SF House Tour: Alison and Joel’s Light-Filled Victorian

Enter Slideshow We originally saw photos of Alison and Joel’s apartment on flickr, and were immediately taken with their great use of color and the way they really worked with the architecture of their Victorian flat. It’s astounding that they’ve only lived there a year, as everything seems both effortlessly comfortable and completely finished. And oh that light - we have to
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Lone Boy Sees a Flying Saucer Cigar-Shaped UFO Over St. Paul - UFODigest

Lone Boy Sees a Flying Saucer Cigar-Shaped UFO Over St. Paul
UFODigest, Canada - 14 hours ago
There had been an Air Force F-84 Thunderjet parked in front of the vocational school for a few years. The school had removed the engine and taken it inside

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This Plant Sends You Messages When it Needs Water

Filed under: Cell Phones, Computers Those of us with not blessed with a green thumb (some of us at Switched could kill a cactus) wish plants would tell you us they needed and when. A company called Botanicalls has cooked up an admittedly complicated DIY (Do It Yourself) project that lets your plants to send messages via the micro-blogging service Twitter to let you know when it needs to be watered. It even thanks you for feeding it. The project uses a tiny networked computer, a circuit you mu
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LawnBott LB3200 Evolution

This is hysterical! For just $2500, it takes care of the lawn for you… I would love to see the reactions from the dogs in the neighborhood.
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Meet the Real Lawnmower Man

From Wired Magazine (product reviews) http://www.wired.com/gadgets/gadgetreviews/magazine/15-12/wl_lawnbott_lb3200 “LawnBott LB3200 Evolution” Nothing beats mowing the yard while relaxing in a hammock with a beer and the paper — good thing LawnBott shears up to 30,000 square feet of grass all by itself. The sensor causes a directional shift whenever the mini mower bumps into an object at least 4 inches high or detects a perimeter wire you’ve laid out. When the rechargeable lithium batteries sta
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WVU wraps up 2008 season with double shot of revenge

“Revenge is a dish best served cold.” — ancient Klingon saying And it is very cold in Morgantown in late November and early December. The remainder of WVU’s football schedule came out today and for vengeance-seeking Mountaineer fans, the only way it could have broken better was for Michigan to have joined the Big East and scheduled their 2008 opener at Mountaineer Field. Absent that, WVU fans will have to settle for these final two games of the season: - Friday, Nov. 28, at Pitt. -
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