MIT has been offering their courses online as open-source material for several years now. While I think this is fantastic, and that I’d love to go through these and learn about quantum physics, I doubt I will ever have the discipline or time management skills to do so.

A nice little article on how to solder. Wish I’d seen this before I fried the guts of my first Base Station.

This is some cool McGuvyer shit. Build a solar powered iPod charger from simple parts in about 15 minutes. I’d try this in a second.

To Do list for this week: A handy script to yank the RSS feed from an Audioscrobbler account and drop it in a MovableType blog. Also handy: Audioscrobbler’s web services listing.

Wow, I forgot how much I dislike everything about the Flash interface. This blows.

I’m paranoid, and I like to be prepared (We were kept out of Independence Hall this past weekend because of my Leatherman, something I carry with me everywhere), so this mini survival kit HOWTO is very, very interesting to me.

WOW. Kottke wrote aboout finding a Duoflex for sale this weekend and wanting to take photos through the viewfinder. This is a how-to for building the rig to make it happen. I’m gonna try this with the Rollei too.

Gizmodo linked to a story about setting up your own Subversion server at home. I don’t currently run version control software, but I’m considering it.

Here’s a handy link to a Google Maps cell tower search for the U.S. It doesn’t have helpful information like what kind of tower, or which carrier owns it, etc, but it’s at least a start. It also explains why we get lousy coverage here in the C-ville. (via)

DIY Screenprinting, via the MAKE:blog.