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Bookmarks for January 9th from 08:02 to 16:06

mitten — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:01:21 +0000

These are my links for January 9th from 08:02 to 16:06:

Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Weblog, short fiction, art, and discussion – Beautiful comic. Would make a great short film.
ikea hacker: Craft table for 4 – Nice idea for a co-crafting table. For our hacker space. Someday. Yeah.
kyle van horn dot com –

mitten — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:00:14 +0000

These are my links for January 8th from 09:03 to 12:02:

re:group – re:branding gone astray – The rest of the article is pretty Meh, but I liked this group of definitions: "It’s not that there aren’t enough name options out there. “Descriptive” names like Mr. Clean have obvious meanings or associations. “Associative” names like Zest or Blockbuster use real words related to the product. “Coined” names that are invented words that sound appealing, like Kodak or Coca-Cola. There are “Egocentric” names, named after an owner or parent company, like Ford or Ben & Jerry’s. And lastly there are “Arbitrary” names, which are real words with no immediate connection to the category like Apple or Amazon."
Interoperability Happens – Windows 7 + VMWare 6/VMWare Fusion 2 – Maybe something to play with on Friday?
Appendix – Workers Comp – Should probably ask a lawyer about this. What happens when an LLC contracts (1099-wise, not W-2-wise) with another LLC?

mitten — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:00:13 +0000

These are my links for January 7th through January 8th:

paulmhickman.com – Furniture design – and a Not An Employee sympathizer!
Free Agent Nation, Daniel H. Pink, Book – Barnes & Noble – Recommended by Paul Hickman
Frankies Tiki Room – Someplace to go in Vegas?
Synchronising Things using Dropbox — intranation.com – This is the way you did it, just so you remember all this goofy file pointing.

mitten — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:02:51 +0000

These are my links for December 30th through January 6th:

flipping typical – See text rendered out in all* the fonts installed on your system. Seems handy if you use some sort of font management to keep the number of installed fonts at a reasonable level, unwieldy if not. (* ok, reading the fine print, not all. But a good number.)
English Russia » Slime Molds – Very pretty.
Saying Nothing in Stereo. Tools as Novella. | Dave Johnston – One Man Lab – "Try to imagine right now an entire blog, updated 24/7, with ten authors dedicated completely to your (or your parents, since you don’t have one) home phone. Yeah, that one. The one with the cord going to the wall. Post after post every day about how you can get a dial tone when you pick up the receiver, how if you push Flash it switches to a different call, the Top Ten Ways You Can Use Memory Dial to Organize Your Life, etc. Sounds like a pretty terrible blog, doesn’t it?
Now you know how I feel. "

mitten — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:00:48 +0000

These are my links for December 16th through December 27th:

NOTACON – presented by FTS Conventures – Wanna go? (April 16-19, 2009)
Projects at nxtprograms.com – All kinds of NXT projects – some complex, some simple.
Questions That I Have for the Secret Service – 236.com – The Room – 1. Shouldn't you have jumped in front of that shoe?
2. Shouldn't you have jumped in front of that second shoe?

mitten — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:01:01 +0000

These are my links for December 12th through December 13th:

Concentrate – Design For Education – Bwahaha! Eliminates the need to vocalize three of my favorite phrases!
Link’s hat (life-size) – Nintendo Papercraft – The resource for all your Nintendo themed papercrafts! – Over the holidays project for the boys?
HTML-Ipsum – Saves a step. Yay!
Joseph E. Stiglitz on capitalist fools: About Us: vanityfair.com – "The truth is most of the individual mistakes boil down to just one: a belief that markets are self-adjusting and that the role of government should be minimal. Looking back at that belief during hearings this fall on Capitol Hill, Alan Greenspan said out loud, “I have found a flaw.” Congressman Henry Waxman pushed him, responding, “In other words, you found that your view of the world, your ideology, was not right; it was not working.” “Absolutely, precisely,” Greenspan said. The embrace by America—and much of the rest of the world—of this flawed economic philosophy made it inevitable that we would eventually arrive at the place we are today."

mitten — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:00:13 +0000

These are my links for December 10th through December 12th:

Make a soft 3V battery holder – Not the best tutorial, but an interesting way to attach batteries. Softer than the plastic slotted kind.
Amazon.com: Molor Products TF103S Christmas Tree Waterer: Kitchen & Dining – In a previous life, I had this kind. It's ok, but hard to put in a new bottle without making a mess.
Santas Secret ® Store : Home – The box shaped one is the one I have, but it looks like it's sold out. I'm assuming the boot-shaped one functions similarly.

mitten — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:00:12 +0000

These are my links for December 9th through December 10th:

Rant: Please, Economic Crisis, Put An End To The Christmas Rush – "When people are concerned about money, they’re not going to buy 4-6 games over a three-month period. They’re going to buy 1-2. And faced with a situation like that, why buy Resistance 2 when you can buy a Call of Duty game? Why buy Rock Band 2 when Rock Band 1 was doing just fine?"
It will be interesting to see what happens to many things in this downturn. Companies won't be able to count on as many "buy it because it's new" purchases, and may even (gasp) have to work on actual substantive issues with their products.
Deborah Schultz: Snackbyte: Are we all just being rude? – I remember when we didn't carry phones with us. It wasn't rude to not answer them then, why should it be now? (Rhetorical much, Laura?)
Hipsterist – defining trends for a material world – The overall layout does little for me, but ooh, look at those title bars that go around the corner. Done with images and sprites.

mitten — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:00:16 +0000

These are my links for December 7th through December 8th:

Wearable Toy Piano – Not so sure about the operation of this, but good thoughts on surfacing the design of the connections.
Secret Mark Throwing Star Magnets –
/Message: Scoble Is With Me On Twitter Pro Email Integration – Oh noes! Scoble and Boyd disagree with me!

mitten — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:01:53 +0000

These are my links for December 5th through December 7th: