August 2010
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Baby stars! →
Incredible image of the star-forming compact gas cloud, GL490. Thanks, Phil Plait (aka The Bad Astronomer), for staying on top of all the cool astronomy stuff.
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Monkey rides a goat →
Is it really a monkey? What kind of goat is that? Is it from an episode of Little Rascals? I have nothing but questions.
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Mac System Maintenance and Optimization Tools
I’m using Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner, but here are some other tools that get great reviews:
OnyX and Maintenance Both by Titanium Software. Free!
IceClean Free!
Yasu (Yet Another System Utility) Sliding scale starting at $3.50.
Cocktail Free Trial. $15 or $20 Lifetime.
CleanMyMac Free trial. $30 Lifetime—that better be my lifetime and not my cat’s.
Nice MacFixit article on...
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Redstone Science Fiction →
Science fiction magazine. Their motto: “We want to live forever. Get us off this rock.”
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Wabi Sabi 2010 →
Small group 10-day tour of Japan with Lennox Tierney, offered by Sterling Tours. I met Professor Tierney at the San Diego Japanese Friendship Garden… fascinating guy! The Japanese government awarded him the Order of the Rising Sun. He’s leading a tour of gardens, temples and palaces in Kyoto, Nara, Honshu Island, Takayama, Ise, Ogimachi Village and probably some other places.
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Glims Safari Plugin →
I’ve been using glims for a few days. If you use safari, I highly recommend this plugin. Here are just a few of the features along with my enlightening comments.
Adds favicons to tabs, which, of course, safari should already do. Duh.
Re-opens last session when safari starts. You can do this in safari, but you have to pull down the history menu and choose it. Perhaps other folks leave tabs...
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F.lux →
Free computer display adapter software with an intriguing name. Is it flux or eff lux? Either way, it sounds like you’re swearing, so that’s pretty nice. F.lux changes the color of your computer display, depending on time of day. You tell it your location and what type of lighting you use (fluorescent, halogen, tungsten) and that’s about it. I’m trying it.
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freshdelicious →
Free, easy-to-use tool to weed out all your crappy, broken links on delicious.
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“Glims Safari Plugin”
– http://r1.sharedcopy.com/280df906#shcp0
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Todd's Wanderings →
Sherry quit her corporate IT job and traveled around the world to 23 countries. She ain’t going back!
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Wil, w00tstock & my appropriate response →
http://www.btinternet.com/~teamhighlander/sounds/hehheh.wav
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Sharing Travel Experiences →
Travel lifestyle magazine with information and services. Lots of inspirational stories and resources “to help make your travel more rich, more authentic, and more experiential.”
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Kaleidoscopic Wandering →
Travel stories and tips … “my hope is that I inspire you to learn, love and live your own travel dreams”.
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Wikitravel →
“Wikitravel is a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable world-wide travel guide. So far we have 13,760 destination guides and other articles written and edited by Wikitravellers…
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Travelfish →
“100% original Asia travel intelligence authored by dedicated travellers who know what they’re talking about.”
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Lost Girls World →
Three girlfriends traveled across four continents over the course of one year. They share their experiences and expertise.
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BootsnAll Travel Network →
BootsnAll attempts to “cultivate an organic community that encourages independent travel”. Travel guides, stories, book reviews, message boards, articles, etc…
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wiseGEEK: clear answers for common questions →
wiseGEEK is a team of researchers, writers and editors dedicated to providing clear and concise answers to common questions. Currently, there are over 100 active contributors.
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Ottsworld Travel Experiences →
Sherry quit her corporate IT job and traveled around the world to 23 countries. She ain’t going back!
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Todd's Wanderings →
Travel, adventure and advice from 10 years on the road… and counting.
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Betty in the Sky with a Suitcase →
Betty is a flight attendant with a major US airline. She relates funny anecdotes about her adventures on board, as well as interesting stories from others in the industry via her podcast. She has a great sense of humor and a sunny disposition. But, y’know, not one of those irritating sunny dispositions. :) In one episode, she describes how she enjoys crashing events, while on layover. She...
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Fisheye & Macro/Wide Angle Lenses for your cell... →
Yeah, for your cell phone. They’re magnetic! From Photojojo.
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Recycle This →
Ideas for re-using all kinds of stuff.
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Apocalypse How: Turn the End-Times into the Best...
Rob Kutner is the author of Apocalypse How: Turn the End-Times into the Best of Times! Here’s an excerpt from an interview with Jonathan Goldstein on WireTap.
Jonathan: You don’t seem like… terribly troubled by the fact that Armegeddon is upon us.
Rob: Oh, quite the contrary. I actually believe that the world after the Apocalypse will be much better than the current world. You...
COLOURlovers →
Creative community where people from around the world create and share colors, palettes and patterns, discuss the latest trends and explore colorful articles.
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“Dude, you asked me to find out about a criminal, alright? Most criminals live in...”
– Skeeter The Good Guys: $3.52
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Geysers on Enceladus →
Cassini got this great shot of Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons. Those are geysers, spewing water into space. At least 30 of them!
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LandPaths →
LandPaths’ mission is to foster a love of the land in Sonoma County. LandPaths creates ways for people to experience the beauty, understand the value, and assist in healing the land in their local communities.
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Fine Homebuilding →
Home construction tips, tool reviews, remodeling design and layout ideas, house project plans and advice for homeowners.
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Tiny House Blog →
Small House Living
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Penguicon →
Science Fiction and Open Source Convention held in Michigan.
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Vintage Dungeons and Dragons Ads
Wow, dig those super-hip dungeoneering dungarees. Hmmm… I game, yet somehow manage without a pair of these.
spacecowboywhit:
atomicnumber82:
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Star Gazing and Night Hiking Resources →
Bay Area astronomy and hiking from Bay Nature Institute.
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Bay Nature: An Exploration of Nature in the San... →
The nonprofit Bay Nature Institute is dedicated to exploring and protecting the natural world of the San Francisco Bay Area. Join us online, in print, or in the field to learn about local parks, wildlife, hikes, and more.
The Green Arcade | Books • Ideas • Goods →
Awesome little SF bookstore. Specializing in books on the environment, politics, sustainability, food and farming, select art and literature, urban planning, nature, and children’s books.
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“In my latest bid to multitask, I’ve begun watching silent films while...”
– Jonathan Goldstein WireTap: Splendours of the Small Screen
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H. P. Lovecraft And His Legacy →
Hosted by Chris Perridas.
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Lairs of Cthulhu: Archaeology, Myths and Mysteries... →
From the Bookkake Blog.
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The Bookkake Blog →
Bookkake is a small, independent publisher of interesting books.
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MyWebSearch Hijacked Firefox →
Really irritating issue wherein mywebsearch hijacks your browser, forcing every search through their search engine, instead of google or other engine of your choice. Luckily, redshifter provides the solution. This is aimed at os x users, but there’s also a link for windows users. Check the comments, as folks apply this solution to other types of browser hijacks.
