Mon: Feb 08, 2010

» Google Map Buddy, lets you download Google Maps at any zoom level automatically (so you can get a map of your entire city say, or just your house, without having to resort to screenshots.)     #


» Sig 556 Rebate, $300 off until mid-March. I'd like to fire one before committing but I have gotten to hold one and it's impressive.     #


» Chocolate Weapons. Sweet.     #


» North Face The Movie. Looks quite good and of course it was in Denver a couple days ago and I missed it...     #


» Embrace Life - always wear your seat belt. Impressive cinematography.

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Thu: Feb 04, 2010

» Gog.com Games. I love the fact one of their selling points is "No DRM". I don't play many games but that alone makes me want to buy something from them.     #


» Sushi Uokura. Very good and not too far from my house, amazed I've never been there before last week.     #


» Nordic Ware Pro Form Heavyweight 12 Cup Bundt Pan. Picked one up at Target the other day for a couple bucks more, I'm planning on the Olive Oil Bundt Cake with Lemon Glaze (see the bottom of that page.     #


» Radio Mounting Kits and Phone mounts for my truck. I've decided it's time to update the radio to something that has iPod control. While I could have used some of these parts to add the auxiliary inputs to my stock stereo that would run me $75+ and I can get a new stereo altogether for a hundred...     #


» I've been using Dropbox for a while now and love it. Since they are offering additional space for free with referrals anyone who hasn't picked it up yet should do so from this Dropbox referral link. Thanks.     #


» Simple commands to manage apache2 sites and Modules     #


» Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour - Colorado.     #


» Smitten Kitchen Recipes, just found out she has an index of her recipes (almost all of which I like and want to make.)     #


» Since I keep meaning to learn Italian (I swear I'm going one of these days...)

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» It Is Useless To Resist Us! - DVD. Wow, Information Society is still around? I got on a tear this morning and watched a few videos of theirs on YouTube...     #


» H.264 FAQ & Basic Conversion Guide. They have a basic guide to using SUPER for video conversion as well (I'm trying to go the other way, going from an MKV H.264 file to a Div-X AVI...)     #


Wed: Feb 03, 2010

» How Visa Corners The Debit Card Market With Fees. I have never used my ATM card as a debit card (indeed, I still think of it as just an ATM card) and never will as long as the liability laws don't cover the debit card the same way as they cover credit cards.     #


» extcv, a tool to grow TrueCrypt containers (something I recently needed to do...)     #


» Snopes: No Bill. True huh? Interesting.     #


Tue: Feb 02, 2010

» Lindy Hop Showdown. Impressive moves...

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» Delete Your Account, shows you how to delete accounts on various websites (tempted to delete my MySpace account since I never even login there anymore...)     #


» How To Remove a Stripped Screw Without an Extractor. I like that rubberband trick, I'll try that next time.     #


» Dave Rawlings Machine - Monkey and The Engineer. Heard this on this past weekend's Prairie Home Companion and got a big laugh out of it. Available for purchase at Amie Street Music for a buck, worth it to me. And, in case you want to sing along: Grateful Dead : Monkey & The Engineer Lyrics     #


» Use ssh -D : the Coolest ssh trick yet to get a "dynamic" SOCKS proxy for web browsing remotely (and since I use PuTTy on my work laptop I'll use this info: Dynamic SOCKS Proxy using PuTTY.) Really all I'm looking for is a simple way to get at The Daily Show when I'm traveling remote, but having fully encrypted web browsing sessions is a big bonus with some of the stupid "gated" internet access I get stuck with (the "free internet" at DIA frames ever page with adverts, this will help avoid them.)     #


» Mike Hipple Legal Defense Fund. Sued for taking a photo in public that happened to include part of a public art installation? That's messed up.     #


» Jumping the Gun. Hah, what a wonderfully captured moment.     #


» Tank Skeet Shooting. Brilliant!

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» Aryan Outfitters. Interesting.     #


» Elizabeth and Mike's DIY Pipe Shelving> Nicely done and I like how the back support isn't mounted to the wall (less wall damage that way).     #


» How to Prevent Timeout of Image Title Text Tooltip in Firefox     #


» Tandem Bike Turned into Cargo Bike     #


Mon: Feb 01, 2010

» Full Facts Book Of Cold Reading. I'd love to get a copy of this but the cost is a tad prohibitive...     #


» Setting up Subversion on Windows. After multiple re-installations of Windows over the past year I used this to resurrect my older Subversion installation (which was still on a data partition).     #


» An Introduction to Exposure Blending with RAW. Helps bring out the best in your photos by "processing" multiple times.     #


» Hands-on: Manfrotto 732CY Low-Cost Carbon Fiber Tripod. Pretty cheap for a carbon fiber setup...     #


» Camera AF Microadjustment - for free, Checking for front / back focus and fine-tuning camera autofocus. My Canon 40d doesn't let me tweak it, but the 50d does and I presume the next Canon models will as well so this is good info for me for the future...     #


» Dinosaur Lots, I-70 & Morrison/Golden Exit, shockingly difficult to find the name of the lots. Turns out the new huge one on the north-west side of Highway 26 is "Woolly Mammoth", the one on north-east side is "T-Rex" and the south-east side is "Stegosaurus".     #


» Tourists Stranded At Machu Picchu.

Tourists visiting Machu Picchu in Peru have had a little surprise today, as torrential rainfalls in the region have caused massive flooding and landslides, stranding the travelers in the ancient Incan city. According to this story from the Guardian, the train that shuttles visitors to the site has been blocked by more than 40 landslides, effectively cutting it off for the foreseeable future.
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» Seasonal food chart     #


» Homemade Gummi Candy. Excellent!     #


» Flour/Water make up effect for Film Riot Contest

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» GPS Photo Correlation. I'd posted about this in the past but believed it was Linux only. They've got a Windows version now as well, though I haven't tested it out yet (I did run it and it looks simple enough.) I've been geo-tagging most of my photos the past couple years and always have people asking me how I do it, most of the people asking aren't ready for the gpsPhoto.pl perl script...     #


» The Direction of Moonrise and Moonset. The other day when I went to get photos of the biggest moon of 2010 I was trying to figure out where it would come up. My goal was to get it rising over downtown Denver (I got close, but not exact). Turns out it's surprisingly difficult to figure out where on the horizon the moon will come up. Still I think my plan of hanging out at Green Mountain worked out ok:

Biggest Moon of 2010 (by CCBImages)     #


» Ammunition To Go and Cheaper Than Dirt - America's Ultimate Shooting Sports Discounter. Because gun ammunition and accessories are no different from anything else, they are cheaper online than in most stores.     #


» Big Dead Place, about Antarctica. There's a book to go along with the website as well: Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica.     #


» Is your Focus Letting You Down. I keep meaning to test all my lenses, I just haven't gotten around to it yet. Glad they included a link for a focusing chart though, maybe that'll help me get off my duff.     #


» All 21 Lucky Songs from The Hangover. Recently watched it for the 3rd time and realized how much I'd like the soundtrack (except not every song in the movie is on the soundtrack so this list is better...)     #


» Daniel Zoppi - Bersa THUNDER 9mm

Apparently the Bersa's are known for how inexpensive they are (saw one at a gun shop recently that was 1/2 the price of everything else in the case). I'm more interested in the range he's shooting at, I want to try a place like that...     #


Sun: Jan 31, 2010

» Cake Pan Size Conversions. Good info to know if you don't have the pan called for but wonder if it will fit in something different.     #


» COLT THOMPSON MOD 21. True the reserve was set at $31k but this would look great on your desk next to that engine...     #


» The Secret Ingredient: Crème Fraîche. Check out that mac & cheese recipe!     #


» They Do the Work, You Reap the Yogurt. I made crème fraîche a couple weeks ago and it was ridiculously easy and very tasty in my potato leek soup.     #


» The Desktop V Twin Engine. Pricey but how cool would that be on your desk?     #


» Best of Red Bull Photofiles 2009. Some great shots in there, worth checking out.     #


Fri: Jan 29, 2010

» Charlie Brooker - How To Report The News. Indeed!

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» Biggest and Brightest Full Moon of 2010 Tonight. A bit last minute but I just found out about it.     #


» Laptop Friendly Cafes     #


» Time in Motion. Nicely done.     #


Thu: Jan 28, 2010

» Wanderlore. Cool new project by Kate of ColoCalders.     #


» Boundry Map for Denver County, CO. Was browsing around on an open carry forum the other day and came across this. Apparently in Colorado you can carry a firearm in plain sight, with the exception of Denver county...     #


» Advantus ReAir Refillable Air Duster. Put your air compressor on it and refill it, cheaper and easier than dealing with traditional "canned air".     #


» Denver Area Shooting Ranges, arrow and gun.     #


» Birthers: “Global warming a bunch of hooey” and “Why would we want to travel abroad when those furerners probably don’t speak English there, anyway?” So, confirmed they are idiots?     #


» Owl in flight. Wow.     #


» The 300 Club. Brrr.     #


» Doctor Who Sonic Screwdriver. Pretty sure I've linked to this before, but I just got mine in the post yesterday and love it.     #


» Time-lapse with D300, Lightroom and Final Cut Express. Cool.     #


Wed: Jan 27, 2010

» Surfing 50 States

Surfing 50 States is an independent travel documentary in which two Australian friends find a wacky way of Surfing in all 50 states of the USA, whilst celebrating the diverse American Culture.

The 7 month, 20,000 mile journey finds the boys in all situations, from Surfing icy waves in Alaska to 15 foot piles of potatoes in Idaho.

SurfingWorld magazine has described Surfing 50 States as "The Best Surf Movie I've seen in ages"... Despite the fact the boys can hardly surf.

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» The Winchester job interview theory. It's a bad system but the best we have for now?     #


» iBearArms, state laws for firearms on your iPhone.     #


» Bike Brightz. Twenty bucks is worth it to not get run over on your bike.     #


» Wanna Buy an AK-47?

Kaj Larsen and Chritsof Putzel venture to a gun market in Mogadishu, Somalia, and discover how easy it is to buy an AK-47 machine gun.

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» Confessions of a Book Pirate. I looked into getting the full set of the Discworld series as legit ebooks, it would cost me 3x as much as buying a full set of the physical paperback books brand new (which I'm sure I could get used for even less.) Small wonder books are pirated with prices like that?     #


» 11 Minutes of Action. Good thing those morons are paid so well for their 11 minutes (and that the public has to spend ridiculous amounts of money on stadiums for these morons to stand around so much.)     #


Tue: Jan 26, 2010

» Hah: The Necronomicon

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» FlashCookiesView, visibility into what's spying on you (that you can't normally see...)     #


» Sweet: La Roux for $5 with the Amazon MP3 sale. I got into a couple of her songs by listening to David Byrne Radio and bought the album last night.     #


» Penny Shooter Business Card. Want, very much want.

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» 3D Imaging Machine Creates Product Animations. Cool.     #


» AlltoAVI. Started using this since quite a few things online are now MPEG-4 in the Matroska container while my DVD player will play Div-X (and X-Vid) videos in an AVI container. I tried using MediaCoder but their Div-X encoding is broken (not to mention an overwhelming interface).     #


» In the Kitchen with Chef Pardus (on the proper way to cook shrimp.) Also see Thanks, and, yeah, it’s a Wok range January 11, 2010.     #


» Anna's Tailoring. I had a pair of jeans that I'd only worn a few times when the riveted button pulled through (no, I haven't gained a ton of weight, it was just poorly assembled.) Anna's gave me a choice of 5 different buttons and only charged me $3 to get a new one put in. According to the couple of tailor's I spoke to they are the only folks in Denver with the industrial rivet machine able to do such a thing (plus they are extremely nice people.)     #


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