Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Odds and Ends, Wed 5 March 2008

1. "Dave Veloz's Steampunk Remake"
  <http://steampunkworkshop.com/daveveloz.shtml>
A Steampunk Monitor and Keyboard for a Mac mini.

More Steampunk Workshop Projects:
  <http://steampunkworkshop.com/index.shtml>

What is Steampunk? [Wikipedia]
  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk>

2. "What may happen in the next 100 years - from the year 1900"
  <http://www.bspcn.com/2008/03/02/what-may-happen-in-the-next-100-years-
     from-the-year-1900/>

3. "Oddest book titles prize shortlist announced"
  <http://www.thebookseller.com/news/53656-oddest-book-titles-prize-
     shortlist-announced.html>
This year's candidates:
* "I Was Tortured By the Pygmy Love Queen"
* "How to Write a How to Write Book"
* "Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues"
* "Cheese Problems Solved"
* "If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs"
* "People who Mattered in Southend and Beyond: From King Canute to Dr
   Feelgood"

The winner will be announced on 28th March.  Last year's winner...
"Stray carts scoops the prize"
  <http://www.thebookseller.com/news/37373-stray-carts-scoops-the-prize.html>
"[T]his year's Diagram Prize for the Oddest Title of 2006 is The Stray
 Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field
 Identification".

4. pi10k
  <http://www.avoision.com/experiments/pi10k/pi10k.html>
"Converting the first 10,000 digits of pi into a musical sequence."

5. "Restaurant sorry over F word bill"
  <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/7253002.stm>
"A restaurant owner has apologised after diners had their very own F
 word experience ... Diner Clare Watkin said she thought it was written
 after they complained about poor service."

6. "Caffeine: A User's Guide to Getting Optimally Wired"
  <http://scienceblogs.com/developingintelligence/2008/02/optimally_wired_
     a_caffeine_use.php>
"Caffeine is the most widely used stimulant in the world, but few use it
 to maximal advantage. Get optimally wired with these tips."

7. Inflated opinions?
* "Victoria Victorious Over Rest Of Australia"
  <http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/01/26/236-victoria-victorious-
     over-rest-of-australia/>
* "A Texan's Map of the United States"
  <http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/172-texas-is-bigger-than-
     everything/>