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08/11/08 // Link:
Swimmingholes.org Because summer isn’t over yet. Because swimming holes are fun. Pretty decent list for a nation-wide site. Even had one here in Athens that I wasn’t familiar with (though doesn’t list two that I am familiar with). The listings are …continue reading »
08/11/08 // Link:
How to Travel by Cargo Ship Who hasn’t wanted to travel by ship? Some battered leather trunks, lounging in deck chairs on a steamer bound for Africa with a captain talking to tigers from his cafeteria tray. Okay maybe the last bit is confined to Neutral …continue reading »
05/09/08 // Link:
Camera Hacks: Turn Your Point-and-Shoot into a Super-Camera If you’re using a consumer grade point-and-shoot Canon digital camera you’ve got hardware in hand that can support advanced features like RAW images. Canon Hacker’s Development Kit (CHDK) is a firmware enhancement that supports an impressive array of Canon digital …continue reading »
01/08/08 // Link:
How to Shoot Light Trails Very nice guide to shooting light trails. I’ll have to put this to use in my photo of the day project. There is not just one particular type of camera and kit that you’ll need to capture light trails - …continue reading »
01/05/08 // Link:
Dapper: The Data Mapper Great tool for scraping websites and creating RSS feeds, Google Maps, all kinds of things.continue reading »
10/17/07 // Link:
Vanishing Point: How to Disappear in America Without a Trace This is by far the most comprehensive, paranoid and occasionally illegal guide to disappearing I’ve ever run across, but it speaks to the extreme lengths one might have to go to “live off the grid” as it were, in modern …continue reading »
09/18/07 // Link:
The Beginners Guide To Lock Picking Kind of scary gun fanatics site, but a pretty good guide to picking locks. It looks a lot harder than it seem like should, but probably I’ve just seen too many movies.continue reading »
09/18/07 // Link:
Use a Wristwatch As a Compass The Wired How To Wiki on using a wrist watch as a compass, pretty simple, though I have no idea why I’m bookmarking it since I don’t actually own a watch. You just never know though do you?continue reading »
07/27/07 // Link:
Mental Floss On The Outer Banks I’ve been meaning to go North Carolina’s Outer banks for years new. I might even get around to it one of these days. In the mean time, here’s Mental Floss Magazine’s educational take on the area: “If you’ve ever noticed …continue reading »
06/18/07 // Link:
The Power of Yes: A Simple Way to Get More Out of Life From Get Rich Slowly: “For much of my adult life I’ve been shackled by fear. I’ve been afraid to try new things, afraid to meet new people, afraid of doing anything that might lead to failure. This fear confined me …continue reading »
06/01/07 // Link:
The Deserted Medieval Armenian City of Ani VirtualANI is a website/virtual museum for the lost Turkish city of Ani, which is on my list of places to visit whenever I finally get to Turkey. In the mean time, or if you perhaps have no plans to visit …continue reading »
05/30/07 // Link:
Salvage and Season Cast Iron Cookware As a former chef, there’s nothing that disturbs me quite as much as watching people wash their cast iron skillets with soap and water. Well, okay there’s plenty of things that disturb me far more, but still, for the love …continue reading »
05/30/07 // Link:
Thinking of Something to Say: Topoi While I’ve never seen these formalized like these, I definitely spend a lot of time working through questions like this when I write stuff for luxagraf, and to a lesser degree, Wired. A handy cheat sheet for those looking to …continue reading »
05/24/07 // Link:
Automatically Upload a Folder’s Photos to Flickr I love Flickr, but I’m so good about actually uploading images. Actually, I’m not so good about even getting the images off the camera in a timely fashion, but that’s a whole separate problem. To solve the former, I set …continue reading »
05/17/07 // Link:
Libya | MetaFilter The more time I spend on Digg, the more I really appreciate Metafilter, here’s a recent collection of links about Libya which high on my list of travel destinations: “Libya is a desert, yes, but if you trace your fingers …continue reading »

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