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Interesting stuff from February 29th, 2012 through March 1st, 2012

Day trip: Lake Placid: Good tips on places to see around LP
Giant stick insect: Amazing
Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill: On the psychology of anti-authoritarians
UnicodeChecker – Explore and convert Unicode: Wonderful Unicode explorer for Mac.
The world’s oldest forest — in Schoharie County

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html5slides – A Google HTML5 slide template: Google's HTML5 slide framework
From Cordwood to Caviar: The story of the sturgeon in the Great Lakes
<a href="http://albanyeats.blogspot.com/2012/02/mussels-night-at-merry-monk you can look here.html”>Mussels Night at The Merry Monk!: mmmmm mussels
Removing Wind – Reader Tip: neat way to find wind in a board
How To Hide An Airplane Factory :: SonnyRadio.com: We did what? Holy Camo.

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Adirondack Almanack: Ice Fishing: Lake Champlain Shanty Stories: "Anomalies in the ice surface caused the house to spin and lurch at times as it sped along. At one point, it was headed towards a community of ice-fishing shanties. Finally, the house struck a prominent crack in the ice, which sent it twirling and slowed its progress. It eventually came to a halt in the vicinity of Split Rock Point, ten miles from its origin. When the wind died down, a team of horses hauled the house back to Willsboro Point."
All hands, battlestations!: The desks of 37 signals. Sam's is just amazing.
Table Saw Kickbacks! – NewWoodworker.com LLC: Absolutely must watch video on kickback. This guy is a moron for trying this and knows it. Don't be a moron.
Sauer & Steiner: Dining chair – one down… 5 to go.: One hell of a dining room chair. Amazing curly walnut.
ThermoWorks – Splash-Proof Thermapen Thermometer: Here's the actual product page for the thermapen. Price came down a tick.
Traditional BBQ Meats: Are the USDA temperatures enough? | ThermoWorks.com: Start of a series on proper meat temps for BBQ.
Also, if you cook, you need a Thermapen. Seems crazy expensive, but they're so worth it.
Penn Station: What Penn Station used to look like. What a loss.

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OnLive Desktop Plus Puts Windows 7 on the iPad in Blazing Speed – State of the Art – NYTimes.com: The world's fanciest Remote Desktop client. Pretty cool.
Async Programming Part 2: Promises: Basics on promises
Hardware City Tools: Replacement totes for Veritas bevel up planes and classic Stanleys.
pexpect – Noah.org: Handy tools for dealing with subprocesses in an async manner
Old Fashioned 101: Hoe to make an Old Fashioned

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Your Next Desktop Could be a Phone: Ubuntu on Android? Crazy, but cool.
How Bots Seized Control of My Pricing Strategy: Thoughts on Amazon's pricing algorithm
By Hand and By Eye Wrap-Up: Summary of Tolpin's new class
My Favorite Day: Wonderful write up of a good day, a neat way to use a protractor when building chairs
On Boats: Tim Bray on boating. BOAT = Bring Out Another Thousand. Nice.