Links posted on February 13, 2007
KillaCycle is the worlds quickest electric dragbike. Actaully, with a best e.t. of 8.76 @ 152 mph it is the fastest electric vehicle in the quarter mile ever. Video shows record breaking run, motor dies at top end of the track. You can see the bits flying off if you look close. see also www.a123systems.com [more inside]
Hey, is anyone else having strange problems with Firefox recently? This afternoon, Firefox on two of my XP machines does not willingly connect to websites. I've twiddled the cable modem, and that's fine. And I can still make successful SSH connections. And IE6 seems to work fine...
Any suggestions?
So I'm torn about Barack Obama. From the little I know, he seems promisingly suited to presidency but I worry about how much experience he has. However, reading this speech against the Iraq War from 2002 has really helped push me more into his camp. He's speaking in Austin on Feb 23d in the Gregory Gym -- come see him in person and judge for yourself. [more inside]
Hack Coinstar to avoid the 9% surcharge I heard about this on the Diggnation podcast. Pretty simple if you don't mind looking silly/raising suspicion by fiddling with the cables.