Unless they're incredibly quiet or potentially explosive, you won't find us waxing poetic (or even prosaic) about leaf blowers. But if a company that produced leaf blowers made a motorized calendar that tore off its own pages? We'd tell you about that in a heartbeat -- even if the wonderfully wasteful contraption turned out to be a viral ad by agency Euro RSCG rather than an actual household organizer, and even if its pages aren't nearly as saucy as Stihl's usual NSFW fare. Believe it or not, there's no blade inside that brushed aluminum shell; the process works by ripping out the bookbinding thread along the calendar's spine using a motorized reel. Join us in celebrating the wonder of pressed dead wood floating to earth all by its lonesome with a short video after the break.Continue reading Stihl's autumn calendar automatically rips through to tomorrowStihl's autumn calendar automatically rips through to tomorrow originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink   |  DirectDaily  | Email this | Comments Continue Reading »

Want to hang out with stormtroopers from the 501st, sword fighters from the medieval and Renaissance eras, MC Frontalot, and innocent bystanders attending the South By Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas? Then come to our party! SEE the clashing of swords! HEAR the nerdcore stylings of MC Frontalot! DRINK free booze! Time Bender starts at 8 PM on March 13 and is 21+. No exceptions. You won't want to miss the brief sword fighting demonstration at 9 PM, featuring fighters from the awe-inspiring High Fantasy Society, and Association for Renaissance Martial Arts. And you definitely won't want to miss MC Frontalot at 10 PM. We'll be located at the lovely Pure Volume House, 504 Trinity St., Austin TX, and will be guarded by members of the local Texas garrison of the 501st Legion (of stormtroopers!). You must RSVP - that's Texas law when there's an open bar. You can RSVP via Facebook, or by mailing sxsw@io9.com. The event is free and open to the public. Space will be limited so don't blame us if you get there late and there's a giant line. Continue Reading »

Well, I’ve finally found a well-written, easy to use prototype/scriptaculous based Javascript Calendar. It’s as simple as adding .js and .css files to your site, and specifying a class for the html text input that you would like to populate with these fields.

The calendar is specifically designed to be used as a date-picker so that dates within html forms are formatted correctly by end users. The script is called DatePicker and is written by coders at http://www.frequency-decoder.com.

To Start, you just have to upload the js and css files to the website in a web-accessible directory, for the purposes of this example, those directories is ‘/assets/js/’ and ‘/assets/css/’ accordingly.

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