Dave Kellam

Looking for Nuts
A great squirrel photograph.

Sweedish FireSteel
Its nearly 3,000°C spark makes fire building easy in any weather, at any altitude.

Performance-enhancing contact lenses
Nike and Bausch & Lomb have created various styles of lenses that block out different types of light.

Council tells 8 year-old girl to hitch-hike rather than take school bus
It goes by the house, but apparently the council can’t afford to have it stop because the house is just withing the 2-mile radius around the school.

Can You Type?
Create a 420×400 pixel typographic representation of yourself.

From ‘Gook’ to ‘Raghead’
Hatred is nothing new, but it goes against the whole liberation thread that got the war rolling.

Small update to the flickrRSS plugin for WordPress
It fixes a slightly broken regex search, Flickr added a 10th photo server. Only really affects things if you’re using the image cache.

New Design Could Transform 1st Bike Ride
It starts off as a tricycle and gradually transforms into a bicycle as you pedal faster.

Explaining the origins of the elephant and donkey symbols that represent the Republicans and Democrats
A political cartoonist from 1874 chose the representations, the public latched onto them.

Kitten War
It’s like Hot or Not with kittens.

Putting an end to the digital divide
A BBC article on the creation of sub-$100 thin clients targetted at developing nations. The developers claim that it only 5W of power.

The Hype Machine
Features aggregated streams from a good number of mp3 weblogs.