Exasperated Calculator

Month: July 2007

  • Boy scout ingenuity

    A boy scout achieved [fusion in his own backyard](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/nuclear-fusion/michigan-teenager-creates-nuclear-fusion-from-his-basement-247239.php)

  • Two great tastes…

    …together at last. [Guiness and Marmite](http://crookedtimber.org/2007/03/26/guinness-marmite/).

  • Heinlein & 100 years

    [One hundred years ago](http://www.heinleincentennial.com/) today (July 7 1907) the greatest science fiction writer of all time was born. [Robert A. Heinlein](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinlein) was a brilliant, controversial and innovative writer. But between 1939 and 1941 he wrote a set of twelve short stories that quickly established him as one of the masters of Science Fiction, with his…

  • Architecture of anxiety

    I would *not* live under this [building in Singapore](http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=946).

  • Urban development

    [People who refuse to abandon their homes](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/03/23/cavalcade_of_homeown.html)

  • Own a raygun

    From WETA: [Rayguns](http://www.wetanz.com/collectibles/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=9). ([Via](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/want-a-ray-gun-246448.php))

  • Skeleton watches

    I suppose it’s politer than [‘naked watch’](http://watchismo.blogspot.com/2007/03/skeletons-in-closet.html).

  • What about the smell?

    [A barbar in Memphis cuts hair with a blow torch](http://www.flickr.com/photos/djcollinator/421997829/in/photostream/). ([Via](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/03/22/memphis_barber_cuts_.html))

  • Who discovered Australia?

    [A 16th century map suggests it was the Portugese](http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSSYD3449720070321).

  • Teaching evaluations

    The [classroom feedback on Socrates](http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?%20id=6fnxs4gx7j6qr4v7qn567y5hb52ywb33). ([Via](http://www.danieldrezner.com/archives/003224.html))