April 2007
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Apr 30th
Trampoline Index →
Apr 30th
Duct Tape Crafts
UPDATE - Clone yourself with a custom duct tape dress form. Duct Tape (or “Gaffa” as we call it here in the UK) is a strong, versatile tape that no household should be without. So why not get creative with it? Here are a couple of ideas to get you started. Dress Form An essential for dressmakers, and for anyone who likes wrapping people up in duct tape. Clone Yourself a Fitting...
Apr 30th
Fast Food: Ads vs. Reality →
Apr 30th
Tiny Startup Mozy Nails Multi-Million Dollar GE... →
Apr 29th
UK: Cheap Glass Pen Set from WHSmith →
Great offer, if you have any use for a dip pen - £2.98. It says it was £4.80, but we collected one today, and the box is actually marked as reduced to £10. It’s actually gone up a little since I paid - ours was only £2.50, but £2.98 is still a barg
Apr 29th
JungleDisk - Reliable online storage powered by... →
Interesting idea for online backups - a software only solution that uses Amazon S3 as its back-end. Free whilst in beta, but their planned pricing is pretty cheap for when it’s ready.
Apr 29th
60 Ways to be More Creative
Latest Update: A few minor changes, and adding a few more ideas, bringing the total up from 50 to 60. Many of us want to be more creative in our day-to-day lives, so here are a few ideas to get you going - many of them very quick and easy… Eleven Ways to be Creative with Art Check our Recent Posts about art, and make sure you’ve seen our Main Articles - you might get some ideas there. Find a...
Apr 29th
nipponkitchen for tojiro japanese kitchen knives →
Apr 29th
Dave's Mechanical Pencils: Rotring Trio Pencil →
Apr 28th
Favicons - Free Flag Icons →
I’ve used the UK and US icons from here on PigPog - small, but still recognisable. Very handy.
Apr 28th
Quidco - Money Back on Shopping (UK) →
Get the full kickback from affiliate schemes back, with £5 a year taken out of it for their costs.
Apr 27th
scaryideas | Defective By Design →
Apr 27th
Photography Hacks
Latest Update: Added a link to the Ice Cooler Lightbox. Simple tips, tricks and hacks to enhance your photography without damaging your bank balance… Still Photography Camera Modifications Making a single-use digital camera reuseable, thanks to Lifehacker - not a bad solution if you need a camera cheap enough to take anywhere, but it looks like there’s a bit of work involved. Might still be...
Apr 27th
Ebuyer - Cheapest Items →
A quick list of the very cheapest items listed on eBuyer.
Apr 27th
Diva Vodka, the world’s most expensive vodka →
Apr 27th
Moleskine Hacks
Latest Update: Added a link to a Moleskine Hard Drive. Moleskine? Little black notebooks, with a bookmark, elastic closure, and a storage compartment in the back. Useful little things on their own, but some people feel the need to trick them out further. Moleskine Notebooks Marking Up Most people just use their Moleskines freeform, scribbling whatever and wherever they like. Some people...
Apr 26th
Cheapster PDA
Latest Update: Added a link to the perfect companion to the Cheapster PDA, the 2-Minute Paper Wallet. OK, so it’s just a bit of folded paper, but if Merlin can name a stack of index cards and a clip the HipsterPDA, we can name this the CheapsterPDA. Based on an idea from the book Living Out Loud by Keri Smith. How to Make Clicky Piccy to see it in Flickr - there’s notes on each stip on...
Apr 26th
Ubuntu Guide - Feisty Fawn →
A very useful wiki guide to Ubunto 7.04 Feisty Fawn.
Apr 25th
Why to Use RSS Readers and HOW →
Chris links to a nice little introduction video to RSS feeds.
Apr 24th
xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and... →
Running up the down escalator. I actually did this once, when I was a student in Birmingham (UK), in the Pallasades shopping centre. It was late at night, with nobody else around, just three of us together. We got about halfway before the escalator
Apr 23rd
Dave's Mechanical Pencils: Uni Auto Eraser EH-100P →
This looks pretty neat - like a mechanical pencils, but instead of clicking out lead, it clicks out eraser. I have a similar one from Schneider, and it’s quite nice to use. Nothing ever quite beats the old Staedtler Mars Plastic for me, though.
Apr 22nd
Flickr: Discussing Fake HDR? in GIMP users →
A nice short explanation from ‘mortimer?’, in the fifth comment, on how to make those ‘HDR’ images.
Apr 22nd
Pilot Capless and Capless Decimo Review (AKA...
Latest Update: Added a bit about why a couple of the problems occur - the narrow feed. Added a link to Richard Binder’s site for custom nib units in the US, and another update at the bottom after having these pens for almost six months. Thanks to our bosses-to-be at Cult Pens, we are in a rather lucky position - being able to revew both the Pilot Capless (Vanishing Point to Americans), and the...
Apr 22nd
Paper Productivity
Latest Update: Added links to two lists of reasons to use paper, from Web Worker Daily. Why, with PDAs, laptops, and Tablet PCs available cheaper than ever, and organizer features being included in more and more mobile phones, would people use paper for organising themselves? Well, there’s a few good reasons… Faster: No matter how nice your laptop is, by time you’ve got it unfolded,...
Apr 22nd
Papercraft and Origami
Latest Update: Added an extra link about Richard Sweeney - a little post on Paper Forest. Projects General Sites Most of these sites have a selection of models to make, often with PDF files to download and print… Paper University - site aimed at kids full of fun papercraft projects. Currell Graphics - lots of models, mainly of flying things and related stuff. Nice stuff, found via...
Apr 22nd
jwz - Nazi Robot Attack! →
“It’s a machine, how surprised can it possibly be?” This won the internets for me.
Apr 22nd
Photodoto » Blog Archive » The Things I Carry:... →
I don’t think I need even a fraction of this stuff myself, but there are certainly some good ideas here. My little zip-pouch-folder
Apr 22nd
Walk-Smash-Walk - Flash Animation - click... →
A cute little animation of a cute little robot who just walks and smashes. Click the “WATCH THIS MOVIE!” link to see it.
Apr 22nd
Improving your Writing
Latest Update: Added Chris Brogan’s post on Front Loading Your Writing. Getting Started Want to write every day? Chris Brogan says “The secret to writing every day is to write every day” - so just Write Every Day. He offers some tips on how to find the time to do a bit of writing, and you’ll probably find that if you do it a bit more often, you’ll get better at it. Getting Better Writing...
Apr 22nd
Keeping Going →
A simple trick that sounds like it might just work - never stop at the end of a task, always in the middle - your subconcious will *want* to get back to it and finish it off. ive Ways to Mark Up the We Notes are anchored to highlighted text D
Apr 21st
scaryideas | IFAW: Evolution →
To help? Hopefully something is lost in the translation here ;)
Apr 21st
Boomshine - Simple Flash Game →
A fun little game Pinklefish just showed me - just one click is all you get for each level. I love simple games like this one - it’s all about the fun of playing.
Apr 21st
Five Ways to Mark Up the Web →
A good write-up of five social web annotation services - taking things a step beyond bookmarking. The article has prompted me to finally give Diigo a try, and it looks pretty good so far, even just for its bookmarking features. It can even bookmark simu
Apr 21st
Strobist: Flickr and You, Part 1: Rebekka's... →
Interesting article, found via Scobleizer’s link blog . Advertising people are starting to use Flickr to discover new talented photographers - fresh ideas, and often much cheaper than hiring someone more established.
Apr 21st
The Gender Genie →
Found via Mark Wieczorek’s blog, this site attempts to work out, from a sample of text you wrote, what gender you are. I’m male. Sam, it things, is also male. Our co-host in GuitarPr0n, WomanoftheWorld, is female. Two out of three, anyway.
Apr 20th
Interview with Mark Shuttleworth - founder of... →
Good interview - a little tough on him at first, perhaps, but some interesting questions.
Apr 20th
Interview with Gina Trapani of Lifehacker - Part 2 →
Apr 19th
Geek to Live: Improve your web site with Google... →
Apr 19th
Interview with Gina Trapani of Lifehacker - Part 1 →
Apr 19th
Schneier on Security: A Security Market for Lemons →
Apr 19th
The Fountain Pen Network →
Apr 19th
Open Source Photography Wiki →
A new location for the OSPhoto wiki.
Apr 18th
When's the last time you went outside? →
Blog blog blog, blogger blogging.
Apr 18th
Boy Jailed over Daylight Saving Time Mix-up -... →
Apr 18th
Schneier on Security: Arresting Children →
Apr 18th
notebookism: How Quentin Tarantino Pens his... →
Quentin uses real pen on paper to write and edit his scripts. Nice quote about writers being able to use whatever strange rituals they want.
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