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Category: Etc
Everything that doesn’t fit anywhere else
- Chordal on Mechanics
- On the three kinds of mechanics. "He has self-confidence enhanced by self-confidence." is my favorite bit.
- Suck it rabbit
- Screw the Rabbit, I want one of these wine openers.
- Without Shame…
- Sigh. One day.
- On Precise Work and MicroBrewed Furniture
- Excellent points. Simple forms, done well are my favorite.
- Case study: halving size of iPad app with ImageOptim+ImageAlpha
- Hurricane Irene Trail Work – Week One « Middle of the Trail
- First hand account of Adirondack trail work in the wake of Irene
- Why We Have to Go Back to a 40-Hour Work Week to Keep Our Sanity | Visions | AlterNet
- On the 40-hour work week. I'd prefer 4 10s to 5 8s, but that's just me.
- A Different Scale
- Logging redwoods. Impressive, but sad.
- From the Archives: The Electric Car from 1980 – YouTube
- The blue cheese wedge electric car from the '80s.
- Unsolicited Praise for ‘Make a Joint Stool from a Tree’
- "We like the book, too! And we are eagerly awaiting Peter’s follow-up book on building and carving 17th-century chests, which is already in the works." Sigh. Time to start saving.
- "The Life and Death of Urban Highways"
- Oh how I would love to see 787 gone from the riverfront.
- New and used Kentucky whiskey barrels
- Need a whiskey or wine barrel? Here's the place.
- The Most Beautiful Doorknob
- Indeed.
- Modern Handrail Detail
- The hidden complexity behind the simplicity
- Here is why vim uses the hjkl keys as arrow keys – good coders code, great reuse
- History!
- The Borderlands Gun Collector’s Club
- Awesome rant on token economies, games and social sites
- Japan tsunami pictures: before and after – The Big Picture
- Just what it says. Click on some pictures to see a before / after view
- Better Living Through Electrochemistry
- Original source of the electrochemistry article, with links to DIY it. Crazy crazy crazy.
- Tasp
- This is hell of a thing. Remove self-doubt with electrodes.
- APD: crazy fight outside Pearl Street bar
- Albany: fun at night
- A successful Git branching model
- The model that led to git-flow. Wonderful for long running projects.