A Shout Out to My Pepys

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-11-2009

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:01:35 GMT

Newport Beach City Map

official interactive map of the City of Newport Beach with layers for city services, zones etc

(tags: newportbeach gis orangecounty california cities maps)
Orange County Crime - News - OCRegister.com

(tags: orangecounty crime)

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-10-2009

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:02:32 GMT

Please Don't Promise Me Forever | Rotating Corpse

"Imagine this: It's 1976 and you're dating a man named Rick. He has a mustache and owns at least one reindeer sweater..."

(tags: art sex psychology 1970s 70s failure ouch swingers selfhelp)
YouTube - Skate Witches

(tags: skateboarding 80s youtube)

wong's chinese dining

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:59:57 GMT

wong's chinese dining, originally uploaded by mannydiller.

I remain in awe of Manny Diller.

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-9-2009

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:04:23 GMT

Southland teen nears the finish of his global sea odyssey - Los Angeles Times

(tags: theysailedalone california losangeles sailing via:kcetlocal)

Dear Lazyweb: I get a blackberry this week.

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:03:39 GMT

I'm not sure which one I get, but in the next couple days I'll receive a Blackberry for my job. I'd be interested in hearing your:

tips! tricks!

good sites for apps or tips! or tricks!

problems I will run into

stuff I should not do at all, really no not at all

anything else

thanks!

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-8-2009

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:01:49 GMT

Natural Starter Bread | Chocolate & Zucchini

beginning with starter breads

(tags: bread recipes baking food blogs sourdough breadmaking)
PROXMARK.org

software tool for RFID test/crack hardware

(tags: rfid hacking software radio security)
A Test Instrument for HF/LF RFID

This device can do almost anything involving almost any kind of low-(~125 kHz) or high-(~13.56 MHz) frequency RFID tag.

(tags: rfid diy hacking electronics radio security)
sdmobile: Fallout 2009

Russians LARP Fallout II. Nicely done.

(tags: russia cosplay larp game williamgibson photos livejournal)

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-7-2009

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:02:01 GMT

Mediaite.com | News & Opinion | Media: TV, Print, Online, Jobs, Ranking

(tags: toread)
Garde Manger | The web's definitive word on the subject.

the art and science of preparing and seasoning cold food

(tags: food cooking chef gardemanger)

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-6-2009

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:01:42 GMT

Directory of U.S. Military Rockets and Missiles

(tags: missiles weapons reference usa rockets warfare)

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-5-2009

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:01:03 GMT

How to Change the World: How I Tweet: Just the FAQs

Q: Do you use ghostwriters? A: Yes, four people write my tweets.

(tags: twitter guykawasaki christwhatanasshole ha)
Daryl Peveto Â« The New Breed of Documentary Photographers

In this photo, Willie Reynolds cools off with his weekly bath in a pool that he borrowed from his six dogs. The summers in the Slabs reach as much as 120 degrees.

(tags: via:regine saltonsea california grimmeathookfuture)
Mistaeks I Hav Made: What do Programmers Feel About their Software?

tool that extracts comments from source code and displays its interpretation of the programmers' emotional experience

(tags: visualization programming despair software tools via:mendel)
The ecological disaster that is dolphin safe tuna: Southern Fried Science

Dolphin safe tuna is a classic hippie disaster. Surprise!

(tags: via:splodinvark fish doom fishing environment failure greenpeace yeesh)
Marc Steinmetz Photography | Escape Tools

Arts and crafts time! Prisoners' escape tools, a nice set.

(tags: via:regine tools prison diy design improvisation)
Organizing for America | BarackObama.com | Technical Job Application

job app for tech gigs at the DNC and Obama HQ.

(tags: employment politics tech)

There are multiple possible punchlines

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:53:07 GMT

Well-aged meat etc etc

When you need pirates...

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:52:04 GMT

...lots of them, overnight, there's only one place for you. It's in El Segundo.

Political-mobile

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:51:02 GMT

NB 405 going through Westminster, iirc. I love politicalmobiles.

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-3-2009

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:03:04 GMT

Picture Show: No Lifeguard on Duty | GOOD

photoessay of dead motels throughout our great nation

(tags: photography usa motels urbandecay)

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-2-2009

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:01:44 GMT

Picture Show: No Lifeguard on Duty | GOOD

photoessay of dead motels throughout our great nation

(tags: photography usa motels urbandecay)
Toys - we make money not art

art exhibit about the collapse of a fictional enron-like company

(tags: art finance enron fraud commerce villainy)
Taqueria el Granjenal - Review #1 - Orange County Mexican Restaurants

must go there, eat everything

(tags: food orangecounty costamesa toeat mexicanfood)
Sidestep

travel reservation site

(tags: travel)
Gizmodo - How To: Hackintosh a Dell Mini 9 Into the Ultimate OS X Netbook - Dell mini 9 hackintosh guide

(tags: osx netbook mini9 hackintosh)

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 6-30-2009

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:02:18 GMT

Skeuomorph

"a derivative object which retains ornamental design cues to structure that was necessary in the original"

(tags: art termsofart terminology meta culture)
Palm OS Robotic Tattoo Machine Invented

tattoo bot!

(tags: via:deusx tattoos robots palm smartphones bodymodification yow)
There, I Fixed It.

"Epic kludges and adventures in home pwnership" Jerry-rigged and ductaped disasters.

(tags: blog photos onejoke failure ha)
20 Visualizations to Understand Crime | FlowingData

While a lot of this crime data is kept confidential to respect people's privacy, there's still plenty of publicly available records. Here we take a look at twenty visualization examples that explore this data.

(tags: via:whatevernevermind visualization crime maps googlemaps geo)

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 6-29-2009

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:01:41 GMT

The Toaster Project

"I'm Thomas Thwaites and I'm trying to build a toaster, from scratch - beginning by mining the raw materials and ending with a product that Argos sells for only £3.99."

(tags: diy design art kitchen manufacturing toaster)
Monster Munching: Irvine Farmers Market - Irvine

(tags: food orangecounty irvine farmersmarket)
Scientology: The Truth Rundown, Part 1 of 3 in a special report on the Church of Scientology - St. Petersburg Times

(tags: scientology news investigativejournalism)
"You take it! No, you take it!" the Bir Tawil Trapezoid: Strange Maps

The Bir Tawil Triangle is a desert of sand and rocks on the border between Egypt and the Sudan. It is also officially the most undesired territory in the world.

(tags: maps geography politics africa)

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 6-28-2009

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 07:01:17 GMT

K & W Farms, Inc. - Producers of Mecca Gold Fresh Figs

fig farm with fig facts and other fig fun

(tags: food figs fruit california)

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 6-27-2009

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 07:01:32 GMT

Recent scenes from the ISS - The Big Picture - Boston.com

(tags: space nasa photography iss)
Op-Ed Contributor - A Different Iranian Revolution - NYTimes.com

(tags: iran toread)
DeltaCopy - Rsync for Windows

(tags: windows rsync utilities)
Sarychev Peak Eruption, Kuril Islands : Image of the Day

volcano cooks off directly below space station

(tags: volcano space photography geology)

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 6-25-2009

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:02:02 GMT

The blue and the green | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

bizarre optical illusion; blue and green become something else.

(tags: science opticalillusion biology vision neuroscience neurology)
Freightliner Business Class M2e Hybrid, the most efficient, ecological ...

Diesel-electric hybrid heavy truck

(tags: hybrid vehicles diesel electricpower trucks)
Test my auto-generated ruleset / taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog

(tags: spamassassin rules)

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 6-24-2009

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:01:53 GMT

Gratin Dauphinois (Potato Gratin) | Chocolate & Zucchini

recipe for the original potato gratin. note: no cheese!

(tags: recipes recipe potatoes)

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 6-23-2009

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:01:36 GMT

Sisyphus Office Exhibition, Houston 2009. on the Behance Network

Art done at and about work. I WILL CONTINUE TO MICROWAVE HALIBUT...

(tags: art culture officelife exhibition ha)

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 6-22-2009

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:01:22 GMT

A faster way to speed up Mail.app | Hawk Wings

clean up the sqlite db to make mail faster

(tags: apple mac osx mail mail.app optimization)

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 6-21-2009

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 07:01:35 GMT

Weekly World News - Google Books

Two decades of the wonderful Weekly World News. Oh yes, yes.

(tags: newspapers archive googlebooks google weeklyworldnews tabloid ha via:positivejeff)

Here, we have JonBenet. There...

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:52:50 GMT

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 6-20-2009

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 07:01:41 GMT

x planes

Pictures of aircraft, mostly bizarre or vintage or otherwise notable. Addictive.

(tags: tumblr photos aviation aircraft history photography airplanes)