Boing Boing: Laughing and Crying Records

This was a draft I noted almost three years ago: Boing Boing: Laughing and Crying Records. It’s a great idea. Reminds me of Drivin’ ‘n’ Cryin’ from the 80s and 90s: rock is for driving and country is for crying.

MacDevCenter.com: What Is Flickr (and Hot Tips for Using It)

MacDevCenter.com: What Is Flickr (and Hot Tips for Using It) I need this – I’ve never had time to investigate and understand Flickr, so this will help. I’ve waited because I’m leery about putting my photos on someone else’s server. We’ll see.

David Foster Wallace – Commencement Speech at Kenyon University

David Foster Wallace – Commencement Speech at Kenyon University
“It just depends what you what to consider. If you’re automatically sure that you know what reality is, and you are operating on your default setting, then you, like me, probably won’t consider possibilities that aren’t annoying and miserable. But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down.”

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Penny Alcohol Stove

Penny Alcohol Stove Features “The low-pressure Penny Stove is so simple that you can build a rough one on the trail with a full service knife (no insulation, epoxy, needles, or tape.) If you’ve built a stove before, this one will be a snap.” The hardest part about making this stove is emptying 3 Heineken … Read more

In the Yard

I’m going out to trim the hedges and the edges of the lawn. I wanted the world to know.

Toast

Toast is a lovely food blog by a 57-ish woman with two cats, more than 400 cookbooks, good taste, and an engaging prose style with which she regularly publishes good recipes and photos of the results.

Silent PC Review

Review: AcoustiPack Noise Damping Kit :: SilentPCReview.com I want to make E’s PC quieter. This info might help.

KISS KISS BANG BANG

Creative Loafing Atlanta | FLICKS | KISS KISS BANG BANG “The foundation of American cinema is crime. One of film history’s most important early films, Edwin S. Porter’s 1903 silent The Great Train Robbery, was a crime story featuring the adrenaline rush of a robber pointing his gun directly at the audience. The taste for … Read more