The toughest part of the Winter season isn't the cold, the blues, or December's annual cramming of a full month's work plus last-minute whatevers into three actual work weeks (are you on Boing Boing pre-holiday procrastinating? Hey, me too!) The hard part is commuting in the dark.
You wake up, it's dark, and you come home and it's also dark, two bleak bruise-blue endcaps on your winter work weeks. Now, Richard Everett has made a tool that uses your location and commute times to let you know how much longer you have to endure these circumstances.
Check out Dark Mornings, a tool that tells you precisely how many days you have left until your commute will be light again. Hang in there.
(Thanks, Gemma!)
Old cars. Old Wiring. This Innova “Battery and Charging System Monitor” saved my butt again. Almost every time I start my 1987 Vanagon I plug in this voltmeter, and watch the voltage drop as I start the car. It goes right into the cigarette lighter plug. I watch to make sure the battery doesn’t drop […]
Back in the 80s, the inventor Cy Enfield created this fascinating device — a six-button “Microwriter” where you’d chord combos of buttons to produce the entire alphabet, letting you jot down notes on the go. Microsoft’s Bill Buxton calls it “the world’s first portable digital word processor” (the front-page photo for this post is from […]
When replacing a watchband, or fixing one where the spring bar has gone awry, this super cheap tool and set of springs will come to the rescue. Much like an eyeglasses repair kit, a watch spring bar tool is never around when you need one. Trying to push that tiny pin in and get the […]
There’s hardly a business out there that doesn’t use cloud storage, and a growing number of private individuals are taking advantage of it as well. Suffice to say that word gets out pretty quickly about shoddy cloud services. And conversely, you can be sure that when sites like Techradar give the New Zealand-based MEGA high […]
There’s a great deal of opportunity out there in the tech world and an increasing amount of competition. So you know your way around Python? Great. So do a lot of other coders, and they’ve probably got Java, C++, and SQL on their resumes to boot. A career in programming requires up to date knowledge […]
Cue the “Psycho” violins. If you’re a true Halloween completist who’s wondering how to deck out your bathroom for the holiday, we have your accessory: The Bloody Bath Mat™. When it’s dormant, this devious prank is a nondescript, almost paper-thin (.03 inch thick) mat, white with a matte finish. Placed beside your shower, it’s the […]
