A build-it-yourself, wire-it-yourself, modular dollhouse toy for encouraging little girls to play more in the realm of engineering, math, science, and architecture from an early age. Found thanks to the wonders of Pinterest.

Just in case All Knowledge is Indeed Contained in LJ still: Does anyone know how to turn off the crop marks in the PC version of MSWord 2003? Whenever I have a document open in Print Layout View (which is most of the time) in Word 2003, I have crop marks appearing in the corners. They don't interfere with my use of the program or anything, but I'd ( Read more... )

Hal and I watched another episode of James Burke's BBC series Connections last night. Wow this is fascinating stuff! I never watched the series when it aired in the late 1970s, but it holds up surprisingly well for television that's three decades old. Burke is a science historian, and each episode traces the scientific and technological ( Read more... )

Okay, the name is unpronounceable: eee. It sounds like you're about to flee the monster. But it's a nicely compact subnotebook that only weighs two pounds. If it's light, cheap, easy to toss in a bag, and comes with wireless web browsing and a decent word processor, that's all I really want, anyway ( Read more... )

So, I started out editing the Potlatch 17 web pages in MS Notepad. This procedure is Not To Be Recommended.

After a bit, Hal found a copy of EditPlus he'd registered yonks ago, and lo, their website still honored the registration, and thus I now have the latest version of EditPlus to use instead. OMG. OMG. OMFHJG. It uses COLORS. Like, so you ( Read more... )

Holy shit. An article in New Scientist: Cheap, Safe Drug Kills Most Cancers says that there is an existing drug that kills cancer cells, and only cancer cells, in cultures of human cancers, and radically shrinks cancers in lab rats. Apparently, cancer cells are unique in that they don't use their mitochondria, which contain the self-destruct ( Read more... )