Odds and Ends, Wed 5 March 2008
1. "Dave Veloz's Steampunk Remake"
<http://steampunkworkshop.com/daveveloz.shtml>
A Steampunk Monitor and Keyboard for a Mac mini.
More Steampunk Workshop Projects:
<http://steampunkworkshop.com/index.shtml>
What is Steampunk? [Wikipedia]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk>
2. "What may happen in the next 100 years - from the year 1900"
<http://www.bspcn.com/2008/03/02/what-may-happen-in-the-next-100-years-
from-the-year-1900/>
3. "Oddest book titles prize shortlist announced"
<http://www.thebookseller.com/news/53656-oddest-book-titles-prize-
shortlist-announced.html>
This year's candidates:
* "I Was Tortured By the Pygmy Love Queen"
* "How to Write a How to Write Book"
* "Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues"
* "Cheese Problems Solved"
* "If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs"
* "People who Mattered in Southend and Beyond: From King Canute to Dr
Feelgood"
The winner will be announced on 28th March. Last year's winner...
"Stray carts scoops the prize"
<http://www.thebookseller.com/news/37373-stray-carts-scoops-the-prize.html>
"[T]his year's Diagram Prize for the Oddest Title of 2006 is The Stray
Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field
Identification".
4. pi10k
<http://www.avoision.com/experiments/pi10k/pi10k.html>
"Converting the first 10,000 digits of pi into a musical sequence."
5. "Restaurant sorry over F word bill"
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/7253002.stm>
"A restaurant owner has apologised after diners had their very own F
word experience ... Diner Clare Watkin said she thought it was written
after they complained about poor service."
6. "Caffeine: A User's Guide to Getting Optimally Wired"
<http://scienceblogs.com/developingintelligence/2008/02/optimally_wired_
a_caffeine_use.php>
"Caffeine is the most widely used stimulant in the world, but few use it
to maximal advantage. Get optimally wired with these tips."
7. Inflated opinions?
* "Victoria Victorious Over Rest Of Australia"
<http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/01/26/236-victoria-victorious-
over-rest-of-australia/>
* "A Texan's Map of the United States"
<http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/172-texas-is-bigger-than-
everything/>
