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Have you seen this fascinating robot tux thing you can control via your computer?

I’m thinking for an upcoming project to buy one of these guys and then create a webpage where anyone can come and control it. There will be a webcam on it 24/7 so you can see it do what you tell […]

Over on Answer My Searches, I recently mentioned Yould, the pronounceable name generator as an interesting method for devising new names for products.
Here’s another interesting method for coming up with a clever name from this Wikipedia article:
The name “Samba” was arrived at by running the Unix command grep through the system dictionary looking for words […]

I remember hearing in an Economics class long ago that the Federal Reserve has to give hints to the public about future interest rate changes since surprising financial markets is usually a bad thing.
I got to wondering recently if there were certain key words the Fed might use in its statements to warn the markets […]

As you probably know, my website Just One Club Card lets you combine all of your club cards into one card. The final product looks like this:

The Problem:
Sometimes the barcode scanners at stores get confused and don’t know which barcode on the card to read. People have tried all kinds of solutions from […]

People get annoyed when I assign them tasks in Basecamp and check that “notify by email” checkbox. So I added this even more annoying feature:

No, no, it’s not a real Basecamp feature. I used this method to make the fake screenshot. But it would be a fun feature to have, no?