I went to the LA Zoo yesterday. The chimp section looked like the opening sequence from 2001 A Space Odyssey. Cool, but freaky…

Just in time for Halloween I present to you a new way to freak people out with their own iPhone!
iPhoneTrick.com

Yesterday, Elon Musk (a PayPal founder, founder of the Tesla car company and all-around entrepreneur) launched the first private spacecraft into orbit. The guy is James Bond villain mad genius, but a really good guy using his smarts and money to bring the future a lot faster. If you go to the SpaceX website you can see their plans for future rockets including cost per kilo to orbit. They’ve also got a manned spacecraft planned.

BoingBoing had a blurb from Bookride about Ricky Jay’s Cards as Weapons.

“It is worth noting that there is also a hardback of the book that is much prized and dealers (who are not mad) sometimes ask $1000 or more for it, although a cautious punter could probably pick one up in the $600 to $800 range - in a jacket.”

I think I paid $30 for my pristine hardback copy at Daytona Magic. Who would have guessed?

Finding images that can be used on blogs without big rights issues can be time-consuming. I decided to create a site that makes it easy to find free and creative commons licensed photos in one spot. It lets you search the three best sources for these images; Flickr, Google and PicApp.com. The site works as a frame that sits above the sites that it searches allowing you to quickly search for images without opening another window. It’s still a work in progress but worth checking out if you blog: FreeBlogPhotos.com

Here’s a funny account by the Amazing Randi about his first trip to a fan con.
Check it out here

Boing Boing had this link to an article on Scientific American about becoming Batman. The author of the book on this subject seems a bit skeptical about someone actually being able to do what he does. Naysayer.

Becoming Batman

My favorite iPhone app of the hour is Pangea’s VR viewer. VR’s are soooo much cooler when you can pinch and zoom them….

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