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Interesting stuff from March 14th, 2012 through March 15th, 2012

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.
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Interesting stuff from March 12th, 2012 through March 14th, 2012

"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
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HttpCompress moved to GitHub

To get with the times, I’m moving the old HttpCompress project source, wiki, and issues over to GitHub.

Pull requests welcome.

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Interesting stuff from March 8th, 2012 through March 9th, 2012

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.
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Interesting stuff from March 4th, 2012 through March 7th, 2012

Boost bloat, a brief case study
Sigh. Boost.
Loss Aversion Bias « Brain Bugs
Nice essay on avoiding Loss Aversion Bias
Sausage making in Albany
A class on sausage making. Looks easy and fun.
What is this I don’t even
brogrammers 4eva
<a href="http://planeshavings seroquel insomnia.blogspot.com/2012/03/i-just-might-have-saw-fetish.html”>I Just Might Have a Saw Fetish
Make your own backsaws? Tempting.
Episode #42: Re-toothing a Hand Saw
Forgotten knowledge, remembered