Month February 2008

RSS feed to Newspaper?

In the most irritating way possible, FeedJournal offers to bring the technological advancement of feeding/reading news full circle by enabling you to generate a newspaper from your feed content. Kill trees AND read slower with no mechanism for sharing –…

Stixy for Web Development

If you are a web developer who works with clients from a distance, Stixy is a tool worth looking into. Need reasons? it’s free it enables collaboration/sharing on projects it’s well-suited for visual presentation How? Sign up for an account.…

New Theme, More Posts?

We’ll see if the correlation holds true. Kinda like when you were little and got new sneakers – because they made you run faster, right? My intent is to start posting more here again.

A Gym that Generates Power

I've often wondered just how much energy was being "wasted" - converted to heat and lost to the environment - at the gym as I watched all the people sweating away on their stationary machines. Well, one man is trying to capture back some of that energy and make use of it.

Adam Boesel, a personal trainer in Seattle, is determined to discover new ways to utilize the energy his clients generate to power his gym.

More here.

Happy Fasnacht Day

Its that time of year again, Fasnacht Day, or Fat Tuesday. Years ago Pennsylvania was settled by a large number of German immigrants, a group now referred to as the Pennsylvania Dutch. They brought with them their tradition of Fasnacht…