Amazon Kindle 2 review

I’m a big fan of e-books and have read many on several devices, including my old Palm Tungsten T and T|X, Nokia 770 and most recently my iPhone.  There are issues with all of these though, mostly with battery life and the screen, but the Nokia 770 was the best of the bunch.  I don’t [...]

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The Galileoscope is pretty cool

I picked this up from the Bad Astronomy blog (which I love) – the Galileoscope.  Galileo used his telescope to discover 4 moons of Jupiter, observe Saturn’s rings, and look at the Moon.  For the International Year of Astronomy 2009, a group of astronomers and educators created a replica of Galileo’s telescope.  I just ordered [...]

Automatically adding weather to your Google Calendar

I just found out you could do this.
My favorite weather site, Weather Underground, exports its forecasts in iCal format.  For example, the link for Dayton is here.
Google Calendar lets you import other people’s calendars if they have them in iCal format out on the Net.
If you add the Weather Underground iCal link to your “Other [...]

Google Chrome… Comic?

This is pretty nifty… I just discovered it today.

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