TrakDot, a GPS sensor for your luggage. Unfortunately in my experience the baggage guys would just steal this too. #>
Shark Kage Truck Ramp. Clearly I need one of these. #>
BACKPACKER's Nationwide Permit Deadline Calendar. Going into the outdoors where you'll need a permit? Look here first. #>
oTranscribe is a Free, Keyboard-Friendly Transcription Tool. Cool, wonder how accurate it is? #>
A Point and Shoot Camera For Shooters. In particular video shooters. #>
chicken curry waffles. Uhh, yum. #>
Why should women train Jiu-Jitsu? Awesome.
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Set static IP address in Mint 12. [SOLVED]. This is still relevant for Mint 16, which I just installed on a desktop a couple weeks ago. Turns out the fix to set a fixed IP is to uninstall "network-manager". After doing that, setting the IP in /etc/network/interfaces works fine. #>
ChunkVNC. Lets you wrap VNC inside an installer for people to get remote support on their computers without having to punch holes in firewalls. Think of it as a free version of LogMeIn now that they have discontinued theirs. #>
Instant Pot. Programmable pressure cooker and slow cooker. Awesome. #>
9 [More] Adventure Sports Photographers You Need to Check Out. Humbling when I think of my own efforts. #>
Amy Webb: How I hacked online dating. The really smart part was doing the "market research" to figure out how to optimize your own profile. #>
Embedding Video in a Responsive Site. Letting the video window change sizes based on the screen it's being displayed on. #>
AFI's 100 YEARS...100 MOVIE QUOTES. Bet you know more than you think. #>
Canon Movie Digest. I found a couple of those digest files on a new Powershot 330HS I picked up, was wondering about it. One or two have been neat, a couple others not worth the disk space they take up. #>
PSA: Missed Call From A Mystery Number? Be Careful. Basically don't call back a missed call unless you recognize the number. That's been true for years so I'm not sure why this is coming up now. #>
Swedishness. Having so many Swedish cow-orkers this made me giggle. #>
Cyphertite online backups. Their consumer plan is "unlimited space" and $10/month. For that price however I can buy a hard drive every year, though it wouldn't protect me from files I don't back up (I keep a rotating backup in a drive bay, but don't always get around to running it, at least this might be a touch more up to date.) #>
You can now download your tax return transcripts from the IRS. Interesting. #>
Moovit Helps You Master Public Transit in Any City, at Home or Abroad. Wonder if some of the smaller foreign cities I end up in would be included. #>
Warning: Your Browser Extensions Are Spying On You. That sucks, I guess it's time for an audit of what I regularly use. #>
Feedly Found a New Way to Steal Page Views From Publishers by making it look like the pages are all on Feedly itself. #>
XML Copy Editor. Multi-platform and open source, installing now. #>
The reason why pop radio is so repetitive, in a single chart. That is pathetic. #>
How Hugh Howey Turned His Self-Published Story “Wool” Into a Success (& a Book Deal). I'm now on the last part of the story, "Dust", and have been enjoying it very much. I especially appreciate he has DRM-free versions of the ebooks on his website, I bought them just to support that. #>
A Soft Murmur - Ambient Sound Generator. Clever. #>
When should I not kill -9 a process? I sheepishly admit I didn't know about -15. #>
As of their latest update, Facebook can read your texts on Android phones. I've made it clear to the 13 year old in the house if she uses the Facebook app on her new phone she will lose access to the phone entirely. #>
CloudCracker :: Online Hash Cracker. Off-load your password cracking needs. #>
On security questions. Companies that require these are deluding themselves into thinking they have "additional security" for their users. #>
Why we love Mozilla Persona. And why you should, too. Too bad it has such poor visibility (I very rarely hear about Persona.) #>
Imitate. We are imperfect mirrors. The HN thread discussing this has a couple of great quotes as well, such as from Picasso:
"What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong with that? On the contrary, it's a good idea. You should constantly try to paint like someone else. But the thing is, you can't! You would like to. You try. But it turns out to be a botch… And at the very moment you make a botch of it that you're yourself."#>
Why You Forget What You Were Doing When You Walk Into A Room. “Doorways are bad. Avoid them at all costs.” #>
