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Annoying Trend of 2013

DCDan — Fri, 27 Dec 2013 01:35:06 +0000

A trend that took hold in 2013 is putting overlays over the screen that will block your access to the page unless you give as a ransom your email address or access to your Facebook account. I treat my email address and access to my Facebook like a daughter in high school and to those sites I say.

I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.

More hip-hop cooking, violence, art

Knile — Sat, 14 Sep 2013 10:00:00 +0000

Why Would Anyone Buy A Cassette Tape?
Scentless Apprentice
The Pleasures of Drowning
How to make a mini pallet coaster for your pallet coffee table
Disarm by Pedro Reyes
Pump Me Up: D.C. Subculture of the 1980s
Cooking with 2 Chainz: Deep Inside the Cookbook of your Dreams

Letters, words, numbers, symbols, objects

Knile — Sat, 24 Aug 2013 10:00:49 +0000

Hey, readers, I’m putting myself on hiatus from link-posting for the next few weeks as I move my life from one continent to another. You’re going to miss me when I’m gone, I’m sure.

From the Desk of Jackass Letters
The Strangest Neighborhood In New York City
Government in Plain Sight
What Ants to Look For
Significant Objects… and how they got that way
Symbols on the Brain
100 movies, 100 quotes, 100 numbers
Recipes & Menus For Your Murder Mystery Dinner Party
Gilroy Garlic Festival
Hudson Valley Garlic Festival
Cuba Garlic Festival
Cooking’s A Drag: Starring Star Trek’s William Shatner
“VOGUE BOY”: ME AT NINE, PERFORMING TO MADONNA IN SUMMER ’91!
Room Raiders Spoof- Ham Jam 2010
My Netflix Love Affair and my Carbon Footprint
The Medium Chill

New Toy ChargeCard

DCDan — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 14:43:47 +0000

I just received the fruits of my pre-order of a Kickstarter funded project and so far it’s pretty sweet. The ChargeCard feels solidly built, in the USA no less, is it the size of a standard credit card and the thickness of about three credit cards stacked together. I find it very handy to throw in my laptop bag and not have to worry about untangling a mess of cords when I want to connect my phone.

For reference this is the ChargeCard next to a standard business card.

Stuff My Friends Share Online

Knile — Sat, 25 May 2013 10:00:55 +0000

Dan’s stealing my thunder with his thrice-daily links.

Previously unreleased version of Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer”
Doodle Music by Vi Hart
How and When Metals Fail
Window Socket
NASA is funding a 3D food printer, and it’ll start with pizza
CDC Current Outbreak List
The tragedy of the “healthy eater”
Coffitivity: Bring the coffeeshop to you
Evaluate synthesized speech
If Language Weren’t A Commons
Crowdsourcing verbs’ semantics
Building an open-source map of the world’s languages
The Jetting Penguin

Office Doors, Giving Thanks and DIY

DCDan — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:13:21 +0000

I’ve been saying this for years but I probably wasn’t heard over the din of office noise.

A well put article on people who are thanking God after disasters.

Jaded Dan thinks imagine if this ingenuity was applied to less destructive efforts. Technology Dan thinks imagine if these guys had 3D printers.

Some screws, some wood and some Jameson.

Acorn 4 – Photoshop for Developers

DCDan — Mon, 06 May 2013 14:36:38 +0000

I’m a developer by day and work for a very small company, as such I don’t have money to buy expensive tools. While I know Photoshop is the gold standard for design, the few times I’ve used it I found the interface very confusing and didn’t have the time or the energy to get up to speed. Enter Acorn from Flying Meat Software this tool hits the sweet spot. It has the ability to do a lot of things that I’ll probably never use but more importantly it gives me the ability to handle the smaller image manipulation tasks that come with my everyday job. Here’s video that shows one of the cool features I’d never be able to figure out in Photoshop.

Pants, pasts, PETA, PointCast

Knile — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 10:00:28 +0000

What a crazy week. Here are some links about fun things and maybe some not-so-fun-weird things. Keep thinking.

Classy Readings of Terrible Fan Fiction: in the kongs banana hored
Philadelphia MOVE Bombing Still Haunts Survivors
Anti-drug PSAs
What we learned from the movie Hackers
Yak Bak and Talkboy
PointCast: The Rise and Fall of an Internet Star
National Geographic airs video of first commercial cellular phone call
Gratuitous user interfaces
Pictures of Hipsters taking Pictures of Food
Mad money in the garlic black market
Bond: Explosive (from Classified [US Version] )
PETA Kills
A guinea pig’s inner ear can power a radio transmitter.
The Afronauts
Soweto & Sowebo comparison photoset
Magritte on Words and Images
Erik Johansson
Her Secret Past
The rapper who inspired James Franco’s “Spring Breakers” character
A Three Year Prison Term for Saggy Pants?
Hi-Vis Fashion
Reporting things on Facebook: is it worth it?
This image should not be seen by the whole world

Falafel

Knile — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 11:00:37 +0000

The Wikipedia entry for roller coaster
Orders of magnitude
DRM chair only works 8 times
Internet Archaeology
The Seventies
Low Power FM making a comeback
Little Richard & Stockhausen
Red, white, and blue
Letters from a Private
Comfort Sounds
VineLink
Currywurst vs Falafel, Tuebingen-style
Making Sausage
Coffee: Where it comes from
A quest for the perfect piece of toast
Life in the Trees: Free Spirit Spheres
The myth of Mother Teresa
Mosquito repellent unboxing
Tesla Coil Plans, Parts, Kits
Sorry, that username is already taken.
Find cats
Ship of Theseus
Obscenity controversies
Anechoic chamber

Weekly links including wildlife and Public Broadcasting

Knile — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 11:00:04 +0000

Can Dungeons & Dragons make you a Confident & Successful Person?
The Thin Wall Challenge
Portland’s Whistler
“rewrite the agendas for our museums so that art can begin to serve the needs of psychology”
Things I Made by Cory Arcangel
Antarctic Artists & Writers Program
The False and Tedious Defective Brain Meme
nudibranch
Glaucus atlanticus(“blue dragon”) with Blue Danube Waltz
Art neurons, neuronal art
Genetics of cilantro preference
Cheese Flavour Map
Beast vs. Giant Bucket of Nutella
Dishes involving the consumption of live animals
Jeremy Clarkson eats an ortolan bunting
Birds
Slope car
bumpersticker bumpersticker
Authentic Music from Another Planet
Hip-hop in Karachi
We (heart) retro media
Radio New York International archives
David Lynch’s Creepy Anti-Littering PSA
A Natural Order
The Acid Sweat Lodge (NSFW)
Playground Jungle
Hambone
Choros