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Channel 4 in San Antonio did a little video about things to do in Houston…

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I was fascinated with this antenna design when I saw it at a local ham radio meeting… I love how you can roll it up for travel…

This antenna evolved during my search for a beam with a really great front-to-back ratio to use in hidden transmitter hunts. This design exhibits a very clean pattern and is perfect for RDF use. It trades a bit of forward gain in exchange for a very deep notch in the pattern toward the rear. (You could optimize the design for more forward gain, but at the expense of a really good notch in the pattern toward the rear.) It is a design that can be constructed using only simple hand tools (no machine shop needed) and still perform well. It has been duplicated several dozen times by other local hams and has been successfully used as a club construction project.

TAPE MEASURE BEAM OPTIMIZED FOR RADIO DIRECTION FINDING

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Too smart for our own good…

Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa at the the London School of Economics and Political Science correlated data on these behaviors with IQ from a large national U.S. sample and found that, on average, people who identified as liberal and atheist had higher IQs. This applied also to sexual exclusivity in men, but not in women. The findings will be published in the March 2010 issue of Social Psychology Quarterly.

Liberalism, atheism, male sexual exclusivity linked to IQ

Apparently I set up my treadmill-desk just in the nick of time!

It doesn’t matter if you go running every morning, or you’re a regular at the gym. If you spend most of the rest of the day sitting — in your car, your office chair, on your sofa at home — you are putting yourself at increased risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, a variety of cancers and an early death. In other words, irrespective of whether you exercise vigorously, sitting for long periods is bad for you.

Stand Up While You Read This!

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and for only a split second

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My primary drive in my desktop PC is an SSD, and I have a 1TB drive for my data drive… this tool makes it easy to split things up onto those two drives…

Profile Relocator is a step-based application that allows the re-locating of the Windows Users profile directory. Once re-located, any created profiles will appear in the new location in their entirety. The advantage to doing this allows profiles to be stored in a location that doesn’t reside on the system drive, ensuring that profile data isn’t compromised as a result of re-installation or system failure.

Profile Relocator

There are so many of these, and I really don’t want to like this one – but man is it funny…

Kudos to Microsoft in starting from scratch… WinMo7 looks great…

Forget everything you know about Windows Mobile. Seriously, throw the whole OS concept in a garbage bin or incinerator or something. Microsoft has done what would have been unthinkable for the company just a few years ago: started from scratch. At least, that’s how things look (and feel) with Windows Phone 7 Series. This really is a completely new OS — and not just Microsoft’s new OS, it’s a new smartphone OS, like webOS new, like iPhone OS new. You haven’t used an interface like this before (well, okay, if you’ve used a Zune HD then you’ve kind of used an interface like this). Still, 7 Series goes wider and deeper than the Zune by a longshot, and it’s got some pretty intense ideas about how you’re supposed to be interacting with a mobile device. We had a chance to go hands-on with the dev phone before today’s announcement, and hear from some of the people behind the devices, and here’s our takeaway. (And don’t worry, we’ve got loads of pictures and video coming, so keep checking this post for the freshest updates).

Windows Phone 7 Series hands-on and impressions (updated with video)

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After watching this, I am reminded about how insignificant we all are…

Go figure… wifi on buses…

VAIL, Ariz. — Students endure hundreds of hours on yellow buses each year getting to and from school in this desert exurb of Tucson, and stir-crazy teenagers break the monotony by teasing, texting, flirting, shouting, climbing (over seats) and sometimes punching (seats or seatmates).

But on this chilly morning, as bus No. 92 rolls down a mountain highway just before dawn, high school students are quiet, typing on laptops.

Wi-Fi Turns Rowdy Bus Into Rolling Study Hall

Just when I thought that I was going to switch away from the Blackberry to either the new iPhone GS or Nexus One… Blackberry annouced both a new Webkit based browser… and get this – FLASH SUPPORT!

• BlackBerry WebKit Browser Demoed by Mike Lazaridis At MWC
• Adobe Promises Flash 10.1 Support This Summer

My buddy Nathan has released his new game! Try it out!

SlapHappy!™ By Free Time Studios

“Check out these Abs! Boom! ” Funny stuff

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Clearly, the world does not need yet-another IM network… but alas, here’s how to do it:

Facebook may have partnered with AIM to bring chat to your desktop, but if you’re not a fan of the official AIM client, there’s now an easy way to get Facebook Chat in the IM client of your choice.

Over a year ago, Facebook announced that they planned to support Facebook Chat over XMPP/Jabber, the same protocol that Google Talk uses, so people could use Facebook Chat in their favorite IM client—and then it was never mentioned again. Yesterday, though, Facebook announced that in addition to the AIM partnership, the XMPP/Jabber implementation had finally come to fruition.

If you are using a multi-protocol IM client such as Pidign, Adium, or iChat, set-up is really easy—you just add a new Jabber or XMPP account, the username being your username@chat.facebook.com, with your password being the same as your Facebook password. If you still haven’t gotten a Facebook username (the tag that appears after www.facebook.com/ for your profile page) you’ll need to go to your Settings page to enable it.

How to Add Facebook Chat to Your IM Client

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