November 2007
68 posts
Stop Thumbs.db and .DS_Store files from Polluting... →
YouTube - Republican Debate →
The 10 Best Books of 2007 - New York Times →
“Our society worships talent, and many people assume that possessing superior...”
– Scientific American: The Secret to Raising Smart Kids
Logitech AudioStation Express Portable Speakers... →
Target had a bunch of iPod stations lined up and I went down the line to see which one works with my iPhone without picking up interference. This was the ONLY one and it was on sale for measly $59. They sound really great in my bedroom right now. Actually, Radiohead sounds really great right now.
a few mods i want to do on my jetta
smoke tail lights
smoke headlights (legal?)
gti front
european convex side mirrors
foglamps
there’s a few more things over here that look fun.
'Futurama' Is Back! Grab a Can of Slurm and Settle... →
“Todd and his fellow soldiers were using [silly string] to detect trip-wired...”
– Iraq: Soldiers Get Innovative | Newsweek.com
I am back home… weary of driving and rain.
Back to work!
elzr: Infodesign challenge →
A better design to fit a year calendar comfortably within a business card.
BBC - Top Gear - Power Lap Board →
Every performance road car that comes to the Top Gear test track eventually ends up in the hands of our tame racing driver. Some say that his face appears on high-value stamps in Sweden and that he’s afraid of bells. All we know is, he’s called the Stig.
Your Eyes Don’t Lie - Reading Thoughts By Eye... →
The eyes have this habit of positioning themselves according to the thoughts that are in your head, and other people can often understand what you are thinking about just by watching your eyes.
The Straight Dope: Why are men supposed to wash... →
“If the passenger with the IPhone would be kind enough to use it to check the...”
– PlaneBuzz: We Knew This Was Going To Happen: iPhone Equipped Passenger Takes On Flight Crew Over Weather
Flickr: The Nasty XRAY Pool →
There’s a whole collection of “nasty” x-rays. I’m loving these things.
FlowChart →
I’m quite sure that I used this a lot during college. Ok, and a little at work too.
Top 10 Resources and Inspirations for Decluttering... →
Reading Tea Leaves and Campaign Logos - The New... →
Browsershots: Test your web design in different... →
When you submit your web address, it will be added to the job queue. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server here.
“According to an earnest warning on Volumes 1 and 2, “Sesame Street: Old School”...”
– Virginia Heffernan - Sweeping the Clouds Away
Everything I Know About Presentations, I Learned... →
Excellent list of tips for presenting. More engineers should read this.
The Corporation - a film by mark Achbar, Jennifer... →
Just watched this afternoon. The premise is that multinational corporations are guilty of essentially being pathological—Greed unchecked. Lots of great discussion topics here!
Time Machine for every Unix out there →
“As the importance of recycling becomes more apparent, questions about it linger....”
– The truth about recycling | Economist.com
Busy day at the office! Hope you stick around for more links soon.
Vive la chouffe! →
4 things that boil my blood and I am not afraid of...
Cell phones beeping/squawking/ringing/singing/talking in inappropriate places.
Men not washing their hands in public restrooms. Especially restaurants.
People not merging gracefully on the freeway.
Bicyclists “messing with Texas”—throwing trash on the ground.
“Just call it, friend-o.”
Watch24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot
This is so well done.. and I’m not even a 24 fan.
Spam One-liners as Art →
I promise not to continuously rip off Kottke, but these are just so cool!
San Jose Mercury News - 'Mythbusters' still... →
“We put the plane on a quarter-mile conveyor belt and tested it out,” says Savage about the experiment using a pilot and his Ultralight plane. “I won’t tell you what the outcome was, but the pilot and his entire flight club got it wrong.” Follow the trail.
Veer iPhone Wallpaper →
Thanks, Jesse. These are sweet. I downloaded all of them.
NPR: 24 Hours of Air Traffic Never Looked So... →
Designer Aaron Koblin composited a day’s worth of FAA data to make some pretty fascinating (and deeply beautiful) animations.
VectorMagic
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Vectorization (aka tracing) is the process of converting a raster image to a vector image.
Raster images are pixel-based, whereas vector images are represented by geometric shapes such as lines, circles and curves.
“C’mon sucker, lick my battery.”
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