Wed: Aug 06, 2014

Chimney Box. Looks great but I'm pretty sure I could make one for a fraction of the price.     #>


With Help From America's Test Kitchen, Why Buy When You Can DIY? Make your own Nutella!     #>


Molten Aluminium and Charred Wood Furniture. Beautiful results.     #>


QuoDB, using close captioning to build a database of movie quotes. Would like a "browse" function to see what's popular but it's still nifty.     #>


How to Encrypt Your Android Phone and Why You Might Want To.

Some recent legal rulings have suggested that encryption can protect against warantless searches. The California Supreme Court has ruled that police officers can lawfully search your cell phone without a warrant if it’s taken from you during arrest – but they would require a warrant if it was encrypted. A Canadian court has also ruled that phones can be searched without a warrant as long as they’re unencrypted.
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Health and Fitness Life Hack - Umoro One Review. I have to admit that's a pretty clever bottle.     #>


Where is Rosetta? You can zoom in/out with your mouse wheel and click and drag to change the view plane. If you want to see some really staggering math in action hit the "Play" button on the lower left and watch the paths that both Rosetta and the comet take over the years before finally matching up.     #>


Listen to a Movie - Top Secret. This is great, pop on some headphones and listen to your favorite movies at work...     #>


Not So Fast. Great short film, and there's a behind the scenes of Not So Fast that's pretty informative.     #>


I bought a used Polaris Magnum quad for Jenn to drive while I'm on the dirtbike and noticed the petcock (aka "fuel shut-off valve") is leaking. Looking for a replacement leads to insanity, it's $45 for the official Polaris part. Turns out someone found (in this Polaris forums thread) that a Yamaha petcock is a perfect replacement. That Yamaha valve is only $18 on Amazon, so I've gone ahead and purchased it, will know within a couple days if that person was right (and I really hope so, I'd like to save 50% off the crazy price.) As a bonus the Yamaha valve is user-serviceable, I should be able to take it apart and replace the o-rings if the new one starts leaking (not to mention the new one is metal and not plastic...)     #>


Melissa Muir Jewelry, and the Melissa Muir YouTube channel with good tutorials and info.     #>


Metal working in Africa. It's in French but I found I didn't need the audio at all. And I've decided I don't need an anvil anymore, just a chunk of railroad track. (Check out how they make rivets too!)

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Do not weld with brake cleaner. Yikes, definitely something to remember.     #>


Minaal Carry-On Bag. My kind of bag but wow that $300 pricetag...     #>


OfflineReverseGeocode, Perform reverse geocoding locally and offline . Could be handy someday.     #>


Password Safe Related Projects. I went ahead and paid for LastPass but it's always good to be aware of alternatives, especially open source alternatives.     #>


Firefox - Bluhell Firewall. A firewall only for Firefox (not machine-wide). I've been doing well with Request Policy but I understand it's a pain and too complicated for some people so I'm always looking for alternatives to recommend to friends.     #>


Firefox - Adblock Edge. It's just like Adblock but without the "allow some approved ads" checkbox.     #>


Necta Launcher Makes Android Easier for Elders and Children. I know at least one senior who's getting this on his phone. Should cut back on the "my phone doesn't work anymore" phone calls.     #>


Metal Supermarkets Wheatridge. There are a few places to buy metal around Denver (not just DenCol Steel) but they all suffer the same limited hours, generally Monday to Friday 9-5. Not great for the hobbyist who has evenings and weekends free. At least Altitude Steel has some Saturday hours (and they have a scrap section with some great prices if you aren't too picky about what you are getting.)     #>


The Movie Database. An alternative to IMDB?     #>


Type Your Ringtone Sets Spoken-Word Notifications for Apps and Callers. Interesting (looks to be Android only). The comments also have a method for doing this in Tasker, though that app is much more complicated and costs quite a bit more.     #>


Server Check In. Prior to moving to Linode I was having a hell of a time keeping one of my servers up, this would have been handy then. Currently Linode is monitoring my things but I'll definitely keep this in mind.     #>


How To Turn Your Android Phone Into The Ultimate GPS Navigator, Nifty though I still prefer carrying an actual GPS but that's partly because the battery life on it is sooo much better (and it picks up the satellites much quicker than my phone.)     #>


Handy Infographic is a Useful Social Media Image Size Cheat-Sheet. In case you care about header graphics and such on various social media sites.     #>


Denver Food Matters: Residential Sales to Benefit Low-Income Communities Most. Interesting, wonder what the uptake is like.     #>


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