October 2007 Neatlinks

Mon, Oct 8

My brother is chronicling his House Hunting journey (at age 24!)

Update: Matthew moves fast! The seller accepted his offer, congratulations! (photo here) (0 comments)

I can relate to Adam Bosworth:

Watching me write code is like watching an indecisive sculptor work with clay. I shape it. I look. I wince. I reshape it. I play with it. I wince some more. I ask my friends, nurse my wounds, and then reshape it yet again. And so on.

Reminds me I should get back into sculpture. (0 comments)

Incredible: Google 600 (0 comments)

Tue, Oct 9

Video: What if you couldn’t marry the person you love? (more info here: TV ad campaign attempts to sway the undecided on same-sex marriage) (1 comment)

Tshirt of the day! Hello! My name is Inigo Montoya! (0 comments)

Oh my god, check out this art by Peter Vogel (0 comments)

I must have! Construction “Tools” for Eating Fun (0 comments)

Just curious if anyone out there using Ubuntu (or Gnome) has experienced this mondo annoying bug: when typing out a long line of text into gnome-terminal, instead of it wrapping down to the next line, it either overwrites the beginning of the current line, or overwrites the line above the current line. (2 comments)

Oh my god, I want to marry xkcd: Exploits of a Mom (1 comment)

Can someone explain this to me: Southland Tales (1 comment)

Wed, Oct 10

News: Wikipedia team plans move to San Francisco (0 comments)

Community ovens, what a great idea! Fired up over wood ovens (0 comments)

Thu, Oct 11

Stephanie sez: “It would make me hungry all the time!” Baguette Computer Wrist Rest (0 comments)

Photo of the day: Vena Cava (0 comments)

This is pretty awesome: Atwood Knife and Tool (minimal tools) (1 comment)

Been a long time: SimCity Societies (I wonder if it runs under Wine? probably not…) (0 comments)

New word of the day: Gayglers (0 comments)

Ha: …would be the perfect gift for any Maker on your holiday list this season. If you can even buy Makers gifts—I just send them a short list of things I think they’d enjoy making for themselves. (0 comments)

Fri, Oct 12

Updated: WordPress Suicide has been updated for WordPress 2.3. (0 comments)

Why did 3000 chickens cross the road? (via Terrie) (0 comments)

I like the technique: 21st Amendment (0 comments)

Sat, Oct 13

Marcia asks: What kind of monster am I?

I just went to my kitchen counter—which was littered with paper bags and half-full (or half-empty!) food-delivery containers—picked up an aluminum container of ravioli and meatballs that had been sitting out overnight, grabbed a used plastic fork and ate old food that hasn’t been properly refrigerated. Then I washed it down with the soda that had also been sitting out all night!

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Mon, Oct 15

This is just amazing: a Sandisk SD memory card (which is pretty small to begin with) that folds in half to reveal a USB connector (with this I could ditch the cable I need to connect my camera to my computer) (1 comment)

Hot (literally): ReadyNAS NV+ (0 comments)

Stephanie takes a stand! PLEASE NEVER SMOKE IN NATIONAL AND STATE PARKS (0 comments)

Wed, Oct 17

Tony Stubblebine: I also do weddings (0 comments)

Totally rad hiking pole: cork knob unscrews to create a monopod camera mount (as seen at Bryce) (0 comments)

The future has just arrived: Aptera (via Corey) (1 comment)

Whoa, cardboard objets d’art by Chris Gilmour (there’s even a scooter, but I bet you can’t ride it!) (0 comments)

Thu, Oct 18

Word of the day: loomer (0 comments)

Quote of the day: Her take on Comcast: “What a bunch of sub-moronic imbeciles.” (0 comments)

News: Ubuntu 7.10 released today (0 comments)

Fuhnny! Gabe & Max’s Internet Thing (0 comments)

Fri, Oct 19

— -. . — .- -. .—-. … -… .. -.. – — … .- …- . — — .-. … . -.-. — -.. . (yeah, it’s morse code) (0 comments)

Very cool: WWF Paper Dispenser (from Stephanie) (0 comments)

Scary:

Comcast Corp. actively interferes with attempts by some of its high-speed Internet subscribers to share files online, a move that runs counter to the tradition of treating all types of Net traffic equally.

I’m sure they rationalize doing this based on providing better quality of service for all user, but it sets a really troubling precedent. And what exactly are we paying upwards of $50/month for? (0 comments)

This is novel: VinylDisc hybrid plays on turntables or optical drives (0 comments)

Mon, Oct 22

Ha! First Orgy After Brian’s Death Very Solemn (0 comments)

Mom and Dad at Maker Faire, on Segways (0 comments)

Looks interesting: Wristcutters (0 comments)

Tue, Oct 23

OMG: Kris Holm, extreme unicyclist (0 comments)

I have to admit, I really liked 300: Robot Chicken 1776 Spoof on 300 (from Corey) (0 comments)

It took me a second to grok Tim Bray’s latest post: Missing in Shanghai (what a disadvantage for China) (0 comments)

Wed, Oct 24

Matthew takes inventory:

I will own three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a living room, a kitchen, four closets, a pantry, one hallway, a utility room, a patio, a backyard, a two-car garage, a driveway, a front yard, two trees, a sprinkler system, an A/C Unit, a gas powered heater, a dishwasher, a gas powered stove, cabinets, windows, doors, etc.

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Thu, Oct 25

Jonathan Schwartz makes Sun compelling: ZFS Puts Net App Viability at Risk? (0 comments)

This is very neat: Portrait Landscape Sketchbook (0 comments)

Too cool for school: White Stripes limited edition Diana+ and Holga Lomos (0 comments)

Fri, Oct 26

HA! BSOD humor (0 comments)

Whoa, hunger strikes on both sides! Prostitutes sew lips together in protest (0 comments)

A creative use of Twitter: cookbook (0 comments)

Sun, Oct 28

This would be handy: USB 2.0 Short Cable (0 comments)

Just upgraded to WordPress 2.3.1 with svn:

svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.3.1

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Mon, Oct 29

Whoa, geekarific: The Histogram as the Image (via David Battino) (0 comments)

Oh my god, best shirt of the day: GI Metro (0 comments)

Tue, Oct 30

Just in time for All Hallows Eve: The Body Farm (0 comments)

Keyboard of the day: Head/Mouth stick keyboards (0 comments)

I felt that one: 5.6 near San Jose about 25 minutes ago (0 comments)

I saw this and I was like “Wait, there was a World Series recently? And the Red Sox won?” (0 comments)

Holy cow, 802.11b/g in a 2GD SD memory card! Make any digital camera wireless: Eye-Fi (0 comments)

Wed, Oct 31

Great reference: How to setup Subversion over WebDAV and How to setup Trac, both on Ubuntu

Update: how timely, Sam Ruby’s Apache2, https, and Gutsy Gibbon (0 comments)