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Mon, 12 Dec 2005 18:57:32 GMT

I Will Knot!. How to tie them, how to appreciate their beauty. Even the seriously knot-challenged among us can learn to tie many useful and popular knots by following along with the short, step-by-step instructional video clips on this site.
Tracking the Tunnels at Michigan State University (The State News). An article in MSU's newspaper about the steam tunnels that run beneath the campus. During the mid 90's my friends and I would often explore them. In fact, the front desk in our dorm, Bailey Hall, would lend us a large screwdriver we used to pry up the grates.
Erowid Caffeine Vault : Caffeine Content of Beverages & Medications

Design and Music

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 18:56:12 GMT

cardboard folding chairs. A series of student designs.
Frozentoy. Daily picks and bloggery from graphic designer Eric Lauritzen on Design and Indie/Shoegazer genres.
Santastic: Holiday Boots 4 Your Stockings. A Mashup Album of holiday themed tunes.

Mind Ergonomics and Usability

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 18:54:43 GMT

Edit in Place with JavaScript and CSS: Edit in place (also called in-place editing) follows the axiom Alan Cooper calls "allow input wherever you have output".
Css Image map for detailed information. A further stage in the use of a css image map. Just hover your mouse over the painting to reveal three areas of interest. Then hover over each area to reveal an enlarged detail with text.
Apples To Oranges - CSS For Bar Graphs
Reading on the Web (Alertbox). People rarely read Web pages word by word; instead, they scan the page, picking out individual words and sentences.

Techy and Linky

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 18:54:19 GMT

More on SSH. A nice how-to for beginners to SSH.
Damn Small Linux (DSL), 50 megabytes of penguin power. A community project with hundreds of development hours put into refinements including a fully automated remote and local application installation system and a very versatile backup and restore system.
Circuit Symbols of Electronic Components
SNARF from Microsoft Research: The SNARF UI is designed to provide a quick overview of unread mail, organized by its importance.

Friday fun:

Sat, 03 Dec 2005 01:01:34 GMT

Gcast: Ad supported podcast hosting.
Edward Tufte: Timelines on the Internet (discussion board)
Snailers are beautiful, high quality postcards that make an impression. We take care of the printing, addressing and mailing.

lovely links

Wed, 30 Nov 2005 04:35:25 GMT

Upcycle Art: Projects - Use common materials to make usefull things.
Ten Rules for Web Startups from Evan Williams, of Blogger and Odeo fame... clear and to the point.
The Not So Big House - Smaller by design.
Rainlendar is a lightweight calendar for your desktop.Not so lightweight with Outlook plugins.
Jesse Crouch's favorite apps for windows.

Tech Link Dump

Sat, 12 Nov 2005 19:48:50 GMT

Seattle P-I: New name flap for Microsoft -- but this time its legal right is clear. New trademark problems with Windows Defender from Microsoft. Mention of our Spaces technology.
Ward Mundy'ss Asterisk / Voip PBX reference has lots of great asterisk tips
DNS tools has a great set of links / resources.
Kensington VideoCAM drivers under windows xp
moo.fx - the next small thing = Sweet javascript visual effects.
Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind?
How to set up a ISP-Server using Ubuntu Linux.

Friday fun:

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 22:04:58 GMT

Do-Ho Suh is a korean artist who has created interior spaces of his childhood / memory from light nylon.
Ubuntu 5.10 - How to set up a ISP-ready server using Ubuntu Linux.
Festoon is a video plug in for Skype.
Check out Flock, right now in pre-release. It's a socially centered web browser.
MIT explains why bad habits are hard to break
Everybody needs a personal "status" page. I think this is a lovely idea - a personal status for what you are up to right now.

Thu, 20 Oct 2005 20:58:45 GMT

A Vision of Leadership is an interactive, multidimensional vision of leadership which reconciles the values lead and follow, and implement and innovate.
HwB: The Hardware Book
Good sleep, good learning, good life
Apartment Therapy

Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:42:41 GMT

Inspiring designs can be viewed in the Photo Gallery of Homes from the DOE Solar Decathlon.
The DSPAM Project is a scalable, open-source statistical anti-spam filter.
Mareike Gast - BROKEN SHELVES - a more natural way of shelving books. The new structure that appears through the broken shelves gives space to differently sized books. There's even a place to sit!
The Melloman is a homebrew Mellotron which uses walkmen for each tape loop.
New York Times article: Meet the Life Hackers touches on productivity and multitasking.

Thu, 13 Oct 2005 00:36:26 GMT

Wists (aka Weblists), is a free service designed to make it super easy to mine the web for its hidden treasures and store lists of links to them in a personal, online image gallery scrapbook. Create, share, organize or blog wishlists or lists of cool products or anything else with an image.

Thu, 13 Oct 2005 00:34:24 GMT

Design Shack describes itself as a website that indexes Inspirational CSS and Blog Design or in my words; Lovely bits of prettiness.

Thu, 13 Oct 2005 00:31:03 GMT

Mologogo is a free service that will track a "friends" GPS enabled cell phone from another phone(gps not required) or on the web.

Tue, 11 Oct 2005 01:28:20 GMT

Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities.

Tue, 11 Oct 2005 01:25:05 GMT

The Noguchi Filing System works by creating a chronological series of envelopes which store documents. Documents are enveloped regardless of importance and optionally color coded and dated.

old linky action

Tue, 11 Oct 2005 00:05:26 GMT

$299 Klipsch Sub
SyncToy for Windows XP
The easy to use, customizable application helps you copy, move, rename, and delete files between folders and computers
GridPoint Connect
Gridpoint is an all-in-one unit that operates as a grid-connect inverter and a battery back-up system. It collects power from the renewable source (likely solar) to offset existing electricity costs.
Look at Me! Windows Image Acquisition
ZoneMinder: Linux Video Camera and CCTV Security with Motion Detection
HelloTokyo94
Today's moment of sushi zen... with a twist.

Tue, 04 Oct 2005 15:46:35 GMT

Links for 2005-10-03 [del.icio.us].

Luminosity Monstrosity.
900W of equivalent light in a compact flourescent package.
AMD: The Personal Internet Communicator
A geode powered brick that was originally developed for use in 3rd world countries.
RadRails - A Ruby on Rails IDE
Ten Ways to Kill Design
is a great article by Kim Goodwin of Cooper design that discusses some of the things not to do that would kill a project.
Danny Ayers, Raw Blog : » Semantic Web Starting Points
Danny compiled an awesome set of links to great resources.
Sharp Aquos LC-45GX6U review
Sunbrite TV
is an all-Weather Outdoor LCD Television by SunBriteTV - it'll even take a washdown with a hose

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Tue, 04 Oct 2005 00:11:45 GMT

Luminosity Monstrosity.. 900W of equivalent light in a compact flourescent package.

Thu, 29 Sep 2005 18:27:20 GMT

hot linky action:

Tue, 27 Sep 2005 18:02:28 GMT

Cooking 101
the Scarlet Letters: Notes on Making Art
µTorrent.Com
Task List Programs
Ever wonder what a few of those mysterious programs in the windows task list did? Here's a pretty darn good list of them.
Sustain Ability 2005 - Art Tracing Module 002
Artists put a GPS on a painting as a social experiment.
My Life Organized
Goals Projects Task Tracking and Time Management Software. Organizer Outliner and To-Do List Manager with Outlook sync
Creating Passionate Users: Subvert from Within: a user-focused employee guide
How To: Asterisk Answering Machine
A stand alone Asterisk based Answering Machine
SMS through E-Mail: Cingular, Nextel, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, Virgin Mobile

Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:22:10 GMT

How To: Asterisk Answering Machine.
How to build a stand alone Asterisk based Answering Machine computer. [via del.icio.us/thynkyr]

Tue, 20 Sep 2005 23:36:46 GMT

LaCie - Carte Orange - USB 2.0 - 8GB USB Credit Card Sized Memory, for a cheap $149!

Wed, 14 Sep 2005 17:24:47 GMT

ASP.NET Web: The Official Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Site : Home Page. Ajax for .net

Thu, 08 Sep 2005 17:25:23 GMT

Interview with Jason Fried of 37Signals (Reviewed at WorkHappy.net)

Thu, 01 Sep 2005 20:42:28 GMT

PocketMod version 0.3 beta. Very neat disposable paper organizer to design and print.