Sun: Jun 21, 2015

Photographer Captures Tiny Lightning Storms with a Mini Tesla Coil. Beautiful.     #>


REI acquires Adventure Projects network of sites. I know they'd gotten an infusion of cash from Black Diamond because their Mountain Project app went from $10 to free on Google Play. No idea that REI was even interested but good on them, way better than selling out to some companies...     #>


Iridium Browser, based on Chromium but doesn't download the huge Google binary blob without asking. I use this combined with a proxy as the only way to access Facebook. They don't get to track me, they only ever see me log in from one place, and I still get to use their crap site (I wouldn't but it seems everyone else does so I get dragged along for the ride...)     #>


Interesting Italian Food: Pocket Coffee. Bummer it's not available in the summer - would have been the perfect birthday gift for Jenn. I did find some on Amazon but it was $100 for a 36-pack and disappeared quickly (my cow-orker told me that during winter you can buy a 36-pack for less than $15...)     #>


Top 10 Things to Do in Florence. I managed to hit a few of these in spite having 24 hours there...     #>


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