Amazing Orion Nebula Pics From Vista Telescope

Had to post these pics.  They are beautiful.  Enjoy.  Thumbnailed…

Tauntaun Sleeping Bag Fun Without Mess

Yeah, you may have thought about getting an actual Tauntaun for your little star wars obsessed tyke.  But make no bones about it.  That little kid would be crying gator tears when the jelly peanuts came tumbling out of the Tauntaun’s gut.  No, best to go with a fake one like this Tauntaun sleeping bag.

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Crayon Rockets Color the Sky

Now, here’s to ingenuity.  John Coker became a hero of mine when I saw this luscious custom crayon Rocket and staging/launching pack.  The rockets fire in quick succession.

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5 Reasons iPad Will Succeed

Photo: Moses demonstrating multi touch.

It is always fascinating watching Apple present a new product.  It’s not Apple that I watch, it’s everyone else.  Bloggers goes nuts.  Stock analysts approach it with typical wry skepticism.  And news outlets tap into the prognostications.  Bloggers and followers almost always seem underwhelmed when a new product comes out.  Maybe because bloggers tend to obsess about the new product ad nauseum.  The Apple iPad met with the same backlash.  Regardless, here are my reasons why the iPad will be a success.

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Alka Seltzer Water Bubble Space Video

Can you say awesome?  Performed aboard the International Space Station.  Behold the eye about half way through – eerie!

Bomgar One of My Favorite Support Tools

Bomgar, yeah it has a strange name for a product.  But that’s because it is named for its founder, Joel Bomgar.  Bomgar provides support appliances that a support technician would drool over.  It’s almost like they took a support techs dream list and came out with this product.  Seriously – it’s that fun to use.

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Graphene Scientifically Obscene

Sorry, couldn’t resist the grabby title.  Speaking of resistance (duh duh), graphene is a sheet of carbon that has remarkably low resistance that will become the future of (no, not rock n roll) – electronics.

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Plug Computing Small Wave Growing

One of the interesting newer technologies is plug computing.  These are very small computers that plug into an electrical outlet that serve some purpose.  At first look, it seems like a very empty sort of idea.  But if you stop and ponder the ideas coming into the plug computing space, I think you will see massive potential waiting to happen.

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California Storm May Eclipse Strongest Ever

Another obsessive interest of mine is weather.  I make no bones about it.  Sometime soon I will be launching something weather related, just because I can.  Anyway, the storm that is pounding California is a whopper.  It’s lowest buoy barometric pressure reading was 28.78 inches of mercury.  For those who are accustomed to tracking hurricanes in millibars, that translates to 974 millibars.  And that my friends is incredibly impressive.  In fact, you have to go back 100 years to find a storm of that strength hitting California.

What that means in laymans terms is that the weather is going to be miserable.  It’s going to be very very windy – 122mph has already been clocked.  And it’s going to rain a ton.  Yep, some places have already gotten a foot of rain.  It’s like a veritable winter hurricane.  Yes, a category 2 hurricane has a pressure reading in the 965–979 millibar range.

Baton the hatches.

Photo: courtesy of NASA

iVictrola iPod Dock Melds Old and New

There is something really cool about doing mashups of really new technology with the old.  This is especially true of mechanical ones like steampunk designs and so forth.  Well, the iVictrola does that with your iPod.  And I bet the sound is “vintage” as well.

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