August 2009 Neatlinks

Sat, Aug 1

Just for the record, Stephanie is not a hermaphrodite… I have a boy pipi! (1 comment)

Sun, Aug 2

This sounds like fun: California Pentax K-7 Tour, in San Francisco Sunday, August 9th

Attendees will be able to try out the K-7 along with an assortment of PENTAX glass. Meet and greet with other photographers and enter to win a K-7. One camera body will be given away at each event.

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Wed, Aug 5

Useful resource: FFmpeg x264 encoding guide

Also, Mark Pilgrim’s A gentle introduction to video encoding, part 1: container formats and part 2: lossy video codecs (2 comments)

Impressed nearly everyone at work with the one thing I remember from Computer Science: Short-circuit evaluation (2 comments)

Fri, Aug 7

And I thought our cheese cave was impressive: Architectural Plans for Creamery (0 comments)

Ha. Neologism of the day: Flickr Gets A SearchLift (0 comments)

The Big Picture on Greenland:

After almost 300 years under Danish rule, the island of Greenland has just taken a big step toward sovereignty. Greenland passed a referendum last year requesting more powers from Copenhagen, and it was granted, taking effect on June 21st, 2009…Collected here are some recent photographs from all around Greenland.

(I really like #13, #18) (0 comments)

Maybe it’s just that I’m using WinXP in Parallels on a Mac, but you have got to be kidding me:

Additionally, if you don’t have administrator access, then you may not be able to install Flash Player successfully. Permissions can be tricky but, in general, you should be able to install and use Adobe Flash Player if your system administrator gives you full access.

I’m just trying to install Flash! On IE7! And I need to download 2 tools to edit the registry! Gah. (0 comments)

Sat, Aug 8

To all my NC peeps: A friend of my brothers growing up is now Chef De Cuisine at Revolution in Durham, check it out for me (2 comments)

Sun, Aug 9

I appear to have a thing for paintings of avocados: Cut Avocado (0 comments)

I’m not a big fan of the genre of “band photos” but this one of a band I don’t even know is really really good: Leather Feather (0 comments)

Mon, Aug 10

Possible restaurant in the Mission worth checking out: The Corner (0 comments)

Tue, Aug 11

The concept of Google working on a new search engine is so foreign to me, given that what they do have is so far ahead of anything else out there, I don’t even know how to parse this:

For the last several months, a large team of Googlers has been working on a secret project: a next-generation architecture for Google’s web search.

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Wed, Aug 12

Whoa, this is pretty sick: Laser + Sound test-0 (via Visda) (0 comments)

Hint: if it has a label, it isn’t local. Far Foods (0 comments)

Thu, Aug 13

Just updated my Copy as HTML Link extension for Firefox with a cool new feature: now you can right-click on any link and use Copy as HTML Link to copy the link text and destination together as an HTML link. It’s super handy for copying blog post titles along with their permalinks. (6 comments)

This is amazing: The Longest Way (time-lapse travelogue) (1 comment)

Fri, Aug 14

Bringing back Keats: Bright Star (0 comments)

This is worth reading: The Theora Cookbook (Theora is a royalty-free, open standard, lossy video compression technology) (0 comments)

Dinner at El Bulli: The Comic Book in 30 courses! (0 comments)

Sat, Aug 15

On my list of things to pre-buy for future children: Food Face Kid’s Dinner Plate (0 comments)

I love it when memes come together: Crasher Squirrel is the new Dramatic Chipmunk (0 comments)

To watch later: Student Reporter Damon Weaver Interviews President Barack Obama (0 comments)

Mon, Aug 17

I tend to prefer my laptop sticker-free, but these are pretty cool: free “Powered by Ubuntu” and “Ubuntu key” stickers

Also, there’s the Mixed Ubuntu Sticker Sheet (0 comments)

Tue, Aug 18

URL of the day: insanewiches.com (0 comments)

Great article: An Unexpected Ally’s Road to Championing Same-Sex Marriage, and yet I don’t agree with Olson’s central premise:

…marriage [is] an essential component of happiness…

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Wed, Aug 19

Love it: urban homesteading (0 comments)

Thu, Aug 20

I love the backgrounds: The Little Zoo (1 comment)

Fri, Aug 21

I think the back cover pretty much sums it up: Rework: Unveiling the cover (0 comments)

A possible alternative to Shutterfly? Mpix (where do you get your photos printed?) (1 comment)

Sun, Aug 23

Next project: Timbuk2 Camera Bag Hack Kit How-To (2 comments)

Mon, Aug 24

I. Love. It. Tech Support Cheat Sheet (3 comments)

Ha! Look who just got here! Capucha and Capucine! (the world is small) (0 comments)

Wed, Aug 26

This is neat: a wood-fired pizza oven in Brooklyn (0 comments)

To read later: Demystifying the Piaggio MP3 (0 comments)

Thu, Aug 27

FM Engineering lunch, annotated. (1 comment)

Fri, Aug 28

Nice: Mythical Creatures Venn Diagram (0 comments)

Sat, Aug 29

Was thinking a pedometer-triggered time-lapse would be a pretty cool project, and just stumbled upon this Every Step art project (0 comments)

Sun, Aug 30

Neat blog: Food in Jars (all about canning) (0 comments)