Update: I can’t recommend these lights. I eventually bought 4 of them. One has stopped working and one works intermittently. I suspect it must be a problem with the internal wiring of the individual LEDs. Possibly the transformer that converts the AC to DC. Whatever, at 13 bucks a pop and only lasting a couple of months they are not worth it.
I bought this LED light bulb today in one of those ubiquitous small lighting shops you find around town. It was $13, which is about a third of what I’ve seen the same item for on the web. The packaging is very strange, it doesn’t list a country of origin and the only marking on the bulb are the numbers 1129. It claims to be 1.8 Watts, and I can believe it, because it hardly gets hot at all. You can comfortably touch it, even after it has been on for several minutes. The light is a bit towards the blue, but it is not unpleasant. I think it will be a good reading light.
MIT professor Daniel G. Nocera has discovered a relatively non-toxic catalyst for efficiently separating oxygen from water, thus leading to effective fuel cell storage of solar, wind, and tidal energy.
Hoosgot a good use for hoosgot.com? David Sifry has a new site. It should be useful for information retrieval after use goes up, and the initial blog-linkings calms down.
“Hoosgot (pronounced “Who’s Got…”) is a simple way to ask who’s got what you’re looking for. Just put “hoosgot” in a blog post or a Twitter tweet and it’ll show up here in Hoosgot. It is inspired by the Lazyweb, so invoking the lazyweb works too! ”
My computer wizard pal, Wrybread, loves non-commercial radio. He’s created this website to make listening to his favorites easy. damngoodradio.com
Check out his free other free stuff on gizmoware.net. Actually they are “thriftshop ware”, meaning if you use it and like it you have to mail him something from a thriftshop.” No I am not kidding.
