Linkfest — 03-06-2010

Posted Sat Mar 6, 2010 in

I guess it really is March 2010! How did that happen?

  1. Abramowitz and Stegun is the granddaddy of all the mathematical references for numerical solutions.
  2. This video has a high pucker factor!
  3. Need a sheath for a blade? Check On/Scene Tactical.
  4. Here’s another video with a high pucker factor!
  5. Are you aware of what’s going on around you?
  6. Mailsmith is alive and well — and now has a universal binary so it will run on both Intel and PowerPC Macs. I used to use Mailsmith exclusively for handling all of my email tasks.
  7. OK Go! is an interesting group. This video rocks.

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Linkfest — 02-20-2010

Posted Sat Feb 20, 2010 in

Gun Show Day! The Crossroads Gun Show will be in Reno on the Saturday this posts. I’ll be headed for Reno early Saturday morning to go walk the floor. It isn’t that I’m looking for something in particular, but I might find a few magazines and I’m interested in finding slings for my rifles. So, I’m going to go walk the floor and will have done it by the time this posts. Maybe there will even be a weblog entry about my day!

  1. Bob Lee Swagger is the protagonist of a number Stephen Hunter books. He’s a sniper. These are fun reads.

Hmm… that wasn’t much of a fest… more like a snack.

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Linkfest — 02-13-2010

Posted Sat Feb 13, 2010 in

I begin my “linkfests” early in the week — sometimes Saturday night after they post, sometimes I start them on Sunday morning during my weekly reverie, and sometimes later in the week. It just depends on when I begin the process of poking around the World Wide time-Waster, I mean World Wide Web… yeah, that’s it.

In any event, this one happened to start Sunday morning while I was puttering in my workroom. In the immortal words of Mario, “here we go!”

  1. This NAS Newsletter is pretty weird. It uses publications from NAS to track the president’s state of the union speech. That strikes me as odd.
  2. The Que reader is the next in the Plastic Logic lineup. I haven’t had a chance to research it (yet), but it might be interesting when it’s released.
  3. The University of Ottawa Writing Centre is a marvelous grammar resource. I stumbled on them completely by accident, but what a serendipity! :)
  4. It’s silliness, but still funny.
  5. The nook is a much more capable device than it first appears. Access to improved applications does require hacking the system, though.

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Linkfest — 02-06-2010

Posted Sat Feb 6, 2010 in

The first of the month has arrived… Time flies, sometimes swiftly, sometimes ponderously… but it flies…

  1. Zeldman has an interesting take on the future of flash. It’s worth a read. I think he has some insight into why Apple decided not to include flash in the iPhone and now the iPad.
  2. I may have shared a link with him before, but David Seah has an interesting website, writes well, and has some fascinating ideas.

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Linkfest — 01-30-2010

Posted Sat Jan 30, 2010 in

We’re at the end of the first month of 2010. That seems strange to me, especially when I think that I haven’t done some of the planning activities I wanted to do before the end of the first month. Hmm…

  1. If you have a late 5G iPod, then there is an upgrade that will give more storage and more battery for that old device.
  2. Zombie Apocalypse is hysterical! I don’t know how he managed to capture every zombie movie ever made, but he did!
  3. Church of the Holy Sepulchre has some amazing images.

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Linkfest — 01-23-2010

Posted Sat Jan 23, 2010 in

Damn! The month is nearly over (again)…

  1. An experienced Sony user relates his Kindle experience. This is a good bit of writing and one I really appreciate.
  2. 101 Tips for eReaders has some interesting points and some good links.
  3. This article from the Wall Street Journal is an excellent bit of analysis on the waste that is President Obama’s first year — and why things are about to “change” yet again.
  4. The owner of Pronto Pizza has the right idea.
  5. Whatever you might think of Miley Cyrus, she’s cute. In this clip she instructs Joaquin Phoenix how to use an Apple to vote at the To Write Love on Her Arms website. She looks and sounds like just about every teenage girl I’ve ever know.

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Linkfest — 01-16-2010

Posted Sat Jan 16, 2010 in

Another week, another set of links (or remainders as some call them)…

  1. I love the AR platform. I think they are one of the neatest rifles I’ve ever shot. The .458 SOCOM cartridge appears to offer a set of characteristics that take the AR-15 platform to a different place in the hunting spectrum. I like this.
  2. This article by Rich Adin (reprinted on the Teleread website) is thoughtful and strikes an interesting point I’ve noticed in books over the last few years.
  3. The Que might be the device.
  4. Maybe it’s time.
  5. This is a great clip of David Allen on GTD and the cloud.
  6. These principles from Bob Parsons (GoDaddy.com) are very good. Whatever you think if Parsons’ style, he’s a damn-smart man.
  7. Typography (the setting of type) is an important subject for me. I’m interested in producing good-looking text, as well as good text. This article from Smashing Magazine in an interesting look at some data collected from websites.
  8. The Refractive Thinker is interesting. I’ll be reading more… However, when you get past the landing page to this page the quality of the website deteriorates. At least, it does not render well with Safari. This is not good.
  9. Typography is a favorite subject. This is good.

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