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 […]
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 […]
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.
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.
This is uberkewl — there is a web-based tool for making VMs for the free VMWare Player.
Go download and install the free VMware Player: http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
Go here and follow the directions: http://www.easyvmx.com/
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Profit!
Found on digg: Programming Fonts. I’ve been a Lucida Console dude for a long time, but I’m willing to take Dina and Proggy out for a spin.
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.
This looks kewl: Artie: “Artie is a service that utilizes Amazon.com’s public database of images to retrieve any missing cover art for your iTunes library.”
This is kewl. It wraps the content from digg.com in an iframe in such a way that one can view it on the Sony PSP. Have a look at the results: http://racedude.buckdog.sourcecodemini.net/digg/index.html.