Solar Tsunami
Posted by Chaney at 8:39 am in Awesome, Interesting

In a departure from the usual topics. This is really cool. Astronomers have captured video of a tsunami, or at least something remarkably like it on the surface of the sun. No, really, the whole sun. You know you have to watch this video.

Solar Tsunami via BBC News

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Concept Laptops
Posted by Chaney at 12:26 pm in Things I ♥

Today’s winner of the Chaney award of awesomeness: Concept laptops, dual screen, solar powered, sliding form-factor and then some. I want them now.

Concept Laptops via Slashdot

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Batteries
Posted by Chaney at 8:00 am in Things I ♥, Useful Info

Continuing the posts related to things I ♥. Which is all of them. Rechargeable batteries. They run my MP3 player to radio transmitter, my digital camera, my…well, everything that needs batteries and sees a lot of use. But they’re expensive and I hate it when they die. That’s why Adventures in Recharging is great. The article features all sorts of interesting information about NiMH batteries and getting the most life out of them.
I think I need to buy a new battery charger.

Adventures in Recharging (via Coding Horror)

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Remember why it was interesting…
Posted by Chaney at 9:31 am in Useful Tools

Awesome Highlighter saves a highlight template over a link you e-mail, or if you’re like me, into a link you send yourself so you can remember why that page you went back to was so darn interesting a week ago. It does change the style of the link you send (much in the style of utilities like TinyURL – but with the domain “awurl.com”), which might confuse that newbie user in your life (we all have one, or depending on circumstances, several =^_~= ), but an obvious banner frame at the top of the page makes the original URL quite obvious.

Awesome Highlighter

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Only thing better…
Posted by Chaney at 9:51 pm in Useful Tools

…would have been finding this earlier.

Error Messages for Windows seems to be just what I’ve always wanted. Input those incomprehensible Windows error codes and get real human English feedback, without searching the whole of the internet for a straight answer. I don’t have any Windows errors kicking around right currently (and don’t really feel like causing any to try it out), but I’ll definitely be taking this for a test drive next time a system starts giving me problems.

Error Messages for Windows (Software Design)

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