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The project began on January 29, 2001 as a complement to the expert-written (and now defunct) Nupedia, and is now operated by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.

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FOUND Magazine

School Is Worse Than I Thought
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0000
I found this while cleaning out some old folders in an art storage area at the end of the school year at the school where I work.
Fun Lunch!
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0000
In a box of discarded pictures from cleaning out the yearbook's cabinets, this one jumped out at me as a favorite.
The House Teeterred
Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0000
I found this unsealed (and, at the time, unstamped) thank-you note on the ground at Java Break Cafe and Cereal Bar, my favorite coffeehouse. I don't know if the frat-bro who wrote it is a poet or not, but his note not only flowed...it almost seemed intentional--yet effortless--with its wordplay, sound repetition, and line-breakage: 'write'...'Psi'...'provide'; 'provide'/ 'presence'; 'stability'...'security'...'absurdity'... And...the imagery! I'm sure Mom Wolfe will thoroughly appreciate his sentiments--and, as I have, his prose.
'Till Death Do Us Part
Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0000
This slide was found in a dumpster. Dated DEC '59, the image was tossed out along with several dozen other family portraits from this era. I'll leave it to the viewer to determine what this says about the Jersey Shore culture in the late 1950's.
OMG I Cnt Wait
Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0000
This note totally made my day. The nicknames they gave each other are absolutely hilarious: Soy Sauce, BLT, and Ranch.
Phonetic Swearing
Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0000
I found this while helping inventory books in a school library at the end of the school year.

MAKE Magazine

Telescope camera mod
Gareth Branwyn Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:00:00 -0800
Craig Smith sent us these pics and note: My telescope is low end in the scope-world, a 60mm refractor. But I discovered the eyepiece is the same size as my digital camera telephoto lens. My digital camera is low end in the camera world, too, a 3.2MP. But put them together with a custom PVC sleeve aligning lens-to-eyepiece, and I'm getting awesome moon shots. Here is the moon on 11/5/09. I added a camera support arm also, a quick adjustment of the tripod leg's wing nut, and I'm all aligned to photograph the skies. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Imaging | Digg this!
The patented 18 button OpenOffice mouse?
Phillip Torrone Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:28:35 -0800
It's not April 1st, so I'm going to guess it's real. The patented 18 button OpenOffice mouse - In partnership with the OpenOffice.org community, WarMouse announced the release of the OpenOfficeMouse, the first multi-button application mouse designed for the world's leading open-source office productivity suite. With a revolutionary and patented design featuring 18 buttons, an analog joystick, and support for as many as 52 key commands, the OpenOfficeMouse is intended to provide a faster and more efficient user interface for OpenOffice.org applications such as Writer and Calc than the conventional icons, pull-down menus, and hotkeys presently permit. "You can do far more with this mouse than most people are likely to realize at first," said mouse designer Theodore Beale. "You can launch applications from the desktop, and in your browser you can fire up a specific Internet site with one button, then close it with a double-click on the same button. In Writer and Calc, you can have your most powerful and complicated macros on one row of buttons and simple functions like Bold, Undo, and Format Cell on another. It's very useful in games like World of Warcraft, because even without taking the joystick into account, you've got 16 commands within one click, 40 within two, and all 72 icons on the six action pages within just two double-clicks or less." I'm hoping they consider the Chumby-style patent so others could improve on the hardware, perhaps adding more buttons. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Gadgets | Digg this!
Martian landscapes
Phillip Torrone Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:08:12 -0800
Martian landscapes - The Big Picture @ Boston.com via Waxy. Since 2006, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been orbiting Mars, currently circling approximately 300 km (187 mi) above the Martian surface. On board the MRO is HiRISE, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera, which has been photographing the planet for several years now at resolutions as fine as mere inches per pixel. Collected here is a group of images from HiRISE over the past few years, in either false color or grayscale, showing intricate details of landscapes both familiar and alien, from the surface of our neighboring planet, Mars. I invite you to take your time looking through these, imagining the settings - very cold, dry and distant, yet real. (35 photos total) Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Imaging | Digg this!

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