Exasperated Calculator

Month: February 2008

  • At least it’ll be easy to move

    [A table, stool, wardrobe, bed and bookcase that fit into a small crate](http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/02/12/casulo-complete-furn.html). Watch the video – this is a very nice bit of design.

  • Caffeine productivity

    [How to maximise your use of caffeine](http://scienceblogs.com/developingintelligence/2008/02/optimally_wired_a_caffeine_use.php). Hmmm, I could go for a coffee about now…

  • Where’s the Lego Shrubbery?

    [Lego Monty Python](http://gizmodo.com/355912/lego-monty-python-beats-lego-star-wars-with-a-stick). Personally I’d love to get a Black Knight minifig. (And if you haven’t seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail, none of this will be the slightest bit funny).

  • Race Fish

    [A Racetrack shaped goldfish bowl](http://gizmodo.com/356239/racetrack-fishbowl-for-goldfish-daredevils). I’m not sure how well the fish could handle the hairpin turn, to be honest.

  • NaNoWriMo for short attention spans

    Last year I tried to complete [NaNoWriMo](http://www.nanowrimo.org), the National Novel Writing Month. I did better than the year before, but still fell well short of the goal of 50,000 words written in the month. It’s hard to commit to something for as long as a month – life tends to intervene, and once it does…

  • Inside the A380

    [A panoramic view of inside the A380’s cockpit](http://www.gillesvidal.com/blogpano/cockpit1.htm). Takes a little while to load. Really nicely done webpage. But somehow I find the interior a bit underwhelming – can’t we make something that looks a bit more high tech than this? Maybe we should get Apple to design these things.

  • Small things

    [A Ford truck that comes with RFID tags for all your tools and a tracker](http://www.boingboing.net/2008/02/06/ford-truck-with-rfid.html). Your truck tells you when you’ve left something behind. Really clever. Can someone do the same thing for a laptop, so I can stop leaving USB sticks behind?

  • Need a new zoom lens?

    [How about this 5200mm lens from Canon?](http://www.canonfd.com/mirrorlenses/pages/page10.html). 100kg and 2 metres long, so you’ll probably need a pretty good tripod…

  • Early Adopter

    [The adoption rates for technology, from the telephone to the Internet](http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/02/10/opinion/10op.graphic.ready.html) (at the bottom). Lots of fascinating bits in the graph. Even the incredibly rapid take-ups seem to need over 10 years to get into more than half of households.

  • Another reason to jail break your iPhone/iPod Touch

    [How to put all of Wikipedia on your iPhone or iPod Touch](http://collison.ie/wikipedia-iphone/) Clever. The only problem is you need to update way too often to keep track of changes – you don’t know what state any page is in when you load it…