Stanford Engineering Everywhere Means Free Learning Just Got Smarter

""Stanford is offering some of its most popular engineering classes free of charge to students and educators around the world. Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE) expands the Stanford experience to students and educators online. A computer and an Internet connection is all you need. View lecture videos, access reading lists and other course handouts, take quizzes and tests, and communicate with other SEE students, all at your convenience.""

http://www.appscout.com/2008/09/stanford_engineering_everywher.php


http://see.stanford.edu/default.aspx

Feedbooks

“Feedbooks is a universal e-reading platform compatible with all mobile devices where you can download thousands of free e-books, publish and share your own content, and create customized newspapers from RSS feeds and widgets.”

http://feedbooks.com/

Unreal Sky

"These are the pictures of hospital where this artificial sky is installed."

http://www.jimjamzoo.com/unreal-sky/

Kenchikukagu: Apartment Folds Out of a Box

"How cool is this? A kitchen, an office and a bedroom that fold out of these lovely cabinets, designed by Toshihiko Suzuki Architect."

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/09/kenchikukagu-apartment-in-box.php

Virtual Realities

"Minimum Speed 200 kh/h - the products that surround us often have unused capacities, we only use a fraction of their potential."

http://www.dezeen.com/2008/09/12/virtual-realities-by-nl-architects/

Kinderlite Disposable Campfire For The Inept Outdoorsman

"Check out this campfire starter kit designed by Philip John Luscombe from Northumbria University. With an irreverent approach to current issues, Philip’s products for 100% futures examine the role design can play in creating a vision of the future. To bring the vision to life, Philip has designed the products for the Museum of Modern Britain’s (MOMB) 2050 retrospective exhibition that looks back on the years 2008 – 2038."

http://www.gadgettastic.com/2008/09/01/kinderlite-disposable-campfire-for-the-inept-outdoorsman/

Very Long-Term Backup

"One side of the disk contains a graphic teaser. The design shows headlines in the eight major languages of the world today spiraling inward in ever-decreasing size till it becomes so small you have trouble reading it, yet the text goes on getting smaller. The sentences announce: “Languages of the World: This is an archive of over 1,500 human languages assembled in the year 02008 C.E. Magnify 1,000 times to find over 13,000 pages of language documentation.” "

http://kk.org/kk/2008/08/very-longterm-backup.php

The Database Programmer - table of contents

"The list below explains all topics past and future, including slots for essays I plan to revise or add to. This posting replaces our Original Table of Contents, as well as our Master Table Design Patterns List and the List of Future Topics.
As of this writing, September 2008, this blog is now about 10 months old. I have been able to produce at least one entry on most of the major topics that I hoped to cover, and can now see opportunities to flesh out and expand many topics. On top of that, I have been receiving requests for topics both via email and comments. The table below is a guide to what topics are forthcoming, which have been treated in the past, and which you will likely see in the future."


http://database-programmer.blogspot.com/2008/09/comprehensive-table-of-contents.html

revj - Diagram SQL statements

"A tool that parses SQL Select statements and generates a diagram. The diagram shows parts of the underlying SQL directly in the diagram. For example x=30 , GROUP BY (year), HAVING MIN(age) > 18. It is easy to see cartesian joins and/or loops."

http://sourceforge.net/projects/revj/

Ponoko's Photomake: If You Can Draw It, They Can Make It

"The Photomake feature allows users to turn a digital photograph or scanned line drawing into a real life object. Rather than using graphics software, the process allows anyone with a camera (or scanner), an idea, and a little creativity to create objects that are perfectly suited to their taste and needs.

All you need to get started with Photomake is a felt tip pen and piece of paper. Just draw what you want to make, take a photograph of it, upload this digital photo to the Ponoko website (no login required), get an instant online price to turn your drawing into the real thing, then click to make. Your product will be delivered to your door in days. Fans of photo and graphics editing software like Photoshop and GIMP can also use these programs to create images of their designs."

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/09/photomake-design-photo-ponoko.php


http://www.ponoko.com/photomake

Handspun Recycled Newspaper Yarn

"Recently a commenter asked what they could do with all the old newspapers they had piling up. With enough time, patience, and newspapers you can create newspaper yarn. From the design studios of Greetje van Tiem and her “Indruk” project she can purportedly spins 20yds of “yarn” from a sheet of old newspaper. "

http://greenupgrader.com/2138/handspun-recycled-newspaper-yarn/

Enterprise Sink

http://hijinksensue.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/2008-09-11-josh-enterprise-sink.png

Overheard in New York - She Was Hoping for a Salad of Steel

She Was Hoping for a Salad of Steel
Waitress: Will you have a soup or salad?
Girl: Sure, I'll have the super salad.
Waitress: No, will you have the soup or salad?
Girl: I said I'll have the super salad.
Waitress: No, (really slowly) will you have the soup or salad.
Girl: Ohhhhh, the salad.

--Elmo, Chelsea
via Overheard in New York, Oct 13, 2008

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http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/bin/randomentry.cgi

10 Useful articles about Database design

"This is a list of ten useful articles about database design which includes some tips and practical suggests to help you to design quickly databases for your web projects."

http://woork.blogspot.com/2008/09/10-useful-articles-about-database.html

Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

"This is a dictionary of algorithms, algorithmic techniques, data structures, archetypal problems, and related definitions. Algorithms include common functions, such as Ackermann's function. Problems include traveling salesman and Byzantine generals. Some entries have links to implementations and more information. Index pages list entries by area and by type."


http://www.nist.gov/dads/

An Illustrated Guide to Every Stupid Cable You Need

"We put up with too many cables. There are at least four different kinds of USB plugs, two kinds of FireWire and like a million different ways to connect something to TV or monitor. Modern gadget life can be kind of retarded in this way. Why not one kind of cable, or just a couple? I don't know. But until everyone gets on the same appendage-to-hole scheme, in the meantime, you can use this: an illustrated guide to pretty much every kind of cable you will see in current gadgets and what it's used for (unless, you know, Sony springs a new one on us overnight, which is honestly possible)."

http://gizmodo.com/5030810/giz-explains-an-illustrated-guide-to-every-stupid-cable-you-need

Playpumps International

"PlayPumps International’s mission is help improve the lives of children and their families by providing easy access to clean drinking water, enhancing public health, and offering play equipment to millions across Africa."

http://www.playpumps.org/