Links for 2006-06-30
June 30, 2006
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Magritte’s “The Son of Man”, using the Apple logo on the laptop in place of the apple in the painting. I’m mixed about the results, but “A” for idea and effort.
Archives for June 2006
Links for 2006-06-24
June 24, 2006
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Add moustaches to any picture. Works as advertised.
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From Microsoft. This is Beta2, from March 21, 2006. Very similar to the Web Developer toolbar extension for Firefox
Links for 2006-06-21
June 21, 2006
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The study and investigation of all man-made and man used underground places.
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Cats Painted in the Progression of Psychosis of a Schizophrenic Artist
Links for 2006-06-16
June 16, 2006
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Mounts your iPod like an iDisk drive. ” … Designed to make it easy and intuitive to copy music off iPod; it enables you to do so within the Finder, or whatever application that can read files.”
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Copy music files from a shared iTunes library on your network directly to your hard drive.
Links for 2006-06-15
June 15, 2006
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Pictures of an old Soviet submarine base, built 1957-1961. Parts of it were turned into a museum in 2003. If I understand the Babel Fish translation correctly, it was also designed as an atomic bomb shelter. You can see at least one 2 foot thick door.
Links for 2006-06-13
June 13, 2006
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I’ve always tried to travel light, but I’ve never really mastered it. We’re going to be travelling at the end of July for at least a week, and this time I’m doing one carry-on and my laptop bag. I’m just going to do it.
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This dumps all your del.icio.us links for a given day into a single entry in Movable Type. I know you can do this with TypePad as well (see here: http://www.thelastminuteblog.com/?p=2384 for details), and I assume it would work with any blog software that
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Zebra stallion gets jumped by lioness in a river, lioness gets zebra’s check in her jaws, zebra forces lioness’s head underwater until she lets go. Amazing instinct.
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I could easily find out more about this video with a little searching, but I really like having it be this single piece of weirdness that someone dropped on my head. Oh, it’s music, so headphones or quiet speakers if you’re at work.
Links for 2006-06-11
June 11, 2006
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Grab the hexadecimal value of any color on your screen, and edit it. Sweet
Daring Fireball Ripoff
June 10, 2006
headphono.us - A blatant ripoff of the beautiful and near-iconic design of John Gruber’s Daring Fireball. Says John: “The only change made to the CSS was to remove my name and copyright statement.”
Note: This site is proudly formatted in Markdown and I’m a proud supporter of Gruber’s efforts at professional blogging. Update: The owner of the site has changed the site and apologized to dawn.
Vintage Mac Museum
June 10, 2006
The Vintage Mac Museum - Lots and lots of screenshots of 9" Mac screens. I’ve always felt that System 7 on a black and white screen was one of the best computer experiences ever.
Enclosing the Kitty
June 10, 2006
Earlier this year, as the snow was melting and the sun was starting to stay out longer, our cat Naboo started his annual agitating to go out in the back yard. Last year we installed a cat door in the back screen so he could go in and out and not bug us. It worked well for us and for him (and for Lola, who’s small enough to fit through the door), but not so well for the neighborhood birds. It turns out that Naboo is an incredibly adept hunter.
Like most animals who don’t actually *depend* on their hunting skills, he’s not perfect, but he’s better than any cat I’ve ever owned. I think his skill is in the stalking and the speed. Veerrrry sneaky and like furry greased lightning when he goes for the kill. While we really love watching animals be themselves and live up to their potential, we also don’t want the backyard turned into a killing field. And while the odds are slim, we don’t want Naboo killing a bird infected with avian flu. More about this at the end of the post.
So Katie asked me if we could build an enclosure for him with a cat door leading from the house so he could go in and out on his own. We talked about a few different places we could put it, originally thinking it would be in the back yard. Ultimately, though, we decided that wouldn’t be the best because that’s where the dogs are, and even though Lola couldn’t care less where the cat is, Bolleke still has moments of looking hungrily at him, especially when he’s romping like prey through the back yard.
One day we realized we’d been overlooking the best place of all. Right outside our bedroom window, there’s a giant evergreen that’s easily fifty feet tall and estimated to be eighty to a hundred years old by the tree guy. We had some of the lower branches removed last year to bring the skirt up off the lawn, so there’s easily room for me stand under it. As it turns out, we had room to build a 6’ long x 4’ wide x 6’ tall enclosure, with a cat door in one on of the bedroom windows.
After some fits and false starts, we finally got it done. We used green cedar two-by-fours for the frame and standard chicken wire. I made the door out of cedar fence planks. It took a little convincing to get Naboo through the door the first time, but now he’s very much into it. He doesn’t hang out in it for hours on end, but he’ll go out there a couple of times a day. We plan to build a little veranda for him that actually goes out from under the tree’s skirt so he can lie in the sun, but haven’t had time to do it yet.
Oh, yeah. The bird thing. A couple of weeks after we’d built it and gotten him going out on his own, he was sitting on the bed in the morning with Katie, who hadn’t gotten up. He started agitating to go out (the blinds were still down over his cat door), so Katie pulled up the blind and Naboo *shot* out the door and Katie almost immediately heard a little scuffle. She looked out the cat door just in time to see Naboo headed back *with a dead bird in his mouth*. She jammed her hand against the cat door while we tried to figure out how to get the bird away from him, during which time he was pushing against the door with his head as hard as he could. Finally we just let him in and chased him down to the basement and took the bird away from him.
It was a crazy perfect storm of bird killing: a bird small enough to fit through the chicken wire had done so for some reason, the bedroom was quiet enough for the cat to hear the bird in the enclosure, and he was fast and quiet enough to get through the cat door to kill the bird. It hasn’t happened since, but Naboo is definitely more interested in the possiblities of his kitty den.
Web 2.Oh, YEAAHH!!
June 7, 2006
I made a t-shirt. It will likely be funny only to web nerds.
More correctly: I had an idea, and co-Mule Amber actually turned it into a usable design, and now it’s for sale in the Mule Store.
