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Behind the Bar: Pauline Boldt’s Holiday Gin and Tonics Rosemary simple syrup. Yum.
The Icarus Deception Nice video on Seth Godin's new book. Lots of nice little shots in and around Tarrytown and Irvington NY, my old haunt.
The Design Lesson "In graphic design, nothing is what it actually is. Everything other than content is representative of something else. Additionally, much of the content is also merely representative of something other than what it actually is."
If NTFS is a robust journaling file system, why do you have to be careful when using it with a USB thumb drive? Applies to any journaled filesystem really. Ever wonder why you can't just yank a removeable device on a Mac? This is why.
Shop Apron From Artifact Bag Co. Great looking handmade bags and things in waxed cotten and leather.
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Level Legs the Easy Way Neat trick for leveling legs on four-legged objects. Requires a table saw.
ITTEN: The Elements of Color, 1970. Wonderful book on color
Git Immersion Good starting point for Git
Save _flymake files in a temporary directory | blog.arithm How to make flymake behave with javascript using the jshint forumula from EmacsWiki
Using QOS – Tutorial and discussion | LinksysInfo.org A long, good read on setting up QoS for a SOHO network.
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color , design , emacs , flymake , git , Javascript , level , linkage , networking , qos , soho , temp , tricks , woodworking
A Nice Little Feature I Forgot To Mention Every shop needs a trap door
Source Code Pro Lovely new coding from from Adobe. Open source even.
Ubuntu Time Machine Server for OS X Lion How to set up Ubuntu to pretend to be a TimeCapsule for OSX
Sidestep A wonderful little tool that will automatically open a SOCKS5 proxy and route all your web traffic through it when it detects you're on a unsecured wifi connection. Great for travel.
Whiskey Barrel Adirondack Chair | Uncrate So @designtramp hasn't had a chance to build his chair yet. Wonder what he'll think of this cleverness
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Inge Druckrey: Teaching to See on Vimeo wow. watch this.
Modular JavaScript with RequireJS – blog.credera.com Nice short intro to coding with RequireJS
blackberry gin fizz | smitten kitchen Yum. I'm a sucker for gin fizz.
10.6: Add NFS Mounts using Disk Utility – Mac OS X Hints The weird trick that worked for me was to use the 'resvport' option when mounting the NFS share from OSX. Weird because the mount was exported using insecure, but adding resvport worked nonetheless.
Code Review with Gerrit, a mostly visual guide Nice intro to using Gerrit
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VIDEO: The Mercedes 300SL Gullwing. An instant classic… Keep 'em running, keep 'em on the road.
On Being the New Boss Every time Tim Bray says "Mr. Lowery," I cringe a little.
my pupils stupid eye tricks. the brain is crazy.
US Housing Crisis – Negative Equity Infographic – Zillow beautiful visualization of a terrible thing
API Design – Matt Gemmell Mostly focused on iOS / OSX, but good thoughts
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