Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Oct 31, 2011, 8:44 pm
  I carved a zucchini for Halloween this year (click image to see full size). Going unconventional with my Jack o’ Lantern is typical for me, though I would usually carve a watermelon, but I couldn’t come up with anything that would top last years watermelon skull with brain, so I figured it w...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Oct 18, 2011, 12:16 am
This is one of those ‘once seen, cannot be unseen’ kinda sites. Draw a ninja turtle nose on a picture and send it in. My submission above, freedom ninja Ron Paul. Check out the Teenage Mutant Ninja NosesTumblr here.
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Oct 17, 2011, 12:32 am
  This printer uses helium to blow foam bubbles through custom advertising stencils. The resulting foam advertising flies rigt out of the printer and into the sky. I love this concept, but when it comes to shapes, all I can think of is unleashing thousands and thousands of space invaders.
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Oct 16, 2011, 1:50 am
The Reuleaux Triangle, named after Franz Reuleaux, is this odd roundy triangle, which would hardly seem worth naming after someone, except for one unusual feature: However you turn it, one side is always the same distance from the opposite side. If you were to put a board on a couple of  Reuleaux ...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Oct 15, 2011, 1:19 pm
Throwable Cameras are an awesome concept, and this 3D printed ball with 36 cameras by Jonas Pfeil takes it to the next level. Just toss the ball in the air and when it reaches the vertex, all the cameras take a picture. The result is a stitched together panoramic image with a full 360° unobstructed...
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Steel P. posted an article on The Allegator - Oct 14, 2011, 12:39 am
I’ve been reading the Weekly Market Comment section over at HussmanFunds for a while now as one of my top few sources of insight on what is going on in our economy. A new post by John P. Hussman, Ph.D. goes up every Monday. Their quality and interest varies, but when he’s on a roll, I find myse...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Oct 11, 2011, 12:17 am
SteamPunk guns aren’t just something to hang over your mantle for decoration. The weapon pictured above is a fully functional Nerf gun created by Etsy seller faustus70. Alas, it is already sold, but there is really nothing stopping you from making your own customized SteamPunk gear out of some bel...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Oct 9, 2011, 7:00 pm
War is about to change in a way not seen since the invention of the missile. DARPA (the defense Department’s advanced research wing) is showing off a scaled up version of Big Dog they are calling Alpha Dog, or Bull Dog. It resembles an actual bull more than any kind of dog, which reminds me of a r...
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Steel P. posted an article on The Allegator - Oct 9, 2011, 1:02 am
Those of you with facebook accounts have no doubt seen one or the other, possibly even both, of the above and below images (the one below had the caption Dare to be Stupid, Click LIKE & SHARE if people calling for “zero taxes” shouldn’t be using public streets and sidewalks . The former is a...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Oct 6, 2011, 11:43 pm
Why hasn’t anyone told me about popsicle stick bombs? These have so much more potential for mischief than dominoes. For some simple instructions and complex constructions out of these frame bombs, check out framebomb.com And if the thought of eating all those popsicles makes you blue, you can ge...
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Steel P. posted an article on The Allegator - Oct 2, 2011, 8:13 pm
Just an update on some recent Ron Paul videos. First up we have a couple from Jon Stewart, who has given a boost of cred to both Ron Paul and himself by highlighting the coporate media’s fear of everything Ron Paul. Stewart shows once again that he earned his place as the most trusted journalist i...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Oct 2, 2011, 12:13 am
Pastels on the Plaza time again. My entry above, for the lovely and talented Genevieve Schmidt, an Arcata based landscape designer and garden writer. See her work in this month’s Fine Gardening Magazine pages 42-47, as well as this month’s issue of Pacific Horticulture. We arrived at the Arcata...
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Steel P. posted an article on The Allegator - Sep 29, 2011, 12:08 am
Ron Paul makes quite a campaign commercial.  It’s interesting to see a candidate for president run on a platform of consistency, honesty, peace, liberty, and sincerity, and not have a single one of his opponents question his credentials on any of it. He faces only two obstacles: A corporate finan...
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Steel P. posted an article on The Allegator - Sep 28, 2011, 12:49 am
Not since the advent of Unnecessary Censorship have I seen such an awesome video concept. For a taste of what it must be like for the deaf to watch Rick Perry speak, check out the video above. I look forward to many more future episodes of Bad Lip Reading.  
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Steel P. posted an article on The Allegator - Sep 25, 2011, 6:17 pm
• U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000 • Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000 • New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000 • National debt: $14,271,000,000,000 • Recent budget cut: $ 38,500,000,000 Got it? OK, now let’s remove 8 zeros and pretend it’s a household budget: • Annual family inco...
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Steel P. posted an article on The Allegator - Sep 25, 2011, 3:34 pm
If philosophy is questions that may never be answered, and religion is answers that may never be questioned, then politics is asking the wrong questions in order to avoid unwanted answers. There are times when truth is the bane of politics, often justifiably so. It is one of the most central tenet...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Sep 6, 2011, 12:31 am
Dailymail has a story about a 21 year old girl who destroyed the left hemisphere of her brain in a car crash. It may seem strange to even be alive at all with only half of your brain, but Taisia Sidorova has shown an artistic ability she didn’t show before the crash, as seen in the painting abov...
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Steel P. posted an article on The Allegator - Sep 5, 2011, 8:11 pm
The poor often vote against their own interests. The conventional wisdom on this has been that they one day aspire to be rich, and they are empathizing with their future selves’ wish to have low taxes more than their present situation. A new study by the national bureau of economic research show...
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Steel P. posted an article on The Allegator - Sep 5, 2011, 6:57 pm
If you went to college before the turn of the millennium and you are now trying to convince your kids to go to college, it may be worth more careful deliberation. There was a time when college was the path to a wealthy future. Back then it was one of the only ways to get a decent education. With th...
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Steel P. posted an article on The Allegator - Jul 16, 2011, 5:28 pm
Here we have a man, Dennis Kucinich, who is a contender for being the farthest left of center in our government, speaking out against the legitimacy of that government, its monetary policies, and the two party system. What surer sign can we have that the system is broken? I’ve spoken of Dennis Ku...
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Steel P. posted an article on The Allegator - Jul 16, 2011, 2:00 pm
It seems that these days, Congress takes a few breaks each year from legislating on important topics like who can marry who and baseball to bicker over some massive piece of legislation. This legislation is always claimed to be crucial to the continuation of society as we know it (sometimes it re...
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Steel P. posted an article on The Allegator - Jul 3, 2011, 4:11 pm
I haven’t spoken much about WikiLeaks, but I’m glad that such organizations exist to shine some sunlight on the back-room dealing of those in power. It’s a sad day when the truth is a crime. Our secrets are a weakness, not our power. Who can be blackmailed, if they have no secrets? Who embez...
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Steel P. posted an article on The Allegator - Jun 30, 2011, 12:57 am
California’s latest budget deal continues their now-familiar trend of chasing small business out of the state. In a desperate and unconstitutional powergrab, they are saying that any business that is even affiliated with anyone in California has to pay sales tax on everything sent to customers i...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Jun 19, 2011, 9:27 pm
The land mine sticker above is part of a land mine awareness campaign by Unicef (United Nations Children’s Fund). The other side is sticky and camouflaged with a pattern to match flooring. When the camouflaged ad is stepped on, it sticks to the bottom of the shoe. The text on the front reads, �...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Jun 18, 2011, 11:58 pm
Ever wanted to search for images using an image? I often find images that are out of context online and want to know where they originated. Sometimes I take a picture of a weird bug and want to know what it is, and sometimes I just want to put in a favorite image and see what the algorithm finds t...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Jun 1, 2011, 12:27 am
It’s kinetic time once again in Humboldt County California, and this year there were even more challenges than usual for our brave contestants. The weather has thrown them the usual mix of sun, hail, and rainbows, but this year, in addition to slogging through sand dunes, the bay, and 42 miles of ...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Apr 3, 2011, 3:22 pm
Not a year goes by lately without Festo coming out with some awesome new biomimetic toys, well, industrial automation really, but you can bet these will be in toy stores in some form within a year or two. This time, they’ve created a bionic seagull, fully autonomous from takeoff to landing. It us...
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Steel P. posted an article on The Allegator - Apr 3, 2011, 12:57 pm
The above video gives me hope for the future of Islamic nations. The uprisings sparked in Tunisia have spread like wildfire through nations repressed by religion, censorship, and income inequality. Some have been successful, while others haven’t, and the deciding factor seems to be one of courage ...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Mar 14, 2011, 12:20 am
I’m a big fan of X-Prize style innovation. Instead of hiring a research team, and building a whole facility to research a subject, just start adding to a prize fund for whoever the first person is to give you the answer you seek. This way, you end up getting facilities, minds, correlations, and ot...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Mar 13, 2011, 3:31 pm
Involuntary collaboration refers to a project contributed to by multiple parties in which at least one of those parties did not intend to be working with the others. Examples include things like covers of songs, spoofs of movies, and in the case of the pictures above (painted in part by Chris McMah...
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Steel P. posted an article on The Allegator - Feb 6, 2011, 12:46 pm
The above video does a good job of explaining the differences between Great Britain, The United Kingdom, England, The British Isles, The Commonwealth Realm, who is under the jusrisdiction of the crown, etc. It’s one of those things I and other Americans have trouble distinguishing with confidence....
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Feb 5, 2011, 1:40 pm
Lunch theft is a serious problem in some offices. You go through all the trouble of shopping, cooking, and then hauling it al the way to work, only to find yourself hungry, angry, and without a plan. Well heres the plan for next week: anti-theft lunch bags, available here. Alternatively, you could ...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Feb 4, 2011, 12:18 am
Eco friendly marketing is a rapidly growing field, as it should be. With an ever growing number of consumers taking such things into account when choosing which companies to support, a marketer needs to as well, or see their market share go to their competitor. Now this method in particular isn’t...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Jan 31, 2011, 9:04 pm
MrsWoman knitted her husband a wig. An Elvis wig. Why? Well, if you need to ask that, you’re on the wrong website. If I ever go bald, I’m gonna have me a closet full of knitted hair. (Via the PreSurfer) See also: I Made You a Beard
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Jan 30, 2011, 1:20 pm
Liquid plastic casting resins tend to be expensive and have set properties that limit your flexibility.  Mikey77 has come up with his own material out of materials so common, chances are you already have them. Best of all, you choose the color, viscosity, and set time yourself based on your needs. ...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Jan 21, 2011, 12:03 am
We live in a world full of uniform, mass produced, cheap little wonders. Case in point, the humble pull tab. Tossed out as refuge in the millions every day, but what better way to attach something on the wall? Just screw a pull tab to it and hang it over a screw/nail in the wall. Yet another brilli...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Jan 17, 2011, 7:04 pm
If you are anything like me, math class was only good for one thing: Quieting down that analytical part of the brain long enough to get in some good doodling, which is why, in order to pass a math class, I had to stop bringing paper and just hope I could absorb something from the lecture before pass...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Jan 16, 2011, 10:54 pm
Johnathan Post has a very impressive new method for seeing 3D content on video screens without shutter glasses. While there are some obvious reasons why this particular method isn’t going to catch on, I really am vastly impressed with his ingenuity. (via, appropriately, the Daily What)
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Jan 9, 2011, 11:36 pm
I’ve been wondering ever since the Hypercolor days why no one sells a house paint that changes from black to white as it gets warm. The same goes for shingles, jackets, etc. I can only assume that the costs of production must still outweigh their value as an active thermal insulation, but now that...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Jan 9, 2011, 1:01 am
“Knockers” is what Steve Wienecke calls his game. Somehow I don’t think that’s gonna stick, but the game just might. He’s scaled up a pool table enough to play it with bowling balls. I’d love to give this a shot. It looks like more fun than regular bowling. Just don’t try to build one ...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Dec 26, 2010, 6:44 pm
I think all of us need a reminder sometimes that we don’t need expensive materials to make something awesome, as illustrated by this poseable cardboard Gundam. (via Tomopop)
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Dec 20, 2010, 12:00 am
ZebraImaging is by far the best hologram maker I’ve seen. Their ZScape™ holograms are huge, hi resolution, color, have a strong 3D effect, and are almost perfectly smooth in motion. These things compare to the bird on your credit card like an Etch-a-Sketch does to an I-Max. Check out the video b...
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Steel P. posted an article on The Allegator - Dec 14, 2010, 10:44 pm
I just got the sad news today that my favorite lefty blogger, Kel, from The Osterley Times died suddenly in late October. I counted him as a friend, though until today I never even knew his gender. It never seemed to matter. He was a champion of truth. This is an important distinction. Much of poli...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Dec 12, 2010, 6:29 pm
If you want to avoid shakycam footage, there are a ton of ways to stabilize your camera, ranging from DIY projects, to a huge variety of devices (see here) ranging from simple and affordable, all the way to professional units where if you have to ask the price, you can’t afford them. All these opt...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Dec 8, 2010, 12:50 am
This antenna being developed by SPAWAR Systems uses a jet of seawater as its conductor. It can both recieve and transmit, and by adjusting the length of the jet, they can better tune in a specific wavelength. Don’t expect to have one of these on your cellphone any time soon, but it seems like it ...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Nov 21, 2010, 1:16 pm
The Groasis Waterboxx was the grand award winner in Popular Science’s 2010 top 100 innovations list. The base has a water reservoir which you fill once or very rarely. Any rainfall or morning dew runs down the top of the lid to water the plant, and the condensation from the reservoir collects on t...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Oct 30, 2010, 11:37 pm
Happy Halloween everyone! This is my Jack o’ Lantern for the year, my usual carved watermelon.  For anyone who isn’t tied down by tradition, I highly recommend them over pumpkins, it went really smooth and only took about twenty minutes using a birds-beak style paring knife. This is the first...
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Steel P. posted an article on The Allegator - Oct 30, 2010, 5:07 pm
This was our Nobel for Economics winner of 2008. More proof that our economic situation wan’t an accident, wasn’t the result of insufficient regulation, but was engineered by those very regulators. “To fight the recession the Fed needs more than a snapback; it needs soaring household spending...
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Steel P. posted an article on Zogdo - Oct 28, 2010, 11:52 pm
This is a fun table design concept. I’m not sure what situations it would be better than legs, and it’s a bit cobbled together, with all the support braces and legs all over the place, but it’s quite a conversation piece. I’d love to see a more polished version. (via Thereifixedit)
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Steel P. posted an article on The Allegator - Oct 27, 2010, 1:16 am
Today I noticed a poll question on the front page of CNN.com: “Is it time to break out of the two-party system?” Much to my surprise, the results: 84% – yes 16% – no Why, why, why do they torment me like this? Rarely a week goes by without me discussing the two party system with someone. ...
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