These HomeBrew Rapid Prototypers are so cool. If I ever get back into playing with home Robotics I have got to build one of these first!
Update: This CNC router also looks pretty cool, and engadget has a project for building a CNC router from a dremel and old printer parts (part one, part two, and part three).
Neat. I had no idea you could do SSH port redirection to a local IP that doesn’t exist.
The people who made Enso Launcher really should have just paid the guy who wrote Quicksilver to do a Windows port. Quicksilver is so much better it’s not even funny.
Axioms of Web architecture should be required reading for web developers and for anyone designing or programming networked software. It’s part of a larger document Design Issues for the World Wide Web, that is also quite illluminating. Skimming through it, it’s obvious that Tim Berners-Lee is one of the clearest and deepest thinkers in the computer industry.
This is an impressive mind map of the various Web Services specifications, complete with hyperlinks the specification documents. It’s organized by the committe or organization who published the spec, which gives some idea of just how many standards bodies have their toes in these particular waters.
I wish I knew who the author of the mindmap is or the background on why it was created, but it looks the parent website is in Japanese or something.. Oh well.
Here is another overview, this one does a better job at putting the various standards into the context of what they’re intended to accomplish.
It’s almost like Microsoft deliberately tried to make the suckiest MP3 player possible.
Universal and Sony prohibit Zune sharing for certain artists – Engadget
It’s hard not to get angry when you see what we could be doing with the money being wasted on the war in Iraq.
A friend of mine recently reminded me of the existance of the Tango Desktop Project. Aside from the good work the project is doing to standardize theming and look and feel across the open source desktop projects, it’s also a good source for free icons you can use.
I suck at drawing icons (or anything for that matter), so I’ll probably snag a couple Tango icons to dress up some of my Rails apps! 
Anyone out there care to recommend other (free) sources for icons, graphics etc. for opensource apps?
A few days ago I blogged a bit about the debate between proponents of the WS-* and REST styles of web services. I’ve been thinking about the debate since then, and I’ve come to the realization that part of the problem with the WS-*/REST debate, part of why the two sides can never reach any concensus, is that it’s really three debates in one.
