February 2012
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Adele Is First To Go Double Platinum on iTunes
[shared via Google Reader from Mashable!]
Like many artists before her, global pop star Adele experienced a post-Grammys album sales boost, selling 730,000 copies of 21 in the past week. Unlike every other artist in history, however, Adele is the first person to sell 2 million copies of one album on iTunes in the U.S.
The album, which has been out stateside since Feb. 22 of last year,...
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Video: Why conservatives suck
[shared via Google Reader from Hot Air » Top Picks]
You know it’s true.
In case you missed this video, which came out a few days ago, I’m reposting it here. You might remember how enthusiastic I was about Bill Whittle’s “Vote Pump” vid; this is just as refreshing. My favorite quote comes at the end: “Conservatives never claim that our own behavior is the standard, only that a...
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How To Do The Clean Pull
[shared via Google Reader from SttB Articles]
Aligned.
The clean pull is a variation of the Olympic lift. It starts out identically, but doesn’t have the same finish. With the clean pull, you don’t take it overhead like you do with the clean and jerk or snatch exercises. Instead, the lift finishes around your mid section or chest area. It looks like a deadlift playing in fast...
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The Importance of Roughhousing With Your Kids
[shared via Google Reader from The Art of Manliness]
Roughhousing. Horseplay. Wrastling. Whatever you call it, it’s one of the best things about being a dad. I love chasing my one-year-old son, Gus, around the house or pretending that the living room is a lucha libre ring and wrestling with him. No matter how stressed out I’m feeling, hearing one of his big, belly laughs erupt as I swing him...
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How to Back Up a Trailer…Like a Man!
[shared via Google Reader from The Art of Manliness]
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Colin Braun.
So, you borrowed your father-in-law’s boat for your weekend at the cabin, or you bought a RV to take the family camping for this year’s vacation. You got to where you were going and realized you now had to back up to get that trailer where you needed it. Maybe you hadn’t anticipated this...
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The Ultimate Test of Siri's Accent-Deciphering...
[shared via Google Reader from Gizmodo]
Siri has been tested in the interpretation of accents across the country, but she meets her match with the utterly amazing dialect of the proud Scottish people. To be fair, how many actual humans would know how to respond to a request for a “jammy dodger like a f*ckin jam sandwich”?...
January 2012
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Pinterest Becomes Top Traffic Driver for Retailers...
[shared via Google Reader from Mashable!]
Pinterest, a two-year-old social bookmarking site that lets users collect and share things they like on the web, is driving increasingly significant amounts of traffic to retailers’ websites.
The service enables users to create online bulletin boards, or “pinboards,” for popular categories such as home decor, food and wedding inspiration. Members can use...
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Enlarging Casting Resin
[shared via Google Reader from MAKE]
HydroSpan 100, from Houston-based Industrial Polymers Corporation, is billed as “a 3 dimensional copy machine enlarging any shape or design in near perfect proportion and detail.” Shown uppermost, a Morgan silver dollar from 1896, enlarged via three generations of HydroSpan 100 casting to about the size of a salad plate. To use it, two components are...
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Quite Possibly the Best Cartoon of This Century...
[shared via Google Reader from Doug Ross @ Journal]
Papa B: Considering a career in crime? I personally would suggest government: they never go to jail.
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Coffee Innovators: ZPM Espresso and the Affordable...
[shared via Google Reader from Serious Eats]
From Drinks
[Photograph courtesy of ZPM Espresso]
Compared with home cooks, home baristas have historically had the odds against ‘em. I mean, sure restaurants have big industrial ovens and hot plates and counter space in their favor, but with some exceptions there’s really almost nothing that can be created in a...
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42-Foot Car-Chopping Axe Is the Nuclear Option of...
[shared via Google Reader from Gizmodo]
There are two hard and fast rules in this world: “Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line” and “Never get involved in a prank war in Australia.” Or else very bad things will happen to your Holden. More »
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Building a Variable Frequency Drive for a...
[shared via Google Reader from Hack a Day]
Here are the power and driver boards that [Miceuz] designed to control a three-phase induction motor. This is his first time building such a setup and he learned a lot along the way. He admits it’s not an industrial quality driver, but it will work for motors that need 200 watts or less of power.
The motor control board uses an MC3PHAC driver IC and...
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Video: MLK niece says her uncle would have been a...
[shared via Google Reader from Hot Air » Top Picks]
“How can the dream survive if we murder our children?”
Today we honor Martin Luther King Jr and his contribution to our nation through the non-violent and ultimately successful struggle to restore civil rights to all citizens of the United States — a struggle that took his own life in a 1968 assassination. His niece, Dr....
How to have a decent brat whenever you want.
By Michael Voigt
Nobody in my house likes chorizo, Polish, or Hungarian sausages. I love them. When we buy brats, we also pick up a package of that oddball stuff that I like. The thing is that I also really like brats, so we’ll make one or two of the other sausages for me and freeze the rest of the package. Unfortunately for me, we consume bratwurst in moderation. I might be kind of slow,...
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“How to make money doing what you love on the Internet http://t.co/xymZjybH by...”
– @TheNextWeb
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Toshiba FlashAir wireless LAN SD card hands-on...
[shared via Google Reader from Engadget]
The first card using the SD association’s Wireless LAN standard is Toshiba’s FlashAir and we’ve just spent some time with it here at CES. It’s much like existing Eye-Fis insofar that it also crams WiFi into a diminutive SD card, but instead of merely being able to join a network, the FlashAir creates its own outright. The 8GB...
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How to Get the Most Out of Google Analytics
[shared via Google Reader from Mashable!]
After we published a primer for using Google Analytics, readers said they were hungry for more.
Google Analytics has since revamped its design, giving it not only a cleaner look but also updated data sets. You can now find everything from real-time stats to details about which mobile device your site visitors come from.
Though the data...
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Facebook Timeline Customization: 5 Tools for...
[shared via Google Reader from Mashable!]
1. Pic Scatter - Friends
Pic Scatter lets you create a montage of images in your cover photo space.
You can generate the content from your Facebook friends or pick a particular album to use. Click here to view this gallery. Now that Facebook Timeline has rolled out to everyone, we’re seeing some great services that let you customize the new...
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Internet Explorer 6 usage in the US dips below one...
[shared via Google Reader from Engadget]
It looks like the web browser that wouldn’t die is finally on its last legs. While it’s not quite dead yet (especially when you consider the worldwide usage figures), use of Internet Explorer 6 in the United States has now officially dropped below one percent for the first time, which is apparently good enough for Microsoft to do a bit of...
Happy New Year!!!
December 2011
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Army to field smartphones in 2012
[shared via Google Reader from The Oshkosh Northwestern Latest Headlines]
Soldiers may be deploying with Army-issued smartphones by summer.
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Apple's Jonathan Ive Awarded Knighthood
[shared via Google Reader from MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - Front Page]
BBC reports that Apple’s Senior Vice President of Industrial Design, Jonathan Ive, has been awarded a knighthood in the United Kingdom.Mr Ive, who can now style himself Sir Jonathan, has been made a Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE).Ive began work at Apple in 1992, but found himself frustated during the...
HOW TO: Move Your Domain Name Account http://t.co/XnQaXglE Vote against SOPA with your dollars.
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HOW TO: Move Your Domain Name Account
[shared via Google Reader from Mashable!]
Dec. 29 is also known as “Dump GoDaddy Day.” The initiative to move domains hosted with GoDaddy to other domain registrars was spurred on by reddit user “SelfProdigy,” in the wake of GoDaddy’s public support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
Even though GoDaddy has since reversed course, the company has continued to face backlash from users...
Ding-Dong I just ditched GoDaddy.
Well the hosting anyway. I have never received more spam from somebody that I pay money every month. My blog was slow and I had endless feedburner errors. I’m back on Tumblr and the content should stay nice and fresh thanks to a great service called ifttt that pulls in all kinds of great stuff to post on here.
Something that is new since I was on Tumblr before is the Disqus powered...
September 2009
6 posts
Watching a horse paint at farm days
RT @Kimmiekinkins: Off to a Day on the Farm - great events for Fox Cities,WI families http://bit.ly/3CDjuw
RT @mtbnski: it’s amazing what a man can do with a 40oz http://bit.ly/12sSkh (via @aplusk)
Anybody else out there think that Wipeout is the best show on TV this Summer? It just keeps getting better and my kids love it. Family TV.
RT @NorsU: San Diego #acorn video just released, this one just as heinous #beck #tcot #corruption http://bit.ly/3Y6RU via @KariLeslie
just fired up the invite-only beta of Nambu 2.0. There were a pile of problems in the last release I tried. I’m hope they’re fixed