Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Nov 24, 2009, 12:20 am
Several years ago I had a mouse in my apartment. Being sadly catless, I found myself being awoken every night by skitterings and chewings. Every night, mulling over different mouse trap concepts in my...
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Steel P. posted an article on The Allegator - Nov 16, 2009, 9:40 pm
If you’ve ever wondered who is at fault for the problems in this country, see the above video for a prime example (no not Maddow, she’s just snarky). I can’t imagine why Steve Buyer ...
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Steel P. posted an article on The Allegator - Nov 16, 2009, 9:16 pm
The above video is the Congressional equivalent of haiku. Rarely will you hear a politician make his point in under a minute. I like Kucinich. He seems like one of the more honest politicians we still...
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Steel P. posted an article on The Allegator - Nov 15, 2009, 9:50 pm
Those who look busy in politics enjoy short term success. After Sept. 11, the majority were thirsty for blood and supported the Patriot Act and the invasion of two foreign nations. Now they are demand...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Nov 15, 2009, 12:06 pm
With the flood of dumbed-down instrument games like Guitar Hero that do wonders for your button pushing but don’t do much for your guitar skills, there has been a flood of innovators trying to r...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Nov 14, 2009, 5:24 pm
Want to make your favorite landscaper green with…wait, thats envy, right? You aren’t just going to be sick on my shoes? Well, never mind then! If you have a rather tacky nerd in your life...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Nov 14, 2009, 4:07 pm
I don’t know what it is about clocks, but they are a magnet for innovative designers. I love the simplicity of this device, which is made from a gear and a bicycle chain with copper digits. I th...
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Steel P. posted an article on The Allegator - Nov 10, 2009, 8:39 pm
Over at the Pat Buchanan blog, they’ve posted a series of cow analogies for various political groups. I’m providing an exerpt, and the last one I threw in myself, because that’s the ...
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Steel P. posted an article on The Allegator - Nov 9, 2009, 8:25 pm
Mark Kleiman was guest blogging recently over at the Volokh Consipiracy. I’ve been very interested in his posts, which deal less with individual laws than with the philosophy of the justice syst...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Nov 4, 2009, 11:14 pm
This mechanical pencil from Japan has an internal gear system that automatically rotates the lead as you go, keeping it sharp at the tip. I’m he kind of person who will just walk into a pen stor...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Oct 28, 2009, 11:21 pm
Advertising with flies has to be simultaneously one of the ingenious and disturbing marketing tactics in history. Watch the above video of the Frankfurt book fair to see unsuspecting people’s mi...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Oct 11, 2009, 6:48 pm
This case mod (origin unknown, likely Russian) is like an AtomPunk Norman Rockwell, or the Barbie geek dream house.  I love the little LED lamp, the cozy looking couch and chair, the little touches o...
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Steel P. posted an article on The Allegator - Oct 11, 2009, 12:02 pm
Iran is an odd case in international relations. We’ve all gotten used to the regular media firestorms surrounding the nation. They begin with the implication that Iran is moving forward in some ...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Oct 10, 2009, 11:37 pm
The ALPS device pictured above creates a modulated electric field capable of traveling through the human body, using it like a wire. They have it set up to transfer a photo from the unit, through your...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Oct 10, 2009, 11:11 pm
The above video was taken at one million frames per second, so fast that you can watch the individual cracks forming as a bullet shatters a sheet of glass. The video is much art as science; both mesme...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Oct 10, 2009, 4:04 pm
Pastels on the plaza is an annual event in Arcata California, and is put on as a fund raiser for a local childen’s center. Local businesses can donate a hundred dollars for a three foot square (...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Sep 15, 2009, 6:53 pm
The empire of cute animal sites continues to grow. Sometimes the domain name says it all. AnimalsWithLightSabers.com is a site that needed only be thought up to be a success. The content is user driv...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Aug 31, 2009, 11:05 pm
This LED lit pour spout for your liquor is more than just a flashlight on top of a bottle. It uses the same physics as a fiber optic cable. The total internal reflection of the light in a fluid with a...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Aug 31, 2009, 9:56 pm
Dan Pink gives a Ted Talk in the above video that touches on the nature of inspiration and how our actions to motivate its inception are actually stifling ideas. A good watch for inventors, artists, a...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Aug 30, 2009, 1:08 am
CrunchGear had an unusually short and sweet caption on this photo, and I must admit, I don’t think I can improve upon it: “Give a robot repairs, and it will operate for a day. Teach it to...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Aug 28, 2009, 8:44 pm
Joshua Allen Harris is a street artist who has truly created something that is more than the sum of its parts. With nothing but a bit of tape, some trash bags, and a subway vent, he creates some of th...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Aug 26, 2009, 1:02 am
Some ideas come in a sudden flash, as all of the pieces come together in your mind. This is great unless it happens at three in the morning waking up from a drunken stupor, as illustrated below: Wink...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Aug 23, 2009, 10:55 pm
If you are the computer geek of the family, you’ll appreciate the above clip. The disconnect between technophobes and technophiles isn’t a recent occurrence, but lately it is becoming les...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Aug 23, 2009, 4:27 pm
If the Segway is so great at balancing itself, then why does it need two wheels? This is the Enicycle, a Segway-like unicycle built by Aleksander Polutnik, a guy who couldn’t ride a real unicy...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Aug 19, 2009, 12:57 am
I’ve seen a lot of rubber band guns in my day, but this one comes out far above the rest. The difference is in the ingenious firing mechanism. It works by coiling a robe around the barrel of the...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Aug 7, 2009, 12:18 am
This lamp by A2591 is made to look like a security camera and can be used either as a desk lamp or wall mounted. I’m not at all sure I’d like this as an indoor lamp, although it looks nic...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Aug 6, 2009, 12:44 am
The artist who created these lights , Frank Buchwald, has a design trait I commonly see among the greatest of machine oriented designers: He doesn’t so much see himself as an artist creating art...
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Steel P. posted an article on The Allegator - Jun 30, 2009, 1:28 am
Obama seems to be testing out what I imagine will become another great speech soon. In today’s speech he set the stage for the destruction of the DADT policy, saying, “I’ve called on...
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Steel P. posted an article on The Allegator - Jun 30, 2009, 12:55 am
Opponents of reverse discrimination won a rare victory today (Ricci v. DeStefano). This has been the poster case for reverse discrimination for quite a while now, with two thirds of respondents in a ...
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