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Linkage: March 20th, 2012 to March 22nd, 2012

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
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Interesting stuff from March 16th, 2012 through March 19th, 2012

Tesseract
Very cool data vis and manip in JS
Inside Etsy Hudson
Great look inside Etsy's new space in Hudson, NY
Welcome to Albany Institute of History and Art
Nice upcoming exhibits and great furniture collection
What Does $25 Buy You?
A rather nice lumber rack. Time to build one I think.
Farmer turns down restaurant
Love the Kilpatricks. Great farm, great food, great people.
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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.