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My next question is – how expensive is it.

http://www.nikkor2d2.com/

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Ok, so i came across this site in a magazine (yeah, that’s right, i was reading something that wasn’t online – it had ton’s of art and pictures in it) called http://www.mono-1.com/monoface. If you’ve never been there before, i suggest you stop by when you get a break in the action. You can spend an endless amount of time trying to come up with different faces. Below is a screenshot of one that i came up with.

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Whhhhhhhatttt – I can’t believe it. Here’s a car (albeit a desiel car) that can’t be sold in the US – http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_37/b4099060491065.htm?chan=rss_topStories_ssi_5

If ever there was a car made for the times, this would seem to be it: a sporty subcompact that seats five, offers a navigation system, and gets a whopping 65 miles to the gallon. Oh yes, and the car is made by Ford Motor (F), known widely for lumbering gas hogs.

I’ve seen ad’s for this car’s cousin for about 3+ years now (the Ford Ka or SportKa), and have been wondering if it or something similar, would ever come here. I like the fact they really don’t come out and say why, other than spouting off “But there are business reasons why we can’t sell it in the U.S.” – Sounds pretty generic – but until we get a car like this – here’s a cool vid of it’s cousin.

Tim Schoffelman of SilentGap

Alright, so at work, what started out as a conversation about getting internet access on dial-up with a windows ‘98 machine (sorry Karla, for having to endure the pain of messing with Win ‘98, much less Win ‘98 on dialup), ended up with the subject of a “cantenna“.

A cantenna is a directional waveguide antenna for long-range Wi-Fi used to increase the range of (or snoop on) a wireless network.

What would be fun is to have a competition to build one of these things and see how far away you could be away from a wireless access point and still load a page like Google. Build one you say? Yes – check out the “How to build a tin can waveguide WiFi antenna” for a blueprint of sorts.

The problem I run into is justifying breaking into my WiFi card, and voiding the warranty. Esp. when my home mac already has a wireless card built into it. Anyone have a cheap laptop and WiFi card I could ruin for this experiment (my boy and I (when old enough) will have a lot of fun building things like this (well at least I imagine we will))?

Tim Schoffelman of SilentGap