Builders to the Junkyard?
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The next step in housing's multi-phase crisis could be downgrading the builders to junk status.
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Efforts by the hacker community to get to the heart of the iPhone continue. A push last week to modify the gadget's bootloader was stymied by effective use of an RSA private key, and attention has now turned to a promising assembler-utility strategy.
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Blog: Some developers must have too much time on their hands
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Most machines don't improve with use. Old pickup trucks don't gradually become Ferraris just by driving them fast, and a pocket calculator won't change into a supercomputer by crunching lots of numbers. The human body is different...
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By Joe Lam'l  For me, it started out innocently enough, I suppose; a simple hobby operation in the basement to pass the time and development of something to organically feed my plants with. I didn't know it would become an obsession run amok.  I'm talking about vermicomposting.
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Google and Earthlink tried, and failed, disappearing in a sea of bureaucratic red tape. Now a startup hopes to persuade San Franciscans to voluntarily put radio repeaters on their rooftops. Good luck with that.
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By Dubie, Denise  Getting rid of obsolete computer gear isn't as simple as it used to be. The threat of data loss, coupled with increasingly stringent environmental regulations, has IT pros rethinking their disposal methods.
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By Sanford Nax, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  May 27--David Duley compares the fire escape ladders his company makes to air bags in a car: you hope you never use them, but it's nice to know they are there.   Some home builders are coming to the same conclusion.
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By By Brian Hendrickson, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Jun.
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The Golden State sues the big six automakers for damages from polluting vehicles. Talk about wasting resources. In Autopia.
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Some months ago I started collecting the pieces I needed to build my own 64-bit computer. I'm not a complete stranger to building machines, I've put together a dozen or so during the past twenty years, but it's been quite a while since I started one from scratch, and my experience with this machine was more instructive than it was meant to be. Nevertheless, at long last Studio Dave has gone 64-bit crazy. Well, not really crazy, but certainly more than mildly enthusiastic.
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If you can see train tracks from your front window, you probably live on the wrong side of them. At one time, my view beyond the tracks was a line of factories nobody wanted to live near. Like the place where they make carpets. Or even worse, the wool scourers, which smell like hot vomit during business hours.  What I don't get is how they got to be classified as being on the right side. Maybe if they did some rezoning and it was the factories that were officially on the wrong side of the tracks, my life would have turned out differently.
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Timaru building sites are being targeted by thieves.   In the last fortnight thousands of dollars worth of tools have been stolen, while over the weekend 120 metres of electrical cabling, some of which was underground, was stolen.
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As the proprietary world continues to devour the open-source world, one has to wonder if anyone will be left to shake up the old world.
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The effort to create future customers is working, darn it!
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Rollo, they are taking old plastic and turning it into backyard equipment.
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The Opportunity Mars rover has turned into a junkyard dog, prowling ever closer to a hunk of space litter at Meridiani Planum -- a discarded heat shield.