links for 2008-01-31
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More bad shirts with an affiliate program
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Calibrate your monitors with this handy web page.
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upcoming free prototyping software for circuit and pcb design
Smash Labs Sucks
OK, I’m now 3/4 of the way through the third Smash Labs episode and I conclude that it sucks. It is stupid, pointless, and a waste of time, who do I call for a refund?
My guess is they wanted something like MythBusters, but without the science, experience, and entertaining hosts. They take a stupid problem, think up a couple equally stupid solutions, and then prove they don’t know wtf they are talking about.
links for 2008-01-30
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Interesting hack to add a wget like progress bar to cp. I’m sure there are more efficient ways to do it, but this one is quick and elegant.
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programming: How long does one have to use vim until you feel that you’re actually in control of it?Stupid VIM tricks. I didn’t see anything completely new, but some of the ideas were interesting.
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List of notable changes in Gnome 2.22.
links for 2008-01-29
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I’m not so sure I want to view my Mind, but this looks interesting.
Album Cover Meme
Here is a silly meme from Darrell.
Create your own album cover!
Step 1: Go to Wikipedia’s random article page. The first article you get is the name of your band.
Step 2: Go to the Random Quotations page. The last four words of the last quote is the album title.
Step 3: Go to Flickr’s Interesting photo page. Third picture, no matter what it is, is your album cover.
Step 4: PROFIT! (Okay, actually, you take those three elements and combine them using your favorite image editor, and voila!)
Here is my result:
“Foodways” with their new album, “balance and keep afloat”!
Fun But Exhausting Weekend
Sorry for not posting this weekend. The family and I went down to New Braunfels to help Mark move into his new digs and to visit with some good friends.
We all had dinner at Friesenhaus for some great German food. I also stopped at HEB to pick up some Pale Rye Ale and Brewhouse Brown Ale from the Real Ale Brewing Company in Blanco, TX. It is hard to find Real Ale outside the Hill Country and impossible to buy beer in Hunt country so I try to stock up when I’m traveling.
links for 2008-01-24
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inside out bears.
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another time lapse timer that I should build soon.
links for 2008-01-23
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Come back to this after they refactor the config app or when I get an MX Revolution.
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This should do for my MAME cabinet. Maybe a mini tabletop version.
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Add this to my list of things to read. Should come in handy when I get ready to use the laser cutter at work.
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Some more reference material for the lightsaber.
GM Reddit
Genetically Modified Reddit is a 
Greasemonkey script that I wrote to automate the task of voting up and down the things I like.
Get it here: gmreddit.user.js
You will need to install greasemonkey first. Once installed, you can manage user scripts and edit the arrays at the top of the file to include your keywords.
The script checks for down votes first and skips the up vote if it finds any. Adding more keywords might affect performance, but it runs fine on all my machines.