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Random title generator that is wonderfully cynical and surprisingly accurate. - Nicholas O'Leary

Andy's calculations behind £1/Watt/Year. Simple, yet effective. - Nicholas O'Leary

"...without visual displays householders will find it harder to benefit from the smart meters and save power." - Nicholas O'Leary

Arduino gets some coverage on the BBC - Nicholas O'Leary

Simple user account plugin for rails - Nicholas O'Leary

Dr K sure knows how to review a film. Running, running, running, running... - Nicholas O'Leary

"littleBits is an opensource library of discrete electronic components pre-assembled in tiny circuit boards"... that snap together with magnets. Despite their use of the word "Legos" (I'm a pedant), these look very interesting. - Nicholas O'Leary

"For a couple of months myself and some friends and strangers have been communicating via a mailing list as if it’s the “everyone@” company-wide list in an office where we all work." Very funny stuff. All too familiar. - Nicholas O'Leary

"Here & There is a project by S&W exploring speculative projections of dense cities. These maps of Manhattan look uptown from 3rd and 7th, and downtown from 3rd and 35th. They're intended to be seen at those same places, putting the viewer simultaneously above the city and in it where she stands, both looking down and looking forward." Spectacular is the only word for it. - Nicholas O'Leary

"...an honest, often hilarious account of the working relationship between Albarn & Hewlett, and the rise to success with Gorillaz - from the initial embryonic conception through to global domination" - Nicholas O'Leary

The Siftables demonstration at TED. These things are awesome. - Nicholas O'Leary

Duemilanove Arduinos now come with ATmega328's as standard. This gives 4x the sketch space, twice the ram and EEPROM. - Nicholas O'Leary

Interesting thoughts on how comics can take advantage of a digital medium - rather than just be pictures on the web. - Nicholas O'Leary

A new Flash based 'Catch Up' player is coming to Channel 4 in the spring. I wonder if they appreciate the irony of the name. I can catch up on programmes I have missed - they can also catch up on the success of iPlayer. - Nicholas O'Leary

"TinkerKit is an Arduino-compatible physical computing prototyping toolkit aimed at design professionals." The kit includes an impressive range of senors types to "introduce fast iterative physical computing methodologies to newcomers, and particularly design professionals." - Nicholas O'Leary

Inspired by my Paper Graphs, Infosthetics is hosting a competition to create a paper based visualisation. "Criteria: beauty and originality versus readability and usability". I'm a judge. - Nicholas O'Leary

Pac-Man as a text adventure. - Nicholas O'Leary

"imagine it’s Christmas morning and you’re sat their with your final present to open. It’s a big one, and you know what it is. It’s that Goodmans stereo you picked out the catalogue and wrote to Santa about. Only you open the present and it’s not in there. It’s your hamster Richard. It’s your hamster in the box and it’s not breathing." Very funny letter of complaint sent to Richard Branson. - Nicholas O'Leary

Linux support for the Graphtec CC2200-20. - Nicholas O'Leary

An A4 plotter. - Nicholas O'Leary

Jeremy Keith's live blogging of PaperCamp. - Nicholas O'Leary

Interesting instructable on how they setup a tabletop factory for mass producing an arduino-based robot. - Nicholas O'Leary

A source of toys. - Nicholas O'Leary

Motorway map in the style of the London Underground map. - Nicholas O'Leary

"My Team of 2008 award goes to IBM’s Eight Bar at Hursley Labs. RedMonk celebrates makers and doers - these guys exemplify getting on with it." - Nicholas O'Leary

A battery pack shield for Arduino. - Nicholas O'Leary

Using rrdtool to log currentcost data. rrdtool is one of those things that I've never quite spent enough time understanding. - Nicholas O'Leary

Some talk heads about HomeCamp. Interesting to hear what people got out of the event. I'm in there somewhere babbling on a bit wishing I had thought about what to say first. - Nicholas O'Leary

My arduino hacking gets a mention on tinker.it. - Nicholas O'Leary

The arduino ethernet shield is announced. I have been playing with this for a few months now - lots of potential uses. - Nicholas O'Leary