Discussion at HybridBlog about equating Prius hybrids and Fluorescent light bulbs : replacing 15 incandescent bulbs with fluorescents could be seen as removing as much carbon dioxide as driving a Prius instead of a regular car.
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Mirror Independent
This nice article, was linked to by Jason Kottke. But quickly « disappeared behind the Independent’s paywall ». As Jason points out in an update, courtsy DuggMirror, a mirrored edition is available. DuggMirror also gives you the datestamp, and URL alternate mirror (Google cache, Coral Cache 8080, Coral Cache 8090 & Archive.org’s Wayback Machine)!
Zoomify
Zoomify makes high-quality images fast and interactive on the web using just HTML, JPEGs, and Flash. Zoomifyer EZ is its simple free (as in beer) drag-and-drop image converter, (just copy the folder it creates to your server along with a tiny Flash movie, add a few lines to any web page, and your site visitors can zoom-and-pan your image). (via kottke)
Transformer Houses
Digitizing Records and Tapes
How to Digitize Your Records and Tapes To Make Audio CDs and MP3 Files (using GoldWave) on a Windows OS machine…
packing light
The quick and dirty route to extra-long ethernet cables
Minty Boost
hack a day : Minty Boost, AA based USB charger –
S1mp3
S1mp3 is a line of mp3/mp4 players sold under many brand names. It seems very easy to hack and full of promising features (including Show to add/change a memory chip, a via hack-a-day‘ed hack). There is a S1mp3 Wiki with tips to how identify a S1mp3
Save pages as images w/ Firefox
- Pearl Crescent Page Saver is a free extension for Mozilla Firefox that lets you save an image of a web page to a file in PNG format. Options let you control whether images are saved at full size (which is the default) or scaled down to a smaller size. The Page Saver extension uses the new canvas feature that was introduced in Firefox 1.5.
- How to Capture & Save Screenshots of Webpages
- ScreenGrab 0.8!
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