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Aarons the man! Checkout his work here also: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=150749&id=691751081

FreshBooks is a web based accounting application that makes it easy for you to track the time you spend on projects and invoice your clients. The company behind it is very web savvy and has managed to deliver a well documented, easy to use API for third party integration. This module aims to provide a full integration of the FreshBooks API for use by this and other Drupal modules.

This module was just born on Sept. 9, 2008 and so is under heavy development. To support this module's development and try FreshBooks for yourself, you can signup for a free account and test the functionality of the module as it develops.

via FreshBooks | drupal.org.

By David D. Levine.

Read by Meg Westfox.

First appeared in Bones of the World, ed. Bruce Holland Rogers.

After a time she found a small patch of zeren. She spread across it, taking a little solace from its sparkling sweetness. “Zero-point energy” was what Old John called it, but to Gunai and the rest of her tribe it was zeren, delicious and rare. Gunai recalled a time when zeren was something you could almost ignore — a constant crackling thrum beneath the surface of perception — but now there were just a few thin patches here and there. These days the tribe subsisted mostly on a thin diet of starlight, and even that was growing cold. Soon they would be forced to move on again. Yeoshi had told her the foraging was better in the direction of the galactic core, but it was so far…

via Escape Pod.

The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light. The question came about as a result of a five dollar bet over highballs, and it happened this way:

Alexander Adell and Bertram Lupov were two of the faithful attendants of Multivac. As well as any human beings could, they knew what lay behind the cold, clicking, flashing face — miles and miles of face — of that giant computer. They had at least a vague notion of the general plan of relays and circuits that had long since grown past the point where any single human could possibly have a firm grasp of the whole.

Multivac was self-adjusting and self-correcting. It had to be, for nothing human could adjust and correct it quickly enough or even adequately enough — so Adell and Lupov attended the monstrous giant only lightly and superficially, yet as well as any men could. They fed it data, adjusted questions to its needs and translated the answers that were issued. Certainly they, and all others like them, were fully entitled to share In the glory that was Multivac’s.

For decades, Multivac had helped design the ships and plot the trajectories that enabled man to reach the Moon, Mars, and Venus, but past that, Earth’s poor resources could not support the ships. Too much energy was needed for the long trips. Earth exploited its coal and uranium with increasing efficiency, but there was only so much of both. (more…)

Reincarnation #40 (give or take 10 either way) of LarsJansen.co.nz is up and running.

As anyone who has been here before would know I hate content. I hate writing it, I loath keeping sites up to date. Automation is my love ie. RSS.

My passion is the building of web sites. Their creation. Then tweaking, perfecting, tuning… until I get bored and it’s FTP to the server, delete all the files, leave it for a few months, discover a cool new app to Hack, upload and start again.

Thats where I’m up to. I just started again. Lets see how long this version lasts:)

The Geneva drive or Maltese cross is a mechanism that translates a continuous rotation into an intermittent rotary motion. It is an intermittent gear where the drive wheel has a pin that reaches into a slot of the driven wheel and thereby advances it by one step. The drive wheel also has a raised circular blocking disc that locks the driven wheel in position between steps.

Best.Fenn.Diagram.Of.All.Time.