CSL Blog

First Solar: Quest for the $1 Watt (article in IEEE Spectrum). It’s easy to make a small pile of money off photovoltaic cells but very hard to make a big one. The reason is one of the most fundamental in free-market economics: the larger the market you aim for, the more competitors you’ll have to face. Continue Reading »

PEACEFEST 08: Second Life Peace Blog: In the beginning, there was a vision.Destination Peace: PeaceFest 08 is a global, interfaith, cross-cultural effort to create lasting peace through mobilizing dialogue, support and learning with Real Life Peace organizations. Continue Reading »

More details on Toyota’s solar-powered Prius @ Crave. So our ears perked up when we heard Toyota is upgrading its Prius. Not only will it feature a hybrid electric-gasoline engine and automatic self-parking (see its robot skills in action here), but it will soon get solar panels on the roof to power its air-conditioning system.

Using Solar Roofs To Power Hybrids : article at TreeHugger.com. A company called Solar Electrical Vehicles is specializing in adding a convex solar roof to hybrid cars like the Toyota Prius, Highlander Hybrid and the Ford Escape Hybrid. Continue Reading »

Celestia: open source / crossplatform astronomy visualization tool. The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Celestia runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. Continue Reading »

Eye of the Goof: Eclectic collection of pop culture, design, and historical materials. Fascinating to surf, hours of fun! Some representative article titles include: “Ride the Tragic Roundabout”, “1939 World’s Fair”, “1994 World’s Fair”, “Doc Savage Fantasy Cover Art”, “Too Much Tiki” and “Satan Is Waitin”.

G-Spot geolocation apps for iPhone 3G: includes G-Park (parking app) and a really neat compass widget for the iPhone 3G.
G-Park in three easy steps:

1. Park your car and hit the Park Me! button.
2. Get lost.
3. Hit the Where Did I Park? button. Brings up Google maps and creates turn-by-turn directions that will take you right back to your car!

The Shibboleth System is an Internet2-sponsored standards based, open source software package for web single sign-on across or within organizational boundaries. It allows sites to make informed authorization decisions for individual access of protected online resources in a privacy-preserving manner. Continue Reading »

When you can’t be there…bVisual. bVisual is state of the art in visual web conferencing. Once you use bVisual you won’t ever want to go back to the old way of doing online presentations, seminars, webinars, or meetings. Continue Reading »

T. Boone Pickens’ Energy Plan: Time to Stop America’s Addiction to Foreign Oil. Fascinating plan to use alternative energy (wind) to help the US and the world climb out of our oil dependence. He advocates wind + natural gas (as an intermediate step). Well, as one environmentalist comments: “he’s got it half right (wind)”. Continue Reading »

Best Web Gallery is an inspirational gallery site where we collect a wide range of quality design websites (Flash & CSS). What is quality design means to us?

Quality Design = Visual + Technical + Creativity

Z800 3DVisor: “Get Inside The Game”. The Z800 3DVisor is the first PDS (personal display system) to deliver on the promise of immersive 3D adventure and entertainment. The Z800 3DVisor surrounds you with an enormous virtual display – for your favorite game, your favorite movie, or your work. Continue Reading »

TeacherTube: teach the world.

Our goal is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill. Continue Reading »

The Shit Box from the Brown Corporation (no kidding!) is a lightweight portable cardboard toilet, made specifically for outdoor use. The box pops up from a convenient 14 inch flat pack to a rigid, reusable, comfortable toilet. Each box comes with ten degradable poo bags.

The Caroline Collective: coworking space in Houston, TX. Long overdue in Houston, Caroline Collective was created to positively impact the cultural landscape of Houston by fostering community, collaboration and creativity across all artistic and technological disciplines.
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Schoorbs is a free room/resource booking system licensed under the GPLv2 which is served as a web application using PHP and MySQL/PostgreSQL.

OpenAjax Alliance: Standardizing Ajax Development. The OpenAjax Alliance is an organization of leading vendors, open source projects, and companies using Ajax that are dedicated to the successful adoption of open and interoperable Ajax-based Web technologies. Continue Reading »

LinuxMCE is a free, open source add-on to Kubuntu including a 10′ UI, complete whole-house media solution with pvr + distributed media, and the most advanced smarthome solution available. Continue Reading »

Transom: a showcase & workshop for new public radio. Transom.org is an experiment in channeling new work and voices to public radio through the Internet, for discussing that work, and encouraging more. Continue Reading »

High Density Vertical Bioreactor (HDVB) - The Holy Grail in the renewable energy sector has been to create a clean, green process which uses only light, water and air to create fuel. Continue Reading »