andyp.pfaster.net

I’ve never tried brewing beer or making wine at home, but I have taken a shot at making a batch of Mead. Noble Hound has a great set of do-it-yourself resources for brewing beer and making wine at home. I bet if I’m nice, he’ll add a section on Mead. He has sections about Malbec, Merlot, and Cabernet. His beer brewing section hasn’t yet gone live.

[ read more: http://www.noblehound.com/ ]

From the “yeah, that’s kinda kewl” department: Simply charge the glow brick up in sunlight or via a lightbulb, take it into a dark room and leave it glowing in darkness - it’ll work for up to about 3 hours.

Read more about it at www.nigelsecostore.com.

I was working on a solving a Rubik’s cube a few days ago. I was never a speed-solver, but way back when Rubik’s Cubes were popular, I had a couple and learned how to solve them. Unfortunately, I had forgotten a crucial move or two, and had to look it up. I know there are faster ways to solve a cube, but this guide: The Rubiks Cube Solution from www.chessandpoker.com is pretty much how I learned to solve the cube.

Found on www.menshealth.com: Don’t Look, Just Leap. It’s a list of 17 things you’ve probably never done, but should. I’m partial to #7: Disagree with the person you fear most.

I so dig the bitter*girls. I suspect the depth of field in these images has been added during post-processing with a gradient blur, but I don’t know for sure.

[see for yourself: http://blog.so-net.ne.jp/photolog/archive/c22183]

Apparently, September 18th is Quit Your Job Day.

If you’re looking for wide-screen format wallpaper (1920 x 1200) and higher, have a look at InterfaceLIFT: High-Resolution Widescreen Wallpaper. Nice.

I don’t know if it works, but callthefuture.org sure looks like a fun toy.

This looks like a fun project: Controlling LED Arrays on TCP/IP Networks. The fun part, though, is the tri-color LED matrix and controller board.

Looks like there hasn’t been any new content in awhile, but here’s yet another site with textures: amazingtextures.com.

This is uberkewl — there is a web-based tool for making VMs for the free VMWare Player.

1. Go download and install the free VMware Player: http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
2. Go here and follow the directions: http://www.easyvmx.com/
3. ?
4. Profit!

Here is a good tutorial for retouching and touching up poor source material for beauty: Photo Touchup. The tutorial shows each and every step. Have a look at the before and after shots:

I’m clearing out some bookmark tabs to a more permanent home. Here are two good texture resources:

• textures.forrest.cz
• www.texturebin.com

This flickr toy searches for individual letters and numbers, and will let you spell out words with them. Kewl: http://metaatem.net/words/

Here are some really nifty gizmos for playing with flickr: fd’s Flickr Toys.