RSS Feeds and Aggregators

I need help.

Ever since Google Announced they were mothballing Google Reader I have been searching for a web based RSS aggregator.  I know there are plenty of installs out there. Some of them look really good but I don't have the luxury of having an aggregator installed on every platform I use during the day.

I liked Google Reader because it did nearly everything I asked it to do on a web page and never gave me trouble.  I cannot find something similar.  I have been using Bloglines which is ok but the interface is, well saying slow would be an understatement and it hiccups a lot from work (which is more likely work's internet than it is Bloglines) essentially its just not an idea solution.

I puruse a lot of online content via RSS feed and this is becoming a daily frustration.  Why isn't there a good web based aggregator that compares with the functionality of Google Reader?

Please for the love of all that is holy.....some code wiz please out there....make something to fill this gaping hole in my internet!

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Finding Rare Earths Unexpectedly: Lithium

Last week I saw the University of Wyoming posted this article about finding a new deposit of Lithium.

Finding this amount of a rare earth in your country is an incredible thing.  The UW article states it very elegantly:

To help put this number in perspective, the lithium reserves at Silver Peak, Nev. -- the largest domestic producer of lithium -- total 118,000 tons in a 20-square-mile area. In a best-case scenario, the 2,000-square-mile Rock Springs Uplift could harbor up to 18 million tons of lithium, equivalent to about 720 years of current global lithium production.

This is a staggering amount of a rare earth to find in your backyard so to speak and as they say opens up a whole new industry for the US.  For some time Lithium has been used in battery technology and recently Lithium Polymer batteries have made a big splash into portable electronics.  More specifically in 2007 A Nanowire Battery was invented.  This battery is designed with a far greater lithium density which is able to hold more energy in a reduced mass of the battery. 

I would love to see a whole new industry form up in Wyoming around this.  Good for Wyoming, good for manufacture in the US.

Makezine proves simple is coolest.

The Makezine Blog posted this great video here originally.   And someone posted a few more versions of it.  So I am collecting them here.  These are simple things you can make at home and you may even already have the magnets laying around.

Physical Money: A Love Affair

This Morning I had the pleasure of seeing this article from Core77 on the planned new 100 Dollar US note.   Its full of full color images and explanations of the design and security features of the new bill.

We are in love with money.  At least in the US we are.  We love coins and cash and more than making money we love spending money.  We have people who collect rare money and people who make a living analyzing the collections and worth of those collections.  The printing and minting of currency has its own cult following that has itself spawned websites and an economy all of its own.

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