Monday, 18 April 2011
links for 2011-04-18
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A simple application that reverses the usual scrolling practices on Mac OS X 10.5 and above to mimic those of the upcoming 10.7 Lion OS and iOS. Been using it for five minutes and I'm already used to it.
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"Being sedentary for nine hours a day at the office is bad for your health whether you go home and watch television afterward or hit the gym. It is bad whether you are morbidly obese or marathon-runner thin. 'Excessive sitting,' Dr. Levine says, 'is a lethal activity.'"
Tuesday, 05 April 2011
links for 2011-04-05
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"[T]he US cannot grow its way out of this problem. It needs to cut spending, specifically entitlement spending. We hereby announce that we'll give a special gold star to the first 'leader' with the guts to say that publicly."
Friday, 25 March 2011
links for 2011-03-25
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"The story is about a girl dreaming of the Darth Vader. You can see what happens when he doesn’t like a twi’lek lady flirting with him…"
Monday, 21 March 2011
links for 2011-03-21
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"A simple, elegant to do list app for iPhone and Mac"
Love the clean, minimalist design of both apps. I just wish it had recurring to-dos.
Thursday, 10 March 2011
links for 2011-03-10
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An infographic "using groups designated by the United States Department of State. Drawing on other data we have added several associated characteristics, including geographic location, approximate level of attacks (total), approximate size of organization by members, status of activity, and the age of the group."
Courtesy of Navanti, a client of my friend Tom.
Tuesday, 01 March 2011
links for 2011-03-01
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"This project is about concealing valuables, secrets, bad habits and personal information in our workplaces. Here, hidden spaces/ messages were created within 8 general objects such as wood boards, lamps and disposable coffee cups."
Thursday, 10 February 2011
links for 2011-02-10
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"While capacitive touch screens are great, one flaw is the inability to use a stylus. Not anymore! BoxWave's Capacitive Stylus allows you to use your Apple iPad without ever touching the screen with your finger. Perfect for the ladies out there who have their nails done, or for those who don't want to take their gloves off during a cold day. The Capacitive Stylus is conveniently sized, and designed like a pen to fit just about anywhere."
Tuesday, 08 February 2011
links for 2011-02-08
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Don't use the supermarket's self-checkout, wipe down your iPhone daily, and use the disinfectant wipes at the supermarket door.
Saturday, 05 February 2011
links for 2011-02-05
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J. Crew teamed up with Timex to offer this exclusive out of the Timex vault. Features a distressed white face with Arabic numerals and an olive-colored strap. Absolutely gorgeous. Want!
Thursday, 03 February 2011
links for 2011-02-03
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So sad that we have to be reminded of these common sense rules for behavior in the workplace. (And life.)
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Does one thing and does it beautifully. Well worth the 99 cents to get rid of the ads.
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
links for 2011-01-25
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"Here’s a big surprise: The ESPN Stats & Information folks have run the numbers one final time and determined that the SEC was indeed the best conference in the country this season.
"It wasn’t even close, either."
Thursday, 20 January 2011
links for 2011-01-20
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"Everyone wants to join Lord Vader’s Imperial Marching Band! Now you can march along with the Empire’s Stormtroopers accompanied by the sweet sounds of John Williams in your head. You can even hum the track out loud until one of your friend's force chokes you out."
Sunday, 16 January 2011
links for 2011-01-16
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"The folks from Clamcase stopped by our trailer this afternoon with some of the first finished products to roll off the assembly lines…"
Wednesday, 12 January 2011
Monday, 03 January 2011
links for 2011-01-03
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"[B]ecoming a zombie would be embarrassing more than anything, as it is a clear message that you're just a total idiot."
This bit is all fun of win. Sorry, Nathan.
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Good advice, and something I didn't have enabled before, when I *did* leave my phone behind. (Thankfully, a good samaritan turned it in to appropriate parties.)
Wednesday, 29 December 2010
links for 2010-12-29
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"Meerkat turns SSH tunnels — a fairly obscure and complicated concept — into a feature anyone should be able to use, and does so in a very Mac-like way."
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Justin Miller, Meerkat's creator, wrote this tutorial on combatting the Firesheep HTTP session hijacking plug-in.
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"An easy-to-use SSH tunnel manager built specifically for the Mac."
Tuesday, 07 December 2010
links for 2010-12-07
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"Sessions keeps track of your open windows and tabs for you, with automatic periodic backups for easy and robust session restoration across launches. If the current panoply of tabs gets to be too much for either you or Safari, simply save a snapshot of the session at any time and start fresh, secure in the knowledge that you can go back and revisit all of those links in their associated context at your future leisure."
Friday, 26 November 2010
links for 2010-11-26 - TSA Edition, Ep. 5: The Em-Tyner Strikes Back
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John Tyner's now-famous encounter with the TSA in San Diego over the body scanning machines and enhanced pat-down policy, including the video he shot.
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John Tyner attempts to answer some common questions that showed up via e-mail and in the comments section of his original post on his TSA encounter in San Diego.
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John Tyner explains why he filmed his processing through the TSA checkpoint at San Diego.
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John Tyner answers his critics, noting that he's not opposed to airline security, rather the current methods of body scanning and enhanced pat-downs is ineffective and not where we should be putting our resources.
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"The government, via the TSA, is saying that travelers can opt out of the protections afforded them by the U.S. Constitution. The problem with this is that there is no comparable alternative to flying for travel over long distances. By federalizing the security of all air travel, the government has severely limited (note that I do not say "removed") people's ability to move freely about the country by making them choose between air travel and their 4th amendment protections. Taken as a whole, the government is effectively removing the restrictions placed on it by the constitution by making it seem as though the people are willingly accepting the change…"
The federal government has inserted itself between two private parties involved in a business transaction, which just happens to be about traveling freely within the borders of one's own nation.
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"If a plane was hijacked and crashed once per week, you would still be more likely to be killed driving to the airport to get on that plane. The takeaway from this should be that terrorism (in the air) just isn't that common."
Tyner notes that while we must take security of airliners seriously, the fears behind this particular security threat are really overblown.
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Good overview of John Tyner's encounter with the TSA in San Diego. I would note that if it is indeed a violation of federal law and/or regulations to not finish the screening process once inside the security checkpoint, perhaps the TSA should make this information prominent outside each security checkpoint.
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I would suggest you NEVER let the TSOs take you to a private room for screening. If there is absolutely no way to get out of it, do NOT go alone. Demand a travel partner go with you, or a member of local law enforcement. Never let it be your word against the TSA's.
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Don't expect any help out of America's House of Lords any time soon.
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Has video of Paul introducing the legislation on the House floor.
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Basically, Paul introduces a one-paragraph bill taking away any immunity government workers may have for things private individuals are not allowed to do. Thus, if we can’t grope a stranger without it being an assault, neither can TSA employees. Say bye-bye to the enhanced pat-down, and hello Fourth Amendment to the Constitution.
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Designed in 2008, but getting lots of attention now thanks to the enhanced pat-down policy. Oleg needs to get this made as a sticker and sell them. I can only imagine how many we'd start seeing at TSA checkpoints, thanks to sly passengers.
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The first of what we hope are many common-sense measures: children 12 and under now exempt from enhanced pat-down.
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Video of Christine Holland explaining how a TSO groped her as part of the enhanced pat-down.
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"For example, many security experts have urged TSA to adopt techniques, used with great success by the Israeli airline El Al, in which passengers are observed, profiled, and most importantly, questioned before boarding planes. So TSA created a program known as SPOT — Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques. It began hiring what it called behavior detection officers, who would be trained to notice passengers who acted suspiciously. TSA now employs about 3,000 behavior detection officers, stationed at about 160 airports across the country.
"The problem is, they're doing it all wrong. […]
"'It's not an Israeli model, it's a TSA, screwed-up model,' says Mica. 'It should actually be the person who's looking at the ticket and talking to the individual. Instead, they've hired people to stand around and observe, which is a bastardization of what should be done.'"
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"A Gizmodo investigation has revealed 100 of the photographs saved by the Gen 2 millimeter wave scanner from Brijot Imaging Systems, Inc., obtained by a FOIA request after it was recently revealed that U.S. Marshals operating the machine in the Orlando, Florida courthouse had improperly-perhaps illegally-saved images of the scans of public servants and private citizens."
And we're lied to as the government tells us these machines aren't even capable of saving images.
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"'It is mindboggling for us Israelis to look at what happens in North America, because we went through this 50 years ago,' said Rafi Sela, the president of AR Challenges, a global transportation security consultancy. He's worked with the RCMP, the U.S. Navy Seals and airports around the world.
'Israelis, unlike Canadians and Americans, don't take s—- from anybody. When the security agency in Israel (the ISA) started to tighten security and we had to wait in line for — not for hours — but 30 or 40 minutes, all hell broke loose here. We said, "We're not going to do this. You're going to find a way that will take care of security without touching the efficiency of the airport."
That, in a nutshell is 'Israelification' - a system that protects life and limb without annoying you to death."
A-MEN.
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"[A] site-based initiative to inform the public of the injustices and discrimination from the Transportation Security Administration & Department of Homeland Security, in order to get the public involved and to promote a way to end the usage of the Full Body Scanners and pat downs."
Thursday, 25 November 2010
links for 2010-11-25 - TSA Edition, Ep. 4: A New Grope
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Jeff Buske's special underwear features a strategically placed fig leaf design and uses a powdered mix of tungsten and other metals (which won't set off the airport metal detectors) to protect one's privacy when undergoing security (or medical) screenings.
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George Will: "The average American has regular contact with the federal government at three points — the IRS, the post office and the TSA. Start with that fact if you are formulating a unified field theory to explain the public's current political mood."
Sunday, 21 November 2010
links for 2010-11-21 - TSA Edition, Ep. 3: Revenge of the Screeners
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Goldberg's account of his first encounter with the new, enhanced patdown. "This past Wednesday, I showed up at Baltimore-Washington International for a flight to Providence, R.I. I had a choice of two TSA screening checkpoints. I picked mine based on the number of people waiting in line, not because I am impatient, but because the coiled, closely packed lines at TSA screening sites are the most dangerous places in airports, completely unprotected from a terrorist attack — a terrorist attack that would serve the same purpose (shutting down air travel) as an attack on board an aircraft."
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"[T]o avoid giving gross offense to the Afghan public, and to prevent the appearance of an uncontrolled security state, the US military forbids use on Afghan civilians of the very practices the TSA is now making routine for civilian travelers at US airports."
I think if it's good enough for Afghan citizens, it's good enough for U.S. citizens, no?
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A blast from the past; Jeffery Goldberg, November 2008: “The whole system is designed to catch stupid terrorists,” Schneier told me. A smart terrorist, he says, won’t try to bring a knife aboard a plane, as I had been doing; he’ll make his own, in the airplane bathroom. Schneier told me the recipe: “Get some steel epoxy glue at a hardware store. It comes in two tubes, one with steel dust and then a hardener. You make the mold by folding a piece of cardboard in two, and then you mix the two tubes together. You can use a metal spoon for the handle. It hardens in 15 minutes.”
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"But come November 24th, here's an idea you might try to make the day extra-special. It's a one-word idea: Kilts. Think about it — if you're a male, and you want to bollix-up the nonsensical airport security-industrial complex, one way to do so would be to wear a kilt. If nothing else, this will cause TSA employees to throw up their hands in disgust. If you want to go the extra extra mile, I suggest commando-style kilt-wearing. While it is probably illegal to fly without pants, I can't imagine that it's illegal to fly without underpants."
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"It is a source of continual astonishment to me that pilots — many of whom, it should be pointed out, are military veterans who possess security clearances — are not allowed to carry onboard their airplanes pocket knives and bottles of shampoo, but then they're allowed to fly enormous, fuel-laden, missile-like objects over American cities."
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"One obvious technique the TSA is using to funnel passengers through the back-scatter imager is to waste their time — many people can't afford to wait five minutes for a pat-down, and will exchange the humiliation of the Federal Dick-Measurer for a speedier trip through security."
Saturday, 20 November 2010
links for 2010-11-20 - TSA Edition, Ep. 2: Attack of the Backscatter
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Jennifer Abel tees off in this editorial on TSA apologetics.
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Now you know where to fly out of in Orlando. (If you can.)
Thursday, 18 November 2010
links for 2010-11-18 - The TSA Edition
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Joe Flood contends the TSA's "Blogger Bob" is engaging in Orwellian doublespeak.
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Would be interesting to see what comes of this, if anything.
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Money quote all flyers should print out and take with them to the airport: Under 18 U.S. Code Section 2244, " 'sexual contact' means the intentional touching, either directly or through the clothing, of the genitalia, anus, groin, breast, inner thigh or buttocks of any person with an intent to abuse, humiliate, harass, degrade."
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The anti-body scanner/groping Opt-Out Day site for The Privacy Coalition.
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Isaac Z. Schlueter stages a minor revolution at a TSA checkpoint armed only with radiation health information disseminated by UCSF.
Wednesday, 10 November 2010
links for 2010-11-10
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Simple wood, dark, and light wallpapers for your 27-, 24-, or 15-inch screen, as well as your iPhone or iPad.
Saturday, 06 November 2010
links for 2010-11-06
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Free wallpapers for computer desktops and mobile devices, free PDF books, free PDFs of masks, coloring pages, and posters.
Wednesday, 03 November 2010
links for 2010-11-03
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While I'm not nearly the level of Star Trek fan as I am with Star Wars, these are intriguing. I like the "Boldly Go" one best.
Thursday, 21 October 2010
links for 2010-10-21
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"In God’s hands, your mistakes are not open cuts, they are healed scars that tell stories of great hope. They are not wounds to lie about, they are words other people need to hear. They are warning signs on roads your friends and family and neighbors are on. They are lighthouses in the midst of stormy weather. They are neon signs he uses to point the way toward repentance."
Sunday, 03 October 2010
Wednesday, 29 September 2010
links for 2010-09-29
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Inc. Magazine interviews Alden Mills, whose main product, Perfect Pushup, you may have seen on television.
Friday, 17 September 2010
Thursday, 16 September 2010
Saturday, 21 August 2010
Thursday, 19 August 2010
links for 2010-08-19
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"Adoptees must attempt to make sense of a complex, deep matrix of circumstances, emotions and thoughts. It's not easy, not only because it's not easy, but also because most folks don't realize that it's not easy."
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"Lucky? Lucky. Lucky to have been born on a continent terrorized by war, corruption and greed? Lucky to have been born in a country where 25,000 women and girls die each year due to pregnancy-related complications? Lucky to have been born in a country where more than half the population has ZERO access to basic medical care? Lucky to have been born in a region reliant upon rainfall and devastated by drought? […] Lucky to have been in a room with at least eight other needy babies at any given time? Lucky to have been taken outside for "fresh air" once a day (week?) into a concrete courtyard? Lucky to have been held for feedings… and sometimes only for feedings? Lucky to have been in a Bumbo chair instead of a mother's arms? Lucky to have been taken by complete strangers to another continent 7000 miles away? Lucky to have been physically removed from his people, culture, history, language, customs?"
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"Sometimes as the parent of an adopted child you get a lot of comments that are spoken innocently but come from a place of ignorance. Education is part of our job, but sometimes it gets a little frustrating.
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"The rescue and lucky mentality people have with orphans so easily overlooks the very real pain and trauma inherent in it all. It engenders a need for gratefulness and payback among the children that’s just unhealthy. It turns a blind eye to the reality of their situation and turns adoptive parents into superheros that we’re definitely not."
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"Adoption is not lucky. … It’s a very sticky point in adoption but it’s an important one for people to remember. Our children came to our family because there was a need. There is grief, loss, and sadness in their lives."
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"[C]hildren playing in the water make noise. When they get quiet, you get to them and find out why."
Monday, 16 August 2010
links for 2010-08-16
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"The fact we Muslims know the idea behind the Ground Zero mosque is meant to be a deliberate provocation to thumb our noses at the infidel."
Sunday, 15 August 2010
links for 2010-08-15
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"Twibbon is the easiest and most powerful way to promote awareness of your cause on Twitter and Facebook, engaging with users and increasing your Twitter followers and your Facebook fans."
For future reference. Thanks, Dave!
Tuesday, 03 August 2010
links for 2010-08-03
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Mac version's free, iPhone version costs $2, and yes, they sync. I'm pretty well covered with Appigo's Todo on my iPhone, and I have Things on my Mac for more intensive projects, but this may be of interest if you need a simple productivity/to-do system that doesn't break the bank.
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Applicable to Photoshop Elements as well.
Monday, 02 August 2010
links for 2010-08-02
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Exercise, music, naps, and, yes-video games and Facebook.
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I need to read this EVERY DAY.
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
Tuesday, 27 July 2010
links for 2010-07-27
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I like LaCie's line of USB keys as the sort of flash drive I'd always have on my person.
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
links for 2010-07-20
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"This shirt is a tribute to the thousands of patriots serving the Empire that died on the Death Star."
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A collection of some of ThinkGeek's catalog covers as desktop wallpapers, featuring their mascot, Timmy. (More for my own future reference than anything else.)
Sunday, 04 July 2010
links for 2010-07-04
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My friend Dave created a fun typeface on his iPad.
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"Gunkanjima – every urban explorer’s dream. A deserted island of concrete ruins slowly crumbling away off the West coast of Japan. Travellers have long been forbidden to land there and view the secrets within its walls. But with an awesome guide and a little luck, I was able to do just that."
Wonderful photojournalistic post by Michael "Gakuran". I love the idea of exploring deserted urban places.
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The Marina Bay Sands resort features an infinity swimming pool: 56 floors above ground!
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
links for 2010-06-30
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There's quite a few in this list I can see as being very, very useful…
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For guys. (Though the ladies may like one or two of them…)
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Conflict moves the story forward, keeps the reader's interest.
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
links for 2010-06-16
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"JavaScript Blacklist is a simple extension for Safari 5 which blacklists scripts from a configurable list of domains. If a common "utility" script used by sites that you visit is annoying you, this will let you opt out quickly and easily."
Better version of the tynt-blocker extension I linked to before.
Sunday, 13 June 2010
links for 2010-06-13
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"This extension adds an Amazon Search item to the context menu. To use it, just select some text on the page, right-click (or hold the Control key and click) and then choose 'Amazon Search' from the menu. Your selected text will be searched in Amazon."
Saturday, 12 June 2010
Friday, 11 June 2010
links for 2010-06-11
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"Project: AK-47 has only been operating in the United States for a year and a half, but it promotes and funds projects that have been directly working in Southeast Asia since 1994. The staff not only negotiate to demobilize child soldiers but provide everything they’ll need for a new life: shelter, food, clothing, trauma counseling, mentorship, education and, most of all, love. Programs even offer agricultural training to give youth the skills needed for employment in the country’s vital green tea farming industry. The staff is devoted to these youth until they become functioning adults, at which point they are facilitated into university, agriculture or other employment."
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Dedicated to eradicating the concept of the "child soldier", Project: AK-47 has developed a line of socially responsible clothing to raise funds. All of the items in the store are sweatshop-free, and all of the profits go toward their rescue projects for child soldiers, and other children caught in the way of armed conflicts.
Wednesday, 09 June 2010
links for 2010-06-09
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"A Photographer's Guide to Depth of Field is our first photography guide and we're giving it away absolutely free. No catches, no tricks - just hit the download button and get it on your desktop now."
Tuesday, 08 June 2010
links for 2010-06-08
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What makes Camera+ different is the Lightbox function. Photos taken through Camera+ are saved within the app first. You can edit and apply effects to photos without those photos being on the iPhone's camera roll.
Sunday, 06 June 2010
Monday, 31 May 2010
links for 2010-05-31
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Kirk Morris, father of Marine Pfc. Geoffrey Morris, 19
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"I don’t think that the majority of Americans get it," he said. "It’s about remembering those who have fallen. … I don’t want to diminish our veterans, but that’s why we have Veterans Day. This day is about all those who never got their tomorrows."
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Sandra Miller, mother of Army Pvt. DeWayne White, 27
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[S]he is baffled so many Americans do not recognize or even think about his sacrifice, especially on Memorial Day. Even family members, she said, are too busy to mark the occasion, leaving her alone in her sorrow.
"It’s not about having a barbecue. It’s a day for remembering. … And what’s up with all the sales?" she said. "If one TV channel could just put up the photos of all the fallen for just one day, that would make a huge difference."
Wednesday, 26 May 2010
links for 2010-05-26
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"A portion of the profit from our shirts will go to changing your world:
"Globally: Fighting to end extreme poverty in 3d world countries.
"Locally: Providing food for the hungry in the U.S.
"When you buy a shirt, you join a movement of people who want to change the world. We see need all around us. Stop talking about it. Start living the difference. It's not sacrifice unless it costs you something. Love is the weapon of the future. Be vigilant. Be tenacious. Be the change."
Friday, 30 April 2010
links for 2010-04-30
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"Here’s one thing you should know about the Disney Cruise: The culture of Disney is insidious. Mousack is piped into every nook and cranny of the damn ship: the elevators, the restaurants, the hallways. If you submerge yourself in the mouse-shaped pool, you will hear the haunting theme from The Little Mermaid, as though she were down there, somewhere, singing. You can’t escape it by going to the Lido deck, or even, God forbid, your own room. Every single time you leave your cabin, some sort of switch is triggered so that upon reentry the radio is back on, blaring 'Small World.' I thought the Geneva Convention had banned that song. If they want to find Bin Laden so badly, the government should just turn Afghanistan over to Disney and the company can pipe some of its greatest hits into the terrorists’ caves. Before you know it, every last one of them will crawl out and confess to something, anything, to make it stop."
Tuesday, 27 April 2010
links for 2010-04-27
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Refuse to pay for those add-ons dealerships force on you. At the very least, do some basic research and negotiate the add-ons down, since there's significant markup on them.
Monday, 26 April 2010
links for 2010-04-26
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Good advice from Christopher Rice.
Still hard to believe I gave him a test drive in a new Saturn when he was 15.
Monday, 12 April 2010
Tuesday, 06 April 2010
links for 2010-04-06
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Fan-edited movie trailer for the original Tron movie, giving it a more modern feel and soundtrack. Very well done.
Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Friday, 26 March 2010
links for 2010-03-26
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You can download the typefaces for use on your desktop or laptop. I really like Droid Sans Bold and Droid Sans Mono. The latter may replace Inconsolata as my default monospaced font.
Monday, 22 March 2010
links for 2010-03-22
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"In order to finance $940 billion in new health care spending over the next ten years, the health care bill that the House of Represenatives passed on Sunday evening contains many spending cuts to Medicare, along with many tax increases that are set to go into effect over the next decade. Courtesy of the Joint Committee on Taxation's scoring of each of the provisions in the bill and the CBO, this Tax Foundation Fiscal Fact contains a timeline of when each of the tax provisions in the bill is set to go into effect. Note this list includes provisions in the reconciliation bill combined with the Senate bill and not just the Senate bill that Pres. Obama will sign into law this week."
Sunday, 21 March 2010
links for 2010-03-21
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The Discovery, from 2001: A Space Odyssey, in LEGO. Took over a year to make, measures just over 6 feet in length.
Sunday, 14 March 2010
Saturday, 13 March 2010
links for 2010-03-13
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Writeup on using Notational Velocity as Mac desktop app and syncing across multiple Macs and WriteRoom for iPhone through Jesse Grosjean's SimpleText web app/service.
Tuesday, 09 March 2010
links for 2010-03-09
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Three really nice high-res shots. Love the lightcycle one.
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Tron fan site devoted to the search for Kevin Flynn.
Monday, 01 March 2010
links for 2010-03-01
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"The guide does exactly what it says: outlines the surveillance services the software company will perform for law enforcement agencies on its online platforms. These include its email services, such as Hotmail, MSN, Messenger, Office Live, Windows Live, and even Xbox Live."
Thursday, 25 February 2010
Tuesday, 23 February 2010
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
links for 2010-01-26
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Filing for future reference.
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Shooters, free targets, mostly in PDF format. You'll have to use larger sized paper than 8.5 x 11 for some.
Monday, 18 January 2010
links for 2010-01-18
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Okay, this is pretty cool.
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"On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. stood at the Lincoln Memorial and admonished America to return to its First Principles. In his I Have a Dream Speech, he announced his dream that 'one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."' He longed to see a day when all 'would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."' Dr. King did not talk about remaking America. His dream was one which, in his words, was 'deeply rooted in the American dream.' It hearkened back to the principles upon which our country was founded. It was not a rejection of our past, but a vision of hope based on the principles of our past."
Sunday, 17 January 2010
Friday, 15 January 2010
links for 2010-01-15
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"If Republicans continue to be intimidated into not engaging minorities out of fear of being called racists, it is unlikely they will ever compete for the votes of racial minorities. Democrats can take blacks for granted because they know Republicans rarely engage them, even though conservative values are much more in line with those of many racial minorities on issues ranging from crime prevention to abortion and same-sex marriage."
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"Americans learned last year that President Obama discards campaign promises like most people discard used Kleenex. Among the pledges he cast aside were reducing the deficit, reining in federal spending, not allowing lobbyists to work in his administration, increasing taxes only on those who make more than $250,000, and opposing 'government-run health care' because it is 'extreme'."
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"Once we have tasted success for a season, we tend to become bored with the fundamentals that made us successful. We become increasingly excited by innovation and pioneering. We become eager to expand."
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Handy list of files which use metadata, which is incompatible with Dropbox.
Monday, 11 January 2010
links for 2010-01-11
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Proud to say, "I know him!" Congratulations on the mention, Michael!
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I've got three different kinds of notebooks I try to take around, though I don't always have one with me. I have a small hardcover Moleskine (black), several Field Notes (Noteses?), and even a couple styled as mini composition books.
Thursday, 07 January 2010
links for 2010-01-07
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Tuned by the Smith & Wesson Performance Center, aimed at the competition market, but certainly applicable for personal defense. Droolworthy.
Thursday, 31 December 2009
links for 2009-12-31
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For future reference, if, once the missus is on a Mac, we find we need this as a family.
Tuesday, 29 December 2009
Wednesday, 23 December 2009
links for 2009-12-23
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Handy list of alternatives to Evite.com. You're still not using Evite, are you?
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Useful information if you don't receive a new HDTV for Christmas, but still want one for the Super Bowl.
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For Newton users past and present, Grant Hutchison has created a desktop wallpaper for our Macs and PCs.
Friday, 18 December 2009
Sunday, 13 December 2009
Wednesday, 09 December 2009
links for 2009-12-09
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"Prayer—which is simply talking with God—is considered a critical aspect of faith. One prophet blurted, ‘Far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD by failing to pray for you’ (1 Sam. 12:23 (TNIV)). Prayer is not some kind of pious decoration; it is the breath of the human soul. Unfortunately, some of us don’t breathe as often as we should—and it shows."
Tuesday, 08 December 2009
links for 2009-12-08
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"The Internet may be a worldwide superhighway, but it's all to easy to shut it down. Governments aiming to squelch free speech in don't even have to work hard to do so: It's all too easy to restrict the Internet and keep their people in the dark.
"The practice is all too too easy, and all too common."
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"Freegate is an anti-censorship software for secure and fast Internet access. It was developed and maintained by Dynamic Internet Technology Inc. (DIT), a pioneer in censorship-circumvention operation."
Tuesday, 01 December 2009
links for 2009-12-01
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Is it odd that I'm a fan of Halo, even though I've never played the game with any sort of consistency? I guess it's a holdover from the days when its mythos was known as Marathon. Looking forward to the full film.
Monday, 30 November 2009
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Ten life and leadership lessons from Chuck Swindoll.
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"It has never been serviced or cleaned other than blowing out the dust with a service station hose. … I have typed on this typewriter every book I have written including three not published. Including all drafts and correspondence I would put this at about five million words over a period of 50 years."
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A perspective on relevance younger folk need to consider regarding older folk in the church. I know I need to heed this at times, myself. And looking ahead at the last years of my 30s, I'll be in that older folk camp soon enough, if I'm not already.
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For future reference, should I ever start up a podcast. Or something.
Sunday, 29 November 2009
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"The following story […] is a potential fictional time line for the day the dollar died. I hope not to instill fear or loathing but to give everyone some perspective on a POSSIBLE outcome which does not really take much of a reach to come to any conclusion. Despite popular belief and promises from those who wish to rob you of your savings and investments, the collapse of the dollar might just be an event measured in hours, not days as their control is not what it seems…."
Saturday, 28 November 2009
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"This newly-updated site helps holiday shoppers find great gifts which do not have forced or child labor in their production. Featured companies are graded on the steps they take to actively prevent exploitation from occurring. Numerous industries are at risk for forced and child labor, such as apparel, electronics and toys, to name a few. We are linked to workers around the world by international supply chains, but no longer do consumers need to support companies that engage in high-risk sourcing practices."
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"Texas and California are America’s two most populous states, together numbering approximately 55 million people, which is only about 6 million less than the United Kingdom, where I live. California, as everyone knows, has a coolness factor that Texas cannot match. Hollywood, Silicon Valley, and wine. Say no more. But, unless one has been living in a cave, everyone knows that the cool state is also the broke state. […]
"Texas, on the other hand, is growing, creating wealth, and attracting the entrepreneurial and creative classes that too many people think only go to places like New York and California."
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"Texas will become a magnet for new businesses by offering cheap land, a favorable regulatory environment, a business-friendly culture, and a large supply of skilled labor. Unless California revamps dramatically, expect to see its economy languish, even as the recovery takes off."
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
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Not endorsing any of these apps, since I haven't tried any, but felt the article was worth passing along, as well as filing away for future reference.
Friday, 20 November 2009
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Though I disagree vehemently with Doctorow on a lot of political points, I have enjoyed most of his novels. And I've read all of them electronically.
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For my fellow not-morning people.
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Bookmarked, of course, so I don't forget it.
Sunday, 15 November 2009
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From an Aussie perspective, but still relevant. Offers a summary of the policies of Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, Facebook, and MySpace.
Friday, 13 November 2009
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
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Not surprisingly, more common sense from VDH on what our President should be doing with regard to Afghanistan.
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"Astounding photographs taken by photographers Arthur S. Mole and John D. Thomas. These photos display tens of thousands of American soldiers posing as symbols of American history."
Thursday, 15 October 2009
Monday, 12 October 2009
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And how many of you, hitting this site after seeing tonight's How I Met Your Mother, suddenly had some late '80s/early '90s big hair band MTV flashbacks?
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This is pretty amazing.
Sunday, 11 October 2009
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The Nobel Committee could have given the Peace Prize to: an Afghan women's rights activist who opposed the Taliban during its rule; a former hostage held for six year; a Congolese doctor who founded a hospital and has dedicated his life to helping women and girls who are victims of rape and other sexual violence; an organization dedicated to clearing land mines; or two Chinese activists, each imprisoned for their outspokenness on the need for reform in China.
But let's roll with the done-nothing empty suit instead…
Sunday, 04 October 2009
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It hasn't displaced Aston Martin on my fantasy super cars-to-own list, but it did knock the Porsche GT3 down a notch.
Wednesday, 30 September 2009
Saturday, 12 September 2009
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"I always liked the reader suggestion to name the new towers 'Freedom' and 'Unity' and let al-Qaeda figure out what the initials stand for."
Tuesday, 25 August 2009
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"Dear various parents, grandparents, co-workers, and other 'not computer people.' We don't magically know how to do everything in every program. When we help you, we're usually just doing this:"
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Free coloring pages (downloadable PDF files) of Chevrolet cars, featuring the Camaro, Volt, Beat concept, Corvette, and Cadillac CTS wagon.
Monday, 24 August 2009
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Common-sense advice from attorney Adrianos Facchetti for our increasingly no-common sense world. Pretty sure everyone on Twitter has been guilty of at least one of these at one time or another.
Sunday, 23 August 2009
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"Forty-nine percent (49%) of U.S. voters say working Americans should be allowed to opt out of Social Security and provide for their own retirement planning."
Amen.
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Nanny statism continues running amok.
Monday, 17 August 2009
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"Health care is a service that we all need, but just like food and shelter it is best provided through voluntary and mutually beneficial market exchanges. A careful reading of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution will not reveal any intrinsic right to health care, food or shelter. That’s because there isn’t any. This “right” has never existed in America.
"Even in countries like Canada and the U.K., there is no intrinsic right to health care. Rather, citizens in these countries are told by government bureaucrats what health-care treatments they are eligible to receive and when they can receive them. All countries with socialized medicine ration health care by forcing their citizens to wait in lines to receive scarce treatments."
Tuesday, 11 August 2009
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"Making government a bigger player in the health-care process means that health-care decisions are increasingly political decisions, which, in turn, means that people and companies turn ever more toward political acts—like protests and lobbying—in order to participate. Obama has repeatedly talked about moving the country beyond politics. But the health-care reforms he supports would, in fact, further politicize the health-care system."
Thursday, 06 August 2009
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A somewhat insider's look at the Netflix warehouse that serves the greater Chicago area.
Wednesday, 29 July 2009
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All I could think of while reading this was "This is news? This guy is surprised by the response?"
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Lee Child is one of my favorite authors; I've read all thirteen of the Jack Reacher novels. I didn't know that Reacher was born out of Child's being laid off from a movie production company, however. Or if I did, I'd forgotten. Here is an inspiring piece by Child about that experience, offering hope for those worried about losing their job, or already have.
Friday, 24 July 2009
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Thomas Baekdal with some tips on keeping up with the latest buzz, or keeping up with what people are saying about you, your products, or your competitors.
Wednesday, 22 July 2009
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"Centralization is in many ways the worst part. It's the core of the cloud computing model, and anything that takes down the centralized service—network failures, massive malware hit, denial-of-service attack, and so forth—affects everyone who uses that service. When the documents and the tools both live in the cloud, there's no way for someone to continue working in this failure state. If users don't (or can't) have their own personal backups, and don't (or can't) have other tools with which to access their backups, they're stuck.
"The cloud computing model may be a wonderful system when it works, but it's a nightmare when it fails. And the more people who come to depend upon it, the bigger the nightmare."
Tuesday, 21 July 2009
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"In the same breath that it used to announce a $213 million second-quarter loss, Continental said it will add a $5 surcharge to bag fees paid at the airport. Passengers can avoid the surcharge by paying the fee online. The new airport fees, which come to $20 for the first bag and $30 for the second, are effective immediately for travel August 19 and beyond.
"Delta is also adding a $5 surcharge, effective for tickets booked on or after July 16 for travel on or after August 4. Delta's airport bag fees will also jump to $20 for the first bag and $30 for the second."
That's right, you pay a fee for paying a fee. Have these buffoons give any thought to the fact that part of their profit losses may have to do with the incredibly crappy customer service they deliver? Just keep sending more business to Southwest, morons.
Friday, 17 July 2009
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"[W]e’ve been taught to believe that e-books are, you know, just like books, only better. Already, we’ve learned that they’re not really like books, in that once we’re finished reading them, we can’t resell or even donate them. But now we learn that all sales may not even be final.
"As one of my readers noted, it’s like Barnes & Noble sneaking into our homes in the middle of the night, taking some books that we’ve been reading off our nightstands, and leaving us a check on the coffee table."
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"Because your iPhone knows your location, the app can show you nearby places to eat, stay and explore, as recommended by the Dopplr community. It also comes with built-in recommendations for 250 popular cities around the world.
"With a single tap, you can add new places you've discovered to the Dopplr Social Atlas. You'll be able to confirm these additions, and enter more details, next time you log in to dopplr.com.
"The app is a great pocket travel guide even if you do not have a Dopplr account; but if you do, it offers much more. You can keep track of your fellow travellers, find out where they are now, and what future trips they have planned. You can even contact them directly from inside the app. You can view your own planned trips, and find co-incidences where fellow travellers will be nearby."
Wednesday, 15 July 2009
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"But one thing George Bush did not get that Barack Obama is getting from Major League Baseball is a platform to espouse his policy positions. Some of us would like a few areas in life where politics, like the Mets, get shut out. This should be one of them."
Tuesday, 14 July 2009
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A collection of fees beyond your ticket for each airline, from checked bags to snacks to onboard wifi. As the article says, no one's charging to use the lavatory. Yet.
Monday, 13 July 2009
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Andy Chung's typeface Neighbourhood is "an ultra simple sans serif text(ish) face with a large set of alternates which when combined with the regular characters create a new graphic display look."
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Forgot to post this back in May when it was published. A very interesting report from an anonymous naval aviator aboard the USS Eisenhower.
Saturday, 11 July 2009
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A complete list of all the Twitter accounts the Borg operate. Looks like there's one for each Google product except, oddly enough, Gmail.
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Manjoo's argument is that the pervasive search box in browser windows nearly renders the vanity domain unnecessary. I'm still not giving up retrophis.ch.
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"DateLine is a small, simple app which displays a linear calendar on your desktop in a transparent window. It provides easy access to iCal by double clicking on a day. The background and text colors are customizable with support for transparency."
Friday, 10 July 2009
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The key words in this article are "adult size". (If you listen closely, you can hear my inner geek squeal with glee.)
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Duct tape on the moon. Duct tape on the moon. Duct tape on the MOON. Used for actual repairs. Is this not the greatest invention in our solar system or what?
Sunday, 05 July 2009
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"[P]eople who talk about their intentions are less likely to make them happen."
Saturday, 04 July 2009
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Derrick Story: "At first glance, the recently announced Olympus E-P1 digital camera looks like a classic rangefinder from the film era. But in fact, the camera has much in common with a modern digital SLR, including interchangeable lenses, a 12.3-megapixel image sensor, and even support for Raw and 720p video recording. As a bonus, it comes neatly packaged in a body closer to the size of a compact point-and-shoot."
I am *very* pleased with my recent point-and-shoot purchase, but this indeed looks like the type of camera to fill the role between point-and-shoot and full-blown SLR.
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Mostly with regard to paper, with a business/office life focus.
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I cannot express how badly my technolust has been inflamed by this product.
(Yes, even with the six grand price tag. Though I think I'd prefer a 500 GB 7200rpm hard drive over the 256 GB solid state drive.)
Only ten will be produced.
Friday, 03 July 2009
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They're not talking about fun games. Rather, "how office politics sabotage the workplace".
I have seen many examples of some of the games mentioned here, both in a Fortune 100 company and in a medium-sized business.
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Oh. Yeah.
Features a 42″ Vizio Flat Panel LCD HDTV; three (3!) 26″ Vizio Flat Panel LCD HDTVs; a 1000-watt Panasonic 5.1 Home Theater System; DVD player with 5-CD changer; iPod docking station; two wireless surround sound speakers; a live, 7-foot sports ticker, with built-in computer; a year's free service for the aforementioned sports ticker; a full-size, built-in, refrigerated beer keg with tap; a 1000-watt microwave oven; two cigar humidors (holds 25 cigars each), complete with gauges; and a 32-bottle wine rack. Price? Only $14,900.
Plus shipping.
Thursday, 02 July 2009
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This is a handy app which allows you to specify what you want your Mac to do when you attach photo-capable devices. For instance, you may want iPhoto to open when you connect your iPhone or point-and-shoot digital camera, but Aperture or Lightroom to launch when you attach your dSLR. Or maybe you don’t want iPhoto to launch when you connect your iPhone. You just tell Cameras what you want to happen.
Sunday, 28 June 2009
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"Old Map App allows an iPhone user to explore the effects of time on geography and urban development. "The application displays layers of geo-referenced historical maps projected onto a modern coordinate system, so that the same location can be compared over time. Layers can be faded, adjusted, and explored freely. If the user is located within the region of the historical map, the user's position will be mapped on the old maps to the position of the compass indicator.
"Several maps of New York City & Region are included from the 17th to 19th centuries. All are high-resolution images from the Library of Congress."
Not yet released to the iTunes App Store, but you can sign up to be notified and possibly participate in the beta test. Looks really great.
Saturday, 27 June 2009
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"In recent years, at least three broadcasters have decided that the dead-center camera is worth the trouble. Tom Mee, who directs Cardinals telecasts for Fox Sports Midwest, says he decided to ditch the offset view in 2006 when the team's video coach showed him the difference between the two angles. The Red Sox went dead-center midway through last year at the behest of team owner John Henry. The Twins also switched last summer on an experimental basis and have since decided to keep the setup when they move into a new stadium next year. Minnesota color analyst Bert Blyleven is a fan of the new view, saying the camera makes it easier for him to convey the game's subtleties, like the tail of a fastball or a pitcher's positioning on the rubber. 'As an analyst, you're an educator,' he says. 'Having the camera directly over the pitcher gives the fan at home a better perspective of what pitching is and the game within the game.'"
Saturday, 20 June 2009
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"We're done with the tired old fontstacks of yesteryear. Enough with the limitations of the web, we won't have it. It's time to raise our standards. Here, you'll find only the most well-made, free & open-source, @font-face ready fonts."
I really like Chunk and Junction.
Tuesday, 16 June 2009
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"A new reservoir is filling in central China. The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River—the world’s largest dam—was completed in 2006, and the river is filling up its valley behind the dam to form a narrow reservoir extending more than 600 kilometers. This image from April 15, 2009, is one of the first images that astronauts on the International Space Station have been able to capture of the flooding behind the dam. The main objective for the dam is to supply water for the largest hydroelectric plant in the world and to help control the devastating floods that plague the lowlands downstream from the dam."
Friday, 12 June 2009
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Eric Van Lustbader on continuing the Jason Bourne book series started by his friend Bob Ludlum.
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I'm so glad I don't frequent bars.
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"If your data is online, it is not private. Oh, maybe it seems private. Certainly, only you have access to your e-mail. Well, you and your ISP. And the sender's ISP. And any backbone provider who happens to route that mail from the sender to you. And, if you read your personal mail from work, your company. And, if they have taps at the correct points, the NSA and any other sufficiently well-funded government intelligence organization — domestic and international."
Thursday, 11 June 2009
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"If your data is online, it is not private. Oh, maybe it seems private. Certainly, only you have access to your e-mail. Well, you and your ISP. And the sender's ISP. And any backbone provider who happens to route that mail from the sender to you. And, if you read your personal mail from work, your company. And, if they have taps at the correct points, the NSA and any other sufficiently well-funded government intelligence organization — domestic and international."
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Best-selling author Miller briefly mentions his upcoming book, but spends most of the interview talking about his latest endeavor, the worthwhile Mentoring Project.
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Google's looking to roll out a device-agnostic e-book service. And Jeff Bezos thought he only had to worry about Apple making a tablet that outshines the Kindle…
Monday, 08 June 2009
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Pretty self-explanatory. A blog of photos of hot chicks with stormtroopers. A sure sign of the apocalypse.
Sunday, 07 June 2009
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"We are a professional expediting company officially recognized and registered with the U.S. Passport Agency, allowing us to assist you in obtaining your passport in as fast as 24 hours or less!"
This would have come in handy last decade when my parents thought about going to Iceland when my sister had to have an emergency gall bladder removal (she was studying abroad at the time).
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"Barack Obama went to Normandy for a reason this weekend — and it was a good one. The president had something he wanted to convey to the world. That message, to paraphrase a point Ronald Reagan used to make, is a simple one, even if it's not an easy one: It is that freedom is not free, and that democracy is worth fighting for — that sometimes human rights are worth dying for."
Thursday, 04 June 2009
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"[L]isten to your iTunes library but only use a part of the resources. This player was designed with one purpose in mind: don't distract or use resources that you need for more important things. Features: playback of audio files from your iTunes Library; playback of playlists from your iTunes Library; shuffle; sticky window"
For Mac OS X Leopard only. Oh, and it's free.
Tuesday, 02 June 2009
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Remember when Microsoft knew what it was doing?
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"Christianity, post-Reformation and post-Luther, with its teaching of a direct, personal, two-way link between the individual and God, unmediated by the collective, and unsubordinate to any other human being, smashes straight through the philosphical/spiritual framework I've just described. It offers something to hold on to to those anxious to cast off a crushing tribal groupthink. That is why and how it liberates.
"Those who want Africa to walk tall amid 21st-century global competition must not kid themselves that providing the material means or even the knowhow that accompanies what we call development will make the change. A whole belief system must first be supplanted.
"And I'm afraid it has to be supplanted by another. Removing Christian evangelism from the African equation may leave the continent at the mercy of a malign fusion of Nike, the witch doctor, the mobile phone and the machete."
Thursday, 21 May 2009
Monday, 18 May 2009
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"Artist Garry Booth takes us back 25 years to 1984, with this exploded design of the first Mac, the computer that changed everything. This Mac 128k was lovingly disassembled and meticulously rendered to reveal its inner beauty."
Having pulled apart many of the all-in-one Macs in my time, just had to get this one.
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David Pogue reviews the Novatel MiFi 2200, available from Verizon. If I traveled more than twice a year, or actually left my house with a computer in hand, I'd be all over this. (5 GB limit? = Lame)
Sunday, 17 May 2009
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Nifty.
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Digging the Helvetica robot. Charcoal, 2X, please.
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"As you might imagine, I receive a lot of email from would-be authors who are trying to get published. Because I make my email address public, it’s pretty easy to get to me.
"However, by the time I hear from people, they are usually frustrated. They can’t get anyone in the book publishing world to respond, and they are convinced that they have a killer-idea. 'If only someone would just read my manuscript,' they plead.
"The problem is that most publishers will not review unsolicited proposals or manuscripts. I personally receive hundreds every year; our staff receives thousands. We simply don’t have the resources to review these. It’s like looking for a needle in a haystack.
"So as an author, what do you do? Here’s what I recommend:"
Saturday, 16 May 2009
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"This is a typeface-driven design based on the 'Here's to the crazy ones' ad campaign from Apple in the 90s, using Motter Tektura, Apple Garamond, Myriad, Univers, Gill Sans, and Volkswagen AG Rounded, fonts present in Apple branding and products."
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My favorites are steps 2 and 5
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Nice collection of some beautiful and dramatic lightning photos.
Friday, 15 May 2009
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My wife likes the Cake Wrecks blog, and we've seen some pretty impressive cakes thanks to that, but this one blows me away.
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God is a very creative artist.
Wednesday, 13 May 2009
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"With the U.S. disengaging militarily, Iraqi militias, insurgents, etc. have every reason to become emboldened and to begin jockeying for an enhanced military position. And with President Obama taking a soft line on Syria (and, indeed, exploring a 'dialogue' with that terror supporting state), the Syrians no longer have much reason to fear paying a price for promoting instability in Iraq.
"Against this backdrop, clueless Nancy Pelosi, on a recent visit to Baghdad, promised that the U.S. will play an 'intense' political role in Iraq even as our military role fades away. How political involvement will stem the flow of terrorists into Iraq, or the terrorist activities of those already present, Pelosi did not explain."
Friday, 08 May 2009
Saturday, 02 May 2009
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A free online Greek & Hebrew Reader's Bible, for my theologically-inclined friends who can read Greek and/or Hebrew.
Wednesday, 29 April 2009
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Spike TV's Food Dude shows us how to make a Hawaiian Cheesesteak. I'm thinking this might be a good entree for a pool party…
Tuesday, 28 April 2009
Thursday, 23 April 2009
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You may have encountered the famous "The earth is out mother" speech attributed to Chief Seattle. Maybe you got it in an e-mail. Maybe you read it in the children's book, Brother Eagle, Sister Sky: A Message from Chief Seattle. Perhaps you heard or read it in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth.
The inconvenient truth here is that while the words are real, Chief Seattle never spoke them. They were penned by a screeenwriter in 1971, over a hundred years after Seattle died, for an ecology film.
Tuesday, 21 April 2009
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Nixon speech writer William Safire had prepared text in case Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin died on the Moon.
Saturday, 18 April 2009
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I know what you're going to say. Eighty-nine bucks for a pen?!?
Yes, but not just any pen. The Mil-Tac Tactical Defense Pen is made from aircraft-grade anodized aluminum, and has a pointed end, which can be used as a defensive (or under certain code red situations, an offensive) tool. Opposite that is a blunt end, usable as a control device, especially if one has that sort of training. Stash it pretty much anywhere with the integrated clip. Oh, and since it is a writing implement, after all, there's the refillable pen inside.
I'll take mine in black or grey, please.
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"From now until when this campaign ends (approximately one month from now), every post will be related to my campaign to raise as much money as possible for Soldier's Angels.
"Soldier's Angels is a non-profit organization that does more for deployed troops than I can write here. The best way to find out everything they offer is to visit their website.
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"I plan to auction off, on eBay, a signed copy of Homefront. One hundred percent of the proceeds will be donated to Soldier's Angels.
"I realize I'm a 'nobody.' I'm not someone whose name will really mean anything scribbled inside of the book. However, I put over a year of my time, and every ounce of whatever writing talent I have, into this book. […]
"It's the best, and most important, thing I've ever written. I'm giving it because it's all I have to give for this effort, and because it's not about the book, anyway. It's about where the money is going."
Friday, 17 April 2009
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This gets me right where two childhood loves meet. I do think the Rebels version works better than the Imperials one, though.
Wednesday, 15 April 2009
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"The central conceit of the 'tweet' in this case is the idea that Ninjas, which are black-clad martial artists who employ tactics of stealth to both defeat their opponents and avoid waking people up at night when they go to the bathroom, could partake in some of the worldy pleasures of the non-Ninja world (e.g., crunchy snacks) if that non-Ninja world consisted entirely of people wearing noise-canceling headphones. Henceforth we refer to this world as Headphone-World.
"But in a world like Headphone-World, with the rules of the game so casually muted, what of the Ninja? With no need for audible stealth have we not removed from him or her his or her very Ninjaness, reducing him or her to merely one-dimensional specialists with hearing that is, relative to the headphone world, extremely acute?"
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"While many are called to be the front-line hero, the in-the-limelight pastor or the courageous leader, many more are called to be the armor-bearers to those leaders. They will never get the praise or glory, but their role is just as critical as the people leading the charge or taking the shots. Jonathan needed his armor-bearer and that young man had the courage to follow the man he served into what looked like certain death. In the battle, we read that Jonathan’s armor-bearer watched his back and protected him from those who tried to attack him."
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"'We want fewer and better children … and we cannot make the social life and the world-peace we are determined to make, with the ill-bred, ill-trained swarms of inferior citizens that you inflict on us.'
"That ghastly message appeared in the introduction to Margaret Sanger’s 1922 book, The Pivot of Civilization."
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Good stuff.
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"To socialize the American economy, it is not necessary to nationalize every business in the United States. All it requires is to put the corporations that control the finances of all of the companies in the economy under government control. And that is what is happening now…
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"Apparently, members of Congress liked the special treatment that Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd received in getting his mortgage through Countrywide. We’re going to see even more of that kind of thing — and outright corruption on a much bigger scale — when the government is in direct control of the financial institutions and making the credit decisions that businesses large and small depend on to survive."
Monday, 13 April 2009
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I think we may be in trouble.
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"NiceTranslator is a fast, easy to use online translator designed with simplicity and functionality in mind"
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"Allowing law-abiding people to arm themselves offers more than piece of mind for those individuals — it pays off for everybody through lower crime rates. Statistics from the FBI’s Uniformed Crime Report of 2007 show that states with right-to-carry laws have a 30% lower homicide rate, 46% lower robbery, and 12% lower aggravated assault rate and a 22% lower overall violent crime rate than do states without such laws. That is why more and more states have passed right-to-carry laws over the past decade.
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"That is why I, along with Representative Rich Boucher (D-Va.) introduced H.R. 197, the National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act. Our legislation proposes a federal law that would entitle any person with a valid state-issued concealed carry permit to carry in any other state, as follows: In a state that issues carry permits, its laws would apply. In states that don’t issue carry permits, the Federal law providing a "bright-line" standard would permit carrying in places […]"
Friday, 10 April 2009
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Love this blueprint-style shirt of a famous starship from a recently finished television series.
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Episode guide to season 1 of The Clone Wars. Somehow, our TiVo missed recording more than a few, and now we're getting caught up. The problem, though, is that now we're getting episodes recorded out of order, so this guide will help us know which ones to watch next.
Thursday, 09 April 2009
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Blade Runner and Philip K. Dick fans will get it. If you're neither, don't worry about it.
Wednesday, 08 April 2009
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"The megachurch pastor who faced backlash for praying at the President's inauguration talks to CT about politics, a new magazine, and the economy"
Monday, 06 April 2009
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"The book, Almost Perfect, was originally published by Prima Publishing in 1994. It is the story of the rise and fall of WordPerfect Corporation from my point of view. The book sold a little less than 10,000 copies and is now out of print. The copy published here is almost identical to my original manuscript and does not contain Prima's edits. In this version, I have corrected two factual errors, fixed five typos, deleted a few pages at the end, and added a final paragraph."
Tuesday, 31 March 2009
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"The Earth Observatory is a website run by NASA's Earth Observing System Project Science Office (EOSPSO). Bringing together imagery from many different satellites and astronaut missions, the website publishes fantastic images with highly detailed descriptions, feature articles and more. Gathered here are some standout photographs from the collections in the Earth Observatory over the past several years."
Sunday, 29 March 2009
Wednesday, 25 March 2009
links for 2009-03-25
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"An Italian doctor completed a brain operation despite having a heart attack after realizing his patient would never recover if he stopped the surgery."
Wow.
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Carbon emission hoo-haa + nanny statism = government run amok.
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This is a joke, right?
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Genius.
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1 Corinthians 13:4-8, as rendered by Hugh Macleod.
Monday, 23 March 2009
Saturday, 21 March 2009
links for 2009-03-21
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Joshua Trevino accurately sums up most of my feelings regarding the series, and the finale.
Thursday, 19 March 2009
links for 2009-03-19
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"Why not? What could happen?"
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"WRITERSBLOK is a new set of notebooks and stationary products aimed at encouraging the activity of writing. We'll give you the basic tools and you take them wherever you want. The possibilities are endless. Best of luck. Let us know how it goes.
"A percentage of sales from WRITERSBLOK goes to literacy-related programs around the country."
Tuesday, 17 March 2009
links for 2009-03-17
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"Instead of adjectives, great writers often use verbs. Their characters do, and they are always doing."
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"Frank McCourt spends little time worrying about it. He trusts the readers mind to imagine details. Instead, he captivates his audience with action. If people are moving and doing, it’s hard to look away."
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"So, if you’re working on a writing project, do readers a favor and cut out the “white as snow” and “cold as a meat locker” and tell us what your characters are doing."
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"There are many Made in the USA lists throughout the internet, nearly all of them tacky and in poor taste. These awful websites have led me to compile a list of stylish and cool brands that make their goods in America. One of my goals with this is to make it easier to locate and buy domestically produced apparel products. Another motivating factor is my desire for things Made in the USA to be embraced by a younger, more stylish consumer."
Personally, I own several t-shirts printed on American Apparel shirts, New Balance sneakers, a Buck knife, a Fisher Space Pen, Field Notes notebooks, a Leatherman multi-tool, a Mag Lite flashlight, and a Vornado fan. I would recommend any one of these items.
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"Family safe YouTube". A simple web browser player of YouTube content aimed at kids. Hit the space bar to go to the next clip. There is no search function.
Monday, 16 March 2009
links for 2009-03-16
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If the world wasn't insane enough already, surely now we've gone stark raving mad.
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If nothing else, this gets you thinking.
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Just a word of warning that you might feel a little ill after seeing this nice visualization of what our government is flushing down the toilet.
Friday, 13 March 2009
links for 2009-03-13
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I'm guilty of six of the ten. (Maybe seven if you count the pun one, but I'm not that punny that often. I do enjoy puns, though.) Those who know me can probably figure out which six they are.
Wednesday, 11 March 2009
links for 2009-03-11
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"Designed and run by vets, Vet Help Direct's interactive questions direct you to personalised first aid advice and clear guidelines about when to contact the vet. Easy and fun to use, Vet Help Direct is the online source of reliable advice for concerned pet-owners."
Think of it as something like WebMD for your dogs, cats, horses, rabbits, reptiles, and birds.
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"Wooden Laptop Case with leather lining and magnetic closing device for Apple MacBook and MacBook Pro 15inch."
Beautiful work, but not something I would personally use/carry.
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"The Founding Fathers, guarding against sectionalism and factions, among other things, sought to combine both direct representation of the people and representation of the states. The House of Representatives reflected the will of the People, while the Senate reflected the will of the states. This concept sprang out of the Great Compromise, which established the groundwork for a bicameral legislature."
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"The Constitution establishes these United States as a republican form of government. No matter how many times people toss around the word 'democracy,' this form of government will never be 'democratic' in its truest sense. "Bearing that in mind, the same Founding Fathers who outlined this form of government in the Constitution expressed reservations about allowing the uneducated masses the privilege of directly electing their Chief Executive."
Saturday, 07 March 2009
links for 2009-03-07
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Brother Maynard shares a story of St. Ben's use of nothing but Bob Dylan songs for the liturgy at one of its services.
Friday, 06 March 2009
links for 2009-03-06
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It's a rather sad state of affairs that a list like this has to even exist.
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“Can you imagine the disparaging comments that would be made against George Bush’s intellect if he couldn’t make a simple six minute announcement without a TelePrompter….”
Quite.
Wednesday, 04 March 2009
links for 2009-03-04
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A customizable bookmarklet, "Readability is a simple tool that makes reading in the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you're reading." Very nice.
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I would add texting to #4. My wife and I stay in constant contact throughout the day not just by voice and e-mail, but by text messaging as well.
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Amazon releases its free Kindle for iPhone (and iPod Touch) app. For Kindle books only; if you want all of the other Kindle features, obviously Jeff Bezos and Co. wants you to buy the hardware.
Tuesday, 03 March 2009
links for 2009-03-03
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Major kudos to CEO Michael Hyatt and the Thomas Nelson team for leading the way with this. Buy the physical book, and you get the audio version and e-book free.
Monday, 02 March 2009
links for 2009-03-02
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This web app is intended to keep one's focus on the writing, with negative consequences if one stops. You tell it how many words you want to get written, and you set the consequence level of the grace period. ("Strict" by default, the middle choice, with "Forgiving" and "Evil" on either side.) How evil is "Evil"? If you stop writing, after a certain amount of time, your work will begin unwriting itself!
There is no save function; you'll need to select all, copy, and paste into your own text editor to save any work. NaNoWriMo participants may want to bookmark this one for November.
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"A group of liberal bloggers said it is teaming up with organized labor and MoveOn to form a political action committee that will seek to push the Democratic Party farther to the left.
"Soliciting donations from their readers, the bloggers said they are planning to recruit liberal candidates for challenges against more centrist Democrats currently in Congress."
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"Freedom is an application that disables networking on an Apple computer for up to eight hours at a time. Freedom will free you from the distractions of the internet, allowing you time to code, write, or create. At the end of your selected offline period, Freedom re-enables your network, restoring everything as normal.
"Freedom enforces freedom; a reboot is the only circumvention of the Freedom time limit you specify. The hassle of rebooting means you're less likely to cheat, and you'll be more productive."
Sunday, 01 March 2009
links for 2009-03-01
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"Who do you talk to most often on Twitter? Who are your closest friends? What does your social network look like?"
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"Humor helps preserve our sanity. It provides a medium for gentle reprimand. And it teaches us to take ourselves less seriously. But we must never forget that good humor never diminishes the reality of suffering."
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"In this world, tragedy temporarily has the upper hand. We cannot pretend that humor can solve our tragic position, but we can learn to laugh even within the pain, if we follow Christ’s example. Christ was joyful, not because He had nothing over which to sorrow, but rather because He knew that He would one day conquer the powers of darkness and make all things right."
Saturday, 28 February 2009
links for 2009-02-28
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"This script provides a fast way of adding new tasks to a Taskpaper document without leaving the current context and switching to the Taskpaper application.
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A bit of common sense (all writers are different and write in different ways), with some insight into how Miller views the post-writing publishing process.
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Really for those willing to spend big bucks for more in-demand domains.
Friday, 27 February 2009
Thursday, 26 February 2009
links for 2009-02-26
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"I've never found it very easy to choose which theme to use when constructing a book in iPhoto. Part of the problem is that the sample pages that the program shows you when you choose the theme don't give you nearly enough details. If you want more details, you've come to the right place. On this web site, you'll find an exhaustive desription of each iPhoto book theme, complete with examples of each type of layout that is possible within each theme.
"Even if you don't want quite so much information, the first few paragraphs about each theme can give you a summarized idea of the possibilities available within each one: the general feel of the layout, how many photos you can put on a page, what fonts are used, what text options are available, and more." -
'Before taking office, President-elect Barack Obama declared, "There is no disagreement that we need action by our government, a recovery plan that will help to jumpstart the economy." Vice President Joe Biden added recently, "Every economist, as I've said, from conservative to liberal, acknowledges that direct government spending on a direct program now is the best way to infuse economic growth and create jobs."
'Despite the administration's efforts to stamp out opposition, however, the Cato Institute compiled an impressive list of economists who disagree with the DC strategy of Keynesian spending to help the economy.'
Wednesday, 25 February 2009
links for 2009-02-25
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"My name is Mike Kobold, I'm a watchmaker and an armchair explorer. Unlike some of the hard-core professionals who wear my watches -divers, astronauts and explorers- I'm pretty much just a regular guy. Like most people, I have downfalls, shortcomings, and a number of irrational fears. For one, I'm scared of heights and am therefore risk-averse. I have ADD and am mildly dyslexic. Food is my downfall and I eat considerably more chocolate than anyone should. My job is sedentary and so is my lifestyle.
"Yet I've made it my goal to climb to the summit of Mount Everest. How do I go from here to there? Training and nutrition only get you so far, which is why I'm having to learn to control my fears and to overcome my weaknesses. My goal is to raise money for the Navy SEAL Warrior Fund. Because even a regular guy should do his part to help those who have risked their lives in the line of duty."
Tuesday, 24 February 2009
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Just in case you've ever wondered what the corporate line is on this matter. (I'm a very satisfied Tom Bihn customer. I've had one of their Brain Bag backpacks for years, and it's still my favorite pack.)
Sunday, 22 February 2009
links for 2009-02-22
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"[Photographer] Jason [Hawkes] shot these images with a camera attached to gyro-stabilized mounts from a Eurocopter AS355, hired out at around £1150 (GBP) per hour, using Nikon gear and either a 14-24mm or a 70-200mm lens."
Thursday, 19 February 2009
links for 2009-02-19
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"I figured that many people would benefit from a thorough overview on how to protect your privacy on Facebook. Below is a step by step process for protecting your privacy."
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And speaking of the Muslim Brotherhood….
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'A former FBI special agent sounds the alarm about the stealth jihad. The Muslim Brotherhood is dedicated in its own words to "a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions."'
Thursday, 12 February 2009
links for 2009-02-11
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"When it comes to your health, you can't believe everything you hear. And if you get the wrong information, it can have dangerous consequences."
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If you find yourself butting up against Twitter's 140-character limit, you can always use 140it to trim your message down, including shortening URLs. There's even a handy bookmarklet, so you don't even have to go to the 140it site itself.
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I'm saving this for the next time I get that open-a-coffee-house/Mac-tech-shop urge.
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They had me at Watchmen + Latin.
Monday, 02 February 2009
links for 2009-02-02
the iconmaster » Shortening URLs from NetNewsWire
An AppleScript which will take the selected headline in NetNewsWire and fetch an is.gd-shortened URL, placing it in the clipboard. Handy for passing off URLs from NetNewsWire to Twitter.
(tags: AppleScript NetNewsWire scripting Twitter url)
Saturday, 24 January 2009
Today’s phischbits
Digital Natives » Fine-Tuning Facebook: A Field Trip through Privacy Controls
This may be old news for some, but if you haven’t tip-toed through your Facebook account’s privacy settings lately, this is a good guide.
Tags: facebook, privacy, security
Recovery of US Airways 1549 from Hudson River (PICS) | ReasonPad
How do out get an airliner out of a river? Easy. (1) You need a big barge. (2) You need a big crane. (3) You need someone to document the recovery.
Friday, 23 January 2009
Today’s phischbits
The Inauguration of President Barack Obama - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Excellent photos from Inauguration Day 2009. I found the last one, of the folder on the Resolute Desk, particularly poignant. For some inexplicable reason, it’s my favorite of the bunch.
Tags: inauguration, politics, president
Monday, 19 January 2009
Today’s phischbits
NASA - NASA Kids’ Club
Fun games and other activities for kids from our nation’s space agency.
Thursday, 15 January 2009
Today’s phischbits
Ries Robb Maker Of Fine Mission Style Furniture
“Ries Robb ownes and operates Ries Robb Woodworking, making reproduction and custom arts and crafts furniture.”
Local to me (Dallas/Fort Worth), and I love Mission style furniture, so this is for future reference.
Tags: furniture
Sunday, 04 January 2009
Today’s phischbits
Clashing Civilizations by Mark Steyn on National Review Online
“In Gaza, they don’t vote for Hamas because they want access to university education.”
Friday, 02 January 2009
Today’s phischbits
Walter E. Williams : Teaching Economics - Townhall.com
“Learning how to think straight, as opposed to what values and opinions to hold, is the crucial part of education. Part of that learning is to be able to understand the distinction between subjective statements, for which there are no commonly accepted standards of proof, and positive statements for which there are.”
Thursday, 01 January 2009
Today’s phischbits
aubreyturner.org: Dallas/Ft. Worth Gun Shows
“This site is a compilation of gun show dates around the Dallas and Fort Worth area. I originally created the listing for my own purposes as there was not a single source for all gun shows in the area. All of the listed dates were taken from the websites listed for each show.”
Tags: dallas, firearms, fort worth, texas
Monday, 29 December 2008
Today’s phischbits
Digital Domain - What Carriers Aren’t Eager to Tell You About Texting - NYTimes.com
Professor Keshav said that once a carrier invests in the centralized storage equipment — storing a terabyte now costs only $100 and is dropping — and the staff to maintain it, its costs are basically covered. “Operating costs are relatively insensitive to volume,” he said. “It doesn’t cost the carrier much more to transmit a hundred million messages than a million.”
UNTIL Mr. Kohl began his inquiries, the public had no reason to think of the text-messaging business as anything but an ordinary one, whose operational costs rose in tandem with message volume. The carriers had no reason to correct such an impression.
Tags: communication, phone, text messaging
Sunday, 21 December 2008
Today’s phischbits
Northrop Grumman Unveils X-47B Navy UAV - Fighter Plane-Size UAV from Northrop Grumman Unveiled - Popular Mechanics
“Northrop Grumman unveiled its first completed X-47B Navy Unmanned Combat Air System at its Palmdale, Calif., manufacturing facility. This giant UAV could soon be one of the most lethal unmanned aircraft in the U.S. military.”
Wednesday, 17 December 2008
Today’s phischbits
Perian - The swiss-army knife of QuickTime® components
“Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.”
Tags: mac, quicktime, software, video
DIY Gas Mask: A PopSci Fan’s Step-by-Step Guide | Popular Science
“Instructables.com member TimAnderson uses a 1942 Popular Science article as a guide for creating a DIY gas mask.”
Collide Magazine | ARTICLES + | Typography 101
For you typeface neophytes, a nice introduction to typography by the folks at Collide Magazine.
Tags: design, font, typeface, typography
Tuesday, 16 December 2008
Today’s phischbits
Do I look like the blue bird of happiness?
I wish I could explain why I love this captioned picture so much. It never fails to make me smile.
Tags: animal, bird, fun, humor, photo
Wall-E Bento! on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
This is rather impressive.
Sunday, 14 December 2008
Today’s phischbits
The Tax Foundation - Property Tax Map
Not surprisingly, Texas has the highest property tax as a percentage of median income. What this map does not show, however, is that there is no state income tax in Texas, as opposed to a low property tax state like California.
Having lived in a property tax + income tax state before (Louisiana), I like what we have here in Texas. Percentages of funds generated from property taxes are also specifically allocated (schools, for instance), rather than just going into a black hole account.
Tags: finance, liberty, politics, taxes, texas
Tweet Congress
“We believe transparent government is better government. Twitter enables real conversation between lawmakers and voters, in real time. Find your representatives in Congress, follow them and give them a tweet full!”
Tags: congress, government, politics, twitter
Thursday, 11 December 2008
Today’s phischbits
Ursula And Olive: Geek of the Year Interview - Chris Hicks - Sole Artist and Designer of the Mighty Muggs
Chris Hicks is the designer of Hasbro’s line of Mighty Muggs figures, which run the gamut of Star Wars (of which I have several), to Indiana Jones (I have just Indy himself), to Marvel super heroes (Captain America). Hicks confirms Transformers Muggs are on the way.
I just wish Hasbro could work out a deal with DC. I’d love a Mighty Muggs Batman…
Friday, 05 December 2008
Today’s phischbits
Sichuan’s earthquake, six months later - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Powerful images.
Tags: china, disaster, nature, photo
TidBITS Home Macs: Minimize Desktop Distractions
New TidBITS staffer Doug McLean talks about software Mac users can utilize to keep those pesky distractions to a minimum while trying to get work done.
Thursday, 04 December 2008
Today’s phischbits
Bookcase: Infinity Bookcase Stores Finite Amount of Books, Is Infinitely Cool Anyway
Oh, I so wish I had a room big enough for this…
Monday, 01 December 2008
Today’s phischbits
ET Had It Right: Phone Home! | Dad-o-Matic
“Phone Home! In this age of email, text and instant messages, it is easy to forget the power of your voice.”
Tags: communication, family, phone, tips
Sunday, 30 November 2008
Today’s phischbits
Redeemer Sermon Store: The Reason for God
Free sermons related to Tim Keller’s book “The Reason for God” from the series “The Trouble with Christianity: Why it’s so Hard to Believe it” in MP3 format.
Saturday, 29 November 2008
Today’s phischbits
The 50,000 Pairs in 50 Days Challenge • Soles4Souls
“Soles4Souls is a charity dedicated to donating shoes to the poor via shoe drive, shoe drop, giving shoes to children, disaster relief, shoe help. Donate shoes to help shoe charity.”
$5 buys two pairs of shoes, so it’s a donation nearly anyone can make.
Tags: charity, donation, helping, shoes
JellyTelly
Phil Vischer’s latest project, currently in beta.
Tags: children, fun, kids, teaching, values
Civic Literacy Report - Civics Quiz
From the Intercollegiate Studies Institute:
“Are you more knowledgeable than the average citizen? The average score for all 2,508 Americans taking the following test was 49%; college educators scored 55%. Can you do better? Questions were drawn from past ISI surveys, as well as other nationally recognized exams.”
Yours truly scored 81.82%, or 27 out of 33 questions.
Tags: civics, constitution, education, government, history, liberty
How to Get Rich « blog maverick
“But whatever you can save, save it. As much as you possibly can. Then put it in 6 month CDs in the bank.
“The first step to getting rich is having cash available. You arent saving for retirement. You are saving for the moment you need cash. Buy and hold is a suckers game for you. This market is a perfect example. Right at the very moment when cash creates unbelievable opportunity, those who followed the buy and hold strategy have no cash. they cant or wont sell into markets this low, that kills the entire point of buy and hold. Those who have put their money in CDs sleep well at night and definitely have more money today than they did yesterday. And because they are smart, disciplined shoppers, their personal rate of inflation is within their means. Cash is king for those wanting to get rich”
Friday, 28 November 2008
Today’s phischbits
Panel of Experts: Now dig this Indiana Jones DVD review | Film | Arts & Entertainment - Times Online
“Each week experts assess the authenticity of a DVD. Here, archaeologists excavate fact from fantasy in the latest Indiana Jones caper.”
Tags: archaeology, dvd, indiana jones, movie
Saturday, 22 November 2008
Today’s phischbits
Apple Notebooks Take Huge Performance Hit without Battery - Gearlog
“Apple MacBook and MacBook Pro systems saw up to a 37-percent performance drop without the battery installed.”
The gist: keep the battery in.
Tags: apple, battery, mac, macbook, macbook pro, performance
YellowPagesGoesGreen.Org
Kill dead-tree Yellow and/or White Pages delivery to your home.
Friday, 21 November 2008
Today’s phischbits
American Thinker: Obama Declares War on Conservative Talk Radio
Nope, not the Fairness Doctrine. Rather, through a little-known (to the general populace, at least) FCC rule called “localism”.
Tags: conservative, fcc, free speech, liberty, obama, politics, radio, talk radio
Wednesday, 19 November 2008
Today’s phischbits
JPG Magazine: Stories: Photo Essay: Photo Essay - The Wolf
Scott Bourne shares my love of the wolf, only he’s gotten to photograph them in the wild, something I would love the opportunity to do.
Tags: animal, nature, photo, photography, wolf
Tuesday, 18 November 2008
Today’s phischbits
Text to Send a Bible!
You can donate a Bible via text message. Just send “Bible” to 20222, and your wireless bill will be charged $5. You can donate up to 5 times a month.
Tags: bible, charity, child, children, donation, god, love
Are You a Writer? | Copyblogger
A little inspiration for my fellow writers, especially those currently caught in the maelstrom of NaNoWriMo.
Tags: writing
Monday, 17 November 2008
Today’s phischbits
Leslie Carbone: Writing Well: Organization
“The most important factor in the successful organization of any piece of writing is knowing what you’re trying to say.”
Good post by Leslie on using some up-front thinking and organization to maximize your writing’s impact. This is mostly geared toward non-fiction, but fiction writers may find benefits as well.
Tags: gtd, organization, writing
Thursday, 13 November 2008
Today’s phischbits
The Official Blog of Nectar » Blog Archive » 5 Tips For Dealing With Workplace Stress
Stretch, breath, tea, tunes, and vitamins. Simple, practical advice.
Tags: career, health, job, stress, tips
I am not a mistake. I am a one issue man. « Shawnsblogspot.com
“I am angry because as I read scripture I think that the church should have solved all of these issues by being the kingdom of God on earth. I am angry because there should be no need for socialism from our government because the church should be meeting the needs of the widow, the single mom, the down-and-out and the drug abusers. I am angry because the church should be seeking to “take care” of teen-age pregnancies by loving on young Moms and helping them financially rather than shunning them and calling the sinners and their children the product of sin. I am angry because the world has turned us into multiple-issue people and we lack the fortitude and the guts to stand up for life no matter the cost.
“So today I am taking back the issue of life and morals from the republicans and I am taking back environmentalism and social justice from the democrats. You do not own them and I will no longer be a a part of your political silliness at the expense of people. They do not belong to you. They belong to Jesus.”
Tags: abortion, bible, christianity, church, god, life, love, politics
patrick collison - an offline Wikipedia reader for the iPhone/iPod Touch
If you’d like to always have Wikipedia at your fingertips, even when you can’t get lowly EDGE service, and you aren’t opposed to giving up 2 GB—yes, gigabytes—of your iPhone or iPod touch, then this is for you.
Monday, 10 November 2008
Today’s phischbits
The Official Mac Pro Website
“Welcome to Mac Pro Systems & Software, Everything Macintosh… Everything!”
Recommended by my friend Tom as a good resource for Mac parts you may not be able to get from Apple. (And perhaps for a better price than the ones you can.)
Friday, 07 November 2008
Today’s phischbits
Findings - Study Shows Conservatives May Enjoy Humor More - NYTimes.com
“Do conservatives have more fun? Should liberals start describing themselves as humor-challenged? Scientists try to find out.”
Tags: conservative, humor, politics, science
Thursday, 06 November 2008
Today’s phischbits
Invisible Children » Buy Kilometers, Build a School
“It really is as simple as the subject says. Yannick Daoudi will be bicycling around Uganda throughout December & January to raise money for Keyo Secondary School, an Invisible Children partner school. To raise the money, he’s asking supporters to finance this by donating $3 for every kilometer he reaches on his 1000/km trip.”
Tags: bicycle, cycling, child, children, charity, education, helping, donation, kids
Obama Declines GOP Request to Redistribute Votes
“It’s not that we want to punish your success,” wrote RNC chairman Mike Duncan. “We just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you has a chance for success too. Our attitude is that if the election’s good for folks from the bottom up, it’s gonna be good for everybody … when you spread the power around, it’s good for everybody.”
Brilliant.
Wednesday, 05 November 2008
Today’s phischbits
Nectar: A fresh look at you
Nectar is all about delivering a online presence that doesn’t sell a product or service, but rather sells you. The team believes in helping people build their own personal brand.
Being friends with one of Nectar’s founders, I’ve gotten inside peeks of their development process. I can tell you, the team is passionate, their product is inspired, and if you need to consolidate your online presence, or create one from scratch, Nectar can deliver the goods.
Tags: blog, business, design, web design, personal, brand, branding, startup, nectar
10 Handy Numbers to Save in Your Mobile Phone | Marc and Angel Hack Life
“‘Always be prepared!’ That’s the Boy Scout motto. Here are 10 phone numbers we could not care less about until the moment we need them…”
Tags: emergency, preparedness, mobile, phone, tips
VMware: Team Fusion: Make Windows Unity windows look like Mac OS X Windows: WindowsBlinds with VMware Fusion
This is really a just-in-case sort of bookmark for my own future reference, but those of you using Fusion to run Windows on your Mac may find it useful as well.
Monday, 03 November 2008
Today’s phischbits
TidBITS Safe Computing: iPhone Security Tips
Rich Mogull’s article from earlier this year is still wonderful advice.
Five Things You May not Know About NetNewsWire: NewsGator Widget Blog
Brent Simmons, creator of my favorite RSS reader, with five things you may not know about NetNewsWire. The keyboard shortcuts are alone worth the entire read.
Tags: netnewswire, rss, tips
SHARKIE
“Superficially, it shares many features common to most markers, but appearances can be deceptive. For starters, it’s made from the glass-reinforced plastic, Grivory […] and features walls that are 4 times thicker than similar markers. This means it’s built for impact and, in a self-defense emergency it can become an efficient Yawara stick for driving off an attacker. Plus, the screw-top cap will stay in place and won’t pop off like a regular marker’s cap would when you strike a percussion blow, or when obtaining joint locks or submission holds.” $6
Tags: self-defense, security, marker, tool, weapon, wishlist
Saturday, 01 November 2008
Today’s phischbits
Kayak.com - Cheap Flights, Airline Tickets, Cheap Airfare & Discount Travel Deals
“Find and book cheap airline tickets, hotel rooms, vacations and rental cars with Kayak.com. Search hundreds of travel sites, compare results, and buy direct.”
Tags: consumer, finance, shopping, travel
Baseball Brains - Fielding Into The World Series | Scientific Blogging
“With the crack of the bat, the ball sails deep into the outfield. The center-fielder starts his run back and to the right, trying to keep his eyes on the ball through its flight path. His pace quickens initially, then slows down as the ball approaches.”
An interesting look at the perceptions and mental processes of fielders in baseball.
Tags: baseball, psychology, science
18 Means for Living Below Your Means | Marc and Angel Hack Life
“Live a comfortable life, not a wasteful one. Do not spend to impress others. Do not live life trying to fool yourself into thinking …”
Lots of good common-sense stuff here that too many of us don’t use our common sense on.
Tags: consumer, finance, money
Schedule Future-Dated Twitter Tweets » TweetLater.com
“Stuck on an aircraft? Back to back meetings? Taking vacation? Running errands? Playing with the kids? Keep your Twitter stream ticking over with new tweets even when you’re not in front of your computer. Or, use it as your personal reminder system. PLUS… Send automated thank you notes to new followers, and automatically follow new followers, if you choose to do so.”
I haven’t actually used TweetLater, but thought the concept intriguing.
Tags: twitter
HALLOWE’EN 2008
Steve Hayman carved/built a Cylon pumpkin, complete with that terrifying red light…
Tags: pumpkin, jack o’lantern, halloween, cylon, battlestar galactica, bsg
Friday, 31 October 2008
Today’s phischbits
Finishing Well: What does activist Christianity look like?
My friend Mike has an excellent post on what Christianity should look like. I routinely fail at this.
Tags: bible, christianity, church, god, love
Macworld | Eight ways Twitter will change your life
“It seems that everyone is atwitter about Twitter. Even PC World. So here’s PC World’s list of ways Twitter works — and doesn’t.”
And no comments from the peanut gallery on “not getting Twitter”. If you don’t get it, you don’t get it. No one’s holding a gun to your head to participate.
Tags: twitter
Scout’s Honor | Texas Magazine
Texas Gov. Rick Perry has written a book about how the Boy Scouts provided such a positive influence on him growing up. “I wrote the book for two main reasons: to espouse the virtues of a movement that has positively shaped the lives of millions of young men and to expose the virus of secularism that endangers institutions that teach traditional values.”
Tags: books, boy scouts, boy scouts of america, bsa, rick perry, scout, scouts, scouting, texas
Christopher Nolan on ‘Dark Knight’ and its box-office billion: ‘It’s mystifying to me’ | Hero Complex | Los Angeles Times
First of a three-part interview with Christopher Nolan, writer, director and producer of arguably my favorite movie in the past five years. (The other two parts are already online and are linked at the end of this part.)
Tags: batman, the dark knight, movie, movies
Online Spreadsheets - EditGrid
“EditGrid is a free web-based online spreadsheet which allows you to create and share spreadsheets documents. You can collaborate with your team, publish your spreadsheets and even power them with external data.”
Looks interesting.
Tags: spreadsheets, web app
Thursday, 30 October 2008
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Little Green Footballs - Obama Ridicules ‘Socialist’ Charge, But He Admitted Seeking Out Marxist Professors and Socialist Conferences
Complete with audio of Obama himself talking about his socialist influences.
Wednesday, 29 October 2008
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iPhone Search
My friend Michael Tsai has created a simple search page for iPhone users. You can search Amazon, IMDB, Netflix, and Wikipedia all from a single page. Pull this up in Mobile Safari on your iPhone, then add it to your home screen, and you’re good to go the next time you need to find a book or settle a historical argument.
Monday, 27 October 2008
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Cruz - A Social Browser for Mac OS X Leopard
Todd Ditchendorf, the developer of Fluid, has entered the web browsing space with Cruz. Featuring an open plug-in architecture, global keyboard shortcuts, sidebar windows, session restore, TinyURL link creation, and automatic software updates, Cruz looks like an interesting addition to the browser arena.
I’ve been playing with Cruz for a couple of days, and it seems fairly stable for the little web browsing I’ve thrown at it. I did create a right-side sidebar for Hahlo, the excellent Twitter web app optimized for the iPhone. It’s been an interesting and fun experiment so far, and I encourage Mac users to check Cruz out.
Tags: web app, web browser
How To: 13 Step Method For Buying A Car While Controlling The Sale And The Price
Title is pretty self-explanatory. The advice at the end regarding used cars is dead on. My next door neighbor growing up was a mechanic, with his own shop, and my dad had him look at my first car, and a couple of others he’d picked out. (My dad has a knack for finding great used cars.) It’s never a bad idea to have a mechanic not affiliated with a dealership/brand, and most importantly, one you can trust, in your contact list.
Tags: automobile, car, consumer, mechanic, shopping
Friday, 24 October 2008
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Macworld | Mac 911 | Etiquette and the BCC field
“An email message’s To field is not a plaything. Be respectful of others’ addresses by putting the BCC field to good use.”
I know several people who need to read this article. Unfortunately, I’m fairly certain none of them read my blog, or read Macworld, so they won’t see this…
Macworld | Mac 911 | More on etiquette and email
“Huh, it seems that the subject of etiquette and email has struck a chord with our readers. Here’s more helpful advice to pass along to the email unwise.”
There’s a mention in this piece about chain e-mails. Note that I never respond to or forward chain e-mails, so you can just leave me out of those, k?
Tags: e-mail, etiquette
“Never again find yourself stranded in a transportation terminal with no place to sleep! The Mini Motel provides you with comfortable sleeping accommodations no matter where your travels take you.” Tags: gear, preparedness, travelMini Motel
Thursday, 23 October 2008
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Pro-abortion - The Curt Jester
“Either dismembering a child in the womb is an acceptable moral act or it isn’t. If you think it is then you are pro-abortion and should admit it.”
Jeff Miller has a nice little piece on the nuances of language in the abortion debate.
Tags: abortion, baby, child, children, language, politics
“The following morning, if I’m still chewing on the bright idea, I start to worry because the logical next step is to pitch a friend. The rule here is: all ideas improve as a function of the number of eyeballs that see them. The troubling converse rule is: as soon as your idea gets out in the wild, it’s no longer yours.”
Rands’ idea is that of a Non-Disclosure Agreement for friends, only not legally binding like a real NDA.
FriendDA — Slightly more than a hearty handshake
The official document.
21 Most Used Fonts By Professional Designers | instantShift
Not surprisingly, Helvetica tops the list. I was pleased to see Futura in the top ten. I’m a big fan of Futura Bold.
Tags: design, font, typeface, typography
“blackr is a bookmarklet you can put in your browser’s bookmarks bar. Later, when you are on a photo page or one of the “All sizes” pages on flickr, you can click the bookmarklet and it will hide everything on the page behind a soothing black canvas except for the photo. All that remains is the picture.”
Tags: flickr, photo, photography
10 ways to Simplify Your Life and Save Money ~ Frugal, Freebies and Deals
Title pretty much says it.
Monday, 20 October 2008
Today’s phischbits
“There’s a whole world of domains out there—hundreds at the top-level and even more beyond—Domainr helps you explore them all.”
For instance, if you type “retrophisch”, you’ll see the top search item returned, “retrophis.ch” is already taken.
Thursday, 16 October 2008
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“Not Art. Gospel. is an artistic view of each topic on the Sermon on the Mount. Some amazing doors have been opened, and some great conversations have started from this. But what is most important is that the words of Jesus are being discussed. We want to create art that will lead to God, and we pray that this project will be for His glory.”
There is some really nice stuff here.
Tags: art, bible, god, jesus, love
Terminal Tip: Add scroll arrows to both ends of scroll bar - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
If you don’t mind getting your hands dirty on the command line, the title pretty much says it all.
Tags: command line, interface, mac, terminal
Monday, 13 October 2008
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Simple way to find out whether you’ll need to carry an umbrella with you for the day or not. Type in your zip code, get a simple answer. You can also type in your mobile phone number and receive text messages at a time you determine each day telling you whether or not you’ll need your umbrella…
Tags: weather
“This is a simple little application which places a ColorSync menu in your menu bar that will allow you to switch between display profiles, see how old they are, reset your video card’s gamma LUT, and clear out ColorSync’s internal profile cache when it starts acting up. Useful for troubleshooting, evaluating calibration packages, and for those times when you just want to change white points on a whim.”
Tags: color, color management, colorsync, mac
Man decorates basement with $10 worth of Sharpie - Health & Family - Kentucky.com
The title is pretty self-explanatory. Pretty impressive.
New Buzz on Honey | ScienCentral | Science Videos | Science News
“The next time you’ve got a sinus infection, that honey in your tea might do more than just soothe your cough, says a recent study done by the University of Ottawa. Researchers found that two types of honey are effective at killing bacteria that cause sinusitis and other infections.”
Monday, 06 October 2008
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iPhone Steals Lead Over Kindle - Forbes.com
“Free app Stanza has more people reading books on iPhones than on Amazon’s Kindle e-reader.”
Saturday, 04 October 2008
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“[A] preference pane that dynamically sets the sleep state of your machine. It’s a successor to Hibernate.prefPane.”
Tags: hibernate, mac, macbook, macbook pro, prefpane, software, sleep
Monday, 29 September 2008
Today’s phischbits
Brunton Vapor™ AF All Fuel Expedition Stove
Runs on pretty much any liquid fuel there is: butane, diesel #1, kerosene, auto gasoline, aviation gas, white gas, and more.
Tags: camping, preparedness, stove, survival
Saturday, 27 September 2008
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Fly tshirt Tshirt - PleaseDressMe
I can think of several teenagers who would wear this shirt…
The New York Times > Opinion > Image > Op-Art
“Statler & Waldorf come down from their balcony to agree to disagree about why watch the presidential debate.”
They accurately sum up my feelings on the matter.
Wednesday, 24 September 2008
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Canon Digital Learning Center - Sample Video: EOS 5D Mark II
“REVERIE, an independently-produced video by Explorer of Light Vincent Laforet. This video was shot with a pre-production Canon EOS 5D Mark II digital SLR. The files used to create this video were not manipulated in any way, only re-compressed for ¼ resolution display on our website.”
Pretty amazing for a $2,700 camera with the primary purpose of shooting photographs.
Tags: camera, canon, 5d mark ii, photography, video
Vincent Laforet : photos : Reverie - Behind The Scenes- powered by SmugMug
“Behind the scenes footage of Reverie the film by Vincent Laforet.”
Tags: camera, canon, 5d mark ii, photography, video
Helvetica and Alternatives to Helvetica | The FontFeed
You can certainly skip this one if you’re not a type nerd. My favorite of the alternative bunch is FF Schulbuch.
Tags: font, helvetica, typeface, typography
Leslie Carbone: Ten Conservative Concerns with the Treasury Bailout
The House Republican Study Committee, a group of conservative Representatives, yesterday issued a list of “Ten Conservative Concerns” with the Bush bail-out.
Tags: conservative, politics, republican, finance, money
“PhotoBook is a Facebook photo browser for Mac. It makes it easy and fun to manage, share, and view your friends’ Facebook photos in one intuitive interface.”
You can also import single photos or entire albums into iPhoto with one click. Handy for capturing those images of yourself others have taken.
Tags: facebook, mac, photo, photography, software
Sunday, 21 September 2008
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Subterranean Press » Blog Archive » A Brand New Short Story by John Scalzi
What might it look like if super heroes really existed in our publicity-minded, sue-happy society? This short story by John Scalzi nails it pretty well.
Tags: fiction, sf, science fiction, writing
Friday, 19 September 2008
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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | New Hitchhiker’s author announced
“Children’s author Eoin Colfer is commissioned to write a sixth installment of the Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy series.”
Tags: author, books, science fiction, sf, writing
PMSBuddy.com - The free online PMS reminder
“PMSBuddy.com is a free service created with a single goal in mind: to keep you aware of when your wife, girlfriend, mother, sister, daughter, or any other women in your life are closing in on ‘that time of the month’ - when things can get intense for what may seem to be no reason at all.”
Tags: web site
Monday, 15 September 2008
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Andy Ihnatko’s Celestial Waste of Bandwidth (BETA) » 1933-2008
Mac pundit Andy Ihnatko eulogies his mother on her recent passing after a nearly year-long battle with cancer. Grab some tissues.
Saturday, 13 September 2008
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Ironic Sans: In a political campaign far, far away…
Love the “A New Hope” poster. I would’ve already bought one if not for the fact that Lucasfilm is such a corporate copyright nazi that they don’t let fans make a few bucks off of brilliant stuff like this.
Thursday, 11 September 2008
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Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet?
Um….yeah. Like we’d ever see any other answer.
.- THE CHANGERING Obama 2008 - Home -.
My friend Tiffany accurately summed this up in her tweet where I saw this link: “I bet this idea made a lot more sense while the pot was still being smoked.”
Tags: meaningless symbolism, politics, stupidity
Upload a MP3. Add more cowbell to the song. Oh dear God.
Saturday, 06 September 2008
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My friend Tom is interviewed about his relationship, proposal, and marriage to my friend Tiffany. I’m still pleased to have been somewhat on the inside track regarding Tom’s purchasing the ring, planning the proposal, etc.
Politely ignore that the last two paragraphs of the post are a none-too-thinly veiled advertisement for the blog’s corporate parent.
“With DiscCloud, you can transform a PC, Workstation, or other x86 based machine into a powerful Leopard Desktop Server. Once your desktop is in the DiscCloud, you can scale and manage it with VMware on standard x86 servers.”
Not that I plan on doing anything like this, I just found it intriguing.
Tags: cloud computing, leopard, mac, virtual machine
Police Get Geeky with Twitter | PSFK - Trends, Ideas & Inspiration
“Police in Scottsdale, Arizona are using the micro blogging service to send out alerts on pertinent town information such as road closings, traffic problems, power outages and severe weather warnings.”
Thursday, 04 September 2008
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(New) HD TiVo Coming to DirecTV!
Pretty excited, technology-wise. I believe this answers our question of whether to stay with DirecTV or move to Verizon FiOS TV when we’re ready to step up to HD. We love our TiVo…
Wednesday, 03 September 2008
Today’s phischbits
Finishing Well: Strange responses to “pain”
Great piece from my friend Mike.
“We will do whatever is needed to keep from feeling pain in the moment. It doesn’t really matter to us whether the solution has actually changed anything, but in the moment we ‘feel’ better. Our whole culture has done that in our response to God. […] But we do….we will do whatever it takes to ‘be happy’ and avoid pain in the moment. We divorce our mates to ‘be happy.’ We hurt others so we can ‘be happy.’ We make a big change to get a little result in the moment so we feel like we have solved our problem without really changing anything at all. We have yet to resolve the problem, but we feel better.”
Tags: god, pain
The Tshirt and Tee Search Engine - PleaseDressMe
Pretty nifty. I discovered a new Star Wars t-shirt while playing around with it.
Tags: search, t-shirt
The curse word ‘Battlestar Galactica’ created - CNN.com
Humorous look at the fake curse word “frak”. Yes, it’s intended as a replacement for exactly the word you’re thinking of. I had no idea Glen Larson had coined it during the original Galactica series I watched religiously as a boy. I did, however, remember “feldergarb”.
Tags: battlestar galactica, language, words
Tuesday, 02 September 2008
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D90 | D-MOVIE
“Special site for Nikon’s next-generation D-SLR, the D90. This features detailed product information and a variety of sample images, as well as movies captured with the D90’s new innovative movie function, D-Movie.”
The first digital SLR to shoot movies. And they’re pretty impressive movies, considering it’s a dSLR and not a dedicated video camera.
Tags: camera, nikon, movies, photography, video
bradandgeo: ‘cognitive surplus’ and the church…
“And when people come out of this stupor, what you find is people not wanting a passive, received religion, but a spirituality that they are a part of, or as the article says, an ‘architecture of participation’. And this is ironic because this is exactly the same shift that needed to happen 2000 years ago - the shift from one priest to the ‘priesthood of all believers’; the shift from a few select leaders to a plurality of ‘gifts’ making up the body as a whole.”
This certainly engaged my gray matter…
Tags: church, gtd, surplus, thought, time
Monday, 25 August 2008
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China’s totalitarian games - The Boston Globe
Jeff Jacoby sums up why I did my best to boycott watching this year’s Olympic Games. (I confess I failed due to having nowhere else to go while the missus watched the various sporting contests. (Sheesh, as if “rhythmic gymnastics”, aka, dancing with a hula hoop, is really a sport.) )
Tags: liberty, olympics, opinion, politics
Friday, 22 August 2008
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The Eternal Value of Privacy
“Supporters of wholesale government surveillance are fond of saying that only the guilty should be worried about spying. Let’s put that spurious argument out to pasture once and for all. Commentary by Bruce Schneier.”
Definite food for thought. This stood out to me:
“A future in which privacy would face constant assault was so alien to the framers of the Constitution that it never occurred to them to call out privacy as an explicit right. Privacy was inherent to the nobility of their being and their cause. Of course being watched in your own home was unreasonable. Watching at all was an act so unseemly as to be inconceivable among gentlemen in their day. You watched convicted criminals, not free citizens. You ruled your own home. It’s intrinsic to the concept of liberty.”
Tags: liberty, politics, privacy
Glassdoor.com - Company Ratings, Reviews, and Salaries
Employees can post reviews of the companies they work for, as well as salary histories. The thought is that you can research places you may want to go work to get a realistic expectation of what it’s like. I haven’t delved in to Glassdoor.com, but I can see the potential for it to become one massive bitch session for unhappy employees.
Tags: career, employee, employer, job, occupation
Thursday, 21 August 2008
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Doc Searls Weblog · Is Yahoo a better search engine than Google?
Doc Searls runs some search tests on his old blog, and learns that Yahoo’s consistently coming up with better results than Google.
Tags: google, search, yahoo
Breaking Bad Spending Habits
Good common sense advice that too many of us these days don’t use. One way I’ve changed my book buying habit is to buy books when they hit the sale rack at Barnes & Noble, or if new, at Costco where they’re deeply discounted. I’m also utilizing BookMooch a lot more.
Tags: finance, money
The myth of the white minority - The Boston Globe
Jeff Jacoby’s latest. As our impending adoption of a “Hispanic” baby looms closer (truthfully, any moment now), my wife and I found this fascinating.
Tags: opinion, politics, race
i.engadget.com - Engadget for your iPhone or iPod touch - Engadget
“So far in 2008, the iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPod touch account for some 95.8% of all mobile views on the site. We’re not even kidding.” So they decided to optimize the popular gadget/technology web site for the iPhone/iPod touch.
Tags: gadget, iphone, ipod, technology, web site
Commuter Flights Grounded Thanks To Bumbling TSA Inspector - Aero-News Network: The Aviation and Aerospace World’s Daily/Real-Time News and Information Service
“This was an extraordinarily dangerous incident, folks. The TSA has neither the mandate nor the knowledge to inspect any aircraft for any reason.” Craig Hockenberry sums it up pretty well on Twitter: “So when the TSA actually causes a plane to crash, will we still put up with their s**t?”
Tags: aircraft, flying, security, tsa
Sunday, 17 August 2008
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Death Star over San Francisco // Current
“Imperial Fleet Week SF.” Pretty nifty video splicing, especially of the scenes with the Death Star just hanging in the sky.
Tags: fun, star wars, video
Friday, 08 August 2008
Today’s phischbits
Tweet Scan
Real-time search of the Twitter public timeline.
Tags: search, twitter
TapeDeck. ▸▸ The tape recorder…fast-forwarded to Mac OS X.
“TapeDeck is a powerful and fun new audio recorder for Mac OS X Leopard. It’s just like your old analog tape recorder, only better. A lot better.”
Tags: audio, mac, recording, software
Don’t Check Your Valuables — Matt Mullenweg
I always carry my camera and computer gear on to the plane. Always.
Tags: travel, tips
Dissolving Paper Shampoo | Uncrate
“Forget packing the tiny travel bottle on your next trip and instead opt for some Dissolving Paper Shampoo ($13). The mint-scented paper shampoo comes in packs of 30 inside a convenient plastic travel case…”
Tags: hygiene, soap, travel
Wednesday, 06 August 2008
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BustedTees - Schematics of the Death Star Poster
Made me laugh out loud. I’m open to someone gifting this to me…
Tags: poster, star wars, wishlist
Tuesday, 05 August 2008
Today’s phischbits
iChat’s contact list goes on an iChat Pro diet
A just-in-case link, should I decide to switch from Adium back to iChat. (Easy, built-in chat transcript viewing is what keeps me on Adium. I use it at once a week…)
Tags: adium, ichat, im, instant message
Thursday, 31 July 2008
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MyFox Atlanta | ‘Cheesus?’: Woman Finds Jesus In Bag of Cheetos
Two things I found telling from the article:
“The pastor of Kirkwood United Methodist Church does not see anything theologically special about the Cheeto, but thinks some good could come from it. Pastor David Bennett says, ‘If people can find Jesus, somehow, in each of us like she’s found in this object, that would be a wonderful thing.’
“Kelly doesn’t plan to sell the Cheeto and will keep it in a safe deposit box.”
The pastor calls it. And if I were Kelly, I’d have eaten it. Photographed it, sure. Shared the photo with my friends, posted it to Flickr, whatever. But I’d have eaten “Cheesus”. It’s just a Cheeto. And Cheetos are yummy…
Tags: cheeto, food, jesus
Neuromarketing » Please Your Guests by Fooling Them
The gist: more expensive wine isn’t necessarily better. Unlike, say, a real drink like scotch…
Tags: wine
The 10 Best Kitchen Implements For Fighting Off a Ninja
I think I’d go with the cutting board and the frying pan. Those just seem the best way to go all melee on that sneaky little ninja’s hide.
Tags: kitchen, utensils, ninja
Saturday, 26 July 2008
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Number of Men In the United States Who Will Die In 2008 As A Result Of…
Interesting graphic.
Tags: death, graphic, men
Monday, 21 July 2008
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Leopard savaging a crocodile caught on camera - Telegraph
Wow.
Tags: animal, crocodile, leopard, photo, photography
Tor.com / After the Coup by John Scalzi
Short story set in the Old Man’s War universe. My favorite part: “Jazz hands.”
Tags: fiction, science fiction, sf, short story, writing
Friday, 18 July 2008
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Audiko
“audiko is a simple service which helps you to make a ringtone of your favorite song!” Plus there’s quite the selection of ringtones there already, in MP3 format, as well as m4r for your iPhone. Totally free. (Until the RIAA overlords come crashing down upon it, that is…)
Tags: iphone, music, ringtone
Thursday, 17 July 2008
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Billy Graham on technology, faith and suffering | Video on TED.com
“Speaking at TED in 1998, Rev. Billy Graham marvels at technology’s power to improve lives and change the world — but says the end of evil, suffering and death will come only after the world accepts Christ.” Set aside half an hour of your time and watch this.
Tags: bible, billy graham, god, technology, ted, video
An Enduring Measure of Fitness: The Simple Push-Up - New York Times
“The push-up is the ultimate barometer of fitness. It tests the whole body, engaging muscle groups in the arms, chest, abdomen, hips and legs. It requires the body to be taut like a plank with toes and palms on the floor. The act of lifting and lowering one’s entire weight is taxing even for the very fit.”
Tags: exercise, fitness, push-up
Practical tips from a long time cafe warrior
My friend Michael has some advice for those who call coffee shops their office.
Tags: business, gtd, tips
Editorial Observer - Losing Private Dwyer, War Hero - Editorial - NYTimes.com
“Pfc. Joseph Dwyer was a model of the strength and selflessness of the American soldier fighting in Iraq. But it was post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction that eventually killed him.” Please, please, please, servicemen and women: seek help if you need to. You’ve certainly earned it.
Tags: illness, iraq, military, ptsd, soldier, war
Monday, 14 July 2008
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Hey Raena » Dear journalists
Gal pal Raena A., from Down Under, offers some helpful tips to journalists covering the goings-on of the Internet. Heed, Columbia J. school grads…
Tags: internet, journalism, writing
Friday, 11 July 2008
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On The Edge 2-Stroke Gas-Powered Party Blender, Model# 900108 | Party Blenders | Northern Tool + Equipment
“The On The Edge 2-Stroke Gas-Powered Party Blender brings power to your festivities. Crank the handlebar throttle to create delicious blender beverages.”
Now that’s a blender…
Tags: appliance blender
Wednesday, 09 July 2008
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Zombie Outbreak
What might a zombie outbreak look like via Twitter? Perhaps something like this…
Tags: twitter, zombie
Metro-Rednexual Results | TonyMorganLive.com
“You might be a metro-rednexual if…”
For the record, I think #8 is the funniest of the bunch.
Tags: fun, humor, metrosexual, redneck
Monday, 07 July 2008
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List of Online Archives for Free Unabridged Books Online
“Want to go to the library without stepping out of your house? Here’s where you can go to get free unabridged reference books, novels, audio books and other texts online.”
Tags: books
Sunday, 06 July 2008
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Web Worker Daily » Archive Who Owns Your Online Documents? «
“One thing that’s clearly missing is any sort of backup guarantee. While you may feel more secure storing your documents on Google’s or Zoho’s or Adobe’s servers than your own, that security is not something that you’re promised. Any of the three can lose your documents or terminate your ability to get to them at any time for pretty much any reason, and you’re out of luck. So if you do put important things online - back them up somewhere else.”
Tags: backup, security, technology, web app
Thursday, 03 July 2008
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Heads-up: IRS Spam Now in the Wild — MiPro Unfiltered
Spam e-mail purportedly from the Internal Revenue Service may actually contain a trojan horse virus within what appears to be a Word document. Mac users are apparently unaffected by the enclosed file, but Windows users may want to beware.
Tags: irs, spam, virus
AT&T lets you keep old iPhone to use as iPod touch - I4U News
“AT&T lets you keep old iPhone to use as iPod touch.” I had originally planned to give my original iPhone to a friend, but I don’t think he wants it now that the screen is spiderwebbed. Using it as an iPod touch after I upgrade to the iPhone 3G sounds good.
Tags: iphone, ipod
TOYSREVIL’S I LIKE TOYS: star wars bearbricks for celebration japan by medicom toy
I’d so love a Be@r Fett…
Tags: star wars, toys
Princess Leia - Sending Message to Obi Wan using the USPS on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
“Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. This is my last stamp.”
Tags: photo, star wars
Tuesday, 01 July 2008
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Quantum of Solace Trailer - Mahalo
The first trailer for the new James Bond film Quantum of Solace was released on Monday, June 30, 2008. The movie opens on November 7th.
Tags: james bond, 007, movie, trailer
Brand New: Less Hyphen, More Burst for Walmart
Walmart has a new logo. At first glance, it reminds me of WaMu’s logo, though on careful examination, you can clearly see the differences in the two typefaces. I do think the spacing between letters in the new logo is too close, however.
Tags: brand, business
Sunday, 29 June 2008
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WORLD Magazine | WALL•E world
Megan Basham interviews Andrew Stanton about his new movie, WALL•E.
Tags: movie, pixar
shaycam.com » To the Skater Kid Who Asked To Borrow My Cell Phone
I have often written a letter like this in my head.
Tags: bible, god, kids
mooColorFinder - retrieve all website colors
Script to retrieve any color information of a website, reads all CSS files and produces a cloud of colors.
“This neat little tool extracts any color information, no matter if inline CSS, CSS files via import or link, and even if you have a master CSS file with references to other css files - mooColorFinder reads it out.
“So, as long as a website specifies its CSS styles W3C conform, this script will find the colors used…”
Tags: color, css, web design
iPhone Security Tip: Never Memorize Wireless Networks | securosis.com
Some good security tips here for iPhone users regarding public wifi networks.
Tags: iphone, privacy, security, wifi
Writer: the internet typewriter
John Watson’s Writer is a simple, plain text-based “internet typewriter”, to use John’s description. If you want something easy to bang out text online, Writer has potential. I just wish you could change the background to something other than black…
Tags: web app, writing
Saturday, 28 June 2008
Today’s phischbits
Fun Size Bytes - Tattoo
Brilliantly funny.
Tags: humor, soldier, tattoo, war
The Stalled Server Room - The Daily WTF
“I always knew womens restrooms were nicer than what we guys got. Now I see they have server rooms in there too?!?!”
Tags: business, fun, humor, photo, technology
Intel says ‘no’ to Vista upgrade - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
“Intel information technology staff just found no compelling case for adopting Vista.” Wow.
Tags: intel, microsoft, technology, windows
The Sky, From Above - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Some amazing photos of our world.
Tags: nasa, photo, space
View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia
Thursday, 12 June 2008
links for 2008-06-12
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My “tweet cloud”; it shows the most commonly used words from my posts on Twitter. Kinda neat.
Monday, 09 June 2008
links for 2008-06-09
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Great article on the symbiotic relationship a community has with business. Great reminder of the inherent selfish nature of people, too.
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“Essentially Photoshop doesn’t recognize files after saving them to a server, as it would seem, ruining your file. Only I’m experiencing this problem in saving files to an external FW drive.”
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For my photography-minded fellows, a do-it-yourself studio softbox.
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This is more of a for-future-reference sort of link for myself, but you, dear reader, may find it useful as well. Especially if you work with audio and your portable computer doesn’t have dedicated in/out audio plugs.
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Attention, Akira fans! Now you, too, can wear a Capsule Gang jacket just like Kaneda!
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Discussion with friends yesterday about our kids and movies reminded me of this. That decision by Disney to buy Pixar looks better and better for stockholders, doesn’t it?
Saturday, 31 May 2008
links for 2008-05-31
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“[W]orks to reduce water-related illness & death in developing countries by building self-sustaining projects that make safe drinking water accessible to the poor and empower local churches to bring physical, social & spirit healing to their communities.”
Friday, 30 May 2008
links for 2008-05-30
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Excellent piece by Jim Manzi on how Obama, and to a lesser extent, McCain, don’t quite get that someone has to pay for all that “greater good” they keep talking about. Donations don’t appear out of thin air.
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Too. Freaking. Cool. Cisco CEO John Chambers was live on stage in Bangalore, and had Martin De Beer, Senior VP of Emerging Technologies, and Chuck Stucki, General Manager of TelePresence, join him via hologram from San Jose. You’ve got to watch at least the first four minutes or so of the video. Star Wars tech is here today!
Wednesday, 28 May 2008
links for 2008-05-28
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A great article by Alex Castellanos on the future of conservatism in the Republican Party. Show me a candidate or group of candidates committed to the ideas and changes Alex outlines, and I’ll show them support.
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I’m not that impressed with the shirts, but I love their slogan: “Honoring The Gracious Work of God Through A Bunch Of Dead Guys”.
Thursday, 22 May 2008
links for 2008-05-22
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“We’re bleeding cash. What can we do to make up the shortfall?”
“Reduce our number of flights and give great customer service?”
“Nah, let’s just nickel & dime our customers until they won’t fly us any more.” -
The FAQ on the new $15 for the first checked bag policy, and the few exceptions. I think we’ll be looking to fly Southwest more in the future.
Wednesday, 21 May 2008
links for 2008-05-21
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If you’re really unhappy with the current crop of presidential contenders, there are alternatives. “Yippie Kay Yay, America!”
Tuesday, 20 May 2008
links for 2008-05-20
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“We ask state troopers what they most want drivers to do during a traffic stop.” Am I the only one who thinks it a little sad that an article like this is necessary?
Sunday, 18 May 2008
links for 2008-05-18
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Want to get an idea of the traffic pumping through Twitter? Check this proof-of-concept monitoring of the public timeline. My headache started about fifteen seconds in…
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To quote Will: “I have to say that there is a Twitter issue if a site like this appears […] But [it] has great usability!”
Tuesday, 13 May 2008
links for 2008-05-13
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A dictionary for Twitter. I’ve seen most of these, but a couple, like “twitterluia”, brought a smile.
Sunday, 11 May 2008
links for 2008-05-11
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Some nice little tweaks in here I hadn’t considered. Good to have as a reference.
Saturday, 10 May 2008
links for 2008-05-10
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He’s recovered the Ark of the Covenant, closed down the Thuggee cult, and found the Holy Grail. But he can’t secure tenure at the university.
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The Phoenix Mars Lander has its own Twitter page. NASA’s just building smarter and smarter robots, isn’t it?
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Short version: change your browser’s user agent to Mobile Safari.
Friday, 09 May 2008
links for 2008-05-09
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Talk about commitment. Talk about school spirit. Wow.
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I’d put this on my iPhone so I can have access to my own rimshot any time, any where, but alas, it’s Flash-based.
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“Ever wanted to write something, and lock it away? Keep it somewhere where only you could access it? iLocker is for you! The text you enter is encrypted using your password and a highly secure encryption method.”
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Fellow frogs: is it getting hot in here, or is it just me?
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Nice set of links full of good tips and neat photos.
Wednesday, 07 May 2008
links for 2008-05-07
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It’s all about baby steps, the Japanese concept of kaizen, or “continuous improvement”. Baby steps, not big leaps.
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All this really does is yet once again clearly show I am not a morning person.
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This explains why my little sister got away with so much more. University of Maryland, Duke University, & John Hopkins, with over 11,000 test subjects. Methinks this may be no junk science.
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This is only a portion of the Ibn Battuta Mall in Dubai. Takes an hour to walk end to end. At least now we know what they’re doing with all that oil money.
Tuesday, 06 May 2008
links for 2008-05-06
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For all the other writers out there.
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My favorites include: Zombie Lincoln, Lincoln Log, Racer X Lincoln, Tron Lincoln, and, of course, Darth Washington.
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On my iPhone, and set as the default ringtone. Love it.
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Coming October 2008.
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I’m thinking this falls in to the realm of “Just because we can do a thing doesn’t necessarily mean we should do a thing.”
Thursday, 01 May 2008
links for 2008-05-01
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Read about it in Guns & Ammo, but looks like it could come in handy for lots of different uses.
Wednesday, 30 April 2008
links for 2008-04-30
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The 20 Worst Foods in America. To quote my wife: “No wonder everyone in the country is fat.”
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Springfield now has a mil-spec XD .45, which features an ambidextrous, thumb-operated slide safety. Looks to be the XD I’ve been waiting for.
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Some good tips for using Twitter.
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Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Oh, so wrong. What have they done to the Fett?
Tuesday, 29 April 2008
links for 2008-04-29
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An easy way to download YouTube videos as MP4 files: throw this bookmarklet up in your browser’s bookmark bar, then click on it when you’re on a YouTube video page that you enjoy.
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Karl Rove offers free advice to Barack Obama. Seriously.
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Turn your old vinyl albums into CDs and digital music files with Crosley’s new USB turntable.
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Home of the Skidless-brand yoga towels. For those of you who practice yoga, or may be considering it.
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Perfect for keeping those annoyingly long electronics cables tamed.
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“Self-fusing; 700 PSI tensile strength; insulates 8,000 volts per layer; withstands 500 degrees F of heat; flexible to -85 degrees F; never gets gummy or sticky; resists fuels, oils, acids, salt water, & UV rays.”
Monday, 28 April 2008
links for 2008-04-28
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Cool design. Uses a 4-stroke, 31 cc Honda engine that runs on unleaded. Top speed’s about 25 mph. It’ll cost you US $7,000. Plus another $800-1,500 for shipping from Holland.
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If only it was cold enough often enough here in the DFW metroplex…
Friday, 25 April 2008
Thursday, 24 April 2008
links for 2008-04-24
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A handy list (alphabetically) of popular Hebrew words and phrases you might run across if you have Jewish friends or are studying the Old Testament.
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Observe. Learn. Inter in your web design psyche.
Saturday, 19 April 2008
links for 2008-04-19
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If you live in Flower Mound, Colleyville, or Watauga, Texas, and you want to get your hair cut at a real barber shop, you’ll want to stop by Back N’Time.
Tuesday, 15 April 2008
links for 2008-04-15
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Dennis Sellers reports on the death of Stan Flack, co-founder of MacCentral and MacMinute, who passed away yesterday after a long bout of health complications.
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Peter Cohen reminisces about working for Stan Flack.
Sunday, 13 April 2008
links for 2008-04-13
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I was going to write a blog post and quote from this, but the quote was proving so extensive, I figured I would just link it and you could go read it for yourself.
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Carbon Motors wants to build a car specifically designed for police, rather than the current process of repurposing civilian autos. Sign me up for a civilian version of Carbon’s E7!
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More on the E7, from Wired’s Autopia blog.
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The corporate web site for Carbon Motors, developers of the E7, the world’s first vehicle designed specifically for law enforcement.
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I think that above description line is self-explanatory.
Friday, 11 April 2008
links for 2008-04-11
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“[I]t seems to me that it isn’t failure we’re afraid of, it’s uncertainty. So I tried asking, ‘What would I do if I had to do something, but knew I would fail anyway?’”
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“I should be writing right now.” Instead of, you know, finding fun things to link to and posting them to my blog.
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Three levels of messages, from terrorist attacks to Amber alerts, free for end users to receive, and you can opt out of receiving them at all. Scheduled to go live in 2010.
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Forget the t-shirt. Give me the grill!
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“Bloxes are building blocks made of interlocking pieces of corrugated cardboard, folded together. Their unique shape and structure make them exceptionally strong and lightweight.” They’re also a little expensive.
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Web page of Wheaton English professor and author Alan Jacobs, writer of The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C.S. Lewis, among others.
Thursday, 10 April 2008
links for 2008-04-10
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Mostly common-sense tips, but then there’s little common sense to modern airport security in the U.S.
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Kettering University student Will Foster built a half-scale WWII Tiger tank, running on a 3-cylinder diesel, for paintball. Yes, paintball.
Monday, 07 April 2008
links for 2008-04-07
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Been sprayed by a skunk? Hydrogen peroxide + baking soda + liquid dish soap is the best remedy, according to the Mythbusters.
Saturday, 05 April 2008
Friday, 04 April 2008
links for 2008-04-04
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Of course. Just as I’m using Amazon MP3 for as much online music as I do iTunes.
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Yes, even NASA has a Twitter account. Pretty easy way to keep up with the latest from America’s space agency.
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A great start-to-launch sequence of photos, from the arrival of the external fuel tank from Mississippi to launch of the Discovery.
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Match your “brand”, create a barrier, buy a plant, get rid of the noise, and pay attention to ergonomics. Simple, but very useful stuff.
Thursday, 03 April 2008
links for 2008-04-03
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“[B]ecause every one of us were told since birth that we were special. … And really? Really? It turns out we’re just not all that special, when you break it down. Beautifully unspectacular, actually. And that truth is going to catch up with us…”
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As a metalhead—musically speaking; I don’t have a plate in my head or anything—I really like this one.
Wednesday, 02 April 2008
Life from the Phisch Bowl
Oh, did I forget to mention my wife’s become a blogger?
And that she did so last year?
Whoops.
Well, that takes me out of the running for Husband of the Year™.
(And if you think that’s all I’ve done to take myself out of the running, I have some beachfront property in Scottsdale I’d like to talk to you about.) <rimshot> But enough about me…
The missus began blogging last May as an outlet for the angst and excitement she felt as a result of our seeking to add to our family through adoption. She’s also been talking about our struggles with infertility as we seek to add to our family on our own. At some point she began sharing little tidbits about our life at home, missing her mom, and other things outside the realm of adoption, and I suggested a name change for the blog.
In private conversations with friends, nearly all online, I’ve often referred to our home in general, and the study, from where I compute, in particular, as “the Phisch Bowl”. Seeing how I have no intention whatsoever of allowing the fish (phisch?) meme, courtesy of my anagramed moniker, to die, my abrupt suggestion to her was, “Life from the Phisch Bowl”. So there you go.
A small word of warning. The missus tends to use some shorthand and acronyms she’s picked up from motherhood/pregnancy/infertility forums over the years, and some might not be readily decipherable. Trust me, there was a time when I was constantly asking her what this acronym or that one meant. Should you need similar help, drop me a line, or better yet, drop the missus a line over on her blog, and ask her. Better still, just drop her a line and say hi.
Her latest post also deals with an issue near and dear to our hearts. Once again, Kel will be participating in the March of Dimes’ March for Babies, formerly known as WalkAmerica. Due to a commitment with the little phisch, I won’t be walking this year, but Kelly will, and she’s raising funds.
(Much to my chagrin, she’s already raised more funds for this than I need in total for my mission trip to Juarez, to build houses for the poor there, in June. This includes monies from my own mother, who was asked, along with several friends and family members, to support my trip prior to Kelly beginning her fund-raising. Hrmmm. Perhaps I should outsource my own fund-raising to the missus, since we all know she is far, far more charming a person than I….)
So, drop by her blog and say hi, and if you’re led, help us with the March for Babies.
I love you, sweetheart.
Monday, 31 March 2008
links for 2008-03-31
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Doc points how some businesses need to stop treating Internet access like having to pay to go to the restroom. An argument against him would be bolstered if we actually got what we paid for when traveling.
Tuesday, 25 March 2008
links for 2008-03-25
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What makes this so funny is this past Saturday night, at our minichurch meeting, I did indeed use my iPhone to pull up information from Wikipedia and IMDB.
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The movie version of Snake-Eyes looks pretty…bad-ass. Perhaps the movie won’t be that bad. Then again, Snake-Eyes was always the best thing about the comic, so as long as he’s the same, I likely won’t care about the rest.
Tuesday, 18 March 2008
links for 2008-03-18
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“Three 48-page memo books. 3-1/2” x 5-1/2” with rugged three-staple saddle-stitch binding. Perfect 1-pica graphed paper.” One of these has ridden in my back pocket for months, and has held up very well, better than the Moleskine Cahier I used to use.
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Say what you will about Charlie Rose, but you have to admire his sacrificing his face to keep his newly-purchased MacBook Air from sustaining damage.
Monday, 17 March 2008
links for 2008-03-17
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“Have you ever received a link from a friend, but weren’t sure why? The Awesome Highlighter allows you to highlight text in a webpage so that when you send a link you can be certain the recipient will know why.”
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Controlled from the wrist, this jacket has LEDs on the back to signal which way you’re turning.
Saturday, 15 March 2008
links for 2008-03-15
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Think about protecting yourself when you’re sitting in Starbucks, working on your laptop.
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Ever have trouble getting to a web site? Do you ping your friends on IM, or give a shout over the cubicle wall, asking if they can get to that site? Now you don’t have to bother your friends and co-workers anymore…
Wednesday, 12 March 2008
links for 2008-03-12
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Bill Thompson on the connectedness of Twitter: “After a certain point Twitter becomes part of the background to life. […] I feel connected to a community of people, feel that we share a space that none of the social network sites can conjure up…”
Tuesday, 11 March 2008
Retrophisch v4.0. Or something.
So I got off my duff and finally got around to putting in to place the redesign (realignment?) of the blog that I’ve sat on for the better part of two years. Those of you who normally read the blog from the RSS feed can click over to see the new look. (If you care, that is.) Those of you who read the blog by actually going to it may have noticed the new look over the past couple of days. (Or maybe not, and if that’s the case, I’m left to wonder whether or not that’s a good thing or a bad thing.)
One thing you might notice on the main page is the Twitter section at the top, marked “Recently”. If you are a regular reader of the blog, you may have noticed that my blogging has taken a huge dive in recent months, with most posts consisting of the daily links posting from my del.icio.us account. The reason for that is I’m doing a lot of micro-blogging over on my Twitter account. I say micro-blogging, because Twitter limits each post to 140 characters. (This is largely due to the number of character one can put in to a SMS message, and Twitter has excellent SMS compatibility.) So now you when you visit this blog, you can also see my latest on Twitter.
There’s further tweaking ahead. I likely won’t leave all of those links in the sidebar. They’ll get spun off to a separate page, like the reading list and photos. I’d like to integrate a linkblog in to the main page, a la John Gruber and other bloggers, instead of relying on my del.icio.us account to automatically spit them out each morning. The linkblog would allow more immediate posting, and any comments about the link wouldn’t be limited to del.icio.us’s text field.
The biggest tweak, however, will be under the hood, as I upgrade to Movable Type 4. Hopefully, this will be transparent to you, dear reader, but will empower me and make my blogging life easier in the long run. Let’s hope it doesn’t take another two years for these various tweaks to be made reality.
I have quite a few people to thank for their input and help over the past two years. So many, in fact, that I dare not name them all here out of fear of leaving someone out. Needless to say, those of you who fall in to this category know who are. You occupy prime positions in my instant-messaging buddy list and e-mail address book. You are my friends, and for putting up with my endless questions of “How does this look?” and “What do you think of this?”, or the myriad times when I failed to even ask a question and just IMed you a link with no backgrounding of any sort on my part, you have my sincerest thanks.
If you absolutely hate the new look of the blog, well, that’s your opinion, and you should place any blame for your dislike firmly at my feet. If you absolutely love the new look, it’s because of the wonderful people, mentioned above, who took time out of their lives to share part of mine with me.
Oh, and if you happen to be nostalgic for the old look, you can still find it here, for a little while.
links for 2008-03-11
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Apple’s product. Google’s product. Your company’s product.
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These guys are insane…
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“‘Parents do not have a constitutional right to home school their children,’ Justice H. Walter Croskey wrote in a Feb. 28 opinion…” Funny, I can’t find anything in the Constitution expressly prohibiting parents from homeschooling their children.
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What it all boils down to is that none of us outside of the military will be prepared when the robot overlords take over.
Monday, 10 March 2008
links for 2008-03-10
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“Every election period the media mention, usually in ominous terms, Evangelicals. This year is no exception. And just as frequently, Evangelicals are identified with Fundamentalists and the Religious Right. This identification is false and harmful…”
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My only quibble with Schneier’s strategy, as it pertains to the Mac, is that PGP’s Whole Disk Encryption specs state it only works on the Mac’s non-boot drive. Which, if I’m understanding correctly, rules out every Mac.
Saturday, 08 March 2008
links for 2008-03-08
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Jason Calacanis, Mahalo’s CEO, with some bootstrapping tips. My favorites: Buy Macs (shocker, I know); Buy 2d monitors (I miss having a 2d monitor since mine died); Chairs matter, tables don’t; Don’t buy a phone system; outsource to middle America
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The “sex, drugs, helvetica bold” shirt is funny.
Monday, 03 March 2008
links for 2008-03-03
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Great ways to utilize your RSS feed reader to increase your Bible knowledge. There are verse of the day feeds, a weekly memorization feed, a daily devotional, and 8 different read-the-Bible-in-a-year feeds. A great resource.
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What are the Top 10 web apps? I’m using 6 of the 10: Gmail, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, Mint, & Last.fm, though I’m using Gmail less these days. Surprising to see Twitter so high on the list at #3, but pleasantly so.
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“What I hear from politicians who have worked with Obama, both in Illinois state politics and here in Washington, gives me pause. […] Indeed, the trait people remember best about Obama, in addition to his intellect, is his ambition.” Well worth a read.
Sunday, 02 March 2008
Saturday, 01 March 2008
links for 2008-03-01
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My new favorite style for Growl.
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Rick Yaeger has a little fun with external hard drive placement.
Friday, 29 February 2008
links for 2008-02-29
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“Obama literalists may read back chapter and verse on his policy initiatives, but let’s be real here. Those aren’t the reasons for his success. Morover, they were never intended to be the underpinnings of the Obama candidacy.”
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“Let’s be honest. Barack Obama is not on the verge of clinching the Democratic nomination because of his policy positions—whatever his most evangelical supporters might tell you.”
Wednesday, 27 February 2008
links for 2008-02-27
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A ministry devoted to “rescuing the street children of Latin America”, operating centrally in Guatemala.
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Use this link if you need to download Stuffit Expander, without having to go through SmithMicro’s annoying registration process.
Tuesday, 26 February 2008
Monday, 25 February 2008
links for 2008-02-25
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Some amazing photos, courtesy of NASA, of a recent mission by the Space Shuttle Endeavor and her crew.
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Human-powered search engine Mahalo has a nice round-up of all the news relating to the first-ever crash of America’s most technologically-advanced bomber, the B-2. Thankfully, both pilots ejected safely.
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Quite a challenge.
Friday, 22 February 2008
links for 2008-02-22
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Still 2 years from release, a massively multiplayer online game where everything is LEGO. Targeted at 8-12 year-olds, but plenty of adults who grew up with LEGOs, including yours truly, are more excited about the game at this point.
Wednesday, 20 February 2008
Tuesday, 19 February 2008
links for 2008-02-19
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Andy’s review of the Drobo backup mechanism is the kind of tech review I can get my wife to read. (And I hope she’ll read it, as I think this is our solution for a home network backup system.)
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Forget the Linux requirement of LAMP, Mac users. Now there’s MAMP: Mac, Apache, MySQL, and PHP, the latter three in one handy distribution for Mac OS X.
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Science fiction and fantasy author Steven Brust has written a fan fiction Firefly novel, posting it for free. All you Browncoats, put your bibs on, okay?
Monday, 18 February 2008
links for 2008-02-18
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“This little beauty fires 12 rounds of 10 mm steel balls in under 2 seconds…”
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Coming June 4th. I may have to get the Jango Fett, since I have son Boba. I like the Yoda, too. I wonder if the right hand of Empire Strikes Back Luke comes off…
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We love the Heroes-style figures in our home, and this line-up threatens to send me over the edge. Sail Barge Leia, Gree, Shaak Ti, Ewoks, the Millenium Falcon, AT-RT, Vader’s TIE Fighter, a Sandtrooper on a Dewback!
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Indiana Jones comes to the Mighty Muggs line. Yes!
Sunday, 17 February 2008
Saturday, 16 February 2008
links for 2008-02-16
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Flash-based game featuring the LEGO version of Indiana Jones.
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Shrink your Windows XP folder at your own risk.
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Neat little piece from The Economist on Twitter. You are on Twitter, aren’t you?
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If you’re looking for something new to decorate your computer’s desktop with, there’s a ton of great wallpaper linked to here.
Friday, 15 February 2008
links for 2008-02-15
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After eight years of marriage, the first collaboration between singer-songwriters Derek Webb and Sandra McCracken. Great stuff.
Thursday, 14 February 2008
links for 2008-02-14
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1991 Finally the Year for LSU Baseball - LSUsports.net—The Official Web Site of LSU Tigers AthleticsA recap of LSU’s first baseball national championship year. I can tell you exactly where I was and what I was doing when they got that last out to win it all in Omaha. The Tigers were the team of the ’90s in college baseball.
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No movie in 2008, Trekkies. But we Star Wars fans still get our new one. :-P
Wednesday, 13 February 2008
links for 2008-02-13
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Tips from Kirk McElhearn on getting song lyrics in to iTunes and on to your iPod.
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The good news: new animated Star Wars movie and television series. The bad news: it’s not done in the animation style of the previous Clone Wars television series.
Tuesday, 12 February 2008
links for 2008-02-12
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If your iPhone camera is going wonky, and shooting blank squares, this is a possible fix.
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Now if only AT&T would give its mobile users the option of adding wifi access to their accounts.
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Walk for one minute, generate enough power for thirty minutes of mobile phone usage. They just need to get the size of the thing smaller for it to really be commercially viable.
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Bust of the Predator alien, sans helmet, in LEGO.
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Set of over 700 16x16 pixel icons in PNG format, for free.
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Yes, it’s a real firearm. Yes, this guy really loves his lady to go to this length.
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For my fellow Star Wars nerds, grab high-resolution images of the Star Wars stamps released last year.
Monday, 11 February 2008
links for 2008-02-11
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A water pump is hooked up to a merry-go-round. Energy from kids playing on the merry-go-round drives the pump, and delivers potable water to rural villages where there is little or no power to drive pumps. Pretty brilliant.
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Free online reference for CSS by SitePoint.
Saturday, 09 February 2008
Friday, 08 February 2008
links for 2008-02-08
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My friend David with a simple tip on keeping track of what those AC adapters under your desk are plugged in to on top of your desk…
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North Texas Gun Club’s web site for DFW-area gun shows.
Wednesday, 06 February 2008
links for 2008-02-06
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Here’s a view of the Space Shuttle you won’t usually see.
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“It’s easy to forget that Apple is 30 years old. Lets take a minute to remember the 20th Anniversary Mac. With a 250 mhz processor and a 12 inch screen, this was a steal at $7,499. We’ve come a long way.”
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“We love Photoshop as much as the next guy, but sometimes you take a picture so perfect you don’t even have to touch it up. Our lawyer won’t let us make promises, but we’ve noticed that we shoot nicer pictures when we wear this shirt.”
Saturday, 02 February 2008
links for 2008-02-02
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Best known for their lenses, Sigma has already released dSLRs on the market. Now they’re going after the compact market: “The DP1 is a completely new type of camera offering the full spec. and high image quality of a DSLR in the body of a compact camera.”
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Well, we already have all three Star Wars Mr. Potato Heads in the household, Optimash Prime, and Spider-Potato, so obviously, the Tater of the Lost Ark will have to be added to the collection…
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“Need to link to a New York Times article from your weblog? Enter your link here, and we’ll give you the weblog-safe link” There’s even a bookmarklet so you can just drag-and-drop…
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A church in North Carolina is giving out shot glasses with their logo and other info at local bars as part of an outreach to the community. That’s definitely some of the out-of-the-box thinking the church at large needs more of.
Wednesday, 30 January 2008
links for 2008-01-30
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Love him or hate him, Jobs does know how to knock’em out, and make the trivial seem exciting, and the exciting seem spectacular. Some good advice here, for those who do a lot of presentations.
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“It’s the only way to be sure.”
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On my friend Tom’s recommendation, I purchased the MP3 album “Drowning Out The Television” on Amazon; I haven’t been disappointed. I predict the songs “Black & White”, “Phoenix”, and “Better” will find themselves on network television in the near future.
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“[E]xplore the intersection of Bible study and technology. This two-day conference is designed for publishers, programmers, webmasters, educators, bloggers and anyone interested in using technology to improve Bible study.”
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Directions to add the mobile vesion of the English Standard Version of the Bible to your iPhone’s home screen. Now you can have a free translation of the Bible with you anywhere. (Anywhere you have EDGE or wifi access, that is…)
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I like them all, except for the one which uses Myriad Pro.
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Growl notifications just got a lot prettier. (Sorry, Windows users.)
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“[A]cts like a built-in, system-wide color picker, available in any Mac application that supports this feature of Mac OS X. Apple’s own iWork and iLife suites, Google Sketchup, Adobe Photoshop, and renowned applications like Coda, CSSEdit, and many more
Monday, 28 January 2008
links for 2008-01-28
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Yeah, I think that headline is pretty self-explanatory of why you should go read it.
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Situations like this cause this particular feeling in me to boil up; that if he’s found guilty, a little Code of Hammurabi needs to be administered, and certain body parts come off…
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Boy, if you live in New York, you might want to look in to arming yourself and your family, getting concealed carry permits, etc. Oh. Wait….
Sunday, 27 January 2008
links for 2008-01-27
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What happens when the proximity sensor on your iPhone flakes out.
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Saturday, February 23d, see all five movies nominated for Best Picture in a single day. $30 nets you all five flicks, a free large popcorn with unlimited refills, and a collectible pass.
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A little CSS to add to the top of your Backpack pages to optimize them for viewing on the iPhone or iPod Touch.
Saturday, 26 January 2008
links for 2008-01-26
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Someone took Eddie Izzard’s bit on Star Wars and set it to LEGO figures. Incredibly funny. (Though not safe for work, as the F-word is used a few times. It is Eddie Izzard, after all.)
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“[A]n open source JavaScript software, offering a Web 2.0 approach to popup windows. It streamlines the use of thumbnail images and HTML popups on web pages.”
Friday, 25 January 2008
links for 2008-01-25
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In a little over nine minutes, you, too, can learn how they make lenses for cameras. Pretty fascinating.
Thursday, 24 January 2008
links for 2008-01-24
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Desecration! Sacrilege! Blasphemy, I tell you!
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As if koalas weren’t cute enough already!
Wednesday, 23 January 2008
links for 2008-01-23
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Of possible interest to my readers in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, Dallas Mavericks fans, NBA watchers, and entrepreneurs: Mark Cuban goes Apple.
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A t-shirt that combines the love of Mac with Battlestar Galactica. Oh. Yeah.
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Leopard, the latest version of Mac OS X, comes with built-in backup software, called Time Machine. Buy this shirt for Marty before he jumps in to the Delorean again, okay?
Sunday, 20 January 2008
links for 2008-01-20
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Custom LEGO mini figures, assembled and painted as members of the Justice League. I really like Flash, Green Lantern, and Green Arrow.
Friday, 18 January 2008
links for 2008-01-18
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I still long to try In-N-Out, and I swear on the grave of Ray Kroc that I will do so the next time I get to California.
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I wish I had thought of this.
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Creative chopped wood stacking.
[Wave of the phin to Lee for the latter two links.]
Tuesday, 15 January 2008
links for 2008-01-15
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From the “You’ve Got To Be Kidding Me” Department…
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Tim Siedell shows off some ads one might have seen in comic books (what graphic novels were called back in the day, kids) in days of yore. Ah, these bring back so many memories for me. I love the Evel Knievel and Captain Marvel ones.
Monday, 14 January 2008
links for 2008-01-14
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“…like Billboard Charts for gadgets!” Pretty interesting site, easy to waste a lot of time on it.
Sunday, 13 January 2008
links for 2008-01-13
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Some times, the hard decisions just have to be made. Geaux Tigers!!!
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Darn cute for kids, but adults? You’ve got to be kidding me.
Saturday, 12 January 2008
links for 2008-01-12
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“‘We are all very disappointed’ … ‘and that millions of viewers worldwide will be deprived of seeing many of their favorite stars,’ Jorge Camara, president of the association, said in a statement.” Yes, we’re all broken up over it, Jorge…
Friday, 11 January 2008
links for 2008-01-11
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Hillary was a hero of mine, even though I am in no way a climber. Guess there was just something about his adventuring spirit leading to the conquest of Everest…
Thursday, 10 January 2008
links for 2008-01-10
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The best RSS reader on the planet is now available for free. Mac users the world over now have no excuse. Go download it today!
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Another minor league baseball team in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex! I love the logo…
Monday, 07 January 2008
Saturday, 05 January 2008
links for 2008-01-05
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Further proof that Star Wars is a Force for good. Besides, boys/men are hardwired to be protectors, and he was just doing what any good Jedi Knight would do.
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Awesome display of LEGO fu. The father-son team worked on it off-and-on for 8 months in 2006.
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Charity at the local level: “get together with friends and build burritos to take to the streets” to feed the hungry and homeless.
Thursday, 03 January 2008
links for 2008-01-03
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As if Jaws didn’t scar enough people, like my wife, for life…
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If you’re a member of the Sears or Kmart online communities, you may want to read this.
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Awesome retro-art X-Men poster by Eric Tan. No word yet on when (or if) it will be for sale.
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Fantastic short film. The YouTube version is good enough for most viewing.
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Brilliant. Be sure to watch the outtakes video as well.
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Oh, but what a severe blow to the culture if the Hollywood Foreign Press aren’t allowed their gala night… Dare I hope that the Oscars won’t be televised?
Wednesday, 26 December 2007
links for 2007-12-26
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A great Star Wars t-shirt done in 8-bit style. Love it. Want it.
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Yet another fun Star Wars t-shirt.
Monday, 24 December 2007
links for 2007-12-24
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Jeff Jacoby on the (ahem) exceptional treatment women can expect from the “Religion of Peace”. Why aren’t more American feminists up in arms over this sort of stuff?
Sunday, 23 December 2007
links for 2007-12-23
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Gever Tulley, founder of the Tinkering School, discusses how our children these days are over-protected. They should: Play With Fire; Own a Pocket Knife; Throw a Spear; Deconstruct Appliances; Break the DMCA; Drive a Car. Video’s about 9 minutes long.
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Because if you’re going to spend Christmas with a Star Wars character, why not the baddest bounty hunters in the universe?
Saturday, 22 December 2007
links for 2007-12-22
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For those of you who wish to create ringtones to put on your iPhone.
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“Anxiety is a super-lightweight To-do list application for Mac OS X Leopard that synchronizes with iCal and Mail.”
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Because you never know. We need to put together/purchase something like these for our family…
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Sam Costello shares a big fear of his, The Great Blue Hole.
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“More Great Big Holes.” Among other photos, there’s a shot of the Great Blue Hole from afar, which, to me at least, makes it all the more impressive.
Friday, 21 December 2007
links for 2007-12-21
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“Never get caught off guard again! Cylon Safety Information Sheet #8, issued by QMx on behalf of the Colonial Ministry of Information, contains 10 tips that can save your life and the lives of your fellow Colonials…”
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“Join the battle against Cylon tyranny! Show your true colors and support the cause by displaying these posters in the common areas of your ship. Officially sanctioned by Fleet Operations, each poster contains critical messages from the Colonial Ministry…”
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Some really great-looking shots. The whale one is my favorite of the bunch, but the bison come in a close second.
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This is why I’m on Twitter, and pretty much ignore my Jaiku and Pownce accounts…
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You can now IOU coffee on Foamee, as well as beer.
Thursday, 20 December 2007
links for 2007-12-20
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For those who may be using Adobe Lightroom for their photo organizing, and light editing, and want to be able to export pictures to their Flickr account.
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Duncan Davidson on Jeffrey Friedl’s Export to Flickr plugin for Adobe Lightroom.
Friday, 14 December 2007
links for 2007-12-14
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Jason Whitlock says something that really needs to be said.
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For the geek who has everything, though I’d prefer one with a Delorean wrapped around it.
Thursday, 13 December 2007
links for 2007-12-13
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To answer Jeff Gordon’s question, “Would you take this bowl slate over the one you have?”, I’d have to answer “Yes!”
Tuesday, 11 December 2007
Sunday, 09 December 2007
links for 2007-12-09
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Audio Adrenaline offers a never-before-released song, “Blood Brothers”, for $1 to raise money for their Hands and Feet ministry, their main focus now that they are no longer recording or touring. Collected through PayPal.
Saturday, 08 December 2007
links for 2007-12-08
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A MP3 mashup of classic Led Zeppelin tunes mixed with traditional Christmas fare. Music only, no vocals. Good stuff.
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Some Oakland fans are so opposed to the rumor of the A’s signing Barry Bonds, they’re threatening to mail back all of their team memorabilia should it prove true.
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Yeah, I’m all for being environmentally friendly when it makes sense, and in recycling, but this is a case where I’ll just say “No.”
Friday, 07 December 2007
links for 2007-12-07
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Geoff Smith has a new Christmas EP out, 5 original Christmas songs for $4.99, as a MP3 download. Great piano rock a la Billy Joel. I highly recommend Geoff’s work.
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Too. Freaking. Cool.
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For those who simply aren’t content enough to put iTunes in shuffle mode: tag your tunes with colors to reflect the mood of the music. So when you’re feeling all emo, you know what depressing songs to listen to at a glance.
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To celebrate the impending arrival of the latest Mac OS X Missing Manual, here are six—yes, six—of author David Pogue’s favorite Leopard tips.
Wednesday, 05 December 2007
links for 2007-12-05
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Type in the word of phrase you want to hear in R2’s distinctive chirps and whistles, and you’re delivered the corresponding audio.
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Newton software resource. Will come in handy for my “new” eMate and my resurrected MessagePad 2100.
Saturday, 01 December 2007
links for 2007-12-01
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Adobe’s Dr. Ken Lunde has some great, high-resolution wallpapers of many different types of pistols. Really nice stuff if you’re a firearms enthusiast.
Friday, 30 November 2007
links for 2007-11-30
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This is just awesome. (Thanks, Lee!)
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Lots of info specific to computer books, since Mr. Webb works for a computer book publisher, but also tons relevant to other non-fiction publishing.
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Yet I could read this entire thing to my grandmother, who’s been smoking since before I was born (I’ll be 37 on 12/03/07), and it wouldn’t make any difference to her…
Thursday, 29 November 2007
links for 2007-11-29
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As it says: an incredibly fast dictionary, though I think I still prefer Ninjawords, which has a permanent place in my browser’s bookmark bar.
Friday, 23 November 2007
links for 2007-11-23
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Another URL shortening service (makes it easier to email/IM/twitter long links) you might want to consider, since TinyURL seems to be up and down of late.
Thursday, 22 November 2007
links for 2007-11-22
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Online mileage tracker. You can also report to it via your mobile device, or Twitter.
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A case for the iPhone, hand carved from a single piece of wood. Cases for the second-generation iPod nano and fifth-generation iPod also available.
Wednesday, 21 November 2007
links for 2007-11-21
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Kindle is Amazon’s new ebook reader. In addition to reading books on it, you can read newspapers, magazines, and blogs, all of which cost extra. I’m not overwhelmed.
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Web nerdery for future self-reference.
Thursday, 15 November 2007
links for 2007-11-15
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For future self-reference: “BookSurge offers complete publishing, inventory-free fulfillment and online distribution services for independent publishing.”
Wednesday, 14 November 2007
links for 2007-11-14
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Lucasfilm needs to pay this artist some moolah, throw Jake Lloyd and Alec Guinness in to the artwork, and sell a poster-size version on StarWarsShop.com.
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The two billionth—yes, that’s billion with a B—photo has been uploaded to Flickr.
Tuesday, 13 November 2007
Monday, 12 November 2007
links for 2007-11-12
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The Always-On Wrap-Up is a camera case with attaches to your point-and-shoot’s tripod mount, and wraps around the camera to protect it. (Though there is little to no protection on the sides.)
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“[P]rofessional grade shotgun mic” for “any Camcorder that has the standard camera-shoe fitting and utilizes a stereo mini jack for audio output.”
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Backpack-toting road warriors may want to check out this exo-shell pack. There’s a briefcase version, too.
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“This package contains a BBEdit codeless language module for the simple to-do list format used by TaskPaper. It is intended for Mac users who want to edit their TaskPaper lists in BBEdit from time to time…”
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If you carry a shoulder bag, you may want to look at Skooba’s Superbungee Strap as a replacement for your bag’s strap. It features a “high-density, floating bungee/shock cord ring which acts as a shock absorber, minimizing carrying shock…”
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“[L]ets users carry a single compact power adapter to charge iPod and many popular mobile phones at home or on the road.”
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Affix a tag to your electronic gadget, register it on the zReturn web site, and should it be lost, and found by a honest member of society, they can log in to the zReturn web site and contact you for the device’s return.
Saturday, 10 November 2007
links for 2007-11-10
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“The best league in college football this season is not the Big 12, or the always overrated Big Ten. Nor is it the Pac-10, where its handful of good teams has been tested twice or thrice.” And this comes from a guy in TEXAS, ladys and gents.
Friday, 09 November 2007
links for 2007-11-09
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Have a custom jigsaw puzzle made from the front page of The New York Times, or from a U.S. Geological Survey map, centered on whatever you prefer, like, your house, for instance, or a famous landmark.
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Duncan’s promotion of Bitstream Vera Sans Mono over Monaco as his preferred monospaced font in Terminal generates a lively discussion of monospaced fonts in the comments.
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The Deja Vu fonts are based on the open source Bitstream Vera Sans family.
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“[A] TrueType version of Anonymous 9, a freeware Macintosh bitmap font developed in the mid-90s by Susan Lesch and David Lamkins. It was designed as a more legible alternative to Monaco, the mono-spaced Macintosh system font.”
Wednesday, 07 November 2007
links for 2007-11-07
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$50-per-year kid-friendly search engine, supposed to help children avoid adult-oriented content while they search the web.
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Find a local FM frequency that’s not being used so you can get the most out of the FM transmitter you’re using with your iPod or iPhone to play tunes in your car or home stereo.
Monday, 05 November 2007
Thursday, 01 November 2007
links for 2007-11-01
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New Trojan Horse malware. (Not a virus, but still really nasty.) Just keep your mind out of the gutter and stay away from any naughty Britney pics, and you should be okay. If you otherwise get, ahem, dirty, follow these instructions.
Wednesday, 31 October 2007
links for 2007-10-31
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Interesting read.
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Brian offers some good advice on dealing with tough times. Good stuff for introspection here.
Tuesday, 30 October 2007
links for 2007-10-30
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“The fastest Windows Vista notebook we’ve tested this year is a Mac. Try that again: The fastest Windows Vista notebook we’ve tested this year—or for that matter, ever—is a Mac. Not a Dell, not a Toshiba, not even an Alienware.” And you get Mac OS X, too. Why, again, are you still buying that PC garbage?
Monday, 29 October 2007
links for 2007-10-29
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Phil Carrizzi’s great photos from July 2007 of the new iPhone, along with a couple of its cousins in the Apple family.
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Home of the PED series of docks for the iPod, iPhone, and other gadgets.
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NASA has finally provided a RSS feed for its popular Astronomy Picture of the Day site (popularly known as APOD). Point your news readers to http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod.rss
Sunday, 28 October 2007
links for 2007-10-28
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Indian chili pepper scored a million on the Scoville heat unit scale, which measures the spiciness of peppers. A jalapeno pepper measures between 2,500 and 8,000 on the scale.
Friday, 26 October 2007
Wednesday, 24 October 2007
links for 2007-10-24
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Brian on his experiences with socialized medicine in Sweden. Sounds glorious!! <rolls eyes>
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Finally, a legitimate use of Flash on a web site. Still not as satisfying as the real thing, though.
Sunday, 21 October 2007
links for 2007-10-21
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Interesting look at the technological and cultural differences of instant messaging and chat rooms in China versus the West.
Saturday, 20 October 2007
links for 2007-10-20
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“The massacre that wasn’t, and its political exploitation.” Why does the Left insist on comparing the war in Iraq to Vietnam? And why do they conveniently forget it was a Democrat administration which put us in Vietnam in the first place?
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Free wallpapers for your iPhone, or lesser mobile communications device, iPod, or lesser audio playback device, or whatever else will fit 240 x 360 graphics. Show the world what online social scene you love.
Friday, 19 October 2007
links for 2007-10-19
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Steve Ballmer: Psycho
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Free music from Moby to use for non-commercial films and video shorts.
Thursday, 18 October 2007
links for 2007-10-18
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12 Years? 12?!?!? That’s all he gets? Guy should thank his lucky stars this didn’t happen in Texas. He’d be meeting his Maker a lot sooner if it had.
Wednesday, 17 October 2007
links for 2007-10-17
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Three months later, I’m still trying to figure out why I’d ever need to use most of these.
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Wow. Just…wow.
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I’m like Clive; I want it all.
Monday, 15 October 2007
links for 2007-10-15
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Noteworthy is the observation that Gore was awarded the Peace Prize when he hasn’t really done anything peace-worthy.
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Brian Solis gives his review of the Jott service, which I’ve been happily using since early in the year. Jott came in handy while on vacation, when I was able to dictate some reminders while roaming Disneyworld.
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Free service which allows you to use your phone to dictate notes and other messages while on the go.
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You’ve got options on what to do with your iPod when it finally dies. Don’t just chuck it in the trash.
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A free airline flight tracker that is capable of giving you way more information than you may care to know. Also good for when you’re bored at work.
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Ouriel Ohayon’s tutorial that’s supposedly easier than the method set up by Dave Winer and documented by Fred Wilson.
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I wish the site wasn’t done in Flash, but some fantastic desktops in photographic HDR.
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“Researchers have found that 10 basic social skills such as taking turns, listening and simply being nice are just as important to children’s academic success as the subjects they study…”
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Some more perspective on the 2007 Nobel awards, notably the Peace Prize, and “[s]ome nominees for next year.” You know, people actually working for peace.
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The Wall Street Journal’s choice of web sites for getting and tracking airline flight information.
Sunday, 14 October 2007
links for 2007-10-14
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Those of you participating in National Novel Writing Month, which kicks off at midnight, November 1, may want to take note of NaNoWriMo’s Twitter feed.
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Because my wife doesn’t have enough to freak out about.
Saturday, 13 October 2007
links for 2007-10-13
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We all have to have dreams.
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In light of recent actions of the Nobel Committee, a little perspective…
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Put 1-800-GOOG-411 in your iPhone’s Favorites (or on your lesser phone’s speed dial) and stop paying your provider for phone number information.
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Posting this for no other reason than if Hsu was a Republican, this would be the lead story on all the news networks.
Thursday, 11 October 2007
links for 2007-10-11
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Fraser Speirs has put together a simple Wikipedia search page for iPhone users, since, in his words, “you don’t want to load the main page on your iPhone just to search.”
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Krishna Kumar, back in July, on blogs that don’t offer full RSS feeds. If you have a blog, and you’re not offering a full feed, I’m likely not reading your blog often. If you’re not offering a feed at all, I’m likely not reading your blog at all.
Wednesday, 10 October 2007
links for 2007-10-10
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Mac developer, and proud Scot, Fraser Speirs, on the increasing nanny-statism in London.
Tuesday, 09 October 2007
links for 2007-10-09
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I severely underutilize Quicksilver, so this is just one more way for me to get more out of this great tool.
Monday, 08 October 2007
links for 2007-10-08
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“The mission of Ethos Water is to help children around the world get clean water and to raise awareness of the world water crisis.” Can be purchased at Starbucks, Target, Whole Foods, and World Market
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I wish I could have had a PowerBook when I was in college, but the first, the PowerBook 100, was released the fall semester of my senior year, and was way too expensive for my family to afford. I wonder if Ballmer & Bill look at pictures like this and cringe.
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My friend Tiffany has a site devoted to her professional joke-telling. If you’re in the DC area, pay attention to this site for show dates and go catch her act.
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I saw two of these this weekend while watching various sporting events, and in the wee hours of very, very, very early Monday morning, they appeared on Apple’s site. I’ve seen Doug and Elliot, but not Stephano, which turns out to be my favorite.
Thursday, 04 October 2007
links for 2007-10-04
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“Darth Vader’s tyrannical Empire struck fear into an entire galaxy. Sadly, his fleet was also behind some embarrassingly ill-planned military ventures. Reviewing early Imperial schematics, the Sith Lord himself expressed serious doubts…”
Tuesday, 02 October 2007
links for 2007-10-02
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A new monospace font, “designed for code listings and the like, in print”. I think it looks just great on the screen, too.
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My response to Jason Kottke’s question on the proper Star Wars viewing order.
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June 26, 2009
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And Thank Him that He does.
Monday, 01 October 2007
links for 2007-10-01
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A handy reference you can wear.
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We always knew there was more to Han than met the eye.
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Because everyone knows the Dark Lord of the Sith rocks!
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Be sure to voice your approval for a reprint!
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Makes sense, that if the Dark Lord of the Sith rocks, his underlings would want to rock and roll all night, too.
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Oh, I really hope this one gets printed at some point. Be sure to leave a comment voicing your approval!
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Great riff on R2, but currently sold out.
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Troop it up!
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A very hard to find Star Wars tee; this is the only place selling it online I’ve been able to find, and nowhere near in my size. Certainly a collectable if you can find it.
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For the Dark Side-loving lady in your life.
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Home of the “Baby Fett” onesie. I’m so buying from here when our next child comes along.
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Unfortunately, only available for the ladies at the moment.
Sunday, 30 September 2007
links for 2007-09-30
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Nifty size comparison of space ship sizes from science fiction shows and movies, with real Earth vehicles alongside, too. Of course, Star Wars rules. (Thanks, Lee!)
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Weapons accessories, including magazines, mostly for The Black Rifle. (Thanks, David!)
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The drool-worthy Kriss .45-caliber SMG on Discovery’s FutureWeapons. If I’m in SWAT or Special Ops, I’m petitioning my commanders to give this thing a serious look once production ramps up.
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Wifi access at 219 U.S. airports, listed alphabetically by city (with corresponding airport codes), noting which ones are free, and offering hourly, daily, monthly, and other charges. (Thanks, Eric!)
Saturday, 29 September 2007
links for 2007-09-29
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This series of futuristic mysteries sounds really intriguing, and this is for my reference if the first in the series proves worth reading the rest.
Thursday, 27 September 2007
links for 2007-09-27
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Quick and easy grid layouts for web developers. My “normal” friends can ignore this link.
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Is there a classic book published by Penguin that you just love and want to tell the rest of the world about? Here’s your chance. A book blog where the readers are the bloggers…
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Proofreader’s and editor’s marks
Tuesday, 25 September 2007
links for 2007-09-25
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If you didn’t see last season’s “How I Met Your Mother”, this probably won’t make sense, but if you did, this is what strikes fear in Barney’s dark heart. ;-)
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For my geek and/or Boston friends to send to John Gruber.
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Amen.
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He may hold the record, but the rest of us don’t have to like it.
Monday, 24 September 2007
Monday, 17 September 2007
links for 2007-09-17
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Looking through their inventory, I’m starting to believe Phone Different really might be, as they claim, “The One-Stop Show for all your iPhone needs”.
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“[A]n iPhone application that keeps real-time track of your team’s games as they fight for a playoff spot. To see it in action, tune in while a game is in progress. You’ll see up-to-the-minute plays while following along with friends on Twitter.”
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The college football version of Fumbleview.
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The Major League Baseball version of Fumbleview.
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Good round-up by Bill Palmer. Personally, owning an iPhone, I wouldn’t buy an iPod Touch until it really was “the iPhone without the phone”, but maybe that’s just me.
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Established by former Microsoft executive John Wood, Room to Read seeks to establish and grow libraries in developing nations, and to teach anyone willing to read, with the premise that the world can be changed one book and one person at a time.
Sunday, 16 September 2007
links for 2007-09-16
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Now running in my Dashboard. I love the look of this calculator widget much better than the Mac OS X standard.
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Hate trying to read web sites with white/light text on black/dark backgrounds? Yeah, me, too. Drag this bookmarklet up in to your browser’s toolbar, then click on it when you encounter such sites. Voila! Black text on white background.
Saturday, 15 September 2007
links for 2007-09-15
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“Peter Griffin is Han Solo, Lois is Princess Leia, Stewie becomes Darth Vader, Brian plays Chewbacca, and Chris is Luke Skywalker. Cleveland and Quagmire will play the droid duo of R2-D2 and C-3PO, while Herbert is the wise Obi-Wan Kenobi.”
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Great. As if a Nintendo Wii wasn’t already hard to find…
Thursday, 13 September 2007
links for 2007-09-13
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Improve your memory. Read better, faster. Think out loud.
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For those of us who still dream of our green-backlit little friends. (I should probably recharge my MessagePad’s battery…)
Wednesday, 12 September 2007
links for 2007-09-12
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Finally, a source for the world’s finest-tipped pen, the Uniball Signo 0.18mm! Also a source for the 0.38mm version of my current favorite pen, the Pilot G-2.
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Shoot like a Marine. Well, at least have the same gear as some of the world’s most feared marksmen. S&B’s 3-12x50mm PM II Military scope is now standard-issue for USMC sniper rifles.
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A video camera anyone can use. Really. Anyone. Even your grandmother. 1 GB of storage, good for 60 minutes of 640 x 480 video. One-touch recording. About 122 bucks. It’s a video camera you can easily carry with you anywhere.
Tuesday, 11 September 2007
links for 2007-09-11
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I am way impressed.
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The odd-looking but operator-approved Duostock is a must-have for those in close quarters battle situations. Consider a purchase if you have a loved one serving in a combat zone. (Or if you just want a really comfortable stock for your own AR.)
Monday, 10 September 2007
links for 2007-09-10
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Since I cannot make use of our pool right now, thanks to the busted foot, perhaps this would be a fun project…
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Free fonts from pop culture: movies, music, games, and random corporate life.
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“The web’s top 500 free fonts!”
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Huge collection of more than 8,000 free fonts and dingbats.
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I don’t spend any time on IRC, but if you do, this looks like a nice Mac OS X client.
Tuesday, 04 September 2007
links for 2007-09-04
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Author Steven Poole gives up on Microsoft Word, which I continue to maintain is overkill for 90 percent of the word processing population. Like killing a fly with a cruise missile…
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A free, lean word processor for Mac OS X by James Hoover.
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James Hoover’s essay on the thinking that went in to the creation of Bean, notably as a successor for WriteNow, as a lean, mean, writing machine.
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An article from February 2001 by Marten van de Kraats, in which he details the need for a lean word processor on the newly born Mac OS X. Marten was a huge fan of WriteNow (as was I). This served as James Hoover’s inspiration for Bean.
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Jos Buivenga has some outstanding fonts, and while he should be charging for them, he offers them as donationware instead. I love Fertigo!
Saturday, 01 September 2007
links for 2007-09-01
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Until Apple decides to give us this obvious, brain-dead feature for free, you can get whatever ringtones you want on to your iPhone with iToner. $15, free to try for 30 days (some features not available during trial)
Friday, 31 August 2007
Wednesday, 29 August 2007
links for 2007-08-29
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Somewhere in this house is the Mont Blanc pen my wife received as a law school graduation gift. She doesn’t use it. Until I find it for myself, I’ll be content with my G-2s.
Tuesday, 28 August 2007
links for 2007-08-28
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For soon-to-be moms and dads. Wish I would’ve thought out something like this when the little phisch was in diapers.
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The domain and title are pretty self explanatory.
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Thinking of switching to Mac? (You should.) Just bought a new Mac? (Hurray!) This site will be very helpful to you either way.
Sunday, 26 August 2007
links for 2007-08-26
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Print these out and cover those new textbooks. I wish we would have had cool art like these when I was a young Star Wars geek…
Saturday, 25 August 2007
Friday, 24 August 2007
links for 2007-08-24
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Even I am not that big of a nerd to wear this… (When they sell the full suit of mail, with gloves, boots, helmet, sword, belt, and shield, for a couple hundred, then maybe we’ll talk.)
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“Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.”
Wednesday, 22 August 2007
links for 2007-08-22
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“Give to charity just by searching the Internet.” Powered by Yahoo!, there are two boxes; one for your search term, one for the charity you wish to support with that search. You search, money’s donated. I learned of this through Prison Fellowship.
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And coming right on the heels of the Terraminds Twitter search mentioned yesterday, Twitter announces you can now search people profiles from any Twitter page.
Tuesday, 21 August 2007
links for 2007-08-21
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A search engine for Twitter, letting you search in updates, or for users.
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Love the Beatles? Love Star Wars? Then you’ll love this cultural mashup of the Star Wars characters posed as if on the album cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
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Official Star Wars poker chips, two casino-quality card decks, a Death Star dealer button, and, of course, a Star Wars branded case: which contains LEDs to light up the chips lightsaber-style. Sweetheart, take note, this is going on the wishlist…
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As Chris Messina twittered, “Best use of Web 2.0 shwag evar.”
Monday, 20 August 2007
links for 2007-08-20
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It’s in German, but it’s pretty easy to figure the table out. You can see what fonts are used by corporations for their logos and brands. Typophiles, rejoice.
Sunday, 19 August 2007
links for 2007-08-19
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Orson Scott Card on Michael Mann (not the director/producer) cooking the books to prove humanity’s responsible for global warming instead of being, you know, honest with his algorithms and data.
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I wouldn’t roll as a pirate, but I like this shirt.
Tuesday, 14 August 2007
links for 2007-08-14
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Of course I find out I’ve had pro baseball within five miles of my house for the past year just as the season ends.
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Even though I don’t own a console system, I’ve always enjoyed the Star Wars LEGO games. Now the circle of the Lucasfilm movie family on LEGO is complete.
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Eric Blair’s AppleScript bundle for sending the current post in NetNewsWire in plain text via email in Mailsmith, Entourage, or Apple’s Mail. Very handy.
Sunday, 12 August 2007
links for 2007-08-12
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1.78 million .Mac subscribers?!? As Frank Barone would say, “Holy crap!” If only the old eWorld could’ve had so many…
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Guy Kawasaki got a tour of the Trek barn, and gives a mini-history of the company, as well as a photo tour of the Lance Armstrong History Wall. Fascinating stuff. I’m a proud Trek bike owner myself.
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This is my new bike, which I got to ride a sum total of two times before I broke my foot in a non-cycling incident. Mine’s in the black and anthracite.
Saturday, 11 August 2007
links for 2007-08-11
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I’ve always wanted to throw myself in to a Kurosawa film fest.
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“[A] community website for writers of all descriptions to post their work and receive feedback. In return it is hoped they will cast their eye over other people’s work and give their thoughts.”
Friday, 10 August 2007
links for 2007-08-10
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Joe Cochrane spent time embedded with the U.S. Navy’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 2 in Iraq.
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Amazing new .45 ACP submachine gun featuring cutting-edge technology.
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I’ve long admired the XD series of pistols, and this latest, the compact .45, has vaulted to the top of my XD wishlist.
Tuesday, 07 August 2007
links for 2007-08-07
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“[H]ome to a collection of unique shirt designs which are inspired and pay homage to some of the most memorable places, corporations and companies in 20th century fiction.” I especially like the Nostromo and Cyberdyne shirts.
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1024 x 768 resolution, built-in speakers, support for 8 different media types including USB thumbdrives, and MPEG Video & MP3 playback, for only $250
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I suppose a lot of it comes from growing up in Baton Rouge, and in the metaphorical shadows of LSU, but I’ve always loved tigers.
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Xavier is a staunch supporter of the 2d Amendment seeking to educate, not humiliate, by showcasing people doing really stupid things with firearms. In the U.S., firearms ownership is a right, but also a very heavy responsibility. Don’t be an idiot.
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I think the description above is pretty self-explanatory. Good reference to bookmark, in case it happens to you.
Sunday, 05 August 2007
links for 2007-08-05
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A collection of classical music, with a litlte jazz, put together by BreakPoint senior writer, and Wilberforce Forum fellow, Roberto Rivera.
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“Common Good is a non-partisan coalition dedicated to creating policy solutions that restore rationality and common sense to the law. […] [It] grew out of the work of our founder and Chair, Philip K. Howard, the author of The Death of Common Sense”
Saturday, 04 August 2007
links for 2007-08-04
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“I’m not lazy…I just have a bad motivator.” Thank the Force for that, too, or else R2 would’ve never gotten to shut down the garbage smashers on the detention level.
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Blog of Tony Woodlief, author of “Raising Wild Boys Into Men: A Modern Dad’s Survival Guide”, which I heartily recommend.
Friday, 03 August 2007
links for 2007-08-03
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I guess if you’re going to call yourself a real Star Wars fanboy, you better get yourself some Yoda or Vader business cards.
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What’s it like for Darth Vader to live in the real world, stuck in that helmet of his? Esteban Diácono used his camera to find out…
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Because doesn’t everyone’s favorite Wookie deserve his own color palette?
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Unofficial fan wiki for those obsessed with Twitter. Lots of good Twitteresque resources to be had here.
Tuesday, 31 July 2007
links for 2007-07-31
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The demo video is a riot. Something tells me this game is ripe for tournament status in the Dungeon, Nathan.
Saturday, 28 July 2007
links for 2007-07-28
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“Punakea is a little app trying to help you cope with the day-to-day struggle of managing your files. Designed to complement Spotlight, it allows you to tag your files and bookmarks, freeing you of the strict hierarchy of the Finder’s folder structure.”
Friday, 27 July 2007
links for 2007-07-27
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I don’t recall where I first heard of Dick & Rick Hoyt’s amazing story, but I think it was two years ago, right around Ironman time. This bit from the Today Show is a good summation of one father’s love.
Thursday, 26 July 2007
links for 2007-07-26
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I just replaced the hard drive in my PowerBook, and this is the set of instructions I used.
Tuesday, 24 July 2007
links for 2007-07-24
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You can take the green line from Digg over to Facebook, or the red from Google to get off at Microsoft, Adobe, or Apple. The folks at Information Architects track web trends again this year, giving us a subway-esque map that ties it all together.
Sunday, 22 July 2007
links for 2007-07-22
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“All single malt, all the time.” Jeff, Chip, and Michael explore the world of scotch, including what goes in to making this wonderful elixir, in a monthly podcast.
Thursday, 19 July 2007
Saturday, 14 July 2007
Thursday, 12 July 2007
links for 2007-07-12
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“TeleMoose is a free iPhone application that enables you to browse and shop Amazon, without needing to double tap your way through a complex series of web pages, waiting for them to load.” I just wish there were a way to add products to one’s wish list
Wednesday, 11 July 2007
links for 2007-07-11
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The Battle of Helm’s Deep, from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of The Rings, recreated by Silver Snail with the Muppets. Genius.
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Should I get in to cycling a lot more seriously, I know what helmet I’m buying.
Tuesday, 10 July 2007
links for 2007-07-10
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A must-have utility for me, AutoPairs has been updated to version 3, a universal binary so we finally have a version that runs on Intel Macs! Requires Mac OS X 10.4.
Monday, 09 July 2007
Wednesday, 04 July 2007
Friday, 29 June 2007
links for 2007-06-29
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An art project of galactic proportions, as different artists decorate Darth Vader helmets.
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Portable, affordable teleprompter
Thursday, 28 June 2007
links for 2007-06-28
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Just how hot is that pepper on your plate?
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Home of Mac Face, a Facebook notification application for Mac OS X.
Saturday, 23 June 2007
Monday, 18 June 2007
Saturday, 16 June 2007
links for 2007-06-16
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Seen in Business 2.0, all-natural chocolate candy bar, with only 130-150 calories per bar. And they have dark chocolate, too!
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I don’t think I’ll ever beat Brian Fortner’s grocery shopping record—I’m picky with the produce—but I like his fatherhood rules.
Friday, 15 June 2007
links for 2007-06-15
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A blast from the past. A desktop picture I threw together using a high-resolution PR image from Apple. The third-generation iPod shown was the second model I owned. May it rest in peace. (pieces?)
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A spill of liquid, that is, not a spill as in a fall.
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Sony’s 9-ounce, half-inch thick, e-book reader.
Thursday, 14 June 2007
links for 2007-06-14
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Free tool from Yahoo will tell you how often a word or term is searched for.
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I’ve killed a phone before by dropping it in water, and a pager, too.
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Just what it says. For serious road warriors who live and die on their laptops.
Wednesday, 13 June 2007
links for 2007-06-13
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Guuuhhhhh……urrrrrrr……ffffffff…..ffffiiiiiffffff….. (slap!) Did they really say FIFTY megapixels?!?!?
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Not yet shipping (as of 13 June 2007), but looks awesome and is less than a buck a gig.
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You know, if Trek wants to market an “everyman bike” for non-cycling enthusiasts, it might help if it didn’t cost over 500 bucks.
Tuesday, 12 June 2007
Friday, 01 June 2007
links for 2007-06-01
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The latest brainchild of Jason Calacanis, it’s a human-optimized search engine. This means it will supposedly return more relevant results than Google, as SEO ad sites will be weeded out.
Monday, 28 May 2007
links for 2007-05-28
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Pick the way you want to raise funds. No selling products. No door-to-door if you don’t want to. Walk-a-thons, read-a-thons, you name it.
Tuesday, 22 May 2007
links for 2007-05-22
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One of the latest tees from Threadless. I have a soft spot for rhinos, so this goes on the t-shirt wish list.
Thursday, 17 May 2007
links for 2007-05-17
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I suppose I’m a neo-Luddite, because I find very few web apps worth using full time, mostly because they require you to be connected to the Internet, which isn’t always a possibility.
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Khoi Vinh’s proof of concept for a focused writing tool.
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QI Software’s Mac application based on Blockwriter, Khoi Vinh’s proof of concept.
Wednesday, 16 May 2007
links for 2007-05-16
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If you play around with a lot of beta software, this may be an easier way for you to contact developers with crash logs, etc.
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“Pibb combines the best features of instant messenger, chat, email, and bulletin boards.” No software to install, works in your web browser. OpenID is required for registration.
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Robert Scoble has a 50-plus-minute interview with Adobe’s John Nack on the company’s latest edition of its flagship application.
Thursday, 03 May 2007
Sunday, 29 April 2007
Tuesday, 24 April 2007
links for 2007-04-24
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Home of the ExpoDisc white balance solution.
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Good overview article from the SF Chronicle on Twitter, though I like to call the individual Twitter messages “tweets”, not “twitters”.
Monday, 23 April 2007
links for 2007-04-23
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Corner.js 1.0 allows you to add corners to webpage images. It uses unobtrusive javascript to keep your code clean. It works in all the major browsers - Mozilla Firefox 1.5+, Opera 9+ and Safari. On older browsers and Internet Explorer, it’ll degrade and your viewers won’t know the difference.
Thursday, 19 April 2007
links for 2007-04-19
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The premier fan site of Heckler & Koch firearms, some of the finest in the world.
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“A new OpenType family brings the 1920s and 30s in to the 21st century.” Me like very much.
Tuesday, 17 April 2007
links for 2007-04-17
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Dick Kramer is well known in the law enforcement and military communities for his outstanding artwork.
Sunday, 08 April 2007
links for 2007-04-08
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Alright, so not really dead, but certainly not the threat they once were. Now that’s Google’s territory.
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Want it, can’t afford it. What else is new?
Thursday, 29 March 2007
links for 2007-03-29
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Make your own custom photo slide shows, then embed them in your blog, MySpace page, turn them in to RSS feeds, or use them as a streamed screensaver on your desktop.
Wednesday, 28 March 2007
links for 2007-03-28
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“ChaCha combines the best of the web’s search engines with the human intelligence made possible by a vast community of skilled search experts.”
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“Channel surf the Internet.” Sign up on StumbleUpon and you can get recommendations for web sites based on your interests and surfing habits.
Tuesday, 27 March 2007
links for 2007-03-27
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Brian Mockenhaupt’s account of adjusting to non-combat-zone life at home.
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Mark D. Roberts’ site of daily devotions centered in the four gospels of Jesus Christ.
Thursday, 22 March 2007
Tuesday, 20 March 2007
links for 2007-03-20
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Cheap and free international phone calls, though there are limitations regarding landlines vs mobiles, etc. Still looks like a pretty cool service, if you make a lot of international calls.
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Clearance links, filler finders (for when you need to get to $25 to qualify for free shipping), and other tips.
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Handy table format for the US, UK, and Canadian Amazon stores, broken down in ten percent increments from 10 - 90%.
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A handy guide from Money Magazine
Thursday, 15 March 2007
Wednesday, 14 March 2007
links for 2007-03-14
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Quality firearms, but the current (March 2007) web site is waaaaay too busy.
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David Chartier swears by this guide. He said so on Twitter.
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Custom keyboard covers for Final Cut Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, and more.
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Han Solo in Carbonite, a la LEGO. The words “Too much time on his hands” spring to mind.
Thursday, 08 March 2007
links for 2007-03-08
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Cheat sheets for HTML, microformats, regular expressions, Ruby on Rails, HTML character entities, CSS, JavaScript, MySQL, and much, much more. Via Eric.
Wednesday, 07 March 2007
links for 2007-03-07
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an extendable monopod that allows you to take a photo of yourself and anyone who happens to be with you, without having to ask a stranger to take the photo for you
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Mix tapes for the 21st century
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“Video messaging in a blink.” No software to install, and you can subscribe to videos via RSS, a la a video podcast in iTunes
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“The Granite™ USB 2.0 HIGH-SPEED Bridge Adapter allows any 2.5”, 3.5” or 5.25” SATA or IDE Drive to quickly be attached to any computer. This is the perfect tool to duplicate, copy, backup, or transfer large amount of data from one drive to another.”
Sunday, 04 March 2007
links for 2007-03-04
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(believe it or else)
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Home of Bible Sander, an app designed to remove verse numbers and reference marks from quoted scriptures. It uses text from Bible Gateway, and is available for both Mac and Windows.
Monday, 19 February 2007
links for 2007-02-19
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“AuthSight uses your Mac’s iSight camera to take snapshots of the nut behind the keyboard whenever an invalid password is entered, either at login or in a screensaver. AuthSight can also (optionally) email photos to you.”
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Mactactic aims to help you figure out if you should buy a new Mac now or wait, given when current models were last released. My advice remains the same: if you really need the new Mac now, then buy it now and buy as much Mac as you can afford. There’s always something new coming down the pipe.
Sunday, 18 February 2007
Saturday, 17 February 2007
Wednesday, 07 February 2007
links for 2007-02-07
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Shorten up those incredibly long Amazon, Google Video, or Flickr URLs. Great for sending emails to those whose email clients break multi-line URLs. I especially like the handy bookmarklet provided on the main page.
Tuesday, 06 February 2007
links for 2007-02-06
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I’m not sure I would agree that all 13 of these photographs “changed the world”, but they are certainly iconic.
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Great two-man band, the inventors of the “speedwood” genre of music.
Saturday, 03 February 2007
Tuesday, 30 January 2007
links for 2007-01-30
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Just what it says: print yourself out some graph paper without having to make a trip to the office supply store. Different types of graphs and spacing are available.
Saturday, 27 January 2007
links for 2007-01-27
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Headed up by Aza, Jef Raskin’s son, Humanized has a cool product in Enso. I wish they would bring it to the Mac.
Thursday, 25 January 2007
Wednesday, 24 January 2007
links for 2007-01-24
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25 cards for 5 bucks. I can think of so many times I would have liked one of these, but something tells me the Lord would rather I forgive and pray for those who have wronged me.
Tuesday, 23 January 2007
Monday, 22 January 2007
links for 2007-01-22
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Project management for writers. You can focus on just writing, but also have access to research notes, an outliner, a virtual clipboard for virtual index cards, basic screenplay formatting, even a full-screen environment.
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Just give the film a chance. (And yes, he does eventually get on the board. And the outtakes are pretty funny.)
Sunday, 21 January 2007
Saturday, 13 January 2007
links for 2007-01-13
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David Pogue’s write-up on the one-on-one time he got behind closed doors with the iPhone. Be sure to watch the video; as usual Pogue cracked me up.
Friday, 12 January 2007
Monday, 08 January 2007
links for 2007-01-08
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Quite an extensive collection.
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Sister site to All Movie Walls; cars you’ve probably never even heard of.
Saturday, 06 January 2007
links for 2007-01-06
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Another OpenID registrar. It’s very cool seeing more folks getting in to this space.
Friday, 05 January 2007
links for 2007-01-05
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“claimID lets you track, verify, classify, annotate, prioritize and share the information that is about you online.”
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For the kiddo’s computer when I get it set up. (It will be my old Cube.)
Thursday, 04 January 2007
links for 2007-01-04
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Are you an acolyte of GTD? Do you find yourself muttering under your breath, “Is this actionable?” Then this is the desktop wallpaper you’ve been waiting for.
Wednesday, 03 January 2007
links for 2007-01-03
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I’m so glad I renewed my passport last year, before the chips were introduced. My wife and son won’t be so lucky, but now we have a solution to the unproven, hackable, trackable RFID chip.
Monday, 01 January 2007
Wednesday, 27 December 2006
Wednesday, 20 December 2006
links for 2006-12-20
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Verify a link isn’t from a phisher, or submit a phishing link for inclusion in the database (aka, the tank). Please note the lack of a c in this spelling of phish; these are scum of cyberspace which give a bad name to other, more friendly phisch.
Saturday, 16 December 2006
Friday, 08 December 2006
Tuesday, 05 December 2006
Tuesday, 28 November 2006
links for 2006-11-28
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A color theme web app from Adobe Labs. You can create your own color themes, see what others have created, and download the themes for use in Adobe Creative Suite products, for print or web design.
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Single-page news aggregator which combines “old media” sources with blogs.
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A new shopping deals and coupon site from the folks who brought you Uncrate and Outblush.
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Don’t spend $60 on that HDMI cable at Best Buy when you can buy the same thing at Monoprice.com for $7.
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How far are we really going to push this whole social networking thing? On Quotiki, you can post and search for your favorite quotes.
Friday, 24 November 2006
links for 2006-11-24
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A jacket for women that’s a real shocker. That porcupine jacket shown in the Sci-Fi Channel commercial isn’t looking quite so far-fetched.
Friday, 17 November 2006
Thursday, 16 November 2006
links for 2006-11-16
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The Gorillapod is a wrappable mini tripod for your camera. There are different sizes of Gorillapods for different sizes of cameras, i.e., one for point-and-shoots, one for SLRs, etc.
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I’ve seen several photos of these guys on Flickr, and thought I’d track them down.
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Make a keyfob out of your Moo cards.
Tuesday, 14 November 2006
Sunday, 12 November 2006
links for 2006-11-12
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A lot of why I love having grown up in Baton Rouge and raised on LSU football is explained here.
Saturday, 11 November 2006
links for 2006-11-11
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I especially like the Command-shift-click in Safari; I didn’t know that one.
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Just goes to show what can be done with some clever editing and a few soundtrack additions.
Thursday, 09 November 2006
links for 2006-11-09
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I finally found a video on YouTube I wanted to save, and this is the easiest free way to do it. Thanks, Eric!
Tuesday, 31 October 2006
Wednesday, 25 October 2006
links for 2006-10-25
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I severely underutilize our local library; okay, my usage is non-existent, but at least I have a library card. Should I start using the library more, it’s nice to know Library Elf works with ours.
Friday, 20 October 2006
links for 2006-10-20
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Linotype Type Director Akira Kobayashi explains the proper usage of a hyphen verus that of an en-dash or em-dash.
Wednesday, 18 October 2006
Wednesday, 11 October 2006
links for 2006-10-11
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Free cross-platform application which fully embraces David Allen’s Getting Things Done philosophy.
Tuesday, 10 October 2006
links for 2006-10-10
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A little different than your typical color palette generators, this one works with an online photo. You plug in the photo’s URL, and it spits back a color palette that would work well with the picture.
Monday, 25 September 2006
links for 2006-09-26
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Remember when your parents told you to behave or else you would find nothing in your stocking at Christmas?
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Ever wanted one of those hollowed-out books holding a gun or money or some other treasure, like in the movies? Make your own with these instructions.
Saturday, 23 September 2006
Friday, 22 September 2006
links for 2006-09-23
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Enter an item’s ISBN to see how the price compares to Amazon’s. Simple interface for those with web access on their mobile phone.
Tuesday, 19 September 2006
links for 2006-09-20
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Space Invaders Wrapping Paper | Uncrate. Something tells me women will just roll their eyes because they don’t get it, but if you give this to any guy, he’ll love it.
Monday, 18 September 2006
links for 2006-09-19
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Rather than using an animated GIF or Flash, you can use JavaScript and some CSS to do crossfades.
Saturday, 16 September 2006
links for 2006-09-17
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Chris Pultz has released desktop pictures of some of his photography of rural America. Some gems here.
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Let’s see… Berries: check. Citrus: check. Vegetables: It depends on the veggie. Whole grains: check. Salmon: check, though I don’t have it as often as I should. Legumes: check. Nuts and seeds: well, check on the nuts. Lean proteins: check. Tea: does Lipton iced tea count?