Diet WinXP

The only reason I have WinXP (via Parallels) on my mac is so that I can use MS Internet Explorer to access my work email via web-mail. Unfortunately the webmail we use does not support any other browsers. Anyway, for this single purpose the standard Windows XP build is too fat so I appreciated this [...]

meebo: Web-based IM … what I’ve been waiting for.

When you have to stay in touch with someone but can’t, don’t want to, or are not allowed to install an Instant Messaging client on the machine you’re using, you can go Web and go to http://www.meebo.com/
Meebo offers Web-based IMing for the following networks:

AIM
Yahoo
Google Chat
MSN
ICQ
Jabber

Arduino

Here’s a little something that I will most likely spend some time with soon. It sure was fun when I was a kit and got my first electronics kit and then my chemistry kit. Now several years later, I discover this thing (I know it’s been out for a while) and am quite intruiged.
With Arduino [...]

Ion-etching of human hair

This is indeed fascinating!