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Published: July 27, 2007, 9:00 am

Tags: Crafts, Digital Camera, Friday Fun, Weekend Project

A camera cozy keeps your lens cap in place and protects your camera's lens and LCD screen, and making one yourself isn't that hard. Break out the sewing machine and an old pair of jeans and a sweater, and check out instructions from the Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories blog. You'll have just the right size battery compartments and style at the

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Weekend Project: Flubber, goop, silly putty, and play dough - oh, my!

Published: July 29, 2007, 10:00 am

Tags: Kids, Recipes, Weekend Project

I'm a big fan of OMSI, the science museum right in my neck of the woods, and while browsing their site this morning in order to renew my membership, I found recipes. SciencTIFIC recipes, mind you. You've got your Flubber, your silly putty, your play dough, your goop - even some oobleck, some stained glass, and tear-free bubble solution. Note:

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Multitasking Robots: Multiple Speech Recognition To Make Sex Dolls More Fun

Published: July 29, 2007, 10:45 am

Tags: Honda Research Institute Japan, Kyoto University, Multiple Speech Recognition, Multitasking Robots, Robot Audition Project, Robovie R2

to form the Robot Audition Project. They are at present making some very impressive ground; they have developed an advanced speech recognition technology that has the capability to understand multiple, unique speech inputs, whilst computing their meaning independently. The efforts of the team are coming to fruition now, following years of

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Kids: 10 ways to entertain young children for $1 or less (without the TV)

Published: July 29, 2007, 12:00 pm

Tags: Diy, Feature, Kids, Top, Weekend Project

need tin cans for this project. Two plastic or styrofoam cups and some twine will do. Using a tack or the end of a pin, punch a hole into the center of the bottom of each cup. Cut a piece of light string 25 feet or longer. Feed one end of the string through the hole of one of the cups Tie a large knot on the

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Earned Value Management

Published: July 30, 2007, 7:34 pm

Tags: Project Management

way to monitor and evaluate project performance. In this article you will understand the basics of EVA and how it can be easily applied to your projects. The entire EVA practice essentially consists of about six key measurement values. We actually use these values in the planning and tracking of a project. Establishing a Baseline :

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FPS Fantasy Mayhem in Project Offset Trailer

Published: July 30, 2007, 11:38 pm

Tags: Videos, Sony, Microsoft, Computer, Project Offset, Ps3, Trailer, Xbox

Project Offset Trailer Every so often I watch a trailer where I have no idea what’s going on, but I know I want to play it. Like this trailer for Project Offset (working title), for example. It looks like they took the main character from Thief, gave him an over-the-shoulder view (a la RE4), and threw him into the middle of the

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Codename Falcon: Probable Prices (Xbox 360 Systems)

Published: August 1, 2007, 9:48 am

Tags: Microsoft, Clears, Consoles, Current Sales, Falcon, Game Systems, Good Heat, Hdmi, Heat Sinks, Holiday Season, Journalists, Mother Boards, Secret Plans, Shelves, Stock, Top Secret Project, Wii, Xbox 360

I reported on the top secret project out of Microsoft known as “Code Name Falcon”. Since that time, a lot more is known about the secret plans of Microsoft. My sources tell me that the current price cuts coming up for the Xbox 360 consoles has little to do with Falcon. The current sales that are about to take place are simply a

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Project Tikki Aquarium

Published: August 1, 2007, 4:30 pm

Tags: X Gold Award, Project

start one month ago the project “Tikki Aquarium”. thechoozen write about this project: First we startet to build the Aquarium itself, therefore we used a 30cm plexiglas tube and a sheet of uv active plexiglas, we transfer the outline of our tube to the sheet of plexi and cut it out. [...]

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Risk in Project Portfolio

Published: August 1, 2007, 10:21 pm

Tags: Project Management

acceptable. Aggregating Project-level Risks : As noted earlier, aggregating risk, at the portfolio level, is not practicable. Risk, for each project, modifies the Expected Commercial Value (ECV) for that project. - Each project is judged on the modified ECV (and other criteria) - Risk can be managed via mitigation strategies -

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Caboose Color for WP668

Published: August 3, 2007, 7:56 pm

Tags: Caboose Project Other Trains

John is done welding the new caboose landing and place-to-anchor the new stairs and he has the wood for WP668's new landing mostly cut, primed, and drilled for bolts. We have been discussing what color to paint the caboose. The first color John tried on the new wood was on the orange-ish end of brown and would have made WP668 look like a

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Weekend Project: Engrave wood with a sun laser

Published: August 4, 2007, 2:00 pm

Tags: Kids, Weekend Project

This would be a great project for the kids, or something to do while you're saving up for something like this. Sunlight Engraver [via DIY:happy]

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Estimating Task Durations

Published: August 5, 2007, 1:49 pm

Tags: Project Management

a higher priority task or project get done faster because of the pressure and attention? These are all things that can impact upon the task duration. But there rarely is a set of guidelines in place to help us with the estimating and to aid in achieving consistency across the project and the team. PERT Method - This technique provides for

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Gardening: How to grow a bonsai tree

Published: August 5, 2007, 3:00 pm

Tags: Gardening, How To, Weekend Project

and they're great starter projects for anyone who's looking to develop their green thumb. Everything is included here: how to find a bonsai, how to pick the right one, care, etc. There's also a really cool photo gallery where you can see what your Bonsai might look like if you do everything right (no pressure there). The Bonsai Primer

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Chinese newbies plug holes in Morning Musume

Published: August 5, 2007, 5:15 pm

Tags: Berryz Kobo, C Ute, Hello Project, J Pop, Morning Musume

In Morning Musume's new single, it appears producer Tsunku has found a way to almost instantaneously replace his two main singers, Yossie and Miki, who have retired from the group.

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How a DENR ‘midnight deal’ was forged

Published: August 5, 2007, 8:13 am