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serious about wood

Among other (many) other things. Matthias Wandel built a neat little pipe organ.   Lots of stuff on his pages.  Anyone with an interesting in wood and building stuff will want to take a look at his main page, a project page and a neat little game.

thanks for the link Greg!

a polymath

See if you can stop after reading the first paragraph of this obit.

Dollars to doughnuts, Robert H. Rines will be mainly remembered not for holding more than 800 patents, starting a law school or writing music for the stage, but for his dogged pursuit of the Loch Ness monster.

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every home needs one

Greg points out a nifty can crusher

coney island from the air

It looks like the amusement park at Coney Island is being torn down for development - so sad.  It had a certain tackiness to it that is a major feature of the place.  Last July Sukie, Colleen and I were able to spend some time there and rode the fabled wonder wheel.

Alan found a company that does commercial video uses a R/C helicopter as a camera mount.  They shot a nice Coney Island sequence.

very desirable tool

Greg points out the Jointmaker Pro by Bridge City Tool Works. Not inexpensive, but it looks great!

here is a review 

go out and crash something

but do it for less than a hundred bucks - advice from Dan Shapiro

douglas would be happy

Spacecraft tweet these days.

Here are some of the last tweets from LCROSS as it headed towards a crash on the moon:

1. “That's it! Ground! Ha! I wonder if it'll be friends with me?”7:34 AM Oct 9th from web
2. it needs a big wide sounding name like 'Ow', 'Ownge', 'Round', 'Ground'!”7:34 AM Oct 9th from web
3. “And what's this thing coming toward me very fast? So big and flat and round,7:34 AM Oct 9th from web

potentially awesome halloween costumes

(thanks for the link Bart!)

vivid bike wheels

Monkey Light makes leds for your bike wheels presumably to add visibility as well as a serious wheel that allows you to display jpegs.  We've mentioned them before, but not the high end $2000 model.

making gifts for the holidays

It is now less than three months until the major holidays and two months until the unpleasant shopping period.

If you are inclined now is a good time to pick a few people on your list and make something special with your hands or even with your imagination.   

Sukie is heavily into it this year and Colleen has a suggestion guide on her blog from a year ago.