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My local library displays CO2 level on an inconspicuous wall fixture as part of the HVAC system. If the level gets too high large shutters (near the ceiling) open directly to the o…

If you want to drop $8k or so you can buy a Pokemon pinball game from Stern: https://sternpinball.com/game/pokemon/ .

I won 2011's "555 Timer Contest" artistic category. As a bonus I got a phone call from Hans Camenzind, who offered to design a custom chip (for free) to perform the same function. …

Recently procured an AirGradient air quality monitor and set up the build environment so I can customize its reporting capability and perhaps add some different sensors. Also didn'…

We have a "King Tide" today in SoCal where the local swing is +7/-1.5. Get to see normally hidden tidepools and a bunch of cobbles...

Here's a vid describing DRN & Resolvion supplying car location data to repo companies. I didn't realize they'll strap a camera pack on your car and pay you a commission on the lice…

On the "new" page this item reads "powered wig." I thought it was a Team Fortress 2 entry...

This is why the Savannah Bananas (and the banana league) are so popular. Banana-ball draws sellout crowds wherever they play. The main focus is "don't be boring."

And before Clippy we had Microsoft BoB! Super popular as I recall...

Why is the paper's copyright footer "1992 Information Processing Society of Japan" when this work is actually from around 2019?

Thunderf00t shows various tile problems with Starship: https://youtu.be/MZUQe38SJIs?si=QAVIk7fMX1HIQETb (he's not a fan of Musk)

"Gulf of Mexico" is correctly labeled!

IMDB also had a ratings inflation of about 0.5 points about the same time (anecdata), where movies over 5.5 were watchable back then. Now a 6.0+ demarcates a watchable movie. Or my…

Linked in https://www.spaceweather.com/

Le Dominoux do something similar, triggered off each other, and uses a 555: https://youtu.be/PQOjkuJtBfM?si=8J2taYoicQEtJJJB

Oceanliner Designs has a great recreation of this accident: https://youtu.be/-9ZLZ8hiA5Y?si=ElcaIqEQhTHsElkM ...and of the last 10 minutes of this accident: https://youtu.be/N5CxSR…

My LCD TV did the same thing with a few of the backlight LEDs. Makes a big purplish splotch on the screen. Replaced the backlight strips and took the lens off of one of them and wa…

Tech Ingredients demonstrates how this works: "Revolutionary Air Conditioner!" https://youtu.be/R_g4nT4a28U?si=MoRSi1mOyHiVbZUr

Easily circumvented: Use two monitors, one positioned out of view. Use a teleprompter mirror with a camera behind the mirror. Use a video capture device, record on a separate compu…

Richard Gere was the lead in "Pretty Woman", not Robert Redford.

Most TVs have downward firing speakers which splat the audio all about -- bouncing around before entering your ears. I wonder if it's easy to detach the speaker and pull it out and…

Gamers Nexus essentially produced a 3-hr doc on how changing tariffs affect the US computer industry: "The Death of Affordable Computing | Tariffs Impact & Investigation" https://y…

I help out at the local library part time. You meet a variety of people (some you know already) and can help them in some way. You're also exposed to a wide range of humanity from …