Starting today, the Massachusetts Historical Society will be offering up excerpts from John Quincy Adams’ line-a-day diary as tweets. The diary entries track Adams’ voyage to Russia, which kicked off on Aug. 5, 1809. Two hundred years after Adams’ journey began, accounts of his trip and his ensuing work as the first American ambassador to Russia will be chronicled daily on Twitter.
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Finally got my Google Voice invite this morning. Setting it up now. Sweet. I was able to get a local number and the last 4 digits are 4297 – which spells HAWS 
I will play with it it for a few days and let you know the results.I expect that I will be sending out an email soon with a new phone number
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Peninsula Light Co. (PenLightCo) on Twitter.
My electrical utility (Peninsula Light) is on twitter. Looks like they have been there since last may with a total of 5 tweets. I’m hoping this is useful during the winter when we have the most power outages.
Even though they are promoting their twitter feed on the front page, they only have 64 followers. I wonder what that says about the demographics of their customers.
Thanks to a Facebook post for drawing this TED demo from last February. Think MS Surface and iPhone and Tom Cruise in Minority Report.
This week is the 30th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. What better way to honor those brave men and women of NASA that to make your own liquid fuel rocket out of stuff sitting in your office.
Small personal water craft that is shaped like a dolphin, that also jumps and dives like a dolphin. More video on the manufactures web site, link above.
World's Largest Lawn Dart
One man’s quest to honor America’s Saturn V rocket – Rocketry Planet
On April 25, 2009, history will be made. At Higgs Farm in Price, Maryland, Steve Eves will enter the history books as the person who flew the largest model rocket in history. The rocket will weigh over 1,600 pounds, it will stand over 36 feet tall and it will be powered by a massive array of nine motors: eight 13,000ns N-Class motors and a 77,000ns P-Class motor. The estimated altitude of this single stage effort will be between 3,000 and 4,000 feet and the project will be recovered at apogee. In a special to Rocketry Planet, author Mark B. Canepa and ROCKETS Magazine wish to share Steve Eve’s story with the readers here.
