special Abilities. It is so hard to overcome all the prejudice with books like this existing in this backward state. 203.97.98.36 (talk) 22:43, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

nonbeard 2010-10-10 03:20:23

Bake It in a Cake • Pumpkin Pie Cupcakes With Cinnamon Cream Cheese Buttercream

http://bakeitinacake.com/recipes/pumpkinpiecupcakes

This site is dedicated to recipes for things baked in cakes.

nonbeard 2010-10-07 01:38:41

Goodenough College: Home

http://www.goodenough.ac.uk/

This student accommodation is called "Goodenough College". But should you trust them?

nonbeard 2010-09-29 15:24:11

Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism - Less Wrong

http://lesswrong.com/lw/2pv/intellectual_hipsters_and_metacontrarianism/

tldr: less wrong = still quite wrong

nonbeard 2010-09-27 14:34:53

ATPM 10.04 - Review: Harman Kardon Soundsticks II

http://www.atpm.com/10.04/soundsticks.shtml

Soundsticks II vs $135000 audiophile speaker system. "My breakout cable was not from Radio Shack. It is a cable I made myself, in house, from reclaimed Byzantine gold leaf, clad with Yak butter, and surrounded by an Italian silk weave."

nonbeard 2010-09-24 18:00:23

Unicorn & Rainbow Happiness | Cornify

http://www.cornify.com/
nonbeard 2010-09-21 13:51:00

Lightsynth's History

http://www.llamasoft.co.uk/lshistory3.php

Jeff Minter got his penchant for llamas after finding a discarded Anaïs Nin book, which mentioned vicuña.

nonbeard 2010-09-19 19:37:18

DeLaval rotating cow brush

http://www.delaval.com/en/Product-Information1/Animal-comfort--care/Products/Body-care/Cow-brushes/DeLaval-rotating-cow-brush/

The rotating cow brush starts automatically when touched by the cow and features heavy duty brushes for a long service life.

nonbeard 2010-09-19 17:57:45

Boot Camp Software Update 3.1 for Windows 64 bit

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL979
nonbeard 2010-09-18 20:13:25

NEWS ALERT: Dark alley not the safest place to store your personal belongings | PassiveAggressiveNotes.com

http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2010/08/03/news-alert-dark-alley-not-the-safest-place-to-store-your-personal-belongings/

This is such a fantastic note. Just imagine the author writing it, adding the finishing touches, printing it out and thinking "yep, this gets the message across", and then going outside and stapling it to a pole.

nonbeard 2010-09-16 23:58:01

Return Infinity - BareMetal OS

http://www.returninfinity.com/baremetal.html

7k OS, BSD license

nonbeard 2010-09-16 19:03:04

Windows 7 god mode

http://notes.pinboard.in/u:wzdd/1aab7d85f4e2c5333de1

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

nonbeard 2010-09-15 23:39:11

Samsung ML-1630W Wireless A4 Mono Laser Printer (ML-1630W/SEE) | £111.67 inc VAT | Oyyy.co.uk

http://www.oyyy.co.uk/product.php/80307/samsung-ml-1630w-wireless-a4-mono-laser-printer-ml-1630wsee

"A simple touch of your hand lights up the glossy night and provides a shining blue readout illuminating the printing status." When copy writers get bored, via liedra

nonbeard 2010-09-13 11:37:06

Indigo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigo

Isaac Newton invented indigo as a separate spectral colour because he believed that 7 was a better number of spectral colours than 6. Because he was a weirdo.

nonbeard 2010-09-12 17:01:21

Instantise - Fill all your favourite websites with instantisation special sauce.

http://instantise.com/#hackernews

Okay this concept is pretty damn clever. (Via HN)

nonbeard 2010-09-12 13:24:07

Mr. Heffer huffs again

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2624

But there was once a workman who made a glass cup that was unbreakable. So he was given an audience of the Emperor with his invention; he made Caesar give it back to him and then threw it on the floor. Caesar was as frightened as could be. But the man picked up his cup from the ground: it was dinted like a bronze bowl; then he took a little hammer out of his pocket and made the cup quite sound again without any trouble. After doing this he thought he had himself seated on the throne of Jupiter, especially when Caesar said to him: 'Does anyone else know how to blow glass like this?' Just see what happened. He said not, and then Caesar had him beheaded. Why? Because if his invention were generally known we should treat gold like dirt. Myself I have a great passion for silver.

nonbeard 2010-09-12 11:02:54

looking for the best Earl Grey tea in London - U.K./Ireland - Chowhound

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/425233
nonbeard 2010-09-11 22:32:13

Buzz Rickson Flight Jackets & Selvage Denim Jeans

http://www.historypreservation.com/hpassociates/buzzrlanding_2.php

as seen in pattern recognitioj

nonbeard 2010-09-06 23:49:40

Alex Le’s Blog » Blog Archive » SSL in Plain English

http://alexle.net/archives/309

Via HN

nonbeard 2010-09-03 07:49:09

Tolkien book covers

http://lotrscrapbook.bookloaf.net/gallery/bookcovers/pages/70.htm

The covers of the first edition that I read. :D Using them to make ebooks.

nonbeard 2010-08-28 15:13:19

Infusion Profusion: Game-Changing Fast ‘N Cheap Technique

http://www.cookingissues.com/2010/08/11/infusion-profusion-game-changing-fast-‘n-cheap-technique/

You can infuse flavors into liquor (and water based things, too) almost instantly with nothing more than an iSi Cream Whipper . You can use seeds, herbs, spiced, fruits, cocoa nibs, etc. Here’s how (hn)

nonbeard 2010-08-28 02:40:50

Color Picker

http://zetamac.com/picker/

Colourpix0r

nonbeard 2010-08-26 02:14:44

Wine Education Topic: Sulfur Dioxide in Wine

http://www.aromadictionary.com/articles/sulfurdioxide_article.html

SO2 has been used in winemaking since Roman times. Some guy on Reddit reckons you can remove the taste of sulphites from wine by adding a very small amount (a few ml per l) of hydrogen peroxide!

nonbeard 2010-08-25 15:37:34

Steffen Mueller at blogs.perl.org: Tiny vim convenience hack

http://blogs.perl.org/users/steffen_mueller/2010/08/tiny-vim-convenience-hack.html

Autodetect indentation

nonbeard 2010-08-25 02:15:34

Users are still idiots, cough up personal data despite warnings

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/08/users-are-still-idiots-cough-up-personal-data-despite-warnings.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss
nonbeard 2010-08-25 01:58:58

Noteblender.hu - Music and sound design

http://www.noteblender.hu/index.html

Homepage of slyspy, the musician behind "Wir Sind Einstein" and "Computer Candy Overload". Turns out he's written a lot of game music.

nonbeard 2010-08-24 01:43:32

Optimizing Your Wife

http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath018/kmath018.htm

Marriage sort, selecting the best (or near best) option from a set when you can only consider each item once

nonbeard 2010-08-20 10:51:11

MCLIDE - Lisp IDE for Macintosh

http://mclide.in-progress.com/

Excuse not to learn SLIME

nonbeard 2010-08-20 03:24:28

Silphium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silphium

Silphium, a giant fennel-like plant which was a potent spice and popular cure-all medicine (as well as possible abortifacient), was harvested to extinction around the 1st century.

nonbeard 2010-08-19 01:13:18

Quick celeriac remoulade recipe - Recipes - BBC Good Food

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1597/quick-celeriac-remoulade

Clarifying (and delicious) picture of the classic remoulade.

nonbeard 2010-08-18 19:30:34

Remoulade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remoulade

Waitrose celeriac label said that it was "ideal grated in salads, such as the classic Remoulade". Behold the classic remoulade. It's not a salad.

nonbeard 2010-08-18 19:25:40

Iñigo Quilez - strawberry :: fractals, computer graphics, mathematics, demoscene and more

http://iquilezles.org/www/
nonbeard 2010-08-17 11:15:19

AKAI Professional LPK25 Laptop Performance Keyboard - Apple Store (U.K.)

http://store.apple.com/uk/product/TY492LL/A?cid=AOS-EMEA-SHOP-GoogleBase-UK

via hn

nonbeard 2010-08-16 15:42:01

Games By Scott - Home of Bowling Blast and other HWF Games!

http://www.gamesbyscott.com/midijam.htm

Leet. See eg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4kcZBwglp4

nonbeard 2010-08-14 13:41:55

Sparse Virtual Textures

http://silverspaceship.com/src/svt/

Reverse engineering of Carmack's "megatextures". Via HN discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1599440

nonbeard 2010-08-13 19:35:52

android-apktool - Project Hosting on Google Code

https://code.google.com/p/android-apktool/
nonbeard 2010-08-12 10:54:01

Guide: Multiboot Windows 7, Leopard, Ubuntu on GPT disk - InsanelyMac Forum

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=165899

Good times.

nonbeard 2010-08-12 01:21:14

Bissell, Braid, and the Use of Words

http://emshort.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/bissell-braid-and-the-use-of-words

Expect frequent references to light and dark, cold and loneliness, broken hearts and shattered dreams. Memories may get a look in. Also death. It’s like reading a collage of manuscripts sent to a high school poetry contest right after one of the students got in a fatal crash. emshort

nonbeard 2010-08-11 13:04:47

Akiyo Noguchi, 21-year old global bouldering champ

http://www.tokyomango.com/tokyo_mango/2010/08/akiyo-noguchi-21year-old-global-bouldering-champ.html
nonbeard 2010-08-09 18:55:16

Gamers beat algorithms at finding protein structures

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/08/gamers-beat-algorithms-for-finding-protein-structures.ars

Humans beat algorithms by finding better protein folds after being taught the rules. Coolest thing ever.

nonbeard 2010-08-04 17:48:50

The never-ending finite loop

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2010-08-02-neverending-finite-loop.html

I was naïvely not expecting a post with this title to include the text "subject to our current understanding of physics and the assumption that the process responsible for baryogenesis can be reversed to cause proton decay". Very well-justified effectively-infinite, but finite, loop.

nonbeard 2010-08-02 19:28:27

Lest We Forget on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/aggtastic/119815611/

Crispy hexagons

nonbeard 2010-08-01 02:12:02

Pilgrimage on Shikoku Island

http://www.shikokuhenrotrail.com/shikoku/walkingFreeLodging.html

Awesome 2-month, 88-temple hike (via Bryn)

nonbeard 2010-07-30 16:23:06

London Hackspace

http://london.hackspace.org.uk/

leet. Bit out of the way though.

nonbeard 2010-07-29 13:15:33