Founded in 2006, Inflection aggregates public records and data from past and present and currently operates Archives.com, a site that sources historical records made available on the web. Archives is meant to allow people to access birth, death, marriage, divorce, and other historical vital records to get information about deceased members of their families. Currently the site has more than 2 million members conducting searches and sees 3 million unique visitors per month.

http://hackaday.com/2010/08/27/hydropower-generator/

From Hack a Day:

….tapped into a reservoir about 200 feet upstream, split the flow into four smaller hoses, and channeled that into a five-gallon bucket. Inside the bucket you’ll find a Pelton wheel he built which turns a low-RPM generator. He manages to generate 56 VDC at 10 A with this setup, more than enough to charge a bank of batteries.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/08/vintage-calculators/

From Wired:

Emil Dudek, a technology enthusiast who lives in South Wales, U.K., has spent the last eight years acquiring calculators made in the 1970s, taking them apart, photographing them, analyzing the technology and posting it all to his website along with specs and comments on each machine.

It’s one man’s digital ode to electronic calculators. For Dudek, who got his first electronic calculator at the age of 15, in 1976, the devices represent a snapshot in time — a moment at the cusp of a digital computing revolution.

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/08/new-windows-dll-security-flaw-everything-old-is-new-again.ars

From Ars:

Last week, HD Moore, creator of the Metasploit penetration testing suite, tweeted about a newly patched iTunes flaw. The tweet said that many other (unspecified) Windows applications were susceptible to the same issue—40 at the time, but probably hundreds.