Place To See: Darlingtonia Wayside near Florence, Oregon
While driving on US 101 along the southern Oregon coast with family, we stopped by a very unique attraction – The Darligntonia Wayside, a few…
Review: Black and Decker – Electromate® 400 AC/DC Portable Power Station/Jump-Starter/Compressor
Electromate-400 is a power-pack, jump-starter and air compressor, all rolled into one – a very handy device to carry in your car on road trips.
A Remote-Controlled Ball? It's A Spherical-Robot Based On Mindstorms NXT
Here is an interesting creation using Mindstorms NXT, a Rolling-Orbital-Bluetooth-Operating-Thing (ROBOT) as its creator calls it. Spherical Robot 02 (YouTube) This project uses two NXT…
Predictably More Irrational?
I just read a post in Dan Ariely’s blog about the new expanded version of Predictably Irrational. Ariely writes: Predictably Irrational was first published…
An Interesting Speed Limiting "Nudge"
Here is an interesting “nudge” that I noticed near my local school recently. On one of the bigger streets adjacent to the school, the “School…
Telecommuting, Telepresence And Swine Flu
I read some interesting discussions on Twitter that companies should encourage employees to telecommute (work from home) when they have flu like symptoms if they…
Neighborhood Crime Watch On Twitter
When I wrote these articles on how one could use portals like Yahoo Groups to set up a crime watch site for people in a …
Would This Be Design-2.0 Or Social-Designing?
Have you thought of a feature or an application that you wished your PC or Notebook supported? What if you could design it yourself? WePC.com…
Cached Pages Should Make Pages Load Faster
I have installed and configured the WP-Cache2 plug-in. This should make the pages in this site much faster on an average. The one downside is…
Have You Been Nudged Today?
As I am listening to the audio version of the book “Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness” by Richard H. Thaler and Cass…