Exasperated Calculator: Star Trek & Economics
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Wingnuts at their best
[Sean Hannity on Fox TV](http://mediamatters.org/items/200711010008): > Halloween is a liberal holiday […] teaching our kids to be liberals. [W]e’re teaching kids to knock on other people’s doors and ask for a handout. The Australian wingnut gap grows larger every day.
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Making two screens work
[Some advice for people lucky enough to have two monitors on their PC](http://lifehacker.com/software/geek-to-live/make-the-most-of-your-dual-monitors-317479.php). I’ve had a two screen setup at work for a year or so now. It’s fantastic, but not for everyone.
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It takes guts
[Plush entrails](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/11/02/plush-guts-entrails.html). These would go great with the [plush microbes](http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/science/6708/\).
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Bringing back Steampunk
[A steampunk laptop](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/steampunk/steampunk-laptop-reminds-us-why-steampunk-is-cool-318191.php). Attention [Jony Ive](http://www.apple.com/ipod/).
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Worst. Propaganda. Ever.
[Donny the Downloader](http://www.reason.com/blog/show/123300.html). Explains the dangers of file sharing in a way normally associated with Troy McClure.
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Election07: US Drinking Age edition
*Announcements*: None I could find. *Polls*: [Newspoll survey of marginals](http://www.pollbludger.com/670) implies a 24 seat swing to the ALP. *Line of the day*: Geoffrey Rush, [when asked “what do you get out of [his latest movie]](http://www.smh.com.au/news/arts/royal-right-of-reply/2007/11/02/1193619117466.html?s_cid=rss_news): > A conservatory on the back of my house. (Nothing to do with politics, just found it funny. 21 days…
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Another weekend project
[How to build your own Dalek](http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/11/dalek_builders_manual.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890) Probably not that hard to beat the original Dr Who’s production values here…
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A clock for the millenia
[A 1000 year Forest Clock](http://watchismo.blogspot.com/2007/11/1000-year-forest-clock-tiwalkme.html). The aims of this project are the kind of thing that make me rest my head in my hands, but it’d be cool to see.
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Open Source Hardware
[Bug Labs make open source hardware that you can link together like Lego](http://www.buglabs.net/). I’d love to play with this stuff. It looks really cool and it’s a clever idea.
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Space sounds
[NASA has released several sound files from Saturn](http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/sounds/). Cool in concept, sound a bit like static in realisation.