I don’t know about you, but since I have electric heat, my bill drops through the floor in late spring and early summer, when it’s between the seasons of “heat” and “air conditioner”. Even so, it’d be nice to lower it just a smidge lower and save that little more money/energy/resources/etc. Putting Energy Hogs in the Home on a Strict Low-Power Diet has me considering ideas….

Any hacker who has the time to stuff a Mac Mini Inside an Apple SE/30 has much more free time on his hands than I do.

Mr. Wizard Studios reports that Mr. Wizard, who I watched constantly as a kid, died at age 90 today. Wow. He introduced generation after generation to science and engineering without ever telling them he was doing it.

There’s an article here about the “original” pink flamingo lawn ornament design being brought back from the dead afther the original company ended production a few years ago.

I’m confused, though, because they say the original design was of a plastic flamingo, and I distinctly remember my grandmother having cement pink flamingo lawn ornaments from the 50’s. Those suckers were heavy, and they needed to be repainted every few years, and we finally got rid of them when the cement started to disintegrate and one of the necks half broke off one of them.

So did my family create cement lawn ornaments? (I wouldn’t put it past them.) Or is this original not so original?

Quiz: ‘Star Wars’ name, ballplayer, or Thai food? is a really fun quiz. We got about half of them wrong.