MIT has announced a $100 laptop that can operate for 10 minutes on a 1 minute hand crank. Man…we need more things like this in our schools, and in our lives.
Archive > September 2005
Household LED Bulbs
Not only do we need to find alternate (clean, renewable) ways to produce energy, we need to find ways to not use as much. Here is one idea that is starting to take hold: Replacing Incandescent light bulbs and even compact fluorescents (CFLs) with LED Bulbs. Once price of these bulbs come down a bit [...]
NavelCast 2.1 - Names
I produced NavelCast #2 again. I worked on reading and speaking it the way I would more naturally talk when I tell a story. Please comment about which is better.
Today’s story, music and quotes are all about names.
Songs Features on this podcast:
A Boy Named Sue by Johnny Cash from the album The Best of [...]
Are PC’s Becoming Relics?
Is the day of the home PC going to become a thing of the past in the near future. Jonathan Schwartz, president of SUN, seems to think they are.
“The majority of the world will first experience the Internet through their handset,” Schwartz said.
This quote got me to thinking. Most things that the average person [...]
Take Two, and Action!
I’m going to re-produce NavelCast #2. After posting it, I let Sarah listen to it and she thinks that it’s dry, and not like I normally tell stories at all. It makes her want to go to sleep. I’m still trying to figure out this thing called podcasting.
I’m learning a lot, but clearly have [...]
NavelCast 2 - Names
Today’s story, music and quotes are all about names.
Songs Features on this podcast:
A Boy Named Sue by Johnny Cash from the album The Best of Shel Silverstein: His Words His Songs His Friends
A Front Row To Hear Ole Johnny Sing by Shel Silverstein The Best of Shel Silverstein: His Words His Songs His Friends: [...]
Fictitious functions for five score and two defunct felines
Far from being politically correct, I used to laugh at the cartoon book, 101 uses for a dead cat. Now it seems that theoretically there are 102 uses. I was lead to this article from Slashdot.
BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) — A German inventor said he has developed a method to produce crude oil products from waste [...]
NavelCast 1 - My First Memory
Welcome to the first edition of NavelCast. If you don’t know what a podcast is, download iTunes and find out.
Here’s what you will find in the first edition:
NavelCast Introduced - with mood music, Not Alone, by Rob Costlow
The Cowboy Junkies new album: Early 21st Century Blues - See NPR’s All songs considered episode 90 [...]
Dvorak on Podcasting
John C. Dvorak is calling Podcasting the next big thing.
There is no doubt in my mind that podcasting is not only here to stay but will also shortly threaten established media broadcast systems. It’s not so much that they will all be destroyed by homebrew networks, but podcasts will be taking away just enough listeners [...]
Googlegazing
I did a google search for “navelcast” and “belly button blogging” and the only search results I came back with were my own pages. Just wanted to check if anyone else had thought about it. Well, if they have…google doesn’t know about it.
Googlegazing: using google to navel gaze.
