Palo Alto Municipal Code

Just in case you were thinking of building an addition to a house you haven't even bought yet.

Buy your One Week Duration Survival Stockpile

That's a lot of stuff.

DHTML Lemmings!™

Truly remarkable. It's about as fast as the DOS original, too.

Homebrew SWR meter for VHF, UHF and SHF (including Wifi ISM Band)

Build one yourself, or buy one ready made.

Robots!

The ER1 looks like an interesting robot platform. If I understand correctly, it can build up its own map of its environment and there's an SDK so you can integrate it into your own crazy ideas.
(thanks, Kevin)



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Say you're sorry

Show you really care by using this Apology Generator.

Put a cork in it

Tell noisy cellphone users to shut up.

Sticky footers

How to do the right CSS magic to make a footer that sticks to the bottom of the page, which is generally what you wanted, right?

Optimus LCD keyboard

I thought of this years ago, but of course I can't prove it.
Would someone please wipe the drool off my (old, non-LCD) keyboard?

Music for plumbers

Very interesting, and may provide hours of entertainment.

Mommy, Matthew's making faces at me again

Mommy, Matthew's making faces at me again
Originally uploaded by mariusm.

He said "that photo is so blogged" and so it is.

Shuttle Countdown Portal

Watch the shuttle launch (or not, since it was just delayed)

Planarity Game

Simple, addictive and will drive you nuts. I gave up on level 10.

Google Confiteria

Google Confiteria
Originally uploaded by Temo Rivera.

How very odd.

Telepresence Rover

I was going to build one of these using Mindstorms, but maybe I should do it this way instead. But mine will have lasers.

Badge Maker

Get kicked out by security when you show them this fake photographer ID badge.

Sparkline Generator

Very cute.

The Solar Sail

Maybe I will be able to see it. Or maybe it will crash and burn :(

Mathomatic

Yes, we know about Mathematica and all those highly scary packages, but this is LGPL and you don't need a PhD to use it.

Champagne Chair Contest

I occasionally make chairs from Champagne bottle parts, but none as fancy as these.