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jeff_duntemann

Odd Lots

Jul 05, 2009 16:13

From the Words I Didn't Know Until Yesterday Department: Forcemeat is meat ground sufficiently fine to make it cohere with a fat base, and mixed with spices and sometimes other ingredients before incorporating in pates, stuffings, and sausages.
The Weather Channel is running saturation-level advertising for a "3D chalk" product from Crayola, which ( Read more... )

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Fake USB drives from China anonymous July 6 2009, 02:34:15 UTC

Jeff:

This fake USB drives thing has been going on for years. Here is a report (PDF Alert) I wrote about them in 2005, when a number of people I know were taken in by them

http://www.seoulcc.org/consumer-alert-sony/Report_on_Sony_Thumb_Drives.pdf

Basically, they were 32 or 64MB thumb drives pretending to be 8GB.

Never buy eletronics at the Silk Market...

bj

Fusion anonymous July 6 2009, 15:54:42 UTC

I'm not a physicist, but I've been following the focus fusion guys for a couple years now. It doesn't look like a scam to me. They're not claiming any new physics, and not trying to raise a huge amount of money. They just have an off-the-wall idea and they're doing an experiment to see if it works, at roughly a thousandth the cost of ITER ( ... )

Chalk art anonymous July 6 2009, 21:52:17 UTC

"It's almost impossible to think of this product and not flash on the sequence in Disney's Mary Poppins in which the gang jumps into Bert's sidewalk chalk drawing."

Here is a short video of Dick Van Dyke as Bert creating his chalk art.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8G1JWFh5oo

Popular Electronics anonymous December 7 2009, 02:45:33 UTC

Hello Jeff,
Your blog and websites are first rate!
Do you know of a site that has old Popular Electronics articles??
I'm looking for an article I read when I was a kid: "Planning to be an Electrical Engineer?" by Forest Frantz Sr. June 1955.
TNXs
73 Herb/WR9H
herbcase@msn.com

Re: Popular Electronics jeff_duntemann December 7 2009, 22:44:07 UTC

You should look at Michael Holley's site:

http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/PopularElectronics/Popular_Electronics.htm

He emphasizes articles on a particular company (SWTP, makers of computers and other early digital things) but he's got some other articles as well.

There's no single site that posts a lot of articles, but you find a few here and there. I suggest searching for that particular author's name, in quotes so the search is for the full name.