Bring Your Own Big Wheel 2007 Photos & Video

Pictures and Video from this year's Big Wheel race down the "world's crookedest street," Lombard Street in San Francisco. This year it was held last week.

Bring Your Own Big Wheel 2007 Photos & Video

Where to host your web servers according to Mother Nature

Good news for the UP and northern Minnesota, low earthquake, hurricane, tornado risk mean high up-time.

Where to keep your servers according to Mother Nature

Don't Try This at Home, Kids

An article overview of the use of explosive charges for bonding high-voltage lines.

Northeast Utilities Strengthens its High Voltage Transmission Lines Using an Implosion Splice Method

The connector manufacturer's web site is:

http://www.implotech.ca/gallery.html

...and from that it appears that the people working on the hot lines have to bypass, then winch together, then cut the line in order to put on the sleeve.
(There seem to be separate sleeves - one for the steel wires at the center of the cable and another to go over the aluminum wires that make up the rest of the cable. It looks like they mechanically crimp on the inner steel sleeve, then slide over the outer aluminum sleeve with the explosive, then take cover and set off the whole thing.)

Organic Crime: The Raw Milk Underground

Organic Crime: The Raw Milk Underground: "Hey you, yeah you. Pssst. Over here. We've got some milk. Yeah, the good stuff. Unpasteurized. Shhh. Keep it down, the FDA is listening."

Electrocuting Peeps

MAKE: Blog: Electrocuting Peeps: "Well, you've heard of peep jousting, but what happens when you stick marshmallow peeps in a vacuum and then electrocute them with 9000 volts from a neon sign transformer? Check out Divide's photoset to find out!"

The 20 Greatest Historical Myths

The 20 Greatest Historical Myths

10 Lessons 300 can teach you about Successful Business

After having seen '300' on IMax last weekend, I found this column, which holds some unique perspective.

10 Lessons Frank Miller’s 300 can teach you about Successful Online Business by Fuzzy Future

48 States In A Week's Vacation

With a routing that would sometimes break a snake's back, a guy drives to the 48 contiguous states in the space of a week.

48 States In A Week's Vacation

About 12 years ago, when I was in the midst of visiting the site of every railroad passenger station that had existed in Wisconsin, I did something similar when I needed only a few more counties crossed off to have visited all 72, making a 250-foot excursion into Florence county on a 5-mile stub routing.
I have 40 states crossed off, including Alaska and Hawaii, and could add Idaho later this year, with an October conference there.