Post Easter Notes

(picture from here)

If you can wade through the advertisement, you can see Galileo's telescope here. It will be on exhibit in Philadelphia. It's a pretty hefty thing. Then, if you're bitten by the bug, go here to see how amateurs do it.

What's amazing is how smart we are about some things and dumb about others. Clear refutation of the "intelligent design" theory of evolution.

That said, along with telescopes we also have invented bread and wine-- both based on yeast. We bottled the Zinfandel this weekend. In celebration of Easter, a hymn to spring and rebirth, we opened up not one but two of my late father-in-law's wines: a grape and a dandelion wine. Forty years will mellow even the harshest of vintages and this was another good one. I'd never had dandelion wine before and it was interesting and complex.

Then, we went out and tried to fly kites in 30 mph, 42 degree winds. After the nose and fingers dropped off, we returned to the house and nuzzled the Boston cream pie. No fingers, you see.

I'll call this a pretty good day.
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Spiderman and the Presidents
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Links of Interest
V:Robots of War
Low Tech Magazine
No Tech Magazine
Third World Technology
The Paper Work of Mu Pan and here
What to do if you're thrown back in time
Kon-Tiki Redux
Plastiki and here
Melbourn Quarter Schools
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
New Orangutans
Peeps Forever!
Michael Velliquette
Carol Eckert

DIY
Sharpening Drill Bits
Eskimohut
Grow your bike
CAD Origami
Cardboard Lamp
Alien in a Jar
Lemon Cake
Gas Sensors
Trug
Banjo-Ukulele