Month: February 2010

Popular Mechanics has a feature on Scaled Composites’ latest aircraft: the Boomerang, a Burt Rutan design whose assymetry belies its stability and performance.

There is a lot that just doesn’t look right about Burt Rutan’s 5-passenger Boomerang, the latest surprise to roll out of the hangar at Scaled Composites. The 30.7-ft.-long plane is a twin, but it looks more like a trimotor that lost its right boom and engine…With the Boomerang, I wanted to put many of the design ideas I’ve accumulated in the past 25 years into one plane.

Nice guide to HTML/CSS for hyperlinks, with an emphasis on readability and accessibility.

Five to ten years from now, you could have a $3000 fuel cell power generator the size of a clock radio in your basement, turning natural gas into electrical power at twice the efficiency possible today. That’s the promise of the Bloom Box, a tiny power plant that combines oxygen and natural gas, biogas, or solar energy, and creates electricity.

This sounded awful fishy at first, until I read that companies like Google and Wal-Mart are supposedly already using such devices. Why haven’t I heard of this until now then? Still dubious…

Nice guide to HTML/CSS for hyperlinks, with an emphasis on readability and accessibility.

Mount Everest, Mount Fuji, Mount Kosciusko, Mount McKinley, Mount Popocatépetl…  Wow.

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